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| Let's get one thing straight right away: there is NO one way to bowl, NO right way or wrong way. The bottom line is that people are different: a small framed lady will have a hard time if she tries to copy a big strapping eighteen year old cranker. And, on top of individual differences, lane conditions are different too: one day the cranker may clean up but tomorrow his style may be too much and spinner style could clean up. |
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The different styles exist because people are different, but they are all trying to do one thing - to have fun and knock pins down. Remember this, you can spend your life trying to do something you are not cut out to do, but what's the point?
Accept your differences (physical and mental) and make the most of your strengths. If you can knock down more pins than your opponent, the only problem is theirs, it matters not how you do it so long as you achieve your goals. I cannot write down here the "best" way to bowl, because someone will find a better way. Look at the Taiwanese "helicopter" bowlers - did they find that style written in any book? Nope. Yet their men and women have won the AMF World cup - is what they do "wrong" because it is different? Remember the "western roll", the way people used to do the high jump until Dick Fosbury came along. Be open, not closed, to new ideas.
What's common to each of these three styles is good "Timing" - they may all have different Timing, but, for their style, it works. As with most things in life nothing is so clear cut and, for any one style, there are different sub-types, e.g. a power stroker who's not quite a cranker. Mo Pinel jokingly refers to these in-betweens as "strollers" and "croakers".
