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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: bamaster on January 28, 2004, 07:36:41 PM
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Ok folks, I am about to write an article on Training Techniques for my website since I see many folks here ask about practicing (I like the word training better).
So here is the question... what is a good way to train?
I want to discuss working on:
1. Strikes (your A-game)
2. Spares (single pins and clusters)
3. Wrist positions (new positions)
How would you recommend someone working on spares? I'm not talkiing spare-shooting stuff like throw straight and hard... but more like a regimen, like for the first ball take the 10 off the rack and for your second shot throw it int he exact same place without putting it in the ditch.
I have lots of ideas but I'm curious as to any techniques you may have already found success in.
Thanks!
Tony
http://www.allBowling.com
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<sarcasm>
Ask about a good ball to buy and you'll get a hundred replies. Ask about training techniques and I get two.
Sounds like people know how to get the equipment to do the work for them but not how to get themselves to do the work.
I'd bet if I started a website called BowlingTrainingReviews.com it woud be a flop. But BallReviews.com? Sheeeew, that's where everyone will be.
</sarcasm>
Tony
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A game I've suggested in the past to help work on corner pins and strikes at the same time: Try to throw a perfect 111 game. A perfect game is constituted by picking off a corner pin on your first ball and picking up the spare on your second ball.
I personally have never thrown the perfect 111 game, it is a difficult task.
Beyond that, for spare practice, I'd suggest trying to find a center that will work with you and configure the pin setters to set a specific pin or pin combination on each shot.
For wrist positioning, I can't offer any advice. (One of those things where I can do it but don't know how I do it.)
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"It's a shame a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs."
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My sweet 16 drill!!! Actually 13.
It's a money maker! I almost never do it!
But when I do!
REgards,
Luckylefty
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I'm not going to offer you much .. I bowl in the afternoon .. otherwise I would have responded sooner ..
To practice SPARES during PRACTICE SESSIONS .. I do no more then shoot the SPARES I leave. It's the STRIKES that I try different lines on .. but spares I SHOOT FOR WHAT'S LEFT. Figure if that's what I leave that's what I should be practicing!
Give the people a little time .. I'm sure you'll get more responses!
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Hit them light and watch them fight
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