How to Improve Your Bowling Style

Welcome to the National Bowling Academy, my name is Dan Triske, I am a USBC certified silver level coach. With me today is Doug O'Bryant, Doug is also a USBC certified silver level coach. He's also on the PBA50 Tour, and he's also a certified bowl driller. So Doug's got a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge of what we're gonna talk about today, and that would be improving your style of bowling. A lot of times, when we get dealing with the youth bowlers, we hear a lot of times that they wanna maybe bowl like somebody else. They wanna bow like an E. J. Tackett and they want to throw the ball like a Daria. Or if you're two handed, like a Belmonte. What are your thoughts on that? Yes, Dan, they do. We all have our favorite bowlers out on tour. So the kids come in and they see these guys on tour really dominating, throwing a lot of strikes. Of course, we all wanna emulate that. As a youth at that age, they possibly can do that. If they do a lot of work and a lot of coaching, they can develop the high rev or two handed high rev deliveries, if they work hard at it. So we try to help them with that. But for the older adults, these guys are younger than us, so we have to develop our own game and work hard and try to improve. No one's too good to improve. So we try to help all of our students improve with what they got or what they're trying to achieve. Because, quite honestly, there is no cookie cutter approach, there's not a one size fits all that this can fix everything. We need to take each person's individual game and make improvements with their game. So as you know, we talked about the youth, you can teach the youth to get a little bit higher rev rate. You can teach a two-handed bowler to maybe get a little bit more rev rate on their ball or play different parts of the lane. For me as an adult and the middle aged man, me growing up, my favorite bowler was Brian Voss because he had absolutely just perfect form, style that I was kind of taught. I see Brian on TV, this is the guy that I wanna be like, pretty simple. And I still like his game today, but I need to work within my means, and I'm still constantly trying to make improvements as a middle-age man. Sure, and we can develop our games to be better, but ultimately we're all individual people. We all have our own fingerprint, if you wanna say, everybody's different. No two bowlers are the same. So we've gotta take what we've got and improve on that, and that comes with practice and bettering our fundamentals and going from there. So we really don't, ultimately, we don't wanna be complacent. If you wanna improve, then you know what? Yeah, we have to go out and be willing to make changes. Sure. Because if we're gonna be complacent, I mean, we're not gonna go up, we're not gonna go down, we're gonna kinda stay where we're at. Stay exactly where we're at. But if we're willing to make changes, then that's when we're gonna make improvements. How much do you want it? How hard are you willing to work to be better? And the best bowlers in the world now still practice. They didn't get to a point and say, okay, I'm good, no more practice. Walter Ray, Parker Bohn, they all practice when they get a chance, even with what they've achieved to this point, they're still practicing and they still got coaches helping them to be better. So ultimately, in order for us to improve our style of bowling or to improve and maybe get to that next level or improve our average by 10 pins, we need to sit down, we need to be able to do the work. Maybe be able to make some changes. Sure, gotta be willing to change if you want to improve, no doubt about that.