Using a Wrist Device as a Training Tool
Richard ShockleyDescription
There are many bowling wrist devices on the market to choose from. In general, they are designed to limit movement at the point of the release. A bowling wrist device supports your wrist on the back of the hand, limiting collapse at the moment of release.
In this free video, Gold Coach and Bowler Development Lead at Bowlersmart Richard Shockley explains why you may want to have one in your bag to practice with as a training tool.
Wrist Break
Wrist break occurs when a bowler’s hand and wrist “breaks” back toward the forearm throughout the shot. It can happen during the pushaway, backswing, or the release.
Wrist break limits the amount of rotation that can be put on the bowling ball at the point of release. The bowling ball’s motion will skid longer, hook less, and will not achieve a good roll through the pins.
It doesn’t matter what bowling ball you have in your hand—if wrist break is an issue you are experiencing, it’s time to get to work.
Bowling wrist device as a training tool
Practicing with a bowling wrist device over time helps train the wrist to learn how feeling firm throughout the approach is supposed to feel.
Check out the before and after to see the difference.
By using a bowling wrist device in practice, over time, you’ll experience what it feels like to have your wrist in a firm position.
When your wrist is in a firm position at the point of the release, your thumb will come out of the bowling ball faster, allowing the weight of the bowling ball to sit on the fingers longer and generating better rotation.
You’ll see the results down-lane with rewards resulting in better ball motion and more strikes.
If you are considering adding a bowling wrist device to your game, check out National Bowling Academy’s Comparing Bowling Wrist Supports and Proper Fit for Wearing a Wrist Device. They are must-see videos for anyone thinking of making the switch.
Hi, welcome to the National Bowling Academy. My name is Richard Shockley, USBC gold level instructor, and I'm in charge of bowler development for the bowlersmart company. Today, we're going to talk about the wrist device. Pros and cons, I know over the years a lot of us talk about should we or should we not wear a wrist device. A lot of professional bowlers on both the women's and men's tour, there are a lot of great players that wear a wrist device, and that's how they bowl. Today I want to showcase Hannah Triske. She had a problem in the top of her backswing with a broken wrist, stayed that way at the bottom of her swing. Then we wanted to go into a training device to show how the firmness of the wrist can stay where it's supposed to be, and hers is a training tool. Hannah decided to not wear a wrist device, but this is just like I said, going to be a training tool. Then we're going to show you how the swing looked after the training tool was used, giving her a much firmer wrist. So let's show you that now. Okay, here we see Hannah at the bottom of the down swing, and as we move the frame, as she gets to the top of the backswing right there, obviously we can see a tremendous amount of wrist break. This puts her hand in a really weak position, and it's more than likely going to be in that position at the bottom of the swing, so it's a really, really weak, weak position at this point, giving her four ball reactions. Okay, now we can see Hannah headed into her downswing. Hannah has a wonderful free motion, now as she's at the top of her swing, using her wrist device, it's been able to help her get some feel and being firm at the top. It's a really really good tool, we've done this quite a while, she's starting to get the idea as to what that's supposed to be. So once we've done this, we see better ball reaction, and then we're going to show you what happened after we took this device off, and the final result. Okay, now that we've taken the wrist device off, we're going to see Hannah again at the top of the swing, and right here, you can dramatically see where her wrist is not as broken. A little bit, but she's really been working hard on this to keep a really really firm position. And this is going to give her what we had with the wrist device on. To recap this in the first shot, we can see that Hannah at the top of the back swing, her wrist was really really broken, and in a very weak position. Then after we put the wrist device on, it was giving her the feel of keeping it firm, and then in the final result here, we want to see the fact that it's really in more of a firm position to give her a better ball reaction down swing.
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