How to practice bowling without spending hours at a time on the lanes 

You are helping two 80+ yo social "bowlers" enjoy social games by learning the basics for the first time. Thank you.

I’ve been bowling 🎳 3 months and love it! I have a lot of “couches” thanks for tips! New subbie.

So true to not fall in love with my favorite house shot, especially when I bowl in the USBC tournament.

Love this one JR! Really helpful for me at the moment. I guess the reminder to warm-up with drills and working all parts of the lane really hit home. Cheers!

GREAT lesson buddy. I've done this drill because of you and it has done me good so thank You Jr for your videos. Keep posting bud.

Thank You so Much for Your Help. I do do the Practice and My Bowling has improved ALOT! The Practice Is very important.

Great vids! Love watching yours

This was a big help to me since I am picking the game up after 33 years. My firs session was revealing in that I need work on being balanced at the foul line, get6ting my arm swing loose and straight through and my shoulders square with the shot. The one-, two- and three- step shots should help with that. Same for getting the ball into a free swing.

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Jr thanks for drills been doing them bowled a 257 237 239 turned my game around doing great work keep it up thanks Tom Giusto average 185

Great video. Love all the drills.

One of my favorite practice exercises was kind of like horse in basketball, we would have 3-4 of us take turns calling shots, feet right of 15, ball inside 5...or feet left of 20, ball right of 12 but inside 7 so you could have a down and in shot or swing it. It helped us all be more versatile

Thanks JR, very informative!

Great work I will use this with my Sunday morning practice

Long story short, I quit bowling, started back, sucked, started watching videos like this, got better, threw a new high game and series but then started struggling as usual. Developed a new practice, used to be far right going outside in, I started far left and went inside out, found my sweet spot, going to try this to see how it improves my consistency along with a few other drills to improve my angles and carry. Great videos, I want lanes like these in the video in my house.

Just getting back into bowling after 3 years due to 2 surgeries to my dominant arm and a year of physical therapy. I'm also 3 years older and 3 years smarter now... But your videos are really helping me redevelop how to bowl. I used to love going out every weekend and bowling until I completely shattered my right shoulder. I'm to the point where my PT says I can bowl again, but should use a light-ish ball, so I got a fairly cheap 11.9lb ball that's fairly easy to toss around, but I'm not sure what sort of core it has, so it's kinda of just to strengthen my throwing arm for like a month before i really try to bowl. I kinda also bought a 14.5lb ball that I need to have drilled for once I get my arm strength back. I at least know what kind of core that one has and how it'll spin once I have it drilled. To be fair, using a 12lb ball, on the last date I was on a week ago I broke 200 4 out of 5 games :D So I haven't lost everything....just strength in that arm.

I have always taken ONLY three steps...left, right and then letting the ball go on my left step. My dad taught me as a child to throw the ball holding it as I was shaking hands. It gives me a fantastic curve, which works well for me. I was never able to take more than 3 steps.

Thanks, bro! Very very practical and useful for everyone!

JR, just stumbled upon these videos recently, and want to let you know that these are really instructive. I've been bowling since I was in grade school and used to watch Nelson Burton Jr.'s tips on ABC back in the day. I've learned things here I never knew, such as scraping the thumbnail in the hole on release, and the yo yo release among other things. You have a great knack for teaching, and your videos are really concise. Maybe I'm slightly biased living in the Detroit area, but keep up the great work!

Thanks for making this and every videos you’ve made

This is good stuff given it's hard getting away from work to practice like I should or I want to.

Great video JR.

JR Reed I really enjoyed your video!

I personally bowl 2x 1-hour sessions a week and found that is all I can do as I am too tired with work to do more, I am glad you said that JR your videos are very helpful.

Great info as always. And only get blasted by outro music now :)

I'm new to bowling, thanks for the tip!

Sollid advice! thank you for showing us these tips and tricks my man! ive recently moved from straightball throw to a hook. I can honestly say your tips videos have helped me tremendously! thank you my man=D

Thank you great video Andre Victoriaville Quebec Canada

Loved it!

If I have the time I don't mind spending a couple hours to practice. I love to bowl even if I do bad. Like it when I do better but it can't always be that way sometimes.

I'm a beginner bowler and I'm sometimes having difficulty getting my thumb out early. From what I understand, you want to get your thumb out b/f your fingers and sort of let your fingers then guide the ball. I sometimes have trouble getting my thumb out.

Very informative

Hey Jr what's a good way to fix my approach? I have a 4 step approach but in my second and third step I tend to baby step you could call it and in the forth step I'm over a foot or longer away from the foul line. I wanna move closer but I do not know how to fix the problem. Thanks

great stuff! question... do you buy a slot of time at the house you're in? cuz paying per game to practice would get very expensive

I practice getting used to different lane surfaces since I live close to a bowling center with wood lanes and also one with synthetic lanes

Thanks for the great video, You talked about keeping your arm out in front and not let it go backwards, how does this help my swing or approach ???

Hi Jr...I have a problem with my swing speed...how to have a constant speed on every throw?

Thank you

Great video. And now just do it!!!

JR, when getting ready to grip your ball at the approach, do you personally put your thumb in first or fingers in first?

nice video

Balance for me these days is not face-planting on the lane. For the initial drills, I'll try those daily at home bowling into a couple pillows on the tile floor. The others I'll save for the lanes. I'm certain every little bit will help. Thank you, sir.

Great vid, whats up with background walker? lol. 1st time, ok get it, someone forgot to put up a sign. Then he walks through a 2nd time, no cares givin lol. Love all your vids, had to bust your bowling ballz alil ;)

What drills (if any) can I do at home to practice? Thanks, Sam

What did you think about the Lafayette Lanes in Fayetteville, NC?

1. Throw from standing position, make sure hand is doing right thing 2. Do with 1 step, step forward when ball at the top, keep balance 3. 3 steps, Left step first as ball comes back, swing hand and balance 4. 4 step, right step as ball swings forward 5. 5 Step 6. 5-6 each 7.resume at 8:20

Im not sure if youll see this but so i have a ball that doesnt really fit my thumb but fits my other two fingers.. Is there an easy way to curve the ball when my thumb hole is a little big for my thumb? Im not planning to drill and plug my ball yet but i hope theres a way to curve my ball before i redrill it because im always practicing thank you:)

What ball is being thrown in this vid

I wish I could find a bowling training center like this in Central Florida.

what ball were you using? i bowl in a wheelchair and the first few throws you did with no steps looks like how my ball reacts. i normally have to use entry-level balls.

How do I get good at tournament bowling

It’s really Good stuff but all these drills that you mentioned comes out to be about 4 games worth just doing drills which may become up to over an hour maybe two. so how much time is someone spending going through just the drills and then the practice?!

Just realized why I bowl average of 90. Haven’t been blowing into the finger holes on the pitted worn out bowling balls.

How do you the ball going right to left?

Could you tell me while swinging the ball back-and-forth is there any grip pressure to be sure it doesn’t fall off your head. I can’t see the ball staying on your end if you don’t squeeze at all 🤷‍♂️

Do you have any advice for two handed bowlers like Belmo

While the ball is just swinging are you gripping it at all. Or is it just hanging off your thumb ?

I have three years due to several operations but when I got back I was dumping 70% of my boss truck and into the gutter. I found out that I have to look 15 boards to the left hit my mark. This is crazy!

"For us normal..." Haha!

Good video JR, but could you do a video about fixing a ball rolling over the thumb hole problem (I personally have this Problem)

Will these drills work for a bowler that doesn't throw a hook shot??? I just throw a straight ball and aim for the pocket...

I love this. Will try but, with 2 handed bowlers how does this work?

I throw what's called a backup ball.lm a right handed person I broke my wrist and hand it was the same hand . How can I correct this and throw the ball normal with the right hand thanks 😁

Unrealistic for regular league bowlers, when each game (at Bowlero) costs nearly $7 and your drills involve repetitions “five or seven or ten times” for each of four or five drills. That’s the equivalent of three or four games of bowling, or $25-$30, just for drills. Not many guys I know are gonna spend that much $$ (several times a week?) to practice.

You should make a video explaining the dots and arrows on the lane

Im lookin to b coached i have done league for 6 yrs

Coach

My worst problem is I can't get my bowl to rotate. I tried everything. Ideas?

I am hoping that the Bowling centers open soon not Bowling is killing me . Need my Edge Back and get hungry again.

Ok so what's with blowing in the holes before each time?

Id love to have a house big enough to install a bowling alley!

Please do a video on ten pins. I just can’t get them. I make every other spare

Well done. The house that I go to let us have 9 game free if you're in a bowling league. .lot of good fun. .am happy with my 172 average. Just those .7 pins got me by the . curse of the left-handed bowler. Thank you for .making this video

But spend all day watching this video.

Why are you blowing on the ball?

2:07 Brooklyn denied!!!! ROFL!!!!!! Thanks JR, but I can do that shot even when I'm trying, over and over and over. And I don't need to practice standing at the foul line to make it happen. I'm sorry to seem disrespectful, I mean it's great that you took the time to show us this, but, I need to learn drills and routines that get me strikes all the time. So far no one has been able to show me how to do that. And, I don't see anyone in the PBA on tour showing how to do it either. I am determined to make it a reality. Destined to be the only one to be throwing back to back 300's on tour and earning millions doin' it! :) I mean why practice missing?

I'd probably fall on my face trying to start with my right foot forward.

Must be nice to have a private lane lol. I'm not gonna pay 20$ to warm up even though I'mma decent bowler

4 steps are normal.

This place doesn't look like it would be a profitable bowling alley!

What about drills for two handers? I never see drills for two handed players.

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0:23 regarding hours spent repeating shot after shot... ROFL!!!!! Who really does that? I work out on the lanes every day and shoot at least 6 games (mostly 10 or 14). If only I could repeat the shot that gets the explosive strikes over and over and over for three hours, I would be grinning when I leave the lanes rather than cursing bowling and the guy who invented it and the people next to me who were throwing the solid explosive strikes I was trying to throw :) I'm hitting the lanes in about 2 hours from now. I know I can bowl in the 200's when the conditions are right. However, … IT'S A HAMBONE!!!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!! ...I'm hoping to see something in your videos that can get me at least a solid 200 for June league play. Also, I wonder if you wouldn't mind answering some questions I have regarding life in the PBA?

i can imagine spending $5 to throw balls like this for a game when i can just be warmed up in 2 to 3 balls