Two-Handed Bowling: Ball Start
Scott PohlDescription
The two-handed bowling style offers many different ways to initiate the swing (a.k.a. ball start). In this free video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, illustrates three different ways two-handed bowlers initiate the swing and the one goal they all share in common.
More Pronounced than Traditional Bowler
The bowling ball goes vertical before it comes down into the swing.
Get into the Swing Vertically
The ball starts vertical and drops into the swing quickly.
Similar Shape to a Traditional Bowler
The ball start is more rounded than the other two-handed ball starts and mimics the traditional style bowler’s ball start.
The timing for two-handed bowlers is later. This is how more leverage and revolutions are obtained comparatively to a traditional bowler.
No matter how you initiate the swing as a two-handed bowler, the one universal goal is good posture. There should be no tension in the lower back.
If there is tension in the lower back, your posture will be bent too far forward throughout the approach, resulting in loss of leverage, a weak release, inaccurate targeting, and improper ball motion.
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Hi, Scott Pohl here. Three time USBC Eagle winner, we're looking at the two handed bowling game, in particular, we're going to take a look at the ball start or how that ball gets into motion. We're going to show you a lots of different ways. So let's take look different ways of starting the ball. First of all, Jason Belmonte, he has a very pronounced start of the ball, much more so than what we see with a lot of one handed bowlers, the ball, a lot of the time will go vertical before it comes down into the swing.
Another example here is Anthony Simonsen, or Jesper Spencer. Their swing is very vertical at the beginning. It gets into the timing very fast. Now another example who has more of a traditional shape to his shot is Kyle Troupe. This is a lot of similarities with the one-handed game, where he has more of a rounded ball start at the beginning.
Let's take a look at Jeff here. His start is a little bit more like Belmonte. The goal basically is to have proper posture, when you start the ball, if you bend over too much forward, you have tension in the lower back. You're not going to deliver the ball very effectively, or if the ball is too low and far away from the body, you lose leverage on the shot as well. The key to the start of the ball, especially being two handed is that the timing is later.
Typically this creates more power coming through the shot with a lot more effectiveness. All right. So a lot of great examples. Basically it comes down to there's not just one way to get this done. A lot of options.
I hope you find the right way that works for your game. Get out to the lanes, practice it. I'm sure you'll get better.
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