Two-Handed Bowling: Finish Position
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The finish position happens at the foul line after you have taken all your steps on the approach. The knee bend, balance arm placement, and trail leg position will all play a factor in achieving a good release that has the ball follow your determined ball path.
In this free video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, walks you through the two-handed bowler’s finish position.
Reverse Angle
From behind, you can see a number of key components in the two-handed bowler’s finish position.
The trail leg is in line with the right side of the body. The hand is inside the bowling ball, meaning that most of the hand is on the left side of the bowling ball. A good knee bend will help generate more leverage and greater hook potential.
After the release of the bowling ball, the hand should follow through with the shot, and it does look like a traditional bowler’s release. Your head should be stable and to the outside of the ball release. The elbow should be inside of the shot. If it comes around the shot you are trying to help the ball hook. A term used by bowlers to illustrate this point is “chicken winging” the arm swing.
Side Angle
A different perspective provides additional feedback on most of the aspects of the two-handed bowler’s finish position that were previously discussed.
The knee bend and body positioning are easier to see from this angle. Head positioning is also more clear from this angle because you can determine if it is in front of the sliding knee. This keeps the body stable when coming to a stop at the foul line. If the head isn’t in front of the sliding knee, the release will be in a weaker position, and your hook potential will be less.
Check out “Two-Handed Bowling: Hand Positioning” and “Two-Handed Bowling: Trail Leg” for more expert instruction pertaining to the finish position.
Hi there, Scott Pohl. I'm a two time PBA regional champion. And what we're going to look at right now the two handed bowling game in particular is the finishing position. What we're going to show you is lots of different ways to get there correctly and incorrectly. So let's take a look here at Jeff's finishing position. First of all, we're going to look at the follow through. The first video here shows a correct follow through for him. If you look at his finishing position, his hand and arm finished very much in line with his right shoulder. the release comes through the ball. Very nice. the release comes through the ball very nice. Basically at the release point, the body should be at 80 to 90 degrees. The next video shows an incorrect follow through for Jeff. The hand and arm go off to the right, which causes the ball to actually go to the right as well, because he gets less leverage and rotation on the ball. Next up, we're going to show an example of the body being too far forward and the release being very weak and not much on the ball. It misses the head pin to the right. Now, we're going to show an example of the body leaning too far back. Typically, when this happens, the ball is pulled and it doesn't stay on line. If we also look at our upper body position with the two handed bowler versus the one handed bowler, the head is much farther in front of the finishing foot. Why is this? Because the release point is well in front of the foot. All right, so there you have it. We showed you the finishing position. Lots of ways of doing it correctly and incorrectly. I hope some of our videos hit home with how you do it. Maybe videotape yourself, take a look at what you're doing. Seek out an instructor, get on the lanes, practice, I'm sure it's going to help.
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