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Why Can’t I Hook? Tips for Improving Your Hooking Technique

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Bowling a hook is a fundamental bowling skill, but one where an awful lot of different things that can go wrong. If you’re not getting the ball to behave as you want, most likely not hooking back towards the pocket and remaining near the gutter, there are a few areas to look into. Assess Your […]

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Rev Rate vs. Rotation in Bowling: What’s the Difference?

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When you’re analyzing or troubleshooting your bowling shot, there are a few different numbers you’ll hear getting thrown around. There’s the shot’s revolutions, which means how much the ball revolves on its journey towards the pins. But there’s also the rotations that your ball makes as it heads down the lane. These may sound like […]

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Bowling With Spin Technique vs. The Straight Ball

By Joseph (BBT Writing Staff) 1 Comment

Bowlers can be meaningfully grouped into a few categories, and one of the major ones is fairly obvious to any onlooker: the style with which they throw the ball. One bowling style is the aptly-named straight ball, where the release is straight and the ball travels in a straight line down the lane and towards the […]

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Rev Rate vs. Rotation in Bowling: What’s the Difference?

By Joseph (BBT Writing Staff) Leave a Comment

When you’re analyzing or troubleshooting your bowling shot, there are a few different numbers you’ll hear getting thrown around. There’s the shot’s revolutions, which means how much the ball revolves on its journey towards the pins. But then there’s also the rotations that your ball makes as it heads down the lane. These may sound […]

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5 Tips to Convert More Spares

By Joseph (BBT Writing Staff) 2 Comments

In bowling, strikes are the shots that often get the most attention. And this makes some sense: they are the most impressive to watch, they give us the most pins added to our score, and they usually give us the most happiness after we get one. But if you’re looking to quickly make a big […]

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Can You Bowl a Hook With a Conventional Grip? Curve With A House Ball?

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Hooking the bowling ball is something that the majority of us strive to do on the lanes. But what if you bowl with a conventional grip instead of a fingertip grip? Can you still generate a good spin on your ball? And for that matter, what about newer bowlers who don’t have a brand-new ball […]

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How to Get Rid of a Backup Ball in Bowling

By Joseph (BBT Writing Staff) 5 Comments

In bowling, one style of shot is the backup ball, which hooks in the opposite direction of a normal shot. (So a right-handed bowler’s shot would hook from left to right). Instead of the counter-clockwise wrist motion of a conventional hook, the backup bowler rotates the wrist in a clockwise direction. Some bowlers do this […]

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Tips for Controlling Your Hook in Bowling (Video)

By Joseph (BBT Writing Staff) 1 Comment

Most serious bowlers wish to develop a hook shot but their motivations may be varied. First, the hook is the best way to achieve consistency and the pocket is the best spot to hit if you want to maximize pin carry and get more strikes. Others might simply wish to hook because it looks much […]

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