How Can I Quickly Improve My Spare Shooting?
By bowlingball.com
Publish Date: 9/1/15; Updated: 2/15/2024If you average between 150 and 170 and ask how can I quickly improve my spare shooting, then we know you likely need a bowling lesson for converting spares?
One of the most important keys in maintaining a high average is becoming a very good spare shooter.
The fastest way you can improve your spare shooting is probably one you will reject. Take a bowling lesson, spend a bit of money, from an experienced instructor and ask for two simple tasks - tune your physical game and work on spare shooting.
Do not leave the session with the instructor until you have developed a sound system for adjusting to any spare combination left on the pin deck.
You may be asked to get a spare shooting bowling ball such as a plastic ball or a low flare, entry level reactive ball to reduce hook potential so you gain a reliable ball reaction when shooting cross lane at certain spares.
You may be asked by the instructor to use a system for aligning to spares which is unfamiliar.
Regardless of which system you develop, plan on putting in more practice time than you typically use and work on spares instead of just trying to record good scores by aiming only at the pocket.
Golfers generally do not enjoy pounding range balls to improve their technique in playing golf.
Baseball players probably do not enjoy hitting pitches in a batting cage over and over to develop a good swing technique.
Same thing in bowling. You must put in practice time so you get very familiar with any alignment required in your spare shooting system.
You will want an alignment positioning on the approach very familiar to your eye so when you begin bowling in competition, you do not fear an unknown alignment and miss routine spares unnecessarily.
It is impossible for anyone to recommend a specific spare shooting system for your game without watching you bowl in real time. This is why using an experienced instructor is the best course of action to help develop a sound spare system and to watch you shoot at spares and then help you tweak your technique until you develop an improved process.
Dedicate yourself to becoming a good spare shooter and once you do, watch your scores and average rise correspondingly.
