Picking Up The 10 Pin | 3 Tips To Make This EASY!

Trouble with the 10 pin? Look no further. Here are 3 tips to pick up the 10 pin more consistently.

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[willieyoung]

Best advice I ever received was to stop using my purple hammer, and to use a plastic ball instead. I am too rev dominant, and I struggle with my consistency on my ten pins. I was probably around 60% when I used my purple hammer, compared to now where I’m around 90%. The small adjustment help me get my average from 142 to around 170. Two or three spares a game makes a huge difference. I 100% agree with Nick, go out and invest in a plastic ball

[alandesgrange]

I really don't have problems with the 10 a lefty). Now that freakin' 7 pin, is a different story!!!!

[brockself]

Best tip I ever got... get it with the 1st shot!

[mreid]

4th tip, , , , practice, practice, practice 👍👍 something I'm lacking in due to work and life...

[matthewsobkowski]

Something I learned a while back was to close my index and pinky fingers up against the middle and ring fingers to throw straighter at spares. It can take enough of the rotation away at your release to make a difference when shooting at a 10 pin. You often hear people suggest spreading out your index finger as far as you can to help get more rotation if you're struggling with leaving corner pins and this would be the opposite of that. I have a plastic ball but there have been many times when it seems like the only ball I'm getting a clean release out of is the ball I'm already using and this tip has saved many a game for me.

[goobytron]

I made it my favorite spare. My average went from 180’s to low 200’s.

[boober]

Good advice!! Merry Christmas!!! Look forward to more vids.

[lonestarpatriot]

I am an advanced bowler and still use a spare ball. I always have. There are many reasons to do so, such as less wear and tear on your primary balls and less oil accumulation to soak into your primary balls during play. Using a spare ball is great advice.

[terrywenban]

Good tip. I've never used a spare ball and simply made a release change for ten pins.

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[TraumaER]

My biggest tip was standing left and aiming at 20 board at dots before arrows and walking toward target. My percent is 90%+. Before that I tried walking straight up left gutter and had so many issues with consistency.

[savecountry]

For the most part, I've always used my strike ball to pick up my spares. As a right-hander, to pick up the 10-pin, I have my usual spot to stand on the left side of the approach and will throw the ball over 16, sort of using the 3rd arrow as my guide. I will throw the ball straight and hard, with a relatively firm plant at the foul line. It has been what works most consistently for me and I don't have to fumble with messing with a different feel of the thumb hole or change the switch-grip.

[Jarhead]

I’m no pro, only carry about a 193 average but I will say I just picked up 7 for 7 last day after a season of about 50%. I say the 2 things that helped and hopefully wasn’t a fluke was the plastic ball and I angle my feet at the 10 pin. Not sure if pros would agree about feet angled at 10 pin but man was I excited 😂

That is along with keeping wrist flat like he said and moving over to around board 30ish like he said. Think only thing I added was the feet angled to the 10

[captain-chunk]

Currently working on flattening my wrist and rolling as straight as possible to pick up 10 pins, and will use every ball in my arsenal when practising this. I have a mild reactive that I use in tournaments, but using the more aggressive balls is forcing the technique to get better!

[BBBYpsi]

I always have been pretty good at my corner pins. I just started bowling again for first time in about 20 years. My ball was bought in 1997. After 8 weeks I did just fine with picking those corner pins up. But strike ball was not very strong. Invested in a Archetype hybrid just a couple days ago. Have practiced with it & it is near impossible for me to pick up that 10 pin now. Completely different finger drilling & have to get used to the hook in my mid 60's & went with a 14 lb ball. Last ball was 16 lbs. Was hoping to pick up just a little bit of speed but from the speed dectector looks like I am throwing it slower.

[nevinkinzel]

I used to have a dedicated "spare ball" that was just a different reactive ball I pretty much only used for spares. I just got my first spare ball hoping to improve my 7-pin pickups (lefty). Got it with switch grip- including insert- so I don't have to switch back and forth but have a spare thumb if ever I need it.

[brigham]

I stand at 35 and throw/loft the ball out to the third arrow (board 15). But I must make sure that my right arm is in front of my right leg when I do it. If it is off to the side of my body, the shot will likely miss to the right and go in the gutter. Some days I can hit the 10-pin no problem using my system and I throw with confidence. Other days, that pin looks so far away and I doubt myself too much and sure enough will miss it. Sometimes I throw it too far to the left of the 10-pin because I didn't line up at the correct angle to hit it (you would think I'd at least clip the left corner of the pin but that rarely happens, instead I miss it by what looks like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction). Had the 6-pin been standing, it would have been a great shot.

[ComradeJehannum]

3, 6, 9 is how I was taught to get those pins out with using the same "target". Although for the 10 pin, I am generally moving My feet the 9 boards left, and moving My target from 2nd arrow to somewhere between 3-4 arrow and hooking at it.

[batl_born]

Not everyone uses a lateral move in their approach. While you did line up on 30, you slid on 35. It might have been helpful to some if you would’ve mentioned that. That 5 boards is enough to have people missing left. You did get the main idea across though. Great video as always.

[joehoenig]

Nick--in these comments, you mentioned opening your shoulders toward your cross-lane target. What do you see as the pros and cons of doing that, versus facing the corner pin directly, from a far cross-lane position, so that the bowler is forced to keep everything square and in line with the 10 or 7 pin?