When bowling on your league you sometimes find it hard to keep your ball from hooking too much or to less. If you’re a bowler like me with a high rev rate (my rev rate is 550) you need to find a speed to throw. Now I bowl league at many different places and you must find a speed to keep your ball on track. Now I bowl at little falls MN, and that has a dryer house shot, so when I’m bowling I use my ball that hooks a lot I will throw anywhere between 18-20, but when I bowl on a oilier shot I tend to slow it down to 16-18 mph. when you have a high rev rate you will need to throw at higher speeds or you will need to get less reactive balls. On the other hand if you throw that ball slow with a lower rev rate you will need to throw a higher reactive ball.

            Your rev rate will determine what balls you will throw and your ball speed will tell you the same thing, but when finding out what works better that will have to be you that decides that, because every one throws a little different. So when you have a high rev rate you normally throw fast and a lower rev rate you would throw slower.

When the lane conditions become oily there are a few ways to handle it. You can move your feet and throw straight up the first arrow. If you still leave weak pins like the 5, 7,10,2-8, then this means your ball can’t handle the oil. What you do is go and sand your ball, sanding is where you make the surface of your ball more reactive to the lane. You can sand your ball yourself if you wanted to, all you need is some sand paper. The finer the paper the more your ball will hook. After sanding your ball will have more back end and a better reaction.

This is what I think are the most important things in bowling

1. Mental Game
You have to have a good mental game, what i mean is you can’t get mad or frustrated because you’re not bowling good. ALWAYS take your bowling one frame at a time. By having a good mental game you have a slight advantage over everyone else, not only will this help your game it will help you in seeing what’s happening when something goes wrong.

2. Physical shape.
You health is another key to bowling, keep your self in shape. Bowling is not a easy sport, it demands so much and when your body is a little bit tried or lazy it could lower your scores up to 50 PINS.

3. Mechanics.
You can’t bowl good without good form. Timing, push off, follow through, and a good knee bend are the keys to bowling good. If your ball is late in your swing you wont get enough lift or get too much lift on the ball. If you don’t push off at all most of the time you will leave a 10 pin because without the push off you don’t follow through. With out a knee bend you will become less consistent, because you get farther away from the lane.

4. Spares and Strikes
Spares are the most important thing in this game, without spares your strikes will be worth a lot less. Spares are the heart of the game, sure you could throw a lot of strikes but then you still would end up with like 220′s and 200′s without spares.