No,
You see I'm of the Southern Sect of the I'm a Bill Taylor disciple.
Recently I crossed paths with a Central Sect member of the Taylorite's against Bad drilling!
We talked, we exchanged verses.
I said, Verse 42, paragraph 3 says, "Thou't shall not drill spans of different lengths until thou knowest differences in middle finger span versus ring finger span, when layeth on the ball!", "and then rolled off the ball while maintaining the shape of the ball in the hand".
Brother central interpertation said, "Thou be-est well read and powerful of build, are a truly a moron Brother Southern Taylorite interpertation".
"Thou only must compare the middle finger length versus the ring finger length when deciding on difference between ring and middle finger span".
"Surely thou missed Brother Taylor's speech at Hackensack lanes on 3:16 1957 at Hackensack lanes at 3:16 in the afternoon", "Brother Bill proclaimed that day that difference in span could be determined in this prescribed method".
"And so it was said!"
As a result, being powerful of build and moronic of persuasion, I replieth,
"Thou even though I toil over the whirring of the drill and the shrill of the vacumn, I though proud and not humble at all have failed to posess the sweetness of the trey, and the fruits of the octoplet".
"proceed with payment to the holy grail, of raining thundering strikes and girly hands, devoid of mark or insult".
So, enough of that gibberish!
The newly selected ball driller upon observing my current equipment and pleadings of lack of success with a proper Bill Taylor span and a continuing persistency of damage to the back of my thumb made the following changes.
Where I used to have a span difference of 1/8 between longer ring and shorter middle span. He switched me to equal spans(I'm 5/16 longer in middle when hand is extended) and 3/16 when my hand is cupped on the ball.
Also when using a nice snug thumb hole I noticed with 0 lateral which he prefers for his patients. With me as Mr. Taylorguru notes in his book.
There was a rubbing on my outer corner of my thumb until 3/16 lateral under palm pitch was added.
Now with a shorter span, equal spans between ring and middle, and a good strong amount of lateral under palm it appears I'm able to stay behind the ball surprisingly well and project down the lane almost as well as I did when I had a span(get this), 9/16 longer on the ring and 7/16 longer on the middle. WOW.
Years ago when I bowled I knew I had very little thumb damage and since I came back and started bowling again almost always with a 1/8 span difference I've fought a minimal axis tilt and also the ability to drive the ball down the lane to my break point(except when I used a super long span I could drive to the breakpoint but not necessarily produce axis tilt).
When I used a more proper span I now believe this difference in spans between ring and middle which maybe I(not necessarily you), did not need was causing the problem in getting the ball to the break point.
Interesting even though we tried a really snug thumbhole for me and I had some moderate hanging problems on a first blush. We both noticed that I had developed a little more axis tilt with this drilling.
To summarize for me!
Shorter again by 1/4 inch. Less span difference(due to my 5/16 longer middle finger). More lateral under palm! Ball tilt seems to really be helping me carry the 7. Very few 7s today while practicing.
Constantly learning in this game!
REgards,
Luckylefty
Edited on 11/21/2003 9:54 PM
