Bowling with KT Tape
Scott PohlDescription
Nagging soreness and injury too often keeps bowlers off the lanes. It’s a long season, especially if you’re bowling through aches and pains. In this Premium video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, explains how KT tape—an elastic sports tape created as an alternative to pain medications—works and demonstrates how to apply it.
Benefits and applications
KT tape is designed to support ligaments, muscles, and tendons while providing increased circulation.
This enables more range of motion in your sore areas while you are bowling.
KT tape can be used for:
– Ankle sprains
– Achilles tendinitis
– Calf strain
– Knee support
– Shin splints
– Plantar fasciitis
– Hamstring strain
– Quad strain
– Glute pain
– Rib pain
– Carpal tunnel
– Wrist pain
– Golfer’s elbow
– Tennis elbow
– Shoulder pain
– Neck strain
Taping your bowling wrist
With your wrist bent down, apply a long piece of tape to the back of your wrist from your knuckles to your forearm. Make sure you press down and rub it into your skin so it sticks throughout your competition. Cut one piece of the long KT tape into two pieces. Place one piece on the outside of your wrist. Stretch it around 70% and then stick it to your skin.
Take the second piece and repeat the same process, only applying it closer to where your palm meets your wrist.
Check out Taping Your Hand with Bowling Tape and How to Insert Bowling Tape for more expert bowling instructions.
Hi, Scott Pohl here, three-time USBC champion, and we're gonna bring to you just a little bit of a quick tip that might help your bowling game throw more consistent shots. It's a really nice product used in a lot of sports, and you know what, even more recently used in bowling. It's called KT tape, kinesiology tape. What you do is you tape up possibly an injured area, and what that does, it gives support and allows the muscles or tendons to just not have to work so hard. Okay. What are other benefits of it? Well, it provides a little bit of extra circulation through the tape. It can help strains, and also possible tendonitis, or even carpal tunnel situations. All right, another great thing about KT tape is it can prevent any further injury if you have some making or aching things. I'll repeat that. Okay. What are some other things KT tape can help with? Well, it can reduce the chance of having more injury happen. It just gives support to possibly a little bit of an affected area that's giving you a little bit of problems. Let's take a look at a couple of simple applications. So first of all, we're gonna tape up Zach's wrist here. So we take a couple of pieces of tape. Number one, the first long piece. We're gonna bend his wrist a little bit down in a flexion position, tape it almost to the knuckles, and go all the way up the wrist, near the forearm. What we wanna do then is press down on it, give it a little bit of a heat sensation, and rub it in there so it can take a little bit more action. All right, so next up, we have two small pieces. This was formed by cutting a whole piece in half, rounding off the edges. So we're gonna go on the outside of the wrist, tear off a little bit of the backing, stretch it about 70%, go over the wrist, and on both sides. Next, we're gonna take that second piece, and go underneath the side of the wrist. Same performance, it gives the wrist nice stability. All right. Second situation. We've heard of a lot of problems with bowlers. They have what's called tennis elbow. This sometimes happen a little bit of too much strain on the arm, or over-bowling it, too much repetitive use. We can create a little bit of support for that tennis elbow. So we take a piece of KT tape, and if we need to, we cut it into a V formation on two-thirds of the length of the tape. So we start with the anchor point near the elbow, and then we pull it back down towards the wrist, creating a V, and form the first part of that leg towards the underside of the wrist. The second piece goes just to the opposite side. This is gonna help support that forearm, so it doesn't cause any more problems. All right, we showed you a lot of different ways there you can help your wrist, forearm with KT tape. Another thing I'll mention, if you are feeling a little bit of fatigue, or your wrists are tired, use the KT tape, it's great. But you know what? Also a little bit of icing and rest after bowling always helps. This should help out any type of injuries, muscle fatigue that you may have.
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