Warm Up Bowling Drill

Have you ever been accused of chicken winging the bowling ball? Hi, I'm Leah Zahner a contributor with national bowling academy. In this free video gold coach Richard Shockley provides a drill every bowler should incorporate into their training sessions to help free up their swing before adding footwork into the equation. We have one of our students here Nate Renelle He's going to demonstrate for us a warm up drill that his team does whenever he's getting ready for a tournament or just for practice. So Nate, let's go into this position that we're talking about and as you can see he's into the great position of the knee bend trailing leg over, this is the key that we're looking for. The elbow has to be inside to accomplish what we're after. The head and itself move your head just a little bit Nate this way just a little bit. Now he's into a better position, but the elbow in. Now, what normally happens, he's going to swing the ball once or twice then he's going to let it go. A lot of cases as you know, a lot of players get into this problem. And we come around the ball at release which is the dreaded chicken wing which causes terrible ball roll. Let's remember the elbow to the inside swing nice and free for a good game.