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another300

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Bowling with the opposite hand
« on: October 23, 2008, 05:33:09 AM »
My girlfriend is left handed and I have been working with her on her game.  I explain things but when I show her I am throwing it right handed so it doesn't help her all that much.  I'm not very good or accurate throwing it with my left, but I wanted to show her how to hook it. Long story but one week when we go practice, she has a nice little hook to the pocket.  Next time it's no hook but angled to the pocket, then next time she spins it like a top, with no hook. When we first started bowling it was a real nice hook.  That's the hook I want to see from her all the time.  She finds that nice hook once in a while and I ask her if she knows what she is doing or how she is throwing it.  She says yes, but next time we bowl, it's straight or spinning like a top.

So, I threw my ball (resurgence) that is drilled right handed, with my left hand. It had a nice hook, as if it was drilled for my left hand.  I struck on my first three throws.

I guess my question on this is, why did it continue to hook and drive through the 1-2 pocket so well if the weight block, axis...drilling was set up for a right hander? I mean it hooked and drove through the pocket like it was drilled left-handed.  I expect it would lose drive and straighten out. This also leads me to another question, does drilling even matter?

 

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Re: Bowling with the opposite hand
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 02:04:36 PM »
Think about the normal factors that "make" a ball hook.
Drilling does not have as much influence as the bowler's relesae/delivery (ball speed, rev rate, tilt, rotation), nor as much as the lane surface+ oil pattern.

Plus I assume you've seen high rev rate bowlers place the pin on the negative or left side of the grip and still hook it. A lot depends on how the ball is drilled and how THAT reacts with the way you throw it left handed.

I doubt if your left ball speed is as high as your right side.
I'd also bet you try to hook it left handed and right handed by this time, it is more "natural"  and less forced. Of course, if you have practiced throwing it left handed a lot, these fatcors tend to even out a little more.

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CoachLefty

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Re: Bowling with the opposite hand
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2008, 02:07:43 PM »
I own lots of stuff that is drilled "right handed" and still hook and drive for me.
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Re: Bowling with the opposite hand
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2008, 02:09:02 PM »
The left is just THAT much easier mvas....

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Re: Bowling with the opposite hand
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2008, 02:31:19 PM »
When throwing a right handed drilled ball left handed the Pin to PAP distance becomes Pin-NAP.  You'll still get track flare as long as the pin isn't on your NAP or in your initial track.  As long are you have some rotation, and it isn't 0°, it will hook.  The problem is that it will probably flare towards the holes, which is why you don't see balls drilled that way normally.
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