What Is One Simple Tip For Picking Up The Ten Pin?

Written By: bowlingball.com | Written On: Friday, June 3, 2022

bowlingball.com, Originally Posted: 5/11/2015; Updated: 6/3/2022
If you ask what is one simple tip for picking up the ten pin, it would be using visualization.
There are well documented tips for converting the ten pin or seven pin for left handed bowlers.
Examples of a few tips you have likely read about or heard mentioned are using a plastic bowling ball to go as straight of a line as possible, don’t hit up on the bowling ball when you make your release, reduce finger rotation, and don’t drift toward the center of the approach and cut off your angle to the corner pin spare.
These tips are often repeated by coaches everywhere.
The one tip which can help you make a strong mental commitment to picking up the ten pin, however, is use of visualization.
Once you take your stance approach at the far corner of the approach when shooting for the ten pin, before you begin your approach, draw a bead on the ten pin with your eyes sharply focused on the spare, then look down at your spot on the lanes where you sight, look again at the spare and the path back through your spot on the lane and then begin your approach.
Take dead aim at your spot on the lane.
Looking at the ten pin, then at your mark on the lane and seeing the entire path your ball must follow is key before delivering your ball.
Your brain will signal your body muscles where to deliver the ball once your eyes signal your brain precisely where the ten pin is located.
In fact, you can use this same technique of visualization before you shoot at any spare on the lane.
See it, feel it, and trust it. Draw a bead on your target, see the path the ball must follow, and make a confident delivery toward your spot on the lane.