Hello all.
I was recently eaten alive on my FB forum when I mentioned raising the ball in my stance and slowing my feet to sync with my swing, (timing) to increase my ball speed.
Am I correct or have I been misled?
You want to stay in time to create leverage. If you are too quick getting to the line you pull the ball forward and that promotes inaccuracy.
So which is it?
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IMO and others might have a different view, but here it goes. If you are wanting to increase ball speed, you wouldn't slow your feet.jjones wrote:Hello all.
I was recently eaten alive on my FB forum when I mentioned raising the ball in my stance and slowing my feet to sync with my swing, (timing) to increase my ball speed.
You would speed up your feet and adjust your ball height to match up with your foot movements.
There's a old book called "Bowling: Knowledge is Key" by Fred Borden in it there's a part where he talks about "vertical placement" (Holding the ball higher or lower).
In it he talks about not holding it higher or lower to increase or decrease speed. But use it as a way of controlling arm swing timing to match the tempo of your feet movements. Raising the ball retards the arm swing in relation to the feet movement, lowering the ball advances the arm swing timing in relation to the feet movements
So Bowlers with a naturally fast tempo, hold the ball lower to match up with their footwork. Those with a slower tempo, hold the ball higher because it retards the swing.
Now if holding the ball higher retards the swing, that would mean it would be basically a longer, slower swing. And so the higher you hold it, the longer and slower the swing be.
Now if your trying to increase speed , using a longer and slower swing wouldn't help. You would wind up having to accelerate your arm through that longer, slower swing. Not only To make up for the speed you lost with the longer swing, but to get that extra speed you wanted in the first place. That would mean adding muscle to the swing, but muscling isn't something we want to do.
Now if you increase or decrease speed using foot work (as Bryan O'Keefe's article "CONTROL YOUR ROLL INCREASING/DECREASING BALL SPEED" suggests). then using a lower ball height for faster and higher one for slower makes makes sense, because it's just matching up the swing timing with the foot work. Plus you can still have a free swing, with no muscles involved to increase the speed.
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Is matching speed and control that hard these days with as much data that has been offered?
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