pls my friend invitined me to a bowling place for her bday, and for a school camp trip were also going to a bowling place and now I just found myself here. Lol

I'll be sure to use these tips once the alleys reopen

I think for teaching beginners it is important to go over what the hook actually 'is'. Essentially the hand must induce a roll that is angled left of the ball motion (through the skid phase and for right handers). Then there is all the stuff you mentioned (which was great). Also could of added that there is 2 main ways to hook a bowling ball. Have your hand twisted so the index finger is pointing straight down and the middle and ring to the left upon release (and behind the ball). The other way is to not have your hand twisted (so the hand is vertical behind the ball) but upon release the hand will make its way to the right side of the ball and pull up (the hand will be perpendicular to the ground the whole time). These are 2 important notes that I often see missed. I realize this was a quick summary for the short video but maybe next time you can touch on these important points

I tried this technique last week after watching the video. IT WORKS! Thank you so much for the lessons.

Great video! Funny that the other day watched video from 1994-95 of baker team competition on KZfaq. One of the teams had Mike Shady and Earl Anthony was praising his game on how solid it was. He was hammering the pocket on a difficult oil pattern.

I am a beginner. I always bowled without a hook, and I average about 120 a game. Today I decided I really want to try to learn how to hook better to get more pin action and watched a few videos on this topic. The thing I learned from these videos is that there is more than one way to do this. Speed is also a factor that should be calculated in as from videos, the more speed you have throwing the ball, the less time the ball has to spin and more time to spin the slower you go. My grandpa mentioned spot bowling to me before and that works, and my grandma always said to focus on a pin and keep your hand straight, which also worked. This was for no spinning of course. Both my grandpas said for spinning, you should start with your fingers in the holes sideways and then bowl. I did try this once or twice in regular games, but I always gutter as there seems to be no consistency. So today I played 4 games by myself. The very first thing I tried was to bowl with 2 fingers one hand, well that failed horribly as the ball just dropped before getting into the alley. So, I then tried to hold the ball with my other hand the whole time and spin with my other hand. The ball goes into the alley but did not spin. I tried again, still same result. So, then I tried one handed with hand in holes down below and spinning the ball at the same time, same result with no curve. I then tried combining what both my grandpas said with what you tube said, which was 2 fingers in hole to the right, not underneath and other hand holding the ball and throw with making the ball spin with my left hand (other hand). Finally, my ball curved and in a big way. I was happy I got my ball to spin. I tried again and same result where the ball spins at least. The whole time it has been gutter balls with maybe 1 pin. I then tried spot bowling using what I have learned, and boy did it take a lot of trial and error using up a few games. I tried the first set of dots mixing it up, I tried picking up the speed, I tried using the arrow markers to aim at and not consistent at all. I would occasionally get lucky and get a strike. Finally, in the fourth game I tried using my grandma's advice about looking at a pin. So, I found out during my fourth game that if I stand lined up with the fourth dot from the left and look at the farthest pin to the right, that about 60% of the time I was able to get the ball to curve and go right into the sweet spot. My consistency is still lacking but is much better than before. So now I need to see if maybe the speed is now a factor or if maybe I am not consistent because I am changing back and forth between my left hand engaging to spin the ball or not engaging. Basically, find out if it's the fingers being to the right and not underneath is spinning the ball or if it's the combination of both hands spinning the ball along with speed for the sweet pocket. So, my scores for games 1-3 were terrible being about 1-50. My fourth game where I was getting more consistent was 94. I think if I keep practicing and homing in on what does what, I can get my consistency up and thus my score will increase along with it. Later this week I will go play another 3-4 games. Overall, I think today was a good day and a good use of $14 as I gained experience and intel. So that is my journey I had today by myself just trying to try different things and finding out what works for me.

Thank you for this very technical guide. Will put this in to good use. Appreciate!

Good Tips and drills.... but there aren't any good videos out ther yet that talk about how to even control the wrist/ball in the swing back to the top in order to have the flat wrist! The hardest thing as a beginner is to be able to handle the ball back and through to the point of release and have your wrist in that posistion. For the most part beginners are rotaded forward in order to hold on to the ball through that motion so it dosent fly off! Can you make a video of how to keep the wrist cupped tight from the draw back to the top and to the bottom at release? Release drill doesnt help if the thumb is so far forward holding th ball for dear life.

A comment on axis rotation would have been helpful. Looked like the ball was going end over end on the rev mat which also wouldn't hook down lane. Nice video.

Coach Mike(s), Thanks for the fine video with great explanation/demonstration. As a life long chicken winger I can’t seem to stay under & behind the ball all the way. Maybe I’m pulling ? Anyway, I can execute the last drill (getting hand out to produce revs ) but don’t understand how to do that when the ball is swinging. Learn to let the thumb come out then rip the fingers ? Thank you

How do I purchase the same rev tool you guys are using?

Thank you coach!

That was fantastic! Thanks for the tips!

I need classes. I love watching you guys, I’m very bad playing bowling, If you were close to show me how to play.

I finally learned how to hook my ball and position myself

Overall great video. I can now go to the alleys with confidence

I’ve been trying to hook for the longest. I hope I can try this way and be successfully. Thx

when I first started bowling I was told not to attempt to learn to hook one until avg was at least 150 -- that was in the early 90s

For anyone who knows forearm anatomy and planes of movement, it seems that what you need for spin is pronation of the wrist between 90 to 180 degrees from a fully supinated position. Further, the degree of wrist flexion affects the amount of spin you can generate. I also assume that the amount of forward force you generate also determines the point at which the ball grips the surface of the lane and initiates its spin. In other words, were you to apply maximal forward force I imagine spin would not take effect even if done correctly due to the forward inertia overcoming any rotational force.

I consider myself an inexperienced bowler who is just learning. I bowled in a league for two years about 35 years ago, then stopped due to injury and two back surgeries. I’m 68 now and just started bowling again, and my question is; can I change my release, arm swing, etc, to significantly increase my revolutions and hook, or would I be better off just adjusting my approach and aiming location and accepting my modest hook and low revolutions? My current average is about 163 in two leagues and 187 in the third (I bowled above average the first night of the third league). I’m thinking about getting lessons in the next few weeks.

Awesome lesson and thank you for sharing ❤️❤️🔥👍👍

Is there a specific spot on the lane you should release at? Far left, far right, center left, center right?

BEGINNER 83 years old. I loved to bowl 30+ years ago (never any training) and was always afraid I would drop the ball (10/12 house balls' and holes were either too tight or large ...yadda yadda. I am a girly girl; not strong. Just bought an 8 lb and probably should have brought a 6 pound. Haven't had it drilled yet, so not too late to exchange it. What do you think?: exchange for the 6 lb. I am leaning in that direction.

Chicks DO dig the big wheel!

Mike is legit. Glad to see he is passing on his knowledge. I like the knee drill.

Thank you I am going bowling today Update:I GOT 3RD PLACE WOOOOO

Where do you get one of those rev mats?

Thanks again always trying to get more hook

Hi. Where can I buy the ball spinning drill tool?

I throw a reverse hook and I am left handed. And, no, all left handers do not have a natural hook. My high league average was 196 with a 10 pound ball. Now that I am older still use the same weight, but can't get much speed on my ball, but still that same backup ball.

When I watch the B roll clips in between explaing how to hook the ball the bowlers wrist facing to the side Not towards the ceiling!

So do you twist your wrist as well when you throw or just lift your hand up and let go?

Maybe I am getting it wrong. This will only result in the ball spinning forward as seen in the video and not sideway... will that hook the ball? I tried it yesterday, and it doesn’t hook at all.

Thank you..improve me a lot! snap it!

You seem to be skipping the most important part - turning over your wrist when releasing the ball. (Or otherwise imparting the “spin.”

Great work on the explanation and the video, Coach. Seeing the positions and the movement is going to be helpful for my students. Kind of a side question. How do you feel span affects rotation? I have a student with span about an inch shorter than mine. He's strong youngster and can get around the ball quickly. Yet, he wonders how I get as much rotation (revs) as I do. I tell him it's because my fingers start almost under the ball due to my 5-1/4" span.

Great video! It helped me visualize the first two steps well but I am having trouble figuring out the getting the hand out fast. I have heard it described as a yo yo effect but in practice I can’t quite grasp the concept.

How much should you turn the ball before you release the ball or do you stay in the same position at the starting position?

Where do I get one of the holders you had?

I love bawling but im having trouble hooking the ball!!$$

If you want to practice the proper hand position and releasing the ball with your fingers, go get a football. Then try to throw the football underhanded and get a good spiral on it. That is the same hand position and finger release you want when throwing a bowling ball.

im supposed to turn my wrist at release right? seems like the end of the video is doin that. and its not explained.

Can a lack of flexibility (knee bend) adversely affect your ability to hook the ball?

How does that apply if you are standing to release?

Awesome tip Coach Shady And Mike! Great info and content! #insidebowling

Thanks

Only way I can hook a ball is by no thumb in the hole, I've been bowling for years (not consistently like a league or anything), and always have been decent but never have been able to hook the damn ball, maybe these tips will help

What matches up to a rhino yellow dot 14 lbs reaction ball

Join bowling for first time tomorrow

How to hook while releasing instantaneously on a consistent basis....is what I need to see.

Where do you coach? I’d love to get some coaching in.

Thank you!

Where can I get the rev device?

Where can I buy that roller device?

I love how all of these videos show training up the back to hook. Play the video if them throwing s hook back at speed 0.25, they are clearly NOT going up the back. He's throwing the hook from about 4 o'clock, not 6. Teach what you actually do!!!

I have no problem releasing the ball since I'm arthritic, I have to slow down and not get ahead of my feet, my issues are I cannot throw the ball straight!

But how is the hook actually Made ? When releasing from behind the ball with palm up it goes dead straight

This doesn't explain how to hook a ball at all...? Am I just dumb? Y'all showed how to impart back to front spin, but not right to left spin. I don't understand how to get right to left spin without breaking my wrist......

Was ist das für ein "Pad" mit den kleinen Kugeln?

now im gonna try it on my step-sister

I never bowled 100 before hope this helps

Nice and easy explanation for an amateur. Thanks master I guess Im gonna try it for a while.

What about left hand

Go to the pro shop. PROBLEM SOLVED 😆

1:41 I am so sorry Brock...

Done it. i've scored 243. thanks

I always hate when people say "keep your hand behind the ball" and leave it there. Those rev mat practice throws are only half the motion. If everyone does what was done on the mat we would all be throwing beautiful high rev straight balls.

Let's see if you can do that on natural wood lanes

Did brock work in Sleepy Hollow?

I’ve been practicing to hook for some time and I just can’t get the hang of it 😢

Why do you guys make it so hard to find the training tool you use? How about a link?

Shady sure looks slim!

How does a video about hooking a ball forget to teach you how to hook a ball lol

That's me. My hand on "top" of the equator. Damnit. Almost 10 years of trying to learn how to hook. No chance.

The red did NOT help. I can’t see

If you pause it at 5:32, the hand is completely different than the explanation. It’s not center and the equator is tilted.

Show it in slo mo

3:00 Warning to older and weaker bowlers. Great way to blow out the tendon on the inside of your elbow so it will hurt you for the rest of your life.

All modern reactive bowling balls hook nowadays , they are talking about rev. rate not hook .

How about us older who can't spin that fast?

Wow..not even one word about what the ball is made out of, nit one word about how they drill the finger holes for release..and then he is showing a ball with a counter weight hole drilled into it...let's see them pick up a house ball and show all the same things..not going to be putting that much of a curve on it then..

But if you are a Classic Full Roller like myself, this is "not" how you hook a bowling ball. But great demo for Semi-Rollers however. Thanks.

Typical for this channel - give information that is technically good, but only gives half of what you really need. If you look at the release at the end of the video, there is a LOT more going on than what was explained in the video.

Wouldn't this just roll the ball straight?? Your fingers have to work around the side of the ball.

Chicks "dig the big wheel?" I enjoy bowling but never thought of any bowling "technique" as a aphrodisiac! Your comments ladies???

instructions weren’t clear

i think i actually no LESS about how to throw a hook after this video.

"gutter"? i thought they were supposed to call it "channel" :) i guess they missed the memo.

Your teaching, do not coincide when they release the bowling ball. When they release the bowling ball, I notice that their fingers is at the right side of the ball not at the back.

The reason most people release at top or side of the ball is because they can't get their thumb out. If a ball is NOT fitted correctly for a bowler's hand, then all this instruction means nothing.

Why do I see them use two hands when hooking? The spin rotations are not like cricket? U rotate the ball forward for it to hook right to left? This is too much for my brain to comprehend So there's no wrist involved Ffs

Yeah, no. You don't hook a bowlilng ball by imparting a forward roll. The spin must be angled away from the ball's vector.

As a married man: no chicks dig bowlers.

Respectfully, this is not the most helpful video for trying to learn as a beginner. I feel like I put all these tips in to practice and no hook

日本人はここだけかな？

How to hook a bowling Ball: Be two-handed. Video over

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These videos with this guy explaining are terrible. He constantly says “as you know”. No we don’t know, that’s why we are watching this. We don’t know what the hell rev rate is if you are teaching us how to hook. Hand in the center of the ball? So where is the Center? Where is the equator? We don’t have tape on our balls.

No f-ing way! In the drill the ball spins perfectly forward, that will not hook. So stupid!!

I promise you chicks do not care about bowling. Lol dorks