The Most Common Mistake in Bowling

Improve your bowling and prevent some of the most common issues we see in the physical game with this simple video.

This video features former Team USA bowler and Collegiate National Champion, Matthew Farber. In this video, Matt breaks down the most common mistake we see in the physical games of both beginner and experienced bowlers; improper alignment.

How do you align yourself for your shots on the lanes.

[persistentintensity]

I have watched hundreds of bowling videos, including any targeting videos I could find. I've been bowling for 60 years, and I think this is the most practical starting video for targeting to the breakpoint that I've seen. Great job!

[Jason_P]

This is excellent content! Should be required viewing for every bowler.

[daroncowart]

This is an awesome video. I LOVED how you guys broke down the concept of alignment. We'll done!!!

[turtled]

I really needed to hear this. I've been throwing straight up 10 for 90% of my time as a bowler. After finally figuring out how to increase my revs from ~180 to now ~350 rpm, I have been struggling bad with targeting and alignment. Excellent advice, I'll be taking it with me to my next practice session.

[vegasplayer]

Great video! This is a very big problem for me. Thank you for the content and tips! I’ll have to practice this before my next league night.

[jamesbr]

I do everything you said wrong about bad alignments and have every issue you said that comes with it! I needed this video!!!

[peterpan]

Useful video, I wasted tons of practices sessions making exactly that mistake, cheers mate

[JoeBrrFan]

I actually could never hit the ten pin. Gutter ball gutter ball gutter ball, miss left miss left miss left. Then I changed my alignment. I went from 50 percent to almost 90 percent according to lanetalk. What a great vid.

[generosociccone]

Thanks from Italy, this is precisely the video I needed. I am a random bowler, precision is my great flaw.

[DaBeardedBowler]

Oh my God, thank you so much for this information. Lately, I've been having some trouble finding the pocket this video will help me so much thank you I appreciate it. 🙏

[valarieaskew]

Loved this video and its content. Keep up the good work 👏

[HonkaiRayz]

This is an amazing video! It helps me to verify my target system which I find through trial and error. Thank you.

[ps]

Very clear and well explained. But can I do it without getting completely confused on the lane?

[daughddyclassics]

Out of all my years of being a self taught YouTube bowler, this is the first time I’ve seen alignment explained and displayed. Kudos

[clowny]

I've found that when my ball rolls around board 7 to 9 at the 40 foot distance I can consistently get to the pocket. When using a relatively weak ball like a Hustle or similar, I find good success by standing about on board 24 with my feet and target board 8 at the 40 foot point. With stronger reactive balls, I'll move to the left with my feet out to board 26 to 29 and find success continuing to target board 8 to 40 feet. Not much calculation, just judgement calls based upon the ball I'm using. If the ball starts to dig in too much, I can decide to either move farther left with my feet or perhaps change my speed a little bit. Thanks for your great video...

[paulp]

I’m going to try both where from the example given the 20-10 = 10 and then you add it back to the 20 board arrow location to get a laydown point at the 30 board and also 20-10 = 10 and take half of the difference which is five and add that to 20 to get a 25 board laydown point to see which works. When I’m rolling correctly and am within my body frame (not chicken winging it or falling off the shot) I am really close to my ankle and it looks like I’m about five or four boards away from where the edge of my slide foot is, so it will be an interesting practice for me to see what works.

[Maraxus]

How do you decide which arrow you should be targeting?

[flyingskydonkey]

This is what i always looking for, thank you

[hoannguyen]

Thank you so much... this is what my problem is.. You solved it.. Because I grew up old school I keep walking to my target and not able to play in n out...only straight up...Thank you Thank you Thank you...I have one question to play the inside shot alligment do you have to have ball rev.. to do this... I am a ball speed dominate????and thank you again

[JorgeFernándezdelCastilloGómez]

Your math is not correct, it considers that your breakpoint is 15 feet from the arrows, that is 30 feet. Lane is 60 feet from foul line to the 1 pin, if we consider the breakpoint to be at 45' then the distance from the arrows to the breakpoint is 30' and the distance from the foul line to the arrows is 15' that is half of 45'. So if you want your breakpoint to be at the 10th board and the ball is at the 20th board at the arrows, that means that the laydown point is going to be half the difference, that is 20 plus 5 (half of 10) so it is 25 not 30 as you state, plus 5 you have to slide at 30 not 35. What am I missing is there some kind of compensation of 5 boards because of the ball reaction or how you came to the conclusion that the break point is at the same distance from the arrows as the arrows are from the foul line?