I also found something that worked for me a lot too. Sometimes even with this hand position thing I still managed to get my hand way around the ball. I started to force the weight of the ball to lean more towards my thumb almost like I'm going to back it up. That really helped me even being able to get 10 degrees of axis rotation or less on my spare shots. Just feeling the weight of the ball in that spot the whole way through the swing.

Just felt natural. Made my hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder aligned to the target/line. Thanks! Liked and subscribed.

This was a great tip, I had to adjust my hand placement this past Thursday night and saw a big difference in ball movement

The best video by far on explaining how to get a better throw for a 2 handed

Thank you so much! My release improved a lot with this hand position. 🙏🏼

Frank - I watched this last night. Tried a few things at home, then hit the lanes with the goal of really trying this out. HUGE SUCCESS. (had the front 10 in practice today, and a 9 bagger in a later game, with two different balls). A year+ ago I actually switched my off hand to go from the left side, to the top of the ball, which was a big shift to get use to. Today I tried moving my hand even further further right, experiment, way right, even with right hand etc. I found going far right really allowed me to keep my elbow in, and had a hell of a practice day today. Will need some more days of practice to make it second nature and get the timing down. I highly recommend people try to push those boundaries and see how things go. I would randomly with having a crap release from time to time, with just no rotation, and it always felt so random, maybe 10% of the time I'd have a bad throw and couldn't figure out why, wondered if it was lack of focus. Today, 9 games of practice, I only had 1 or 2 throws of bad rotation which were obvious what I did wrong. This helps keep me so much more consistent. More practice and I'll get it second nature so that the speed will be consistent with it too; I think this will be big for me. Thank you for sharing your changes as well as referencing Via and Slone's releases.

Terrific video. I have seen this issue w my son's bowling and just forwarded this video to him. Thanks for sharing. Def will work it into our practices...

Bro for real thats the problem i been doing too lmao doing the exact same problem thanks so much for that tip needed this it kept constantly to going over the middle finger hole and didnt know that me getting around it like this is the cause man thanks for this tip def subscribed

Yessss 🙏 the video I needed!!!!! Thank you man. This is fire.

Bro this was a great breakdown and awesome that you showed the hand position to man that’s what really made it make sense

To avoid confusion here, what you're doing is actually causing your hand to be more to the inside of the ball in the back swing and causing more axis rotation and tilt at the release point. That is what brings your ball track further away from your fingers and causes the ball to flare more. Staying more up the back of the ball will cause less axis tilt and less axis rotation, resulting in a ball track that flares over the finger holes. Not a bad change, but you need to completely understand what is actually happening to your hand at the release.

Great video Frank! Glad you were able to identify and correct, a weakness in your bowling; and, demonstrating how to make a correction. Thanks for posting.👍👊✌🖖

I put the pointing finger on my right hand in between the pointing finger and the middle finger on my left hand. I think it's similar to what you changed yours to in this video.

Woohooooo more tank !!!! Love your videos brother

Nice vid Broo helped on my ball that tracked over the holes !

Самый подробный разбор из всех что я видел👍 Спасибо! 🤝

Just tried this yesterday and it really help me

Nice video. I started doing this some short time ago to help maintain a consistent hand position and noticed I also noticed my rev rate increased and was more consistent since I was putting my hand in the same place everytime and also paying attention to my right hand finger position in relation to axis rotation. Manipulating axis rotation is useful for picking up spares, bowling on dry lanes, and sport patterns.

Basically, the style you're showing here is cranking the ball in the set up. I have tried this and will try it again, but I prefer to hold the ball comfortably without cranking it. What I do at the end of my arm swing, at the release, is what really matters. And what I do at this point is to imagine that the inside of my right palm (I'm a righty) is facing outward (to be clear, facing to the lane to my right). Now, literally, it isn't really fully facing that way as that is unnatural and uncomfortable. But by turning the inside of my palm outward (as much as I can) at the release and imagining that it is fully facing the lane to my right, it helps me stay behind the ball. I just find it easier to manipulate my palm position at the release point than to hold it that way from beginning to end and cranking my arms/hands. But in the end, whatever is comfortable and works for you.

I do a similar thing aswell, but i actually bend my wrist to the left and actually use abit of my arm to cup the ball. It helps to stay behind the ball a lot. Its like how Tom Daugherty holds the ball but 2 hands haha. My left hand stays the same like yours. Great video and keep up the effort Frank!

Just got my new highest of 211 yesterday

Great video appreciate you pointing this out. This is something I guess I struggle with as well. There has been countless times where I have been on front eight and got kinda lazy due to the amount of effort it takes to release with your hands on the left side I’m definitely gonna make that change. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend.

I was having a rough practice session, towards my last game, I remembered your tip in this video and dang, it just clicked! I would have wanted to get another game in to make sure but the lane was already closing up.

New PAP measurement time!

Also leaning forward at your release will cause you to come around the ball

I did until belmo gave me a simple piece of advice. That night I shot 750 😂 Though as you get better behind the ball your PAP will change and layouts drastically can change. My PIN to PAP distance increased by almost 3inches.

Did this and bowled a 256 my first game trying it.. 😅other than the score my hand was way farther behind the ball and closer to my leg, my speed and revs looked higher too!

Love the vids man! Explaining really well :) The music isn`t really needed! You telling is fun and interesting enough, might be more annoying than it adding something :) Keep it up!

I came to the same exact revelation last week watching Chris Via bowl. Now I feel like I can really hit it at the bottom and be aggressive. When my ball starts skidding and skidding and leaving dumb stuff like 2,8,10s it is typically because I'm getting too far up the side of the ball, not sure if that happens to you as well.

Cool video talk tech bowling frank the tank

I found my arms are too short to bring my hand is that position, I feel my torso is too rotated and my back would hurt after a few games. I found for my staying more upright is better for me as well.

thankyou , i did this a couple of months ago, works well for me in some balls, but cant for the life of me get away from middle on my trouble maker hybrid, any idea why??

Does your ball still feel secure having your left hand there?

Damn, if this works for me, you might have saved me from quit bowling. Having the problem with going around the ball and having the flare over the finger holes.

Side of ball kills your speed and your revs... I started my swing slightly earlier and it took even more stress off my throw and I jumped from about 15.7mph on avg and still hitting high....to 17mph and hitting pocket on the same pattern same game (2-hnded). Staying behind the ball is all you need.

Where’s the league videos !!!!

I'll have to play around with this again. I remember trying it once but the ball kept falling off my hand and my ball speed dropped.

How do you manage to unbend the arm at the downswing ?

Have you stuck with this new hand placement?

I keep my hand Left hand On top of the ball But I also two handed Have no backswing In new jersey You don't need more hooker And I am still underneath the ball