Personalize Your Spare System
Scott PohlKnowing where to stand on the approach and where to target on the lane is the difference between making and missing spares. Having a spare system you can rely on will increase your average. In this premium video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, teaches how to develop your own personalized spare system.
Bowling Ball Choice and Release
Depending on your skill level and comfortability changing bowling balls, you can use your strike ball or a plastic ball. More experienced bowlers use a plastic ball because it does not hook. This holds true for heavy or light oil volume and/or short or long distanced patterns.
Regardless of ball choice, your spare release should be more up the back of the ball (flat) providing an end over end roll down the lane.
Where to Stand
There is no one-size-fits-all spare system. The key is to personalize it to fit your style. Here are examples of different player styles shooting at the 7 pin.
Hailey Triske is more of a power player and she likes to stand far left on the approach and shoot straight at the 7 pin with her plastic ball.
Kaley Triske is considered to be a straighter player and she lines up closer to the middle of the approach and has more right to left angle shooting at the 7 pin.
Scott is considered a tweener player and he stands the furthest right utilizing more right to left angle when shooting at the 7 pin.
Whichever bowling style best relates to yours, try emulating the 7 pin conversion and personalize your system accordingly.
Check out “Basic 3-6-9 Spare System Moving Right” and “Developing a Spare System” for more instructions geared towards improving your spare shooting.
Hi, Scott Pohl here with the National Bowling Academy. We're talking about bowling spares. A personal system is the best way to go. What works for me may not work the best for the next player. A lot of ways to attack spares.
You can go with the spare ball. You can go with the non spare ball. The key is typically, you wanna flatten the shot out and throw it at the pin. On the left side, we're gonna open towards the left and make sure our bodies are in the right direction. Vice versa.
When we're going for that right side spare, we wanna make sure that we're open to the right-hand side going for that side. There's no one correct way to stand for each spare. Lots of different players will stand a few different boards apart from each spare but they're still gonna attack one the same way. So for instance, here we have Hailey going for the seven pin. She stands pretty far to the left, going for the seven pin straight down the lane, very far left attack at it.
Let's move on to Kaley now. Kaley stands a little bit further to the right. It's a little bit more right to left angle going for seven pin. Lastly myself, I'm standing even further right of Kaley. It's still going in the same direction of the seven pin.
Key thing is, figure out what works for you. Best of luck.
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