Two-Handed Bowling: Footwork

Scott Pohl

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Footwork for two-handed bowling is vital to controlling the high rev count created from this style. Go too slow with your footwork and you’ll have way too much hook. Go too fast with your footwork and you’ll lose leverage and the ball will not hook enough.

In this free video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, overviews different techniques two-handed bowlers utilize with their footwork.

5-Step Approach

There are many variations of the 5-step-approach for two-handed bowlers. In the example below, the first step is straight. The second step goes left and the third step slightly farther left from the second step. The pivot step comes back into a straighter direction and the slide is slightly right.

Steps two and three allow for the ball to clear the right side of the body by moving left with the footwork. This enables the pivot and slide to end up in a powerful position resulting in good leverage for the release and good ball speed to match up with the revs.

In this next example, every step goes farther left than the previous with the slide as the exception. This enables more right-to-left ball motion.

4-Step Approach

The first step of the 4-step-approach is a crossover step. This is in time with the ball start and it allows the ball to clear the right side of the body. The second step is around 15 boards left of the first step. The pivot step is straighter with the slide slightly to the right.

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Hi, Scott Pohl here with OnTrack Pro Shop in the Twin Cities. Check us out on our website. We'd love to help you out. What we're gonna take a look at, the two-handed bowling game. We're gonna look at a couple different scenarios. The four- and five-step approach and how to take this on. All right, so here we have Jeff with a five-step approach. Let's take a look at his footwork a little bit closer. His first step is straight. The next one goes left and the next one a little bit further left. And then it comes back in the direction of straight and a little bit to the right with this slide. So why is the direction left? Very simple. It allows for the ball to clear the right side of the body, come back in a very powerful position. Another example here is Jason Belmonte. He takes five steps as well. On his first step, he goes left. The second one, even further left. So why is this? Well, Jason Belmonte has arguably the most revolutions on a bowling ball of all bowlers, and this allows him to get even more power, send the ball left to right. Another example is Jesper Svensson and Anthony Simonsen. They get the ball into the swing very early and their timing is also getting inside the ball. For Svensson being left-handed, he actually goes to the right with his steps. Simonsen to the left. Last example here is Kyle Troup. He has a traditional five-step approach, very common with the one-handed bowler, and his steps go straight, left, straight, left, and his slide is actually very straight. So here's an example with Jeff doing the four-step approach. On his first step, he does what's called a crossover step. And that, yet again, allows the ball to get out of the way of the body and fall into a really good position. His last two steps actually go much straighter. We showed you some different ways of making this happen. Four and five steps, different styles, different ways to throw the ball. I'm sure there's one of those in there for you. Get on out to the lanes, practice it, seek out a coach. I'm sure all this will help.

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