I see eveything being very mechanical. The 5 steps smoothes this out a bit compared to the 4-step video, but everything is very deliberate and with much effort. The second step has the foot turned out at some odd angle every few shots, the backswing is pulled to a different height each time and you slide foot looks like it wants o go id different directions some shots. The biggest tip off to the mechanical look is that you hold your balance arm out to the side even when it's not balancing everything.
If you had a textbook on how to bowl and took snapshots of your approach, you would fit n perfectly. But not everyone's body falls into the textbook positions when they're bowling. Everything looks technically sound, but we need to get everything bodily and rhythmically sound.
A little slower tempo might smooth out the mechanicals, starting closer to the line so the steps are a little closer together, and focusing on only one aspect of the game at a time. I seems as if you have every limb and muscle you are using in check so that nothing's out of place. But this is only introducing those muscles into your swing prohibiting a fluid approach.
You have a good start, decent free swing, and like I said a solid finish(almost too solid as you turn from your shot
); but they are all independent of each other. Linking them into one act will be the key. And this is the hardest aspect to give you things to work on because everyone will develop their own way of keeping fluid in all the acts of the approach.
Music may help, counting through the appraoch, focusing on an aspect of your game that isn't part of your approach, anything that will allow your body to loosen up on the way to the line.
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PS - I hope you don't take any of this as negativity or an attack, i've never offerd help online before. It's always in the bowl, during a lesson. Hope I helped.
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