Bowling Arm Swing Training with the "Alignment & Swing Trainer"

Welcome to the National bowling Academy. My name is Dan Trisky. I'm a USBC Certified Silver Level coach. Along with me today is Doug O'Bryant. Doug is also a USBC certified silver level coach, along with being a PBA 50 member and a certified ball driller.

Today, Doug and I are gonna talk about Eileens Bowling Buddies and using them as a training tool. Today, we have the swing trainer and we have the alignment trainer. Doug, do you wanna talk a little bit about what the swing trainer is gonna do for us today? Dan a swing trainer possibly could be my favorite bowling tool. I'm an advocate of a straight arm swing, this trainer will absolutely help you to get a straight arm swing back and forth.

The alignment tool will also help you along with the swing trainer to get the arm swing straight. So by far one of my favorite teaching tools. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna have Doug and his daughter and Annalise, who is a 2018 Junior Gold Girls U15 Champion along with a team USA member demonstrate how these products are used. Now we have Annalise out here for our exhibition of the swing trainer. What I want to show you first is the proper position of the arm for a straight arm swing.

Annalise if you get to position, please. what I like to see is the elbow turned in, which keeps the hand inside the ball at all times. So that when we push the ball away, we lock the arm elbow in, we come back, we come through. Because the most common problem we see in the bowling is what we call chicken wing. A lot of people have chicken wing with the elbow out.

The ball still close to the body but the elbows out. But what this does, it puts a hand on the side of the ball at the top of the ball. Now, with the elbow in, the hand can be behind the ball or around to the side of the ball depending on what kind of release we want. So that's what we want to see elbow in, here, Annalise if you get the swing trainer now. Now the swing trainer is designed for a smooth arm swing, so that when we come back, and come through, we keep it straight.

She's gonna demonstrate first, Improper Arm Swing, which will show us the swing trainer flopping in the backswing and through the delivery point. Alright, Annalise go ahead. As you can tell the pins flopping at the top of her backswing and at the bottom. This is incorrect delivery. Now then, what we want is we want to see the pin, stay straight with the arm all the way through.

In order to do this, we got to have a long smooth motion with our arm swing with a slight hesitation at the top, to produce that reaction. Alright Annalise. Here you see the pin, stay in straight in line with the arm, the rhythm of the arm swing, the straightness of it. That's what we're looking for. If you can complete this with the trainer and not have the pin flopping through the delivery, then you're doing well.

And that's what that's the purpose of the swing training. Okay, now that we've learned how to use the swing trainer, we're going to incorporate the alignment trainer for purposes to get our arm swing straight with the path of our delivery. Now, just because a swing trainer is done properly doesn't mean the arm swings is where it needs to be. Annalise is going to demonstrate that arm swing can swing out to in and in to out and alignment trainer is going to show the path of this of the swing trainer and show you that it's off. Okay Annalise.

Here you can see you're with the swing trainer coming in, going back, going out, coming down. That's not a good swing path right now. Okay, now then she's gonna readjust herself, and the swing trainer and keep it between the rods showing the proper arm swing being a straight arm swing. As you can see, she's keeping the pins straight, nice smooth rhythm and delivering the pin between the rods, which means that she's got a nice straight arm swing. Now her feet are positioned to where her slide foot is five boards left of the center of the alignment trainer.

And everyone's different. Some people maybe 7 boards, 10 boards, get with your coach, get with your Pro Shop Operator, determine what point your lie down point is away from the center of your foot. That way, you can position yourself properly to use these tools. One more time Annelise, demonstrate the perfect swing, straight back, straight through and time, there we have it. Now we're going to go to a Full Approach with the same tool.

Now that we have learned to use the swing trainer, along with the alignment trainer, we're going to incorporate the approach to the line using the two training tools. Annelise is going to go through her five Step Approach and swing the swing trainer through the rods that are on the alignment trainer. This is going to be a very difficult drill. First of all we need to determine do we end up on the same board that we start from when we start and finish? Most people do not.

So get with your coach, get with your Pro Shop Operator and determine if you end up further left on the approach, further right on the approach, from the board that you start on and make the adjustment with the swing trainer and the alignment trainer to how you go to the line. Okay, Annelise if you would? There, you see the proper swing through the delivery, between the rods as it should be. Now this is a drill that's not gonna be done at 100%. Annelise is going in about 50%.

She's had to come up on the approach from where she normally starts, but she's also sliding a foot behind where she would normally start at the foul line. This is just a training tool. This is just a training to get it right. So again Annelise, demonstrate one more time. She sets up backswing, perfect.

If you can learn to do this, you're gonna get some very good accuracy and you're gonna become a better bowler. So if you're looking to get these and you want to use these tools to improve your game, along with other training tools that are available to you at Eileens Bowling Buddies.com, go to Eileens Bowling Buddies.com, use our promo code from the National Bowling Academy to get yourself a discount.