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n00dlejester

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Wrist Position
« on: July 14, 2008, 01:30:52 PM »
So today in PBAx, we bowled on the Scorpion.  It seemed that most everybody who had some revs on the ball had some serious room for error.  Me?  I seemed to have a window the size of a dime to hit.  I then made a drastic move: went to the gutter.  This was about the middle of game 2.  Threw from like 2/3 straight up, and liked what I saw.  I then proceeded to twisted my thumb and wrist.  My thumb went from say six o'clock to about seven or seven thirty.  My ball went from skidding a bit too far and leaving monstrous ten pins to crushing them all.  What difference in throwing does wrist position make?

My take on Scorpion:  It was INFINITELY different than last year, a lot more room for hook outisde of 12.  Last year anything past 10 and it was bye bye.  Good stuff!
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Re: Wrist Position
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 10:55:45 AM »
Hand and wrist position can change a lot. I just had a similar case last weekend in training. Not sure about the pattern, I guess it was THS, nothing fancy, with a good back end.
I played with my new Igniter, standard hand position (thumb straight up, palm about 45° tilt). Ball went well down the lane, made a sharp turn, hit the pocket - but I could not strike. Single pin leaves galore. I moved my feet around tried different lines, nothing convincing.
As another option in store I finally changed my hand position into a more flat position, parallel to the floor and the thumb pointing outwards. The result would be more of an end-over-end roll, a less shrp break point and less overall hook. I had to adjust my feet 2 boards outwrds, too, but out of a sudden those pocket hits carried and I was able to strike, even score a Turkey or 4-bagger.

Lesson learned: Know what you can achieve with different wrist/hand/finger positions. There will be times when the limit between success and failure is just the tilt of your hand away...
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Re: Wrist Position
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 11:41:41 AM »
Crazy!  Sounds like the same thing I was experiencing as last night.

I think I'm going to try that hand position straight away tonight in THS league, and see if there's an improvement in backend and carry again.
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