Learning the Yo-Yo Release in Bowling: Improve Your Game (Commentary)
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- These bowling drills are great practice and have helped me strengthen my wrist and forearm over time and have allowed me to not only learn and improve my release but learn how to put it all together with my full approach:
1. No Step/Foul Line Drill
2. 1 Step Drill
3. 4 Step Drill
As a bowler, we are already thinking about so many things all at once that it becomes overwhelming and that we forget how to throw the bowling ball.
By being able to focus on the release, we can reduce the amount of variables involved and develop the feel and technique as you become a better bowler.
As your feel and technique improves, you’ll be able to increase your rev rate, stay behind the bowling ball more and integrate it all into your full approach.
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Thank you! 🫡
This video is so well done! I’m going through this right now, as I’ve recently started learning to throw a hook. This is the best breakdown and explanation I’ve found! Thank you for the time you’ve invested into this amazing video.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful 👋🏻
Cheers!
When I graduated from no-step to one-step drills, I had a similar challenge. I'd either fall off the shot or my old swing & release would come back, because I was switching gears in my head and focusing on timing instead of putting timing & release together. I'm much improved now after a few months of repetition. Nice to see it working for you, too.
Awesome. Great to hear! 👋🏻
Being able to switch gears is important. Sometimes we'll idle on one thing but then realize wait, I also need to be thinking of that other thing too then you really start to get things moving.
Keep it up! 🕺🏻
Same here!
Was taught the old way, to come up like youre shaking hands. Im 70 now so its gonna take alot of work to break that habit. But like you said, once you get it, youve got it
You got this! 💪🏻
Good point about aiming for improvement/progress!
Was also helpful to know that progress is not necessarily
linear, and can feel like regression at times.
I like the gym analogy!
Thank you! 💪🏻
Definitely. I've had days where I felt like I accomplished nothing after practice. I also like to write things down or take notes on my phone to help provide a guideline of what I want to do that day.
As briefly mentioned in the video, I also like to summarize how practice went, what felt right, what felt wrong etc. ✍🏻
Cheers!
So first off, your videos played a bigger role in helping me understand this release. Ive tried all the drills, and yesterday I kind of just lost it and finally just decided to go for it. I finally had a few dozen successful releases for the first time. Question, Im still in the early stages of learning this, but one thing I noticed when I did it right, my hand at the finish was like a crab claw. In my head my hand would finish palm up, fingers kind of splayed open. But instead my hand finishes pointing forward, thumb kind of pressed into my palm, and my fingers scrunched up one one another. Did you ever exp this?
Hmm. Not too sure 🤔
If I were to take a guess, it might be related to bowling ball fit and the thumbhole being too big which would cause you to subconsciously squeeze with your thumb to hold onto the ball which is how I think that would cause your thumb to come into your palm.
If so, and if I understood correctly, you can try putting one piece of bowler's tape inside your thumbhole to make it more snug🫡
Thank u
You're welcome! 👋🏻
How about your drilling? Have you had to change anything as in pitches or span? Im struggling with a lot im getting there but i do think maybe learning about my hand and how it should sit and or feel in the ball would help me even more. What if the drillings are wrong? Or what if there are better ways for fit. Is that silly? Another thing is. Seeing!! What is my ball doing what i need to do to help it. Where to move when shoukd i move whek i move what do i look at. Again i havent been bowling lomg at all, i learn everyday im fixated on bowling and wanting to be better. My full self is in it i have all the time to do that. Thankfully but too much is bad i need to walk away and take a break.
Definitely not silly!
It takes some time to find that overall feel; there's a lot of trial and error involved. My best tip would be to take everything 1 step at a time (literally).
You got this! 👋🏻
Yes the approach I can't for the life of me get the trail leg to do that. I tend to drag behind me it stops me. Like pull thru, toe drags forward .. Idk how to break the habit from pitching softball my whole life slingshot.
That's a tough one!
Since that toe drag is kinda muscled memoried into you, trying the no step/foul line drill could help you get your mind to visualize the new location of where you want your leg to be.
Just being in that new position, that could help you gradually factory reset that muscle memory! 🕺🏻
What is your current rev rate? Looks pretty high.
Not sure but I'd say a generous amount 👋🏻
I’m a 183 average bowler , who just started trying this yo yo release, I ended up getting more Revs but injured my wrist . I’m sure I was using wrong form , I was lifting my elbow and doing a pushing motion … is there a way you can explain the yo-yo or show a different angle.? Good luck on your journey .. I’m sure I was doing something wrong . This my first time feeling pain from bowling in bicep and wrist
You’ve probably heard about trying to get under the equator of bowling ball. Well, by using that elbow bend and forearm, it will help you get under the ball on your downswing!
Also, you’ll develop that strength and technique over time.
Take it easy! 👋🏻
The way I've heard it explained is to stop the upper part of your arm near the bottom of your swing that naturally causes your elbow and wrist to bend and get under the ball with little to no effort, and then unless. Let momentum and gravity do the work for you to bend the elbow and cup the wrist instead of muscling it up with your wrist and forearm. Easier said than done, but that's the general idea.
@@ender9094 I was definitely muscling the ball … 😅 , I’m still trying to figure it out
@1:00.
I wish I was a lil bit taller, I was I was a lil bit smaller.. I wish I had the shot, of a 24-Oh balla'...
I will see myself out.
Hah! Stay a while 😁🎵
I want to do this... I am a no thumb noob tho.. wonder how possible it is
Very possible! 👋🏻
@@bowlersoup Cool - thank you
Good info. But hard to listen to.
Thank you! 👋🏻
Just dont get it, i need to see in slow mo exactly what the wrist is doing
I will definitely have to do some side view angles 👋🏻
Is there any way that you can explain it simply? Ive watched videos but dont under stand how they get their wrist to do what it does
@@billylusk3515 The thumb makes a clear exit like you’re trying to flick it out then when it clears you have your fingers left still in the ball.
Thumb out, then fingers
Thumb out, then fingers
Overtime, you are able to perform that action faster and then incorporate forearm and elbow bend 💪🏻
@@bowlersoup hard to learn huh
@@bowlersoup when does the thumb come out