I'm three months into bowling and some days everything goes well and I hit a new personal high score (228 two weeks ago) or close to it (217 earlier this week), while on other days, I get more splits and I miss more single pin spares than I care to remember. Watching some of the others bowling in the adjacent lanes, I wondered if I should change my release... if my axis tilt is too low. Then I had that Eureka moment watching this video... when you said the semi-roller is (some would argue) the most desired roll. I'm a semi-roller. I'll just keep practising, working on being more consistent with my footwork, swing and release. Thank you for your videos.

Arthur, entertaining and super informational... Keep doing great things for the sport of bowling 🎳 👍🏽😊👌🏽

Lol!!! I love the Humor ! Keep it up!

Good episode Art! Now, if I can get some coffee to go with that sweet roll!

My roll is all of these. I can’t get a consistent release so I do all of these unintentionally. It’s annoying because most of them end up in the gutter.

I use to be a full roller years ago but barely. It was in between my thumb and fingers but just barely. In fact if I did not release clean I took a chance on rolling over the thumb and did ever so often. Then I stopped bowling for 15 years and when I came back I was a little in between a spinner and semi but had some bad habits due to bad joints. I am a semi roller now and love it. The key for me was to really keep my palm turned up and keep my elbow close to the body and follow through. I was letting my elbow out and had a big hook I was having a hard time controlling it. I actually have lost a lot of hook and most of the time play straighter in the heavy oil and not on the outside as much. When I stopped trying to achieve the largest hook I can and rolled the bowl end over end forward my average took off I started carrying more strikes. You have to be a powerful bowler and a lot of back swing and match revs to ball speed to get a huge hook to pay off. 4 shoulder surgeries on the right arm kind of throws that out the window for me now, and I also had both hips cut on in the last couple years and fixing to have my left replaced due to necrosis, so I had to change. It is so much easier for me to be consistent this way now. Anyone with to much angle that is not a semi roller should try to make it part of their game. If nothing else It is just another tool when the lanes transition and you keep having your ball run away to the left.

cranker spinner or full roller seems like you misspoke. That would be like saying "do you like apples, oranges, or Volkswagen? Cranker tweener and stroker generally have do with rev rate. Full roller is a track starting point That said, I've enjoyed your videos, keep them up!

Thank yo for best and wise replay for tracks. I have spinner rolling delivery. Axis tilt more than 30 degrees. Now I try to make axis 10-15 digrees next time in practis. Do i have to chance my drillings with fingers and thump, more inside or reward? Wil there be some help. I have really big trouble to get my ball semi roller.

Problem! I rarely see any oil on my bowling ball! A little here and there on a fresh sport shot but only a spot here and there, not a full visible ring.

I pretty consistently get a track halfway between semi-roller and spinner with two-hand bowling. My rev rate isn't phenomenal, though, but I guess it gets the job done.

Hey, I'm dyin' over here!

I am a spinner. Never knew it was called that. It always made me crazy my oil line was so far away from the holes, now I know why. I would like to be a semi*roller.. are there drills or a way to change?

Semi Roller in the house!! 😄

I love it when you came to our school thank you

Just found out the channel, Arthur this was briljant!

Your service was impeccable! Now, if I could just get my alley to serve ME some good rolls..... ;-) Seriously, I'm understanding from looking at a few charts that my Axis Tilt of 33-37 degrees is "high." Does that mean when I get my next layout that it can be done to "compensate" for that and make the axis tilt lower, so that it starts to roll sooner??

Good video, but what is considered the pro roll? or rephrased the roll considered to be the ball motion achieved by the professionals?

Lets go. Best teacher

I'm in between a semi-roll to a spinner but am a good enough bowler to change it when necessary. Only roll I can't execute is the full roller.

I am not a fan of the semi roller. The ball seems to stall and stop hooking? So, if your shot is not heading tight to the 1/3, it’s not going to keep turning giving you less pin action.

I'm somewhere between the spinner and the semi roller but I want to fix it to just the semi when I use my hook ball to pick up spares the tracks are just like the semi tracks here but when I throw for a strike its closer to the spinning track HOW DO I FIX IT?

What about the new no thumb layouts

I used to have the very first roll you showed my team mates are making me hold the ball with my hand underneath now but now my ball doesn’t roll almost at all. It glides down the lane rolling over the last foot or two before the pins...

Great video.

1:18 The Helicopter? I thought this was called Aunt Susan who's never bowled before? 🤣

Arthur, you just keep getting better!

So apparently I have such a high track that it literally rolls over the far left edge of my middle finger. I'm a two handed (no thumb) bowler though that recently transitioned over after 30+ years of bowling the conventional way (thumb in ball) righty. Is it bad that my track is that high up? Does it mean my balls layouts should've been done a little differently? I just recently got all 5 balls thumb holes plugged and new layouts done since I was switching over to a 2H (no thumb) style and my PSO didn't even care to watch me throw the ball to do any adjustments with my PAP as a 2H compared to my old 1H PAP. Is it true that he didn't even need to see how I throw the ball 2H before laying out my balls? It's like he took my PAP of all the years I bowled as a conventional (thumb in ball) righty and just assumed what layout would work decent enough after making the switch.

So if my oil track is more of a spinner, is it necessarily a bad thing?

I enjoy your videos

Im none of these.. help.. haha I am low tilt like 5 degrees and 75-80 degrees of axis rotation. My ball tracks close to my fingers and thumb. My PAP is 5 and 5/8 over by 1 and 1/8 up

I have a lot of balls drilled differently but my track is always the same so I must be rolling the ball well and consistent right?

Love this guy.

Im right handed, What about my track lines going over the middle finger and thumb holes?

my rolls go straight over the holes, when I got my newest ball the pro shop I went to said he would drill it so it no longer does that but it still does. is this bad to roll straight over your holes? Ive been bowling about 2 months now and am averaging 160 most nights and some im around 180 and I have 10 200 games my highest being a 234. Im kinda worried to re drill the ball and not like it as much as I do now.

That old guy in this video looks familiar. Did he live in Schenectady, ny ?

My roll goes over the finger holes what would that roll be considered?

What about an inverted track

You never explained how to find your "track" or what a "track" is or even what it looks like on a bowling ball or when or how it is created. You assume new bowlers understand this. Obviously it is not a white grease mark line appearing on the ball after you have rolled it. What is the procedure for finding your track?

The UFO roll

cheers!

Good video. Except the "helicopter roll". What you threw was palm up no rotation, and the ball was rotating backwards. In order to execute helicopter you need to twist your wrist on the horizontal to the ground plane.

“Can I get a little service around here for a change???!!! “

My roll wasn’t on the menu....I’m a no thumb bowler.

Ok you forgot my roll! I track closer to the fingers than the thumb.

Great accent

I am so embarrassed. I have been bowling since I was 5 ( I'm almost 40) and have no clue what he is talking about. I know nothing about different rollers or tracks . Wow

Ok who's next"...🗣️Can I get a little service here for a change. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

My roll is spinner

Why the helicopter roll is not famous outside asia? Lol

LETS GO METS! ;)