Technique G
TIPS AND TRICKS TO MAKE YOU A BETTER BOWLER
By Bryan O’Keefe
PLEASE RELEASE ME
Add your pinky finger to your bowling toolbox.
enerally speaking, bowlers tend to read the lanes side to side, and make their adjustments laterally. But in the grand scheme of things, the lane is 17 times longer than it is
wide. Bowlers would do well to spend more time practicing ways to use the distance of the lane to their advantage, making the ball do different things front to back.
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In coaching, we talk a lot about subtle changes in your release. These are the alterations that affect how the ball reacts front to back, in many cases allowing you to stay in the same spot, use the same speed and get a different response from the ball. One way to change your release is to adjust the placement of your pinky finger and your index finger, the two outside
fingers. If you watch professional bowlers, you’ll see a few spreading their index fin- ger farther from their middle finger. That positioning tends to make it feel like the ball is staying on the inside of your hand. You can always tell which bowlers take that approach by the big callous they de- velop on the palm-side base of their index finger. I’m not a big proponent of making major
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