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n00dlejester

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After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« on: November 08, 2009, 08:30:06 AM »
Lately, I've been focusing on what i watch for in my bowling ball after I release it.  A few ideas I've had, and how they've worked out fo rme.  

1)  I watch where the ball is in relation to where my eyes are looking.  Let's say I'm looking at the 10th board at the arrows, I will look at the bottom of the ball and where it is on the lane.  After that, I will watch the ball's rotation and see the phases of the ball from skid to hook to roll.  I find this helps me notice when a ball picks up a bit early or late, and how much room for error I have at the target I am looking at.  I generally notice when it's time to move left/right pretty quickly this way.

2)  I tried this today, and found I REALLY enjoyed it.  I watch where the ball is in relation to my eyes like above, then follow it.  Like, I continue watching where the ball touches the lane and watch as precisely as I can where the ball's breakpoint is.  This helped me judge how much room for error I had at the breakpoint, and where the out of bounds was outside and what too far inside was.  I had trouble judging if the ball was getting into a good skid/hook/roll, but watching the ball through the pins helped with that.  

So, what do you guys do?
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 01:21:10 PM »
1) Watch ball cross over my desired board.
2) Watch ball hit the breakpoint
3) Watch ball go off the deck in back (to see if my entry angle is right...if my ball is splitting the 8-9 or driving too much at the 8 or deflecting too much towards the 9.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 01:23:39 PM »
i look to see if i get the right rotation and where my ball is at the BP
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 01:37:47 PM »
Board cross spot at the arrows I am aiming then I follow it with my eyes to the break point.

Then I watch the pins fall and see the ten pin stand
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 01:39:55 PM »
After the ball passes the arrows I am watching the BP.  After that I am just watching to see if the 10 pin stays or not.  Depending on the type of leave on a 10 pin will mean what adjustment I will make.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 02:05:19 PM »
i look to see how crappy i threw it.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2009, 02:53:19 PM »
Half of the time I just close my eyes and hope something good happened.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2009, 03:02:52 PM »
I've changed my strategy on how to play the lanes lately. Use to stand left and throw right and hit it hard to make it turn back. Now I stand on top of the friction and try to keep the ball on line and not hook early. So I now look to see if I hit my mark and just check to make sure the ball doesn't check up early.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2009, 04:40:51 PM »
i pray for no gutter!!
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2009, 04:49:37 PM »
I'm not sure what I do until the ball is well past the arrows.  I am pretty sure for a split second I lose consciousness.  I wish I could look at a target board and watch the ball roll over it but I can't get comfortable with it.  I couldn't tell you what board the ball rolled over at the arrows.  


After taking I few practice approaches in the room here, I think I might look at the back wall above the pin deck.  I can't be sure though because like I said I think I black out until the ball crosses the arrows.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2009, 05:38:29 PM »
Friday night leaque shoot 765 by looking at the cute nurse with the DD on pair next to mine after every shot. Maybe I should keep that routine.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2009, 05:42:17 PM »
I watch to see if Figjam and CGssuck are up my butt like they are on BR.com

Then I look to see who's watching me cuz I'm so pretty..

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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2009, 06:52:20 PM »
I watch to see if the waitress brought the beer.
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Re: After Your Release, What do you Watch?
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2009, 09:16:34 PM »
@Kid Jete:  I know what you mean, oddly enough.  I felt the same way for a long time.  It took me forever to be able to pick the ball up quickly and watch it along its path.  But I'm finding that it's helping me a lot lately, but still really hard to be able to figure out what the ball is doing all the time lol.  But hopefully by doing this I'll be able to adjust quicker and more accurately.
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