Community,

I just stumbled across a few high FPS release videos on youtube that I thought I would share. I just wish that they were a bit longer in the beginning and looped. Beggers can't be choosers.

Low Rotation Release:


Medium Rotation Release:


High Rotation Release:


Enjoy!

Let1hang, those are great. I keep saying you DON'T turn your wrist, but your fingers roll up the side of the ball. All you people who say turn your wrist, please watch these.

maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me but it looks like his thumb is starting at about the 2 o'clock position and his wrist rotates counter clockwise til his thumb is at 12 o'clock then his thumb exits the ball and his fingers came straight up the back of the ball. Like I said maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me. But that is what I seen.

Your wrist moves, but it's not the "turning" that most people try to do.

Put your hand out in front of you, hand open and your palm facing up. Now keep your palm facing up and point your fingers to the left (to the right if you're using your left hand). The wrist movement is really from this position back to where you were.

Thanks for sharing. Those are great. I really could have used those a few weeks back when I was first getting started. It really helps to see proper releases in slow motion.

I recorded a bunch of pba events on my dvr and watched a lot of the slow-motion replays in slow-mo on my dvr to slow it down even more, and it helped me understand things a lot better when I was starting to try to learn the hook.

Man I finally saw the light today from a fellow bowlingcommunity poster in person! I can't thank you enough out there sir, you're great!

Let1Hang,
Thanks for sharing. What I noticed is how far he got the ball out on the lane after release.The broken wrist also as weight goes on to the fingers. I no longer use a wrist brace and feel like I am getting better ball roll.
Dianne

Wrist braces will give you support, but they prohibit you from doing these types of things. If you can bowl without one, I personally think you're better off.

I accidentally stumbled across these videos posted on here. Thanks for distributing them. I am the producer of the videos. I have other high speed videos that compare different releases I have collected during coaching sessions. Although most of them aren't very strong releases, its what you see out of the majority of bowlers. I have posted the speed, rpms, etc... of each release to make it more interesting. Enjoy...

http://www.bowlspot.com/bowlspot.php?page=releaseVideos

What equipment do you use to get this video?

bryhardt,

I'm glad that you put these videos online as I had been looking for some quality release videos for some time. They helped to clarify what I need to do to improve my release!

I was wondering if it's possible for you to edit some of the videos that you have up on the site from the link you provided. Some of them look like you started them right at the release point. Some examples of videos that could be improved are your 13.46 162 8.22 high high, 15.73 257 11.1 high medium, and 16.7 121 4.8 high medium videos. I and I'm sure others would like to see a bit more of their swing leading up to their release point; for example the 16.68 143 5.84 low low and 14.40 295 14 high low are great videos. Would it be possible to fix the other videos to show a bit more of the swing? Or perhaps you could use my input for future videos.

Craig

cgeorg...

The videos are captured with the new casio EX-F1.

Let1Hang...

I agree. For some reason my flash video converter likes to chop off the beginning of the videos. I didn't realize this early on when I was batch creating videos. I need to go back and fix some of the ones that are really chopped off. For all the videos I have the approach and ball hitting the pins. But most of the video is dark because the high speed requires natural or a lot of indoor light. So I have to focus a quartz light at the release area.

Nice looking specs. For the ball speed/rev rate, did you calculate based on time to get to the pins/time for the tape to rotate, or do you have some other analysis program for that?

Awesome! I can't wait for your future videos.

The speed calculation is based on the time and frames. The rpms etc.. are based on tape movement.

I am trying to compile a list of side shot videos to show aspects of late, early, timing etc... If anybody feels like they want to donate to the cause let me know. Even if they are youtube links I can grab them from there.

Thanks...

Nice job on the videos.

I'd love to see all of the different releases going fully down the lane, all with the same ball on the same oil. Just to compare the different reactions the ball gets from them.

Steve