How Your Bowling Footwork Can Tune Your Swing

By: bowlingball.com

If you are averaging 165 or more, it might be helpful to learn how your bowling footwork can tune your swing.

Good footwork fundamentals are the cornerstone used in developing a sound bowling swing because the game is built from the ground up.

When you feel your swing choppy or forced, it can be a result of hurrying your steps and cheating your swing out of fractions of time to complete an unhurried swing cycle.

It is very easy to get overly excited or to allow nerves and anxiety to alter your normal pace of bowling. If this is the case and you feel rushing your shot is adversely affecting your swing and release, then try this tip to buy time for your swing to reset and resume a normal cycle time:

*Spend a very slight amount of additional time on each step.

By delaying a quarter of a second, as example, on each step, you actually buy a second or so of additional time for your swing to avoid being forced into the downswing or to avoid hurrying your critical release technique.

Delay the completion of each step just enough that your swing has the necessary time to make its complete arc motion and for your release to happen on time and effectively.

Timing is the term widely used to describe the relationship of your steps to your swing.

In a sense, slowing the pace of your steps just enough to avoid hurrying your walk to the foul line also serves to buy the extra time you need for the swing to make a complete, uninterrupted motion.

Count cadence.



Signal your brain that you have become aware that your steps are moving faster than when you bowl your best by counting cadence as you walk until you re-establish your walking pace.

It is important to not force your steps just as it is very important to not force your swing.

Next time you feel yourself hurrying your approach during a competitive session, remember how your bowling footwork can tune your swing and release motion.