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@@peterthebowler Any time you pull the ball you risk creating inconsistencies

@@skinnypeteakatheskategeeze2749 Hope it works out well for you. Lots of practice 🙂

@@machinethesun9243 I target at the dots, but move my eyes during the approach. I actually made a video about it here: th-cam.com/video/B1n9mOZGoQc/w-d-xo.html As for breakpoint I more look at what the ball is doing rather than a set distance on the lane. Most of the centers I grew up in never had the break point markers, so just got used to not using them too much. Although they are nice to have

@@ThomasLarsenBowling thanks, new subscriber so haven't seen them all yet.

@@machinethesun9243 I appreciate it 🙂

@@Ken-Kong Thank you 🙂

@@Fate826 Good for you. I know a few people that bowl better with 14. Can be lots of reasons for it 🙂

@ the only thing I will say is it was an adjustment originally because I felt like my arm was over throwing when I went from 15 to 14

@Fate826 I can imagine

@@stevemezzatesta8743 Of course. Speed and rev rate have to match

@@sidekick36 🤣🤣 Thanks! I was told yesterday that I looked 27 by someone else 🤣

@@sleep-paralys1s Thank you 🙂

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@@joehoenig7596 Definitely not as important in league. The patterns usually are very forgiving for all styles. There is a way, but it does become harder as your wrist is less flexible

@ thank you Thomas both for clarifying that as league bowlers we don’t need to beat our heads against the wall to achieve a higher rev rate, and for stating that there is some slight manner of achieving a higher rev rate, to whatever degree, even if a bowler has to wear a risk support due to injury. Could you please elaborate on thelatter? How would such a bowler increase their reliever rate even if only a little? Thank you.

@joehoenig7596 It is a lot more difficult with a wrist brace and I am guessing a little bit. But I would imagine the key is to get your hand in the right position (under the ball, on the inside of the ball) and activate the elbow more

@ thank you

It is very hard to do. But the better we get at handling it the better our performances usually also get

It wasn't fresh, but it was still okay 🙂 The Harsh Reality was probably just a little too strong of a ball

Different releases. Basically making the movement of my hand and wrist quicker and slower

@ interesting. I've always heard more about more / less cupping. Doesn't your approach mess with timing of the release?

That's a really good idea for a video. I will try to figure out how to do something like that

I do the same thing Scott and having a higher axis rotation, I also get over under sometimes and I used to be great when I bent my elbow but I stopped doing it because I couldn’t keep the ball on the lane, but now I wish I never stopped doing it because it’s hard to Get the bent elbow back when you get older

It's very hard to do. I think you have to learn it through drills and then implement it in your full approach

@ThomasLarsenBowling Thomas how can I send a short video of myself bowling and get you to critique or suggest something for my style and release

@@JSBowling2011 The easiest is if you find me on Facebook or Instagram and send me a message. I'll get back to you as soon as possible 🙂

@@dijigo1587 I was actually a little shocked how much it changed my ball reaction when I started playing around with it

@@ThomasLarsenBowling Yeah, even in this short video, I could see the entire shape change. Pretty startling really. Great stuff, all the best.

@@dijigo1587 Thank you 🙂

I felt like it might it hard on my a couple of times 😅

@@machinethesun9243 Really appreciate it 🙂 If you put the video on repeat it will go for hours 😉 Just kidding, but hope you find some other of my videos you like. And I am actually working on another pin fall video

@@ThomasLarsenBowling Ha! I watched it twice and then watched another then subscribed.

@machinethesun9243 Thank you 🙂

@@MyGuaraguao Agree. Hitting a single inch on a lane that is 60 feet don't matter if everything else isn't the same. Hitting the same area lengthwise on the lane matters

@@ThomasLarsenBowling totally agree.

@@daleftlaud Thank you for watching. I'm glad you like them 🙂 If you feel like you have to squeeze to be comfortable there might be an issue with your fit. Have a good Proshop check your span, pitches, hole sizes, amount of tape etc. Other than that I would say the one step drill has really helped me. And the foul line drill is also very good. Where you isolate things and just focus on being relaxed with your swing and hand and get the feeling of what your hand is doing and how you want to change it

Thank you 🙂

@@MyGuaraguao It definitely has a spot and a use

@@arcadesunday4592 Glad you found it helpful 🙂

@ThomasLarsenBowling I did, thank you!

@@yankinfong218 That is definitely not unlikely

@@emerald3331 It went WAAAY better than I expected 😅 I actually threw it really well this game, but the lanes had also transitioned just enough to give me some control

@@videll7kelly I threw urethane on the left lane. Only reactive (except for spare shots) on the right lane. You can see what I did right before this video in this video: th-cam.com/video/zSpuk1P2PQw/w-d-xo.html

@@dijigo1587 Happy to hear you like it 🙂 Theoretically I really like the idea of lower diff balls on short patterns. However I never really loved the IQ Tour. It was quite angular for me. I could see the Ion Pro being good on short patterns though.

@@ThomasLarsenBowling Mine was pretty flippy at box 4k too, only use it at ~2k nowadays. Thanks for the insights. Look forward to the next one.

@@chaidenchadams7603 You gotta do what you can do and then practice what you can't 🙂 But if you are uncomfortable getting the ball further right than 4-5, then you are probably better off with urethane

@@Ken-Kong Thank you 🙂

@@pelicanisis1 I feel like urethane is usually the safe choice on short patterns, but reactive has more potential for score (unfortunately also more potential for low scores). So it's all about what you feel you can make work

@@pelicanisis1 And awesome that you are coming back to bowling!

@@HistorV Short is fun 🙂 A different experience and you can pretty much throw it as hard as you want 😅

@@justsorandom764 You definitely need roll and speed to do it

@@nickmarshall593 Cheetah can be tricky, because of high the scores usually are. Hopefully you got it to work 🙂

@@ThomasLarsenBowling they were honestly pretty low I believe the cut was +14 in a 4 game set I just couldn’t get my urethane to read the lane right i don’t know if I didn’t have the correct surface or if it was something I was doing with my hand but it seemed to either jump off line or never hook at all I had a pretty good look with my reality at 500 grit playing a very similar line as in the video

​@ThomasLarsenBowling what is your layout on the sublime focus

Still have one in my bag, I call it old faithful

@@MyGuaraguao Looking forward to that one!

@@JSBowling2011 Hi Jim Find me on Facebook Thomas Larsen Bowling or Instagram @tlarsenbowling 🙂

@@MyGuaraguao Basically trying to vocalise my thought process. Outside of all the bad words when I throw a bad shot 😅

@ThomasLarsenBowling completely understand.....do the same but I hold it so only positive thoughts flow thru my brain cells..😁

@@MyGuaraguao I'm glad you like them 🙂

@@redcat5697 I appreciate it 🙂 I really like the Focus. I have a lot of success with pin downs, so I could definitely see that working on the Focus too

@ Would you go pin up with the phase ai to compliment the focus? Or stay with pin down on the phase?

@@PBAJJ866 Transition and the game has certainly changed since urethane was re-introduced. And some completely different skill sets

It definitely requires better execution, though I don’t see them ever banning urethane. I’d love to see an annual no-urethane event on the PBA tour. That would be very interesting to see who makes the show.

@@ThomasLarsenBowling we’ve talked about this before where I was bowling regionals for years and until 2017 no one was throwing urethane on anything but once Jesper and belmo started doing it, all you seen was pitch blacks and purple hammers on short/medium patterns.

@@Nothingpersonal42 yeah they will definitely never ban it but if they’re gonna do that, I would love to see that plastic ball tournament come back. Or no urethane tournament like you said.

@@Nothingpersonal42yep and I wish they would do one with all plastic balls again also. Been awhile since we had that.

@@MyGuaraguao It makes a huge difference. Especially if you get some extremes

Throwing it hard is certainly not a bad thing on a lot of League shots

On a shorter pattern yes. On medium or longer I would probably go to something cleaner after urethane