Bowling Ball Tips For New Bowlers
If you are a new bowler considering getting your first new bowling ball, then there are a few simple things you should consider before purchasing your new ball.
First, please consider taking at least one bowling lesson from an experienced instructor to learn as much about the game fundamentals as possible before investing money in equipment.
Learning the techniques to bowl is very important for your improvement in the game.
Coaches also provide information and show you how and where to align yourself on the approach and where to sight at an aiming point on the lane for both strike and spare deliveries.
Strike and spare deliveries both require making adjustments, physically and strategically and your instructor can easily help you with both adjustments.
Once you develop a physical game technique and especially as ball release technique, then your pro shop professional can help determine how to drill your new bowling ball.
Drilling holes into the ball is only part of the process in getting a new ball.
You must determine a best total ball weight before anything else.
Based on your developing ball delivery technique, your pro shop pro can help you decide if you can drill a full fingertip grip or if you still need a beginner bowler conventional grip drilling.
Ask your pro shop pro to watch you bowl a few frames before selecting a new ball and making drilling decisions.
The cover of the ball (known commonly as “coverstock”) varies in material composition and in an ability to provide levels of traction on the lane surface. The coverstock of a new ball is and must be the first decision point you make before determining how to drill the ball and where the holes should be placed.
Once you have decided on which type of core design and coverstock selection is best for your game using your pro shop pro as a consultant, then you are ready to have your ball drilled.
It is vital to have a custom fitting bowling ball with the sizes and shapes of the gripping holes measured and contoured to your fingers and thumb.
The location of where the holes will be drilled determine how much weight will be removed from the ball and how the remaining ball balance points will affect your ball reaction as it rolls down the lane.
Your delivery technique, the traction your ball produces as it travels down the lane, and the drilling layout produce an overall ball reaction pattern you will see once you are skilled enough to deliver your new ball consistently matching with the lane conditions.
Recapping this, the key points in a new ball selection process of a beginner bowler are to take a lesson to learn the fundamentals of making a good approach, the total ball weight best for your game, the type of ball coverstock selected to match with the lanes and your delivery technique, the type of grip drilled into the ball (conventional or fingertip), the layout location of where the gripping holes will be drilled into the ball, and a properly fitting drilling contoured to your hand so you avoid hand injuries and benefit with a consistent release.
If you take these steps before purchasing and drilling a new ball, your chances at improvement in the game advance.
