As a beginner bowler your videos have helped me more than you will ever know. The podcast is an awesome addition! In my first ever league this past year my average went from 114-160. Keep up the great work JR. It is very much appreciated.
That small snippet of information about getting your fingers inside the ball helped me figure out why I couldnt get the proper spin on my ball. I was getting rotation laterally so the ball spun like a top but stayed completely straight down the lane. I knew I needed to do something, and you helped me figure out what. 👍
This was a very needed video for someone who has never had a bowling lesson in their life. This exact thing happened to me tonight and I had no clue what to do.
Thanks for doing this. I've seen other channels trying to explain the same thing and they just fall short poor camera angles lacking explanation. Also doing it in slow motion and showing what you're doing with your wrist in your elbow into the body makes it make a lot more sense. I've watched other videos trying to watch their hands and see but it happens so quick. It looks like you do the wrist twist right about the foul line? I think timing is just as important as what you're doing with the wrist
I know this is a couple of years ago but it's one of my favorites. Love the part where you say "I mean we're gonna cut that". Keep up the great content.
This definitely makes sense. I will have to try it when I go bowling tomorrow. I have a redemption solid and been having trouble trying to get the right spot. I know part of it was how I threw it. This actually helped.
I hadn’t bowled in a league since 1987 and quickly realized that the game has changed. My pso told me a redemption solid would be a good first ball for a guy with no hand, low rev and low speed. He was right but I’m having the most success standing at 10 and assuming for around 8. Standing left has only worked for me in practice on dry lanes...it don’t work in league at all. I definitely gotta work on my release...your videos have been helpful in that
I'm still learning when to change from a solid to a pearl. I never know there was a difference. My PSO drilled my Jackal Ghost pin up and my Golden Jackal pin down . Absolutely 🤯🤯🤯
Great tip JR. I need to work on changing my hand position as my inside game is not very good and decreases my flexibility as a bowler as the lanes transition.
Love your videos, have helped a lot. Need one on hitting your mark. I do a three-step, with a 14lb, (dark code and phase iii, and IQ for my spare ball). My aim point is the 10 arrow, usually hit 11 or 12, but once in a while the ball goes 5 or 6 boards left. I watch the arrow until the ball is past, and try to keep the approach and release consistent as possible. But can still blow my mark by a wide margin. Help!?
JR, your tape video saved my life dude. I swear I went from shooting 590 every week to flirting with 700 every week just from not grabbing my shots. Of course I bought a purple hammer because of a video you shot and the ball reaction you got convinced me that I was missing out. So yea I’ve been averaging 225 thanks to you. I guess my actual coach helped too, but I am thinking it was the hammer that did it more than anything. Lol
Oftentimes, the ball we use isnt the problem. It's how we perceive the ball that changes how the ball changes motion. Let me give you an example of this: I had an Ebonite GameChanger that was my first reactive bowling ball. I had it for a long time. But then I got a Storm IQ Tour Emerald, and I liked its color and smell and I enjoyed how much it hooked for me (it was stronger than the GameChanger). However, because I preferred the IQ over the GameChanger, I found I never used the Ebonite ball and even when I did, I disliked its motion. Then I got rid of it and got the Storm Pitch Black. For me, that was the best decision I could make. I preferred Storm equipment and therefore was able to learn how to shape the ball the way I wanted, and it was all because I liked a different ball company.
@@DeanMcCain I acknowledge that sometimes you like the shape of a ball or like the motion that a specific company is famous for, but this is more than that. This ball.... it’s crazy. It has all the forgiveness of urethane, but it carries everything. And you can make a 2-1 or 3-1 move and be right back in the pocket. It is laughably easy to strike, it’s like it has a homing device to the 1-2. It just allows me to play my absolute A++ game on both house and also a plethora of sport patterns. When I get three boards of miss on a house shot and 2 boards of miss on a sport pattern, I’m hard to handle on a given night, and this ball provides it. I know exactly why the storm and global people don’t like this ball on tour. It does stuff that the pitch black or the booyah or any Tank can do. I hope that Brunswick’s pour of this ball is at least 90% as good as the Kentucky ball is, cause they will sell a warehouse full of them. It’s just special. I’m telling people now: if you don’t have staff obligations, go find one of these things and punch it up. You will not be disappointed.
@@CurtisL8.3066 idk man. The tank blitz hooks more than any urethane ball. Purple hammer is good but I'd say the blitz is the most aggressive non resin ball we have currently. Yet its not exactly urethane so it is what it is
@@stompingpeak2043 it’s not about being stronger, it’s about where it lets me start and where it lets me finish in league. My miss is typically outside and the ball covers that up nicely, but if I tug it, it shims right into the pocket. If I’m gonna shoot 650 plus every night, i need room like that. I’ve kinda migrated to some short pin reactive balls for house but the idea is the same.
@@CurtisL8.3066 I'm just saying that miss room is there with something like the blitz as well. I'm not a fan boy of either line but I've seen the tank blitz as the absolute best non resin ball there is. If you miss right or left it will carry while still creating angle. Unlike urethane. It will carry as well. Urethane requires light or flush hits to strike. Where the polycell cover doesn't. Its like half reactive and half urethane.
Great vid JR thanks for all you do. Question I've always had is when can you tell if you want to throw across with a snap hook, vs. coming in at a lower straighter angle? Is coming in at a smaller angle better long as your ball doesn't deflect? What to high revers always rev it so much, is that just for pin carry? It seems every time I see crankers they have a hard time staying consistent so i never understood the logic there as to when you use the heavy snap, guessing it's when the solid or straighter / smaller angles deflect and leaving 10?
I can't even throw that first shot. My ball will go straight into the gutter. Just bought a Motiv Venom Shock and I have to stand at 10 and throw at 10 to get to the pocket. Lots of hanging 10's. If I move left, I hit right of the pocket. If I stand right, it goes brooklyn. How to get enough hook to move even a tiny bit more left?
My main problem is that when I move left the ball goes straight in the middle, I think it’s mostly with my shoulders, I’m practicing moving my shoulders with the angle.
Yeah you gotta open your shoulders up when moving left. Or else you'll stand left shoot left which is kinda what you want to do on super long sport patterns but not on house shots. On house shots you either stand left shoot right or stay right and stay aggressive/loft.
Alright serious comment, I wonder if it is even necessary to move left at all if you don't get a lot of rotation? I mean if I'm only getting about 320 or so RPM, couldn't I just stay on the right and play a direct line anyways? That's what I've been doing: Stay to the right and stay aggressive...until I started getting injured. I'm better now but worried I'll get injured again if I get in a situation where I gotta throw the ball harder. Does JR have some content on that?
The reason I said that I was just wondering why you were playing so far left having to throw the ball out to the right, but then again it could be a reverse block or the inside to burn out and that's why you were playing on the left and throwing it to the right.
Thanks so much JR. I went bowling tonight and when I tried to stay right cause i'm a amateur with low revs and speed, hoping to play it straight, the ball hooked and read the lane early. So, I tried to move left to get into the oil to get the ball down the lane, then the ball would not hook enough, I assume because my revs are low. Do you have any advice for someone who over hooks when they play the outside but can't hook in the middle of the lane? Also my ball is pretty strong so that may be a factor i'm not considering. It just feels so inconsistent which I'm sure is my release. Probably different every time. I bowl with a Storm Trend.
I posted this before I watched the video for the record. This seems to be the perfect video for me. I can't wait to watch the rest and apply this knowledge next time I bowl.
Hi JR, I have watched and practiced all of your lessons on proper release but I still helicopter the ball, is there any other recommendations you could give me? My consistency is awful and it is probably due to a bad release.
I can give you a sort of answer. The best way to learn how to not helicopter the ball is to do a line drill or even a one step. This way you can learn how to do both hand and arm. Arm is a big part of it because if your elbow moves out (called a chicken wing), it can cause you to helicopter, and if your hand is forcing rotation, that's going to helicopter. One steps and line drills can help you focus on just those areas, and from there, you can go up and learn how to do it with a full approach. Another way to help is by throwing a football underhand as this will teach your hand the kind of feeling you should get when releasing a ball. A bowling way to help is when you get to the top of your swing to move the ball out (point it in the direction of which hand you use (right for righties and left for lefties), then on the downswing tuck the elbow inside and let the swing do the rest. These are couple tips I have learned from my coaches.
@@DeanMcCain I appreciate the answer! I have tried one step, and no step drills in the past but maybe I didn't do enough of them. I always keep my elbow tucked. That is one of the first things my grandpa taught me so I always make sure I can feel it during the backswing. I will try the other suggestion next time I go practice.
I had the exact same issue my freshman year as a college bowler. It's from two things: First is suitcasing/chicken winging like what Random is saying, and second I guarantee you aren't dropping your shoulder far enough. You need to make sure that shoulder is as far down as you can get it. The further the better. Keeping your shoulders square almost guarantees you to spin the ball like a top cuz there is an imbalance cuz you got a 15 (or 14 or 16) pound ball in one of your hands. So your shoulder will want to drop anyways. I think as soon as you drop your shoulder you'll helicopter the ball way less. It pretty much instantly helped me.
@@SirJoelsuf1 My coach actually (when I was a one hander) had me and my older sister to suitcase to teach us the art of changing hand positions as well as to teach us how to avoid the getting our elbows out (chicken wing). There is a way to properly do a suitcase but it can take a lot of training to learn properly. I did forget about the dropping shoulder part. I'm so used to doing it that I forgot about it. Thank you for bringing it up, Sir Joelsuf! 😊
@@SirJoelsuf1 Thank you! I will give that a try, during warm up next week. Unless I go practice this week end. I have been trying a few drills I found that I can do at home in the mean time.
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As a beginner bowler your videos have helped me more than you will ever know. The podcast is an awesome addition! In my first ever league this past year my average went from 114-160. Keep up the great work JR. It is very much appreciated.
That small snippet of information about getting your fingers inside the ball helped me figure out why I couldnt get the proper spin on my ball. I was getting rotation laterally so the ball spun like a top but stayed completely straight down the lane. I knew I needed to do something, and you helped me figure out what. 👍
This was a very needed video for someone who has never had a bowling lesson in their life. This exact thing happened to me tonight and I had no clue what to do.
Thanks for doing this.
I've seen other channels trying to explain the same thing and they just fall short poor camera angles lacking explanation.
Also doing it in slow motion and showing what you're doing with your wrist in your elbow into the body makes it make a lot more sense.
I've watched other videos trying to watch their hands and see but it happens so quick.
It looks like you do the wrist twist right about the foul line?
I think timing is just as important as what you're doing with the wrist
I know this is a couple of years ago but it's one of my favorites. Love the part where you say "I mean we're gonna cut that". Keep up the great content.
Your videos are so helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to teach. It's helping my game immensely
yeah thank you i have been struggling with this recently as i was lockign down mechanics and now im in to opening the lane more. thank you
This definitely makes sense. I will have to try it when I go bowling tomorrow. I have a redemption solid and been having trouble trying to get the right spot. I know part of it was how I threw it. This actually helped.
Thanks a lot. I have struggled with getting the ball to hook moving left. Such a simple fix and it really helped me!!
I'm having this EXACT issue! Thank you for the video!
I hadn’t bowled in a league since 1987 and quickly realized that the game has changed. My pso told me a redemption solid would be a good first ball for a guy with no hand, low rev and low speed. He was right but I’m having the most success standing at 10 and assuming for around 8. Standing left has only worked for me in practice on dry lanes...it don’t work in league at all.
I definitely gotta work on my release...your videos have been helpful in that
awesome video, definitely wanna see more slowed down and in depth videos like this
I'm still learning when to change from a solid to a pearl. I never know there was a difference. My PSO drilled my Jackal Ghost pin up and my Golden Jackal pin down . Absolutely 🤯🤯🤯
When Solid burn Out. 2-1 Move and play Pearl oder Hybrid.
I've been dealing with this issue. I'm going to try all these tips out and see if it works.
Need to practice this next session thanks.
I haven't bowled for a year now but this is the video I needed back then. This bullshit needs to end.
Great tip JR. I need to work on changing my hand position as my inside game is not very good and decreases my flexibility as a bowler as the lanes transition.
Great lesson!!!
I was JUST thinking about this. Thanks
Exactly the opposite is my problem now, so deep that I’m not accurate enough when transition comes and I have a hard time closing my angles
Love your videos, have helped a lot. Need one on hitting your mark. I do a three-step, with a 14lb, (dark code and phase iii, and IQ for my spare ball). My aim point is the 10 arrow, usually hit 11 or 12, but once in a while the ball goes 5 or 6 boards left. I watch the arrow until the ball is past, and try to keep the approach and release consistent as possible. But can still blow my mark by a wide margin. Help!?
Thank you for the video
Exactly what I'm going through this year
Hey JR, , are there any balls and or layouts you can use and be able to go back to the right and play up the right side if the lanes are burned out.
JR, your tape video saved my life dude. I swear I went from shooting 590 every week to flirting with 700 every week just from not grabbing my shots. Of course I bought a purple hammer because of a video you shot and the ball reaction you got convinced me that I was missing out. So yea I’ve been averaging 225 thanks to you. I guess my actual coach helped too, but I am thinking it was the hammer that did it more than anything. Lol
Oftentimes, the ball we use isnt the problem. It's how we perceive the ball that changes how the ball changes motion. Let me give you an example of this: I had an Ebonite GameChanger that was my first reactive bowling ball. I had it for a long time. But then I got a Storm IQ Tour Emerald, and I liked its color and smell and I enjoyed how much it hooked for me (it was stronger than the GameChanger). However, because I preferred the IQ over the GameChanger, I found I never used the Ebonite ball and even when I did, I disliked its motion. Then I got rid of it and got the Storm Pitch Black. For me, that was the best decision I could make. I preferred Storm equipment and therefore was able to learn how to shape the ball the way I wanted, and it was all because I liked a different ball company.
@@DeanMcCain I acknowledge that sometimes you like the shape of a ball or like the motion that a specific company is famous for, but this is more than that. This ball.... it’s crazy. It has all the forgiveness of urethane, but it carries everything. And you can make a 2-1 or 3-1 move and be right back in the pocket. It is laughably easy to strike, it’s like it has a homing device to the 1-2. It just allows me to play my absolute A++ game on both house and also a plethora of sport patterns. When I get three boards of miss on a house shot and 2 boards of miss on a sport pattern, I’m hard to handle on a given night, and this ball provides it. I know exactly why the storm and global people don’t like this ball on tour. It does stuff that the pitch black or the booyah or any Tank can do. I hope that Brunswick’s pour of this ball is at least 90% as good as the Kentucky ball is, cause they will sell a warehouse full of them. It’s just special. I’m telling people now: if you don’t have staff obligations, go find one of these things and punch it up. You will not be disappointed.
@@CurtisL8.3066 idk man. The tank blitz hooks more than any urethane ball. Purple hammer is good but I'd say the blitz is the most aggressive non resin ball we have currently. Yet its not exactly urethane so it is what it is
@@stompingpeak2043 it’s not about being stronger, it’s about where it lets me start and where it lets me finish in league. My miss is typically outside and the ball covers that up nicely, but if I tug it, it shims right into the pocket. If I’m gonna shoot 650 plus every night, i need room like that. I’ve kinda migrated to some short pin reactive balls for house but the idea is the same.
@@CurtisL8.3066 I'm just saying that miss room is there with something like the blitz as well. I'm not a fan boy of either line but I've seen the tank blitz as the absolute best non resin ball there is. If you miss right or left it will carry while still creating angle. Unlike urethane. It will carry as well. Urethane requires light or flush hits to strike. Where the polycell cover doesn't. Its like half reactive and half urethane.
You should do a 2 handed release video. Really need it
the release is exactly the same as a 1 handed release, you can watch belmo when he takes his left hand off its pretty much the exact same
When you are experimenting where are you exactly looking at the arrow or the pin?
Great vid JR thanks for all you do. Question I've always had is when can you tell if you want to throw across with a snap hook, vs. coming in at a lower straighter angle? Is coming in at a smaller angle better long as your ball doesn't deflect? What to high revers always rev it so much, is that just for pin carry? It seems every time I see crankers they have a hard time staying consistent so i never understood the logic there as to when you use the heavy snap, guessing it's when the solid or straighter / smaller angles deflect and leaving 10?
Man I sure would like to see the pro shop ? Who is with me?
I can't even throw that first shot. My ball will go straight into the gutter. Just bought a Motiv Venom Shock and I have to stand at 10 and throw at 10 to get to the pocket. Lots of hanging 10's. If I move left, I hit right of the pocket. If I stand right, it goes brooklyn. How to get enough hook to move even a tiny bit more left?
What are you looking at? Arrows or breakpoint?
My main problem is that when I move left the ball goes straight in the middle, I think it’s mostly with my shoulders, I’m practicing moving my shoulders with the angle.
Yeah you gotta open your shoulders up when moving left. Or else you'll stand left shoot left which is kinda what you want to do on super long sport patterns but not on house shots. On house shots you either stand left shoot right or stay right and stay aggressive/loft.
@@SirJoelsuf1 yea, it’ll just take some practice for me
Alright serious comment, I wonder if it is even necessary to move left at all if you don't get a lot of rotation? I mean if I'm only getting about 320 or so RPM, couldn't I just stay on the right and play a direct line anyways? That's what I've been doing: Stay to the right and stay aggressive...until I started getting injured. I'm better now but worried I'll get injured again if I get in a situation where I gotta throw the ball harder. Does JR have some content on that?
The reason I said that I was just wondering why you were playing so far left having to throw the ball out to the right, but then again it could be a reverse block or the inside to burn out and that's why you were playing on the left and throwing it to the right.
I bowled a 290 this past Thursday night in my bowling league.
Congratulations!!! Ten pins away!!!
Thanks.😁👍
Thanks so much JR. I went bowling tonight and when I tried to stay right cause i'm a amateur with low revs and speed, hoping to play it straight, the ball hooked and read the lane early. So, I tried to move left to get into the oil to get the ball down the lane, then the ball would not hook enough, I assume because my revs are low. Do you have any advice for someone who over hooks when they play the outside but can't hook in the middle of the lane? Also my ball is pretty strong so that may be a factor i'm not considering. It just feels so inconsistent which I'm sure is my release. Probably different every time. I bowl with a Storm Trend.
I posted this before I watched the video for the record. This seems to be the perfect video for me. I can't wait to watch the rest and apply this knowledge next time I bowl.
You need Play Solid Bowling Ball in Oil.- 13-14-15 Arrows
Does "getting your hand around it" mean more axis rotation?
Yes
Great video
What to do when your thumb swells and your ball is sticking
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HELP! I need to leran how to move left and stop the ball hooking so much down lane! (I'm left handed lol)
Hi JR, I have watched and practiced all of your lessons on proper release but I still helicopter the ball, is there any other recommendations you could give me? My consistency is awful and it is probably due to a bad release.
I can give you a sort of answer. The best way to learn how to not helicopter the ball is to do a line drill or even a one step. This way you can learn how to do both hand and arm. Arm is a big part of it because if your elbow moves out (called a chicken wing), it can cause you to helicopter, and if your hand is forcing rotation, that's going to helicopter. One steps and line drills can help you focus on just those areas, and from there, you can go up and learn how to do it with a full approach. Another way to help is by throwing a football underhand as this will teach your hand the kind of feeling you should get when releasing a ball. A bowling way to help is when you get to the top of your swing to move the ball out (point it in the direction of which hand you use (right for righties and left for lefties), then on the downswing tuck the elbow inside and let the swing do the rest. These are couple tips I have learned from my coaches.
@@DeanMcCain I appreciate the answer! I have tried one step, and no step drills in the past but maybe I didn't do enough of them. I always keep my elbow tucked. That is one of the first things my grandpa taught me so I always make sure I can feel it during the backswing. I will try the other suggestion next time I go practice.
I had the exact same issue my freshman year as a college bowler. It's from two things: First is suitcasing/chicken winging like what Random is saying, and second I guarantee you aren't dropping your shoulder far enough. You need to make sure that shoulder is as far down as you can get it. The further the better. Keeping your shoulders square almost guarantees you to spin the ball like a top cuz there is an imbalance cuz you got a 15 (or 14 or 16) pound ball in one of your hands. So your shoulder will want to drop anyways. I think as soon as you drop your shoulder you'll helicopter the ball way less. It pretty much instantly helped me.
@@SirJoelsuf1 My coach actually (when I was a one hander) had me and my older sister to suitcase to teach us the art of changing hand positions as well as to teach us how to avoid the getting our elbows out (chicken wing). There is a way to properly do a suitcase but it can take a lot of training to learn properly. I did forget about the dropping shoulder part. I'm so used to doing it that I forgot about it. Thank you for bringing it up, Sir Joelsuf! 😊
@@SirJoelsuf1 Thank you! I will give that a try, during warm up next week. Unless I go practice this week end. I have been trying a few drills I found that I can do at home in the mean time.
Step 1 you actually have to just do it. Move left
Step 2: Locate the gutter cap
Step 3: Throw the ball over the cap
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit
Or you can just play up the gutter with urethane lol
This helps. But you used the term “hook”, not curve! Either way, it’s all good!
Omega is a pearl
Good catch. You’re right. I never remember I drill so many balls lol
no prob. Knew what you were tring to get at. If you have too many balls you can send me a few!! Lol
Awesome
Great video only next time don't put the words with your video because they get in the way of watching your hand
Just loft the cap. Works every time 😂😂😂