When you makes mistakes that's when you know where and how to improve yourself. The ladies are more prone to make mistakes initially. The energy level and the kind of muscle power that the game of bowling needs might not be with every lady. Find some of the reason here so that it helps you next time you play the game.
Lack of a good push away
Many feminine bowlers fail at the very start because, instead of pushing the ball outward and away from them when they put the ball in motion on the first step, they allow the ball to drop almost directly downward. Thus they get a jerky start with little or no chance to build up a proper backswing.
Not going to the foul line in a direct line.
Because of the weight of the ball, many of the fair sex allow themselves to be pulled out of the direct line of approach. They zigzag. Improving your timing and footwork, to the point where the ball feels lighter to you, will do the most toward overcoming this fault.
Allowing the ball to pull the right shoulder out of line
This is much more common with the ladies than with the men. When the right shoulder is pulled back out of line, the body is turned sidewise, which almost always results in a poor finishing position and a loss of accuracy. Keep your shoulders squared to the target at all times.
Not throwing a fast enough ball
The average woman can use more speed. I don't mean that I expect her to use a cannonball delivery, but certainly there is a little more action that can be gained at the pin end than is normally done. 1 have seen women deliver balls that obviously are rolled with only a fraction of the strength they possess. It is possible, you know, to throw too slow a ball just as it is possible to throw too fast a ball. Which recalls a day in Denver when I saw what I'm sure must rank with the slowest balls of all time. I was watching this particular lady closely because of the manner in which she stood very rigidly in her starting position and held the ball motionless, for what seemed like a full two minutes. Then she tentatively pushed the ball out, and drew it back again.
Holding it against her body and directly in front of her, she finally walked slowly and majestically to the foul line, did her little push away motion and drew the ball back again. Then, stooping low, she daintily deposited the ball on the lane with a sort of little pat, such as one might give a child. To exaggerate a bit, I might say that the pinboy, seeing the sphere finally on its way, took one look at it and went out to a near-by restaurant for a sandwich and coffee. After finishing off his little repast with a cigarette, he came back just in time to see the ball hit the pins. Believe it or not, the ball hit the 1-3 pocket. The 1-pin fell against the 2 and knocked it over, the 2 in turn toppling the 4 and 7-pins. The 3-pin fell against the 6, and the latter knocked over the 10-pin. When the pins had stopped falling, only the 5-pin remained standing, and the ball was resting against it. Which merely proves my point you can roll too slow a ball.
Now here you must have know by now what could be your flaws and weaknesses which needs to improve if you are really interested in playing the game of bowling to the level of the perfection. This I am telling because your weaknesses or strength physically or mentally can put you to shame or fame.
Ten Pin Bowling Tips
Try to hit every spare "dead center."
Do not be satisfied with merely converting the spare in any fashion at all. Concentrate on the exact spot you wish to hit. It stands to reason that if you are hitting the key pin on the wrong side and still managing to convert the spare through a lucky bounce off the kickback or in some other fashion, you are courting disaster. Bowling is a game in which the law of averages inevitably takes its toll. You cannot keep on being lucky forever. So shoot to make your spares correctly. "Cover" your pins.
Finishing properly is just as important as starting properly. Getting started on the correct foot, using a smooth push away to get the ball in motion, timing the movement of your hands and body, and other such procedures do little good if you suddenly decide at the last second to "overpower the pins." You might succeed in getting a strike on that particular throw (you will note I didn't say "roll"), but in so doing you are asking for trouble in succeeding frames, for you have thrown your timing off and may find it difficult to regain it. Remember to check yourself occasionally on the various phases of finishing properly making sure that you are not falling into bad habits.
Use the best angle to get strikes and spares
Because of the angle at which the ball strikes the pins, it would not do for the average bowler rolling a hook or curve to start his delivery from the extreme left side of the approach. On the other hand, a bowler using a backup delivery (one that fades to the right), should not begin from the middle. In shooting at spares, remember to "give the ball all the alley space possible." For the 7-pin, you should begin your roll from the right-hand side. For the 10-pin, start from the left-hand side, and so on. The 6-10 spare, for instance, should be played from the left-hand side so that the ball not only takes advantage of the width of the lane but also comes into the pins at a better angle to topple the 10-pin after hitting the 6-pin. Always bear in mind that your percentage of scoring is increased when you play from the proper angle. Control and consistency give bowling improvement. Even the poorest bowlers sometimes roll a 200 game, but the better bowlers, and in particular the experts, do it often. The star bowler depends upon his control and consistency to keep his average high. But he wasn't born with either. He had to develop both over a long period of time and through plenty of practice. Actually, consistency means the ability to use your control time after time. So keep after your game and be willing to practice. It will pay dividends in higher scores.
Overturning a ball is easier than turning it properly
If you observe the topnotchers closely, you will see that they try to put just as much "stuff" on the ball as possible without losing control. It is unfortunately true that all too many low-average bowlers simply try to put a lot of "stuff" on the ball without regard for control of the tricky delivery. The fallacy of this lies in their trying to impress their friends or in seeking to take a "short cut" to high scoring by trying to master this difficult delivery before they have even come close to mastering the simple fundamentals of approach and delivery.
Perfection in fundamentals means higher scores
The success of one very famous collegiate football team may be traced, in part, to the idea of its coaches that a team well versed in fundamentals can beat the biggest or trickiest of foes. Consequently, when this school's first football practice is called each season, every man, regardless of his ability in high school or in previous college years, is given a thorough and painstaking grounding in such fundamentals as blocking and tackling. Bowling is exactly the same. The more perfect your grasp of fundamentals, the more consistently high scores you will roll, for you are then repeating, time after time after time, the same exact steps, the same swing of the ball in rhythm with the hands, body and feet, the same backswing and the same release. You will be as close to a machine as it is possible to get.
It is very important to keeps your basics right when playing the bowling game. And perfecting the fundamentals could means higher scores. So makes it sure that you are well aware of the basic tricks of the game of bowling to score high points when the next time you go for playing it.
