Techniques
Warm up Techniques
Before you hit the lanes it's important to warm up your body to prevent injury. We have prepared some easy warm up tips that you can follow before trying out these great techniques below, or just playing a social or league game. Click here to download the warm up tips.
Bowling Techniques
The straight ball is aimed directly at the pins and is the easiest delivery for new bowlers to learn. Your thumb should leave the hole first, while your middle finger turns and propels the ball forward - a push to the pins, but don’t rush it! Keep your follow-through straight down the lane.
This is the best “working ball”, the perfect step up once you’ve mastered your approach and swing.
As your ball comes forward in this delivery, imagine reaching out to shake someone’s hand: thumb forward and fingers extended to apply a sharp lift, creating the ‘hook’. Your wrist should remain straight right through the delivery. Get it right and watch the pins come crashing down!
If controlling your hook ball proves difficult, this can be a particularly useful delivery to try. Your approach begins as it would for a straight ball, until the final moment when you turn your hand to a hook position. Keep your follow-through straight towards the pins and be careful not to turn your hand too far and create a curve ball.
A curve ball is bowled much like a hook ball, however, your hand is brought upwards and to the left in a wide arc as you release the ball. Difficult to control, the curve ball is not widely used.
Practiced only by very experienced bowlers, the back-up ball, or reverse hook, is achieved by lifting your ring finger as you release the ball, often in front of your left foot. Even when bowled correctly, the resulting downswing (or short backswing) can be ineffective − one for the experts!
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