No this post is not about the California Porn industry!
This is about how to bowl high but more importantly what I think is the defining property in winning bowling today!
Truly penetration is the proper word! Some other words I've seen others bandy about and I've used myself are the modern release(some posts awhile back about this flatter hand position way of bowling), hand behind the ball, firmness etc!
More and more when I watch Walter Ray, Brian Voss in synch last year,Mika, Steve Jaros last year, Danny Wiseman at his striking best, other bowlers when I see them performing well on tougher shots, I'm left with the impression of firmness flat wrist, levelness to the lane and penetration of the ball to the breakpoint.
Inherent in these great shots are shots that are not bounced(bump bump) are extended very level to the lane, that the hand does not wrap around the side or cup much and no letting the ball leak out to a hard dry or out of bounds to the outside. So often when I see good to very good bowlers on tough shots I see cupped wrists that want to wrap and let the ball loop outside(usually one of two bad results as listed above, out of bounds skid or bounce). These are the problems.
When you watch Walter Ray one never sees any of those problems. One sees levelness, firmness, penetration(or a direct ball path with very little loop to where his armswing is directed). Very little dispersion as we called it in golf!
I believe if you've got penetration in your game on a particular day, and your opponent doesn't I don't care if you are 190 average and he's 238 if the condition is tougher, he's dead!
The assumption of course being that both of you are getting the ball clean off your hand and some revs! He can have tons you can have few! Usually he's dead!
REgards,
Luckylefty
PS top flite and others, any opinions on these thoughts!
PPS penetrate to your break point!
