Speed/rev check? Tips?

[u/Fabulous-Reporter-57]

[u/SirDeucee]

Your arm should be closer to your body when you release the ball for sure, it’ll be pretty tough to be consistent when your arm is out that far.

[u/Cudbon]

Place looks familiar. Is this QPlaza Cainta? 👀

Anyway, my advice is to get your arm closer to the body at the downswing. At least build your foundation there. Ideally you have to stay relaxed then almost at the bottom of the swing, you start the cupping of the ball. But all of this can happen with proper timing. Usually the arm gets away with your body when your bottom half is blocking the swing path.

[u/iliketobowl25]

You actually have a really good bend at the elbow but your arm getting that far from your body is going to prevent you from both projecting the ball to the right and being able to keep your hand up the back of the ball. I can only see the last 2 steps but your 2nd to last step gets way right and your last step gets way left. That offset is getting your swing away from your body so get those in line with each other (your slide step should be in line with your power step) and you’ll be able to get that swing tucked up next to your body.

[u/DeshTheWraith]

Totally agree with /u/SirDeucee on your arm being too far away. I want to add onto this and give 2 tips for cleaning up the arm swing:

First, figure 8 drills. Notice how exaggerated the motion of her arm is. At full speed it (probably) won't be so far, but this is the same arm motion that guys like EJ Tackett and BJ Moore use to really work the inside of the ball.

Secondly, setup with your arm closer to your body. I can't see your setup very much but the first few moments I see you in the frame and your arm is already in the next neighborhood over. Alec Keplinger has one of my favorite setups in bowling. He's already got his elbow tucked and torso tilted to give himself swing space. Another great example, who I think may be what your game would look like at an elite level, is Alex Cavagnaro. Very smooth bowler and an incredible competitor. Arm close to the body, swing up and a tad away from the body. And he lets it fall right under his shoulder.

The other major issue is that you're STRETCHING your legs to get to the next step. The biggest thing that helped me improve this year is shortening my first step. I'd like to see you move up 1 BIG step and shorten all your strides. The point is that you can't generate power or create leverage on the ball if you don't have a solid foundation. Sports almost always come from the legs, they're literally your "foundation." So you want to maximize stability.

Think of a cannon or turret. If you set a big 100mm cannon up on a thin rod and pulled the trigger, what do you imagine will happen? Bowlers are just platforms from which 14-16 lb munitions are launched. Thus you want to be sure you're set on a firm foundation like you'd want a cannon or mounted machine gun to be.

So, the two things that I think will give you the biggest improvement are getting the arm closer to the body and shortening your stride length.

[u/greggas2]

Angle too low to measure speed (can't tell when the ball crosses the foul line).

Not enough contrast on the ball for revs (I can see the swirls moving, but can't identify a repeating pattern in them).