Tip To Check Your Bowling Timing
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Originally Posted: 9/3/2014; 9/19/2022If you feel your timing is a little off, there is a quick tip to check your bowling timing. There are many tricks to correcting timing and many theories by coaches and players as to what they prefer doing to get the proper timing sequence matching best with your game.
The easy way to do it is to rent a practice lane and after warming up using your present style of bowling, take a few shots making slower than normal steps and speed up your backswing and forward swings. By slowing your steps and speeding and loosening up your backswing and forward swing, you automatically add an earlier than usual timing sequence and discipline yourself to wait on your swing at the top of the backswing a split second before beginning your forward swing and release.
Bowlers tend to get slightly late with timing when their games suffer a bit. Invariably, these bowlers will grab the ball before beginning a smooth transition into the downswing and thereby force the release. A forced release causes multiple problems. Among these problems are turning the ball too soon and pulling the shot off line. By speeding up the backswing you tend to loosen your arm muscles for the ball swings more freely than if you are grabbing the ball at the top of the backswing, squeezing the ball and tensing your arm muscles, and then forcing the release.
Speeding up the backswing and downswing motions slightly while slowing the pace of your steps a bit is a great training drill to resequence your timing, loosen your swing, regulate your release and create a consistent ball reaction. It is important for all skill levels of bowlers to develop good physical game fundamentals. Timing is an important key to a good swing because it helps you coordinate your steps with your arm swing by synchronizing them when you walk to the foul line and swing your bowling ball.
Simply stated, timing is best described as the relationship between your footwork and arm swing. Any easy and quick training technique which can improve your timing and swing cycle will certain help you hold up during the pressures of competition.
