What suggestions are out there to stay balanced at the line?  As a righty, I keep falling to the right after release, and I feel this is a brick wall for me to duplicate shots, and improve overall.  I've been given the suggestion of bringing my slide step in to counteract your center of gravity at release, but it seems to make things worse.
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- woz

Edited on 1/16/2009 9:41 PM

Slowing the footwork is never wrong. Make sure that you actually slide at the foul line, a tad before you release the ball, and keep your upper body upright (square shoulders). If you bend forward, either through an open shoulder or from the wasit (due to an unbent knee!), you shift your body's CG away from the cventerline and yiou simply cannot hold the balance once you stop moving forward - your sliding foot has to compensate for everything, and that causes lost of consistency trouble.

Ideally, you can "place" the sliding foot just under your body's CG in the monet you let the ball go - which is, with good timing, just before the ball passes your ankle. In this position the upper body's CG is just above the standing sliding foot, and the rest of the movement is balanced through the trailing leg as well as the stretched arm.

Timing is everything, and a good body posture, keep the body tension up until the ball actually moves across your target on the lane.
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I've been debating myself whether it is better to keep my balance foot in the air or try to keep it on the ground. I usually can keep my posture still at line and not fall off to the right when I release it when I keep it in the air but something about having the trail foot on the ground feels better. Does keeping the the body more upright help to keep it on the ground better?