Advanced Release Techniques

Hey there, welcome to the National Bowling Academy. This is Erik Vermilyea, and here I'm playing a little catch with Pat and we're working on a few different things. You may have seen a prior clip where we use the football to show the basics of how to throw a hook, how to curve the bowling ball. Well, you can use that same principles and the same tool the same football to actually work on some more advanced techniques. Well, you can use that same principles and the same tool, the same football to work on some axis rotation and more end over end, a straighter ball roll as well as kind of a medium and a maximum amount of rotation. And then you can even take this tool to increase and decrease your rev rate. Let me walk you through each one of these really quick here. So to start off with let's show a almost a zero axis rotation, almost an end over end type of release, something you would use if you're trying to play the lane straighter more up the outside of the lane or if they're just, you know, they're challenging you're trying to play a straighter line to the pocket and not bring as much trouble into play. By doing this, you just wanna basically rotate the ball end over end. Take the football, hold it just like this and just try to roll it straight end over end. I mean, again, just straight like this follow through straight and all you're trying to do is rotate end over end, you see the football rotate in that end over end manner. From here if you want to try kind of an in-between axis rotation almost like a 45 degree axis rotation you just kind of turn the football instead of a zero degrees, kind of like a 45 degree, and then go ahead and let it roll off your hand in that same manner. Again, kind of at a 45 degree angle kind of an in between axis rotation, And just let it roll off your hand. And then if you want to keep on going all the way to 90 degrees axis rotation which is almost straight side to the side the most amount of hook possible. You just get your hand on the side of the ball, get the fingers on the inside like you're throwing underhand spiral. And this one, the nose of the football points straight at your target, the 45 degrees is kind of at an angle. The zero degrees would be straight end over end. Here's that 90 degrees again. One other little thing I like to do with this is to show how you can both increase and decrease your rev rates. So for just your average release, your hands kind of underneath the ball, the fingers on the inside part of it, but if you want to increase your rev rate you actually curl the ball more. You get more wrist cup, get those fingers even further underneath the ball and then try snap out of the ball faster. Almost like you're throwing a yo-yo, the faster you can let go of the ball the more rev, more rotation, you impart on it. So here you just take this, you cup it more, get your fingers more to the inside, and then you try to snap out of it as fast and make the ball rotate as fast as you can. You can see there the ball rotates a lot faster, spins in a lot tighter spiral. To do the opposite, again let's say you're trying to play the lane straighter, you're trying to go a little more up the boards, instead of getting real curled, real underneath the ball, relax it back, get your hand more on just straight kind of flat and just kind of come out of it soft. A little bit slower. By doing this you'll see the ball rotate less. Thus basically decreasing your rev rate. It's a pretty simple little tool. You just toss around a football where you can increase and decrease your axis rotation. Also increase decrease your rev rate. Give you a few different ideas to work with and hopefully increase your scores.