Trying out the WHIRLWIND Bowling Swing (INSANE SCORES) 

I'm honestly not surprised that you've finally found a form that works with you. You've been searching for the past year to find something to elevate your game and I think this arm motion works perfectly. The last half of your swing is correcting to make it perfect. it keeps your backswing low and more controlled all around.

Bro instantly turned into EJ Tackett

i think this is the smoothest i’ve ever seen your hand at the bottom. Some shots not so much but your getting used to it, just an incredible form and i think it fits you perfectly. with just a little more practice with it and i think your going to be really happy with it.

This is actually a better swing for you instead of your normal swing. Your form looks a lot better here.

Ron Williams was my PSO for a lot of years. Great guy. He sold his shop to Del & Carolyn Ballard 5 or 6 years ago.

290 with that arm swing, that’s INSANE

It's a version of a figure 8 swing. Wes Malott is the "best" I know of using that type of swing. Wes does it to help clear his hip on the backswing. I've done it for years and yes it helps me "get up the backend of the ball better". I just have to remember to keep my foot speed on the approach...slow. Good luck and looking forward to the next video.

Kudos dude honestly. Been watching your vids for a while and felt your struggle looking for a consistent swing. It's fantastic being able to see you find something that seems to be working wonders. It's hella motivating to make me work on my own. Only up from here, let's go 💪💪

Great video and it looked really comfortable for you. Reminds me of Jim Furyk in golf. He has had a really successful career. 1993 the balls didn’t help your slight misses like they do now so I can see this being great for you. I took a ball and was trying it myself at home and I can definitely see how, once practiced, it feels really natural on the downswing. Nice job!

it's actually helping you keep your backswing under control, that's why it seems so good to you

3:56 this is my favorite aspect of bowling. So many unorthodox styles have been used over the years, but it doesn’t matter. If you are able to get consistent with it, then use it. It’s perfectly fine, and it’s really inspiring to see all the different styles people choose in bowling. There isn’t a single best one. Just choose which style fits you the most.

Yay it’s keeping your backswing low!!! Adopt this style!!! Do it!

haha .. that was AWESOME Michael !! . I like your form with that swing. Your first game was unreal! .. fantastic bowling. I like that you explore different things like this. I believe it is a good way to improve your overall bowling. You really understand how balls and lanes react and all of the other little things that go with that. Great stuff Michael !!

I think this might be you. It is like a controlled figure eight swing. Your release and ball roll looks phenomenal. Also your body alignment looks solid. The pin action also looked damn good. You should really give this a try.

I may have to try this! It looks ridiculous on the backswing but then the control on the downswing is perfect. I'd say keep the swing especially if it feels comfortable to you man 😄

Great job! I remember watching Ron Williams bowl when I was in college so thanks 220 avg for making me feel old too! Can we see you try to do Amleto Monacelli’s swing next?

I've only had 30 clean frames like 5 times in my life. My greatest bowling moment is hands down when I threw a No Tap 900. Still chasing my 1st 300. Thanks for the video I might have to try that swing out myself.

This new form I love watching it. Very fun to watch!

That form really works for you! Keep up the great work!

Agreed that you look so much smoother and are in a really good position at release.

Nice,best bowling channel out there. Very entertaining.

Awesome set! Starting my 3rd year of bowling, and I've yet to manage ONE clean game! Fun to watch :)

Agree with all the comments on the form and especially the backswing height is beautiful. looked soooooo smooth

Honestly when you're first trying to fix your swing it actually reminds me of your old swing a little bit cuz you used to swing your arm out a little ways and then come back in to get the rotation you need. It looks similar and I do think it works really well for you

Looks good, seems like something to stick with based on ball roll/motion.

220 avg bowler is back! 🎉 form looks great!

Gotta agree with a lot of people here. This in some weird way is getting your down swing into the right arm slot or position so that you hand gets into a better spot at the bottom and through the release. Very cool. Thank you for taking us with you in your journey. It helps us to see that we can all make changes to our bowling and shouldn’t be afraid to try different things. 🙌

I can't wait to see what video you make next about this.

290?!!!? Dawg! You need to switch

Thanks for making me feel super old 220. There are those of us who remember Ron Williams. Lol.

Nice to see you doing well! 👍

For some reason it seems to help your timing, ball position during the downswing, and a more consistent release. It is insane. I would be interested to see how it would do on a sport pattern.

Looked really good for you practice makes perfect good luck my friend

Great video. The music made the video more enjoyable than it would normally be.

I might have to try this too. Going to practice tonight

your release and finish seems consistent with this form. I'd say keep at it. dont matter what u look like, only what the results are!

Hey I have a thought on your form here. So your normal swing is very high, I think it impacts your ability to smoothly release the ball. Here, because of the whirlwind you were not able to bring it so high. And it actually let you get under the ball and come through it more. So maybe try an episode where you dont swing your ball as high? It might help your game and could be a fun experiment regardless.

Your the second person I've seen be able to throw a good hook with your hand on the back outside of the ball. All the pros can get their hand way on the inside and I try that but my tricep and lat collide which doesn't allow my arm to get on the inside of the ball and makes my hand always end up on the back outside of the ball. I've been bowling stroker, or the suitcase throw for 25 years and 170s average and I've been experimenting with throws lately to improve my game and you have some great new insights

For some odd reason, the second half of your swing is finally perfect. What can’t be explained is why. 😂

How cool… bet you will perfect that swing. Nothing about a swing is awkward if you are comfortable and it works.. Bravo!.

It’s a great practice tool since it’s exaggerating your back swing to help keep your elbow tucked on the way down. If you stick with your normal form I suggest getting your push away started to the left so you can keep the same concept like the figure 8 swing.

REALLY looks like it's keeping you back swing under control (forced to keep it short) but more importantly, it looks like it helping you sync up your timing. But I'm biased bc my back swing also only goes up that high.

Shots 11 and 12 you can see muscle memory coming back in. I like it though, at first it was really helping your timing/hitch at the top of backswing.

Many years ago, Ron was giving me a bowling lesson. I asked him, "truthfully, what would you change about my game". Ron answered "truthfully?" Then he gives the flushing the toilet motion😶

that form is straight gas 😤

It seems like it makes the backswing longer (time wise) which helps sync things up better through the swing and release. Perhaps delaying your normal backswing by a half step or so could achieve the same results.

I think some portion of the swing is adding so much motion in the beginning reduces the amount of backswing. I always figured 80% of bowling was figuring out what swing is natural for your body's composition. Which is why there isn't a one-size-fits-all style. Or at least that's what I've told my students in the past. I usually said I can show you the fundamentals but it's on you to develop or find what will elevate your game.

Slightly similar to Amleto Monacelli. This style keeps your finish much more square to the foul line. Your left foot is not finishing sideways to the foul line.

I know you probably wont see this, but I noticed that you move the ball a ton when you're all the way back on your back swing. sometimes you wiggle it, sometimes it still, but it always impacts how you get around the ball at the bottom of your swing. i don't know if you're gripping the ball too hard during your backswing, but either way you should keep an eye on it

You’re not thinking of your sky high swing so it feels and looks so much better. Good job love your content❤

Your touch and hand position at the bottom of the swing looks buttery smooth with this swing.

that was amazing and also still using the swing on the spares

The King of the Hill!!!

Hi Mike, is there any reason you are not using your left hand to help hold the ball in your set up? I feel like that automatically weakens your overall potential energy and forces you to grab the ball considerably more throughout the approach.

That’s crazy 290 that might be the highest most consistent game I’ve saw on this channel

Hey Mike! Although that arm swing is unorthodoxed, On the downswing, your arm and hand is in the slot like it supposed to be looking From the back

It's basically a cut down muscled 8 figure swing. I am a bit cautious...if something so old hasn't spread in 30 years...maybe it's not that good. Ron Williams also did it with a big bend of the elbow, you are doing it with no bend.

Hey Mike, Hey brother just wanted to let you know. I think its super cool you're messing with all these weird styles and I enjoy everything you're putting out. But just wanted to mention to you to please be careful with your elbow and arm health. I was messing around with Earl Anthony/Don Carter's excessive elbow bend after listening to Prather talking about incorporating more elbow bend for more revs. And I've now been suffering from bowler's elbow from hell for the last two-three months that just never goes away. You're a super in shape, yoked guy, so I'm sure your arm is probably strong enough to handle anything you throw at it. But just wanted to mention to this to you, so you don't go overboard too fast and risk injury. Love your videos, man and follow everything you do. 😇😎

If Tim Cagle taught me anything, there's no correct way to bowl. If it works for you, that's how you're meant to do it! 🤷🏼‍♂️

My boy Aaron in the building 😁 I miss delta bowl a lot of good ppl there

Who thinks this should be 220’s new style ⬇️

Cool video talk tech bowling open bowling Michael

way more control. i love this .

your "normal" form had a really high and muscled backswing, doing this motion forced your swing to get lower and your release looked smoother. keep it up man

I think it was working for you just for how much more relaxed your swing looked. You weren't muscling it as much or getting as crazy high in the backswing.

when u thought u were going to make a funny video of a interesting bowling style you saw but end up liking it and now most likely officially taking it for your own. Keep honing it and you'll become 240 average bowler

Want to try another unusual swing. Do the Johnny King swing from behind the back. It’s easy to find Johnny King on Championship Bowling shows on RU-vid. Johnny sort of tucks the ball behind his back, and then sweeps it around.

I bowled against him in a tourney. I thought wow what an odd form. But he nailed the pocket most of the time. I know youre trying to mimic him but honestly its not very close. His style is 1 of a kind.

Keep it! Keep it!

Hey man what are your thoughts on a ten (10) rhino ball for beginners that curve? It does have some curve to it as well if i got it. I currently haveva 12 rhino with alittle curve or whatever its called but i actually think i cant through it ? So im thinking on getting maybe a pound or 2 lower

Looks a little like what I started doing a couple weeks ago. Keeping my wrist cupped thru the entire swing makes me do things naturally that I've been trying to do for years. I nearly bowled 3 200 games in a row, I've never done that before.

How does the arm feel after..

Can't argue with success!

Kinda got caught up in that wild type of swing, I kinda like it, but I meant to mention that it seems like you might be bowling a bit better with that style and if you refine and polish it up a bit, I think you could be in the 800 series club

oh my god its like you learned to bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats :)

Never forget watching Ron Williams the first time, what a style

I think you've finally fixed your back swing issue with this style, stick with it! Don't change after these results. It is obviously your style!

I legitimately celebrated the SLOW strike on your first shot!

You look much smoother and more comfortable with this style. Plus your confidence is better. You need to bowl against Forrest with this style. I would say don’t tell him but he’s already seen the video. 😅

The difference is that with his swing you are keeoing your elbow tucked in instead of outside your body. Looks great! 🎉

You gotta keep that index finger pointing to the floor before releasing if you look your pointing yours towards the gutter if you get you index pointing to the ground it keeps your hand behind the ball much better !

Looks good on you.

Your whirlwind channel can be called 238 Average Bowler

Have you ever watched Brandon Novak? He bowls alot around here in Cincinnati and bowled in the World Series of Bowling on tv. He does the same concept I'd go watch him

That gutter shot, look where your slide foot is pointing, then rewind and look at the first couple shots, slide foot was great.

Hi 220! It is Jan 29. Check out Brad Miller’s vid from the practice round in Indy? There was a fellow there with a whirlwind swing. Wondered if you had seen that vid. I couldn’t read the name on the jersey Good luck with the change. I enjoy your content. Particularly the collabs with Kritser.

That’s a pretty studly score, was it on a sport shot bc that would be even more badass? Also the ball motion looks really really nice

If your doing different styles. You should try that spinner style or helicopter spin that I see being done overseas

Man you got robbed on that first frame =(. Keep up the awesome content love this!!!

Wow! This is working for you.

One thong I noticed is that your backswing is mush lower than before. That’s perhaps one thing that makes it better than before 🎉

I watched this video and been using this for me and im hitting 220s with back up balls

That's fits you perfectly my guy stick to that and you'll do very well

I knew this was coming

You been trying to get the top of your backswing to be somewhere inside the bowling alley instead of at the north pole. This gets it to where it is supposed to be, somewhere in line with your right shoulder. So it should work.

Only problem I see with it is, I've only ever seen Bob Learn Jr. get away with muscling the ball up in the swing consistently. If you can develop a push-away or even just dropping it into that figure 8 swing...that should help make more consistency instead of "pulling" it up. Good luck!

I assume you've seen videos of the top one-handed bowler in the world right now, EJ Tackett? He is the most efficient one-hander I've ever seen and uses a figure 8 swing, out to in.

Do you think it works for you because it reduced the height of your backswing drastically allowing for a more repeatable release? The only time you seemed to miss was because your shoulders weren't squared up or your right shoulder dipped on release @2:23. Later you can see @6:19 you went back to your normal higher backswing. Good luck, hope you shoot 800 in league this week!!

Good editing. Love the fart noises, they are *Chef Kiss*

This works for you because it keep theball close to your ankle at the point of release, which give good leverage and accurate.. I really think this works for you..