Archive for the ‘Bowling Techniques’ Category

Most people, probably including you, start out bowling by using a “straight” shot. With this style of bowling, you simply point and shoot. Bowling with this style is effective, and you can in fact bowl an excellent score using it.

Even so, if you want to be more serious about bowling, or further improve your score, you’ll need to learn more advanced techniques, adding more skill than luck to your game.

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No matter how skilled a bowler you are, you’re going to find yourself in a spare situation–and for those of us that are casual bowlers, it happens more often than not.

Picking up a spare can be difficult or easy. It all depends on the location of the remaining pins. Some spares are fairly easy for novice bowlers, such as a single pin standing in the center of the lane. Other situations require more concentration, and a little knowledge of geometry

Splits–when there is two or more pins standing, with a gap in between–are considered the most difficult to spare, and the larger the gap, the tougher the shot.

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