How To Hook A Bowling Ball The CORRECT Way 

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the beautiful Elise ❤

She can bowl. She can curve. She has curves. Its all perfect. Thanks for making my day. You are the best

Thx for this video, I actually requested this a few videos back, and you guys did it.

Excellent break down video, i can use this is my coaching sessions

Very helpful information thank you both. I’m a beginner bowler still trying to learn and understand hooking the ball. Great stuff!❤

THank you for a great video. Very demonstrative and illustrates the value of Lessons, Training and Practice. Having a observing trained eye is invaluable. You can be as "self taught" as you want, but these tips have beenn proven time after time to be the most efficient want to release a bowling ball. Good job and again.....great video.

Great stuff, once again. Really appreciate you both.

I've been taking videos of players with high scores on my league, and an amazing number of them do NOT stay behind the ball. I look forward to the day when I can even say I have a "Rev-Rate"! But I will continue to watch videos like this and practice until I get a God's Honest hook! Thanks for the efforts!

Excellent tips and video watching you guys have definitely improved my game . Over several months coming back after about 19yrs .

Can confirm that is not why I clicked on the video

Thank you for sharing 😍 I have been wanting a video like this for some time❤❤

Hello, I am from Czech Republic and thank you very much for this nice explanation, appreciated😀

I like your teaching videos very informative and goes along with what others teach.

Your visual of keeping the elbow in so to not lose power really clicked in my head. Thanks a lot

I trained with the local league team when I was a teenager and still love playing to this day. However, when hooking the ball I found the skin on my thumb was tearing quite a lot 😢 made it quite painful to do so nowadays when I play I don’t hook the ball, definitely going to try learning again to do it properly

Very informative thank you!

This , I'm hoping, should really help me. I'm pretty good at picking up the 7 and 7-4 as a righty, but the 10 and 6 and dreaded 10 Pin, GULP!! I'm going to practice this for sure. THANK YOU !!

Enjoyed the comprehensive video, Nate & Elise ! A question- When dropping the ball into the backswing my thump tends to drop & rotate facing my body. So I’m already going to be around the ball even if everything else is perfect. As a left hander, I try to keep my thumb pointed left or my elbow pointed in but neither seems to help. Advice ? Thank you

Enjoyed this video. Thanks

Oh my God. I just found her. I would literally watch bowling every weekend all the time if she and her sisters were on the TV. Uh forget watching dudes!

THIS! is the tutorial i was looking for! my attention span sucks, this definitely helped!

Appreciate you sharing your professional knowledge on how today's elite players properly roll the ball to be successful on tour. Most people won't even try to understand that they are doing it all wrong because they bowl on a house shot that's designed to mask all flaws and allow anyone to score high.

I'm getting older and I'm getting back into bowling after years away. The last couple of sessions left me with a sore right knee and I couldn't figure out why. After watching your video, I figured out the issue. I'm not stepping over with my second step. So on my down swing, I'm having to move my right side out of the way, which is putting pressure on the joint. Thank you!

Very helpful....Thank you. Only question is how do you focus on coming down in your swing with elbow on the inside and wrist firm while letting the gravity bring the ball down with out muscling it??

New subscriber always watching your videos very helpful❤

Love this

Good tips. You guys seem pretty cool.

That’s some very good info. I would emphasize being relaxed so you can repeat shots.

So. Is redrilling. Having them change standard to finger tip going to mess ball up? I have to wonder why man didn't talk to me and mention this. I told him I wanted to be able to learn to hook ball. I was assured I would be able to. N of course it just barely curves. I guess I am going to switch to different shop and try again. Thank you for making very clear/understandable videos

Good information!

Ahhh. Now i get the load and unload terms. Also, I have a very bad habit of chicken winging my ball. I see why now. When I get more money in my piggy bank, I will have to get online lessons from you two. Thanks!

Is this in Lakeland.... I feel like I just bowled here but its now a little different. Those lanes, ball return and those yellow pillars look so familiar.

Awesome advise here. Subbed.

Sure beats watching Bo Burton do the Rolaids Tip of the week back in day.

Nate can’t actually believe that people watch for him , right , lol like you both , you guys do a great job

Thanks!

10:45 I agree with Nate here. You don't need to do a drill like that if all you want to do is build muscle memory. Additionally, those drills are for bowlers who have been competing for a bit and understand how muscle memory works to take things to THAT next level. Truth is, you can be a total spin biscuit, throw the ball horrible at a full rack, and STILL average 200+ if you are so good at spare shooting that you can reliably run only 1-2 opens a game even though you only strike about 4-5 times a game at most. I should know, before I switched to 2handed I had a really bad spin biscuit release and had a 200+ average for a decade straight. From the 2011-2012 season until the 2021-2022 season. Why? Cuz for every 100 single pins I left, I'd only whiff maybe five. Every 100 multiple pin spare I left? INCLUDING splits/washouts? I'd cover at least 60. Spares matter if you can't buy a strike. Even in today's game. The majority of league bowlers out there who average 175 and run 4-5 strikes, 3 opens a game, and whiff at least two single pin spares per three game set? These drills will set them back. Cuz they aren't technically sound yet. Throw these drills into their practice routine and they're making things WAY more complicated. If they put a spare ball in their bag, limited their arsenal to four balls at most (INCLUDING spare ball) and bowled ONE game of low ball for every three they put in league, their average would rise to 200 the very next season. Learn the basics first. Get fitted properly. Learn to hit a freakin' target. Know where you need to slide. Know how to post a shot. Get a goddam spare ball (or AT LEAST learn to throw your resin/thane/particle stuff super hard and straight). Learn to shoot straight at every spare you leave. One game of low ball for every three game set you bowl. All that "boring" stuff. Fundamentals before science.

I agree with most of the information you put out in your video, but it may be a stretch when you said that you can not hook a ball with your thumb not fully seated in the hole. I am one who has never been comfortable with my whole thumb seated, so I do cheat and have half of it in the hole, and I'm a high-rev player.

A finger tip 14 pound bowling ball ripped my right hand ring finger flexor tendon. Bye bye right handed ten pin bowling. I can try candle pin or duck pin bowling (2-3 pounds small ball, no holes) with the left hand. Plan B: two hand left handed ten pin bowling with a light ball (8-10 pounds)..

I have arthritis in my finger joints so I find it hard to have a good grip

I'm confused can you help me clear this up, the downswing ball path is suppose to go under the chin, you just said it[not just you] on other hand when it comes to balance, I listen to others and they say chin should be over slide foot. the question. how can chin be over slide foot and the ball path be under your chin? please help me with this.

As a bowler of 30 yrs, definitely helps to learn how curves make the difference.

They look real to me ❤

So how much should be holding on to the ball when you take it back? On a scale of 1-10, how much grip pressure do you need?

Hey nate and Elise

No matter how hard i try i cant force my right foot to step in front of the left one

Nice rak

Man, you kids is alright!👍

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If we only relied on gravity for the ball to come forward, we would all throw the same speed. Everyone "pulls" the ball to some degree. Even one individual bowler may adjust the speed of the roll, and I doubt all those speed adjustments are entirely made in the speed of the approach.

Elise is alright looking =)

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Look, dont over think what you are doing.as long as yoy feel comfortable in your slide and release point and adjust from there in your speed and loft you'll be fine...like anything it takes time

My proshop worker is a fool . Made the holes too far away . I can’t get my thumb in all the way and still reach the finger holes

I hope my head is never under the ball Nate😏

I bet she's flexible and can do great things with her grip

I only use the tip of my thumb and I can hook my spare ball...a full thumb is not needed

Bbbrrritzski!

$ shot @ 9:34. YW

Does anyone else practice throwing their ball into a couch or recliner at home when you can't bowl as often as you want..

I've got depressed cause i didnt know how to hook 😂😂😂😢

I tried this and I lose control in the gutter

You know why we clicked the video👀

I don’t have a problem hooking a ball controlling it is the problem

There are pros that use conventional grip and hook the ball well.

All great tips, but one tip that is missing here that should be in your video is, having the right bowling ball in your hand. I've been bowling since 1967 and I seen it all. I have to laugh when I see a bowler that I'm bowling against hit the pocket and said he got tapped. But I saw his ball hit the pocket and it didn't even came close of going off the backend in the right position to carry a strike. His release was good, but he didn't carry because he had the wrong ball in his hand to hit the pocket with power to carry all the pins. I don't understand why bowlers don't watch their ball hit the pins. Myself, I look for the hit at the back end and if I don't like the look, I change my bowling ball to get the look I want to see. One bowling center I was at when I was on vacation in a senior event, I started out shooting a 211. Most bowlers would stay with that ball, but I didn't like the look at the back end and I did get some cheap strikes. So, I moved my line in and grabbed one of my hooking bowling balls and my next two games were 279 and 268. It's all about knowing how to hit the pocket and having the right ball in you hand to carry the sides (7 or 10) One more thing you should know, the older you get, the more you have to change your game. Your revs and speed will go out the window, but there's still hope in you change the way you throw you ball. I'm now 75, but I still do very well against the young pups on the bowling lanes. I might be one of the best 75 year bowlers in my area and I still have a game to back my talk up, lol. It's all about having fun and when you can bowl great, it's a bonus. I like your videos and both of you are great bowlers. But some of us old dogs still can bark a lot and so, WATCH OUT, because this old dog can still bit, LOL. Have fun and I hope the best for you guys.

The way your ball is going to unload. Indeed🤔

I didn't hear a word see said.

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Sad that is 2024 and some people still just can't help themselves from sexually harassing someone

More camera views from the back of her. We need to see her throw with back of her angles

I didn't click for curling a bowling ball

wait ... bowing?

Lol looks like u smuggled in 2 bowling balls

I kept replaying the video at 9:35 over and over again for some reason!

Never seen orange bowl so empty

I feel bad for Nate.

Traductor ingles 😔 español

Best way to hook a ball is get your thumb out before the fingers. Period

To much talk, show it , how to throw and hook the ball

I clicked because of cakes.

2:11 I think you meant to say your Grips lay in the middle of your fingers. Not your "fingers lay in the middle of your grips"... already this video has become confusing and useless to new bowlers.

I left a "dudesplaining" bowling video to come here.

Jesus Christ 😫😈

WTF AT 4:10 YOU'LL KNOW WHEN U SEE IT

Excellent