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Jeffrevs

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Swing Line ?!
« on: August 07, 2003, 09:26:42 PM »
Hypothetical.....

If I'm on the approach with my left foot on 20 (right handed) and my shoulder width is approximately 15 inches wide...my shoulder and arm would be lined up right around the 5 board....right ?

Based upon the facts I've just given....don't read anything else into it...just what is there.....does that make sense ??

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Jeffrevs

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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2003, 12:43:12 PM »
thanks El Duce.....that makes sense....

I ask because I'm confirming if I'm really lining up right for whatever board I'm looking for.....nothing major, just seeing what the BR family has to say !
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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2003, 01:40:38 PM »
Jeff,

I was taught in the past that if you lined up your foot on 20 and your slide was also on 20, the average person, providing they kept their shoulders square, would roll the ball right up the 10 board.  If you know that your shoulders are 15 inches wide, grab a ruler one day and put one edge of the ruler on the 20 baord and see where that puts your release point.  Otherwise, i was taught that your shoulders are 10 boards wide, on average.
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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2003, 02:05:48 PM »
Yep I agree the tightest to the ankle bowlers I know are near 6 boards from their slide foot.  (Gives them 1.5 boards of leeway from having ball strike ankle).  

More typically 7 to 8 boards.

I'm a moderately big fellow.  I would not want to put the ball down 15 boards from my center point.  (Base of my spine) I believe this would be about 10 boards from my ankle and would leave me quite off balance.

I like the Dick Ritger method, contained on tape 2.  That discusses Your starting point, your drift and then moves your setdown point 7 boards from that point.

ie I drift two boards towards the inside.  For me to throw the ball straight down 10 I start 15 drift to 17 and throw straight down 10!

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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2003, 02:06:22 PM »
It all depends on how far the ball is away from your ankle upon delivery. The diameter of a ball is 8.5". So,if the ball just grazed your ankle, the center of the ball would hit the lane 4 1/4" from the position of your ankle at the line.

Given that we determine where we slide normally by the center of our foot, where the ball will land on the lane is calculated by adding... roughly  2 inches (=1/2 diameter of your foot/ankle) + 4 1/4" (center of ball) + however many inches ball is away from your ankle. =:^D
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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2003, 02:22:06 PM »
quote:

  I would not want to put the ball down 15 boards from my center point.  


Lefty,.....I said that my center line at each shoulder...meaning, centerline of left shoulder to centerline of right shoulder is approx. 15 inches.  Not center of my spine to shoulder 15 inches...that's a big boy!!!
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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2003, 02:31:09 PM »
if your foot is at 20 and you are targeting to the right, your slide foot should be a few boards inside of that, say 15 for reference.

Your slide foot must line up in the center of your body or you will not be able to maintain proper balance and follow through.

Bill Taylor refers to this a "filling the hole". if your left foot is in the center of your body, your hips can be open  and that will allow your swing to be straight through your target with your trailing leg providing balance.



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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2003, 02:34:29 PM »
All of this makes perfect sense....but even though your slide foot goes to the middle of your body.....you're armswing....if free and if it starts just on your right side.....will go/should go straight thru your target....so IF YOU DON'T DRIFT.......your swing shoulder is still on or right around the 5 board....in my case (15 " across shoulders)....right ?
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Re: Swing Line ?!
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2003, 02:48:49 PM »
depends on your shoulders, waist and general swing plane.

for some the shoulder opens up and the the arm swings closer to the body on the way down, bring the ball next to the ankle.

also Just because your eye may say your shoulder is pointing at a target doesn't make it so. depends a lot on you eye domianance.

there are 2 way to tell where you are setting down the ball. place something on the lane that the ball will scuff. or have someone tell you what board the ball crossed the foul line at.
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