The Correct Bowling Stance

Bowling is an ancient game that is a professional and amateur sport in today’s culture. Believed to have originated in Germany, the main object of bowling is to knock down as many pins as possible with a weighted bowling ball. American ten-pin bowling is the most common type of bowling among competitors and pros. There are many other types of indoor and outdoor bowling including nine-pin skittles, candlepin bowling, cocked-hat bowling, Bocce, and lawn bowls. In most forms of bowling, the bowler rolls the bowling ball towards the pins down a lane that is guarded by a gutter on either side. Each frame of scoring allows the player two balls or two tries to knock down the pins. If the player knocks down all the pins in the first try, it is called a strike. If the player knocks down all of the pins in the first frame with the use of both balls, this is called a spare.

This is a great video clip series for any level bowler. Our experts Glenn Soanes and Roger Manzo are professionals who know how to instruct even the worst of bowlers in this fine sport. They will first address the basics that we all must know like your stance, how the ball is properly held and the release. Then they venture off into the actual game and show you how to pick up many different kinds of spares of several difficulty levels. By the time you are done with this video series you'll be itching to hit the lanes.

"Hi, Welcome to Playdrome Devon Lanes, my name is Glenn Soanes with Expert Village. Tonight we're going to walk you through some advanced bowling techniques so you can improve your game. We're going to start off with proper stance, how to set your feet, your body, so that your ball will be able to roll to the pins very easily, very repetitively. The most important thing with bowling is that simple, repetitive motion allows you to maximize your score. Alright, since we've determined where we're going to attack the lanes from, the first point we want to get to is we want to talk about the stand. The stance is the basis that you build the house on. You want to be balanced. Those of us that are older are going to set our feet at shoulder width apart. At that point, that will get us a good boxer stance, a nice place to start from. Once we get our feet set to where we to want them, tilt the hips open a little bit, because the ball is going to roll away under modern conditions. At that point, we set the ball over the big toe, bend the knees a little bit, and then the ball walks away from us and we roll the ball."