Just a couple things I've noticed...
1) The late timing the others have mentioned is not that big of a deal in fact I'd say don't worry about it at all. Late timing is almost crucial in today's power game. Late timing allows for more adjustments I feel. Case in point, how many people with absolutely no late timing do you see at a high level?? Also, how many with absolutely no late timing are able to play from the twig to 6th arrow?
2) As Spider Ball Bowler first mentioned, your swing is quite forced. Everyone is saying how you jerk up on it at the release point but I feel that it starts at the pushaway. What I'd personally like to see you do is that at your pushaway point, just drop the ball into the swing. Remember that gravity is your friend and that if you let it do all the work for you, there is really no need for you to use your muscles to "guide" the ball in your swing. When less muscles are used throughout the swing, generally less are needed at the release point to help the ball get off your hand.
3) If you pause the vid at :40 or :58, you can see how far your ball gets behind you. As my coach tells me, for a good swing, your arm, hand, and ball must all remain within a 4 inch window to either side of your shoulder's pivot point and it should never get behind or to the other side of your head and/or spine. When your swing gets behind you, that can cause all kinds of inconsistancies in speed, tilt, rev rate and not to mention the most important... direction! When you get your swing behind you, more muscles are need to help get the ball back on track in order to project it towards the target and as said before, mo' muscles mo' problems.
To fix this, try make sure that your pushaway goes straight out in front of you. In order to make this feel natural, do the extreme for a couple shots or games and push the ball as far to the left as you can and make the ball get as far to the right at the top of your back swing as you can (side note: if you videotape this, you will see that the ball doesn't as feel as far away from your body as what it feels like and may infact make the swing dead straight). Try about 10 shots like this and then throw one where you just relax and do what feels natural after all that.
Hope this helps. If you have any questions you can shoot me a PM or hit me up whenever i'm on bowlingchat.net
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Brunswick Advisory Staff
Jared Wolf
Jonesboro, AR
www.bowlingchat.netThe opinions expressed are solely those of the writer and not of Brunswick Corporation.
