You can speed up your feet by adding another step or by taking bigger steps in your approach. This will cause a reaction that makes your backswing a little higher and creating more ball speed. Whatever you do, don't use your arm to simply throw the ball harder. That will cause all kinds of timing and pulling problems. You HAVE to keep the swing smooth in order to have any consistency with your shot.

However, if you are okay playing deeper, it isn't that big of a deal. It sounds like you are rev-dominant. If that's the case, make sure you have the right surface on your balls in order to get them through the midlane.

I will try the bigger steps. I do believe that I am rev dominant compared to my speed, I try to keep my bowling balls polished with smoother surfaces such as 2000 and 4000 abralon. The surface changes have really helped me with the C System 2.5 and getting it through the front part of the lane especially. Using this type of surface gives me a lot of skid snap type reaction. Which most of the time I can deal with, but sometimes can be very over under and a struggle.

I don't mind playing deeper, but it seems that I always wind up pulling the ball left for a few shots a game because of it, which is all on the bowler and his focus I believe. I am relatively new to bowling league wise and I am definitely still in the learning phase and greatly appreciate the insight from the bowlers on this site and in my league.

Variables that are important in carry...ball speed and rav rate need to work together or match up to optimize pin carry, if you're rev dominant you should drop in weight...you never want your angles too opened up or forced into bad angles...second due to normal acceleration and G-force, a bowling balls picks up 3-4 Gs or your 16 becomes 48-64lbs by release in comparison to 15lbs=45-60lbs over x-amount of games,....stay within comfort and make simple changes...which IMHO would be weight

I believe for most healthy young males ball speed is more of a mechanical than a ball weight issue.

+1 to this. I'm 22 but I've never been able to throw it more than 14-15mph and always felt like it held me back, especially on house shots. I used to throw it with all muscle but I relaxed my entire swing and ended up losing even more ball speed. I just started speeding up my feet and pushing it away quicker, and now I'm up about a mph and I notice a huge difference in how clean my ball gets down lane. I'm able to stay right longer now. You should definitely work on mechanics first. If you still feel like your speed is slow after making changes, then I'd say drop to 15. Just make sure your timing stays in tact when you  speed everything up. Faster feet with the same armswing speed will cause even more problems.

A free swing is just that, a free swing.  If you add no muscle in the swing, you get a set ball speed at the bottom of the swing.  Ultimately you want as free a swing as possible.  If you are stationary at the foul line and release ball with a free swing, that is the ball speed you start with.  Any additional speed should come from your legs. 

When I was younger, my velocity into my slide was quite fast and as a result, my ball speed was fast.  As I got older (and after 10 years in the Marine Corps), my knees couldn't handle the same velocity into my slide.  As a result, my 19-20 mph release became a 17 mph release.  When this happened, my rev rate no longer matched my ball speed.  I don't want to throw the ball 20 mph anymore, so I had to cut back on my rev rate a little to become as matched as I could.

I don't know why you throw the ball 14 mph.  As JustRico said, too many people try to muscle the ball and end up decelerating their swing, reducing the ball speed.  Your ultimate goal is to become rev/speed matched.  If it means increasing your ball speed, look at your approach and arm swing.  If it means reducing your revs, look at taking your hand out of the ball a little.  And please, don't increase your stride (length of step) to increase your speed.  You should increase the speed of your steps as you get to your slide to gain ball speed.  Think slow, slow, faster, faster.

Lot's of good suggestions.  I  too have tried to get my ball speed up from over the past year and have tried several things to do that, many that have been suggested.  I use to throw 15lbs and was very rev dominant, always way deeper than most people and transition killed me as even the weakest equipment was not weak enough to push down the lane or carry.  Here are all the changes I have made: I went to 16 to stop muscling the ball and as stated "stop decelerating the armswing" The harder I tried to throw it the more I revved it. I worked on adding a more up the back release to get more push through the front. I got away from all the asymetyrical cores and throw predominantly symetrical balls to smooth out the over under and hide my poorly released shots.  Lastly I changed from a pushaway to a hinge to get more ball swing.  Still working on this change.  Expect to go down in average before you go up. I dropped from 218 last year to 200 for the first 3 months and am only now starting to get back to my average of last year. I'm never goint to be a fireballer But now I can stay to the right of third arrow for three games.  Your mileage may vary and the move up in weight helped me because I was overthrowing and I can't rev a 16 like I can a 15  but for most folks the jump in weight is probably not the way to go.

I have often thought I was more free with my 16 than my 15.

In fact I agree with many of the comments of Polish Hammer.  More of a hinge ditto.

Less on the side ditto, faster feet because more in synch!  ditto.

It seems to be going somewhere.  Climbing!

Regards,

Luckylefty