7 Most Common Mistakes Bowlers Make

Learn the 7 Most Common Mistakes Bowlers Make.

This video features former Team USA bowler and Collegiate National Champion, Matthew Farber. In this video, Matt breaks down the 7 most common mistakes most bowlers make while bowling leagues and tournaments.

[paulscheidel]

Homeboy wearing his bowling shoes in the parking lot is wild

[asully]

Biggest mistake is not knocking down all the pins on the first shot😂

[Mikey-]

One thing that drives me crazy, especially in the winter, is when people come in from the parking lot, grab their stuff from their bag and walk right onto the approach to place them in the ball return. I've seen this even with more experienced bowlers. More often than not, they end up tracking something from the outside onto the approach from their street shoes. I ALWAYS take my street shoes off before even stepping near the tables behind the approaches. Just complete lack of awareness.

[JinnTuXoXaan]

Lets add an 8th one here. "Chewing gum while making a bowling YouTube video."

[lumberlikwidator]

I see a lot of bowlers only using a shoe cover on their sliding foot and walking all around the center. Don’t do that. Use both, because you can pick up stuff on your other shoe and then track it up onto the approach. And for heaven’s sake, if you leave the building for any reason, change into your street shoes, then change back into your bowling shoes when you get back inside.

[Jordan_Lee]

I bowled in a youth league growing up, and learned most of what was in this video from personal experience. I'm disabled, so I'm unable to slide during my appoach, but everything else I have applied to my own game. My highest ever score was a 243, where I bowled 9 strikes in one game, but 11 in a row. I also bowled a 210.

[adamlee]

I just changed my tape tonight. I would add one more thing to the shoe cover tip. Make sure you take the cover off when you back to the lanes otherwise you will fall on approach.

[aleckpons]

I heard the Pete Weber doesn’t wipe his ball. With reactives as they take oil from the from part of the lane as they are bowled down. By not wiping his ball does that allow him to stay in that area longer as his reaction will diminish as the the oil is taken away. No so much with urethane though.

[michaelmakovsky]

1) Most importantly to me is stretching the body even before I take my bowling balls out of the car! Stiff as a brick leads to a injury.

[philipdefranco]

As someone returning to the game after many years I had to learn about grips. Way back in the day nobody thought about grips wearing out but just recently a PSO educated ne about that. She changed my grips out and I immediately got 2 boards more hook. Amazing!

[lydiacodding]

As a beginner bowler, I must plead “ignorance” on all counts, but now I know. Thank you!

[kolemilner]

Most common mistake I see at my local alley is retired men thinking about their divorce when they’re up there ball in hand. You can’t bowl your best when you’re thinking about divorce.

[septembertwenty-nine]

Number 8... buy and use a ball spinner. A ball spinner makes it possible for you to change surfaces as needed without running to a proshop continuously. Also, use the ball spinner to thoroughly clean your bowling balls following every league or practice session. Ball spinners cost about as much as a new bowling ball, but in the long run, it pays for itself and you can add surface or polish your bowling balls without paying a proshop. I am so glad I bought a ball spinner 18 years ago and it still works like new.

[Juan-llsf]

Another mistake: dragging the bowling balls rolling cart with the same bowling hand. This can cause tiredness and one side spine deviation injuries. This works for two handed throwers too. Remember, if you throw with your right, drag with your left, and if you throw with your left, drag with your right. Avoid bowlers scoliosis..😊 Thanks.

[gottadrivem]

I do not wipe the ball between shots. I used to but, I think it just burns up the shot faster. I'm a higher rev bowler and unless there's a lot of volume and/or I'm moving pairs, I'm not wiping the ball. Also changing the tape weekly is overkill, someone must be trying to sell more tape.

[KrishnapriyaShree]

Too much informative.. received lots of important tips..

[WalkingRoscoe]

Needed to hear this. Then, never forgetting these foundations. I'm getting back into bowling, after 30 years.

This Iraq war veteran, living in Germany, thanks you, sir.

[DtKnize]

Be ready to bowl, greet your teammate coming off the lane and stop looking 3-4 lanes left to right to throw your shot. Stop putting easy slide under the ball return and rubbing your slide sole in it. Don't eat pop corn in the settee area. Don't have 2-3 balls on the ball return.

[therandomtagger]

coming from an alley mechanic, cleaning your ball also prevents or at least reduces the amount of ball return calls you have to make. there's obviously going to be some machines you deal with that are just stubborn and find a sense of attachment to your ball feeling like it only keeps yours in particular, but I would say 85-90% of the time just simply cleaning the bowling ball every few frames with a clean rag helps. additionally, if by chance one doesn't have any "official" ball cleaner, alcohol and/or aerosol foaming glass cleaners work as great substitutes

[leonardwong]

Regarding the 5th mistake, freshening up the surface with an Abralon Pad, what grade is highly recommended grades to be used more often?