Bowl With A Stable Upper Body

By: bowlingball.com, Originally Posted: 2/23/17; Updated: 1/26/21

Bowl with a stable upper body. Imagine presetting your upper body posture before taking a step to bowl and then retaining the same spine angle and posture throughout your approach and delivery.

Imagine using relaxed, flexed knees as you walk so your upper body does not bounce and so your head remains perfectly still as you move to the foul line.

Picture your only movements are with your legs and your bowling arm swinging and releasing your bowling ball.

This type of approach identifies a simple approach motion with few moving parts.

It makes sense that if you can reduce wasted body movements, your challenge of delivering consistent shots may become noticeably efficient.

If you are fine tuning your game in preparation for important competition or if you just want to work on your game in practice sessions, go back to bowling basics by checking your setup and posture.

Presetting your bowling posture in an athletic position when taking your stance on the approach is the easiest method to establish good balance. If you can maintain that position as you walk to the foul line, your chances of making accurate shots are very good.

Simplify your body movement to ensure a well balanced position when releasing your ball and sliding into the foul line area.

It is important to begin your approach smoothly and consistently and avoid sudden weight transfers from with your upper body as you move from one step to the next.

You will not require much forward spine angle tilt to get your shoulders positioned directly over your flexed knees in your stance position.

With this type of set-up, you can bowl using this same posture throughout your approach and be in a well balanced position to release your bowling ball consistently.

For you power conscious bowlers, you will develop automatic power from the gained leverage when flexing your knees.

In fact, add a slight bit of flex with each succeeding step so your slide step has sufficient knee bend to support your body weight and retain balance when the critical moment arrives to release your ball.

Bowl with a stable upper body. Another technique which can help your shotmaking is to establish the ball speed you wish to use for a given session of competitive bowling based on lane conditions. Regulate your speed from shot to shot the best you can. In doing so, you will take advantage of your accuracy by getting a consistent ball skid distance and a reliable ball reaction. If you are able to develop ball speed control and ball skid distance control, most of your challenge in getting a good ball reaction is solved.

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