Three Ways on How To Hook a Bowling Ball! More Strikes, More Pin Action, More Revs, More Power!

Looking for ways to get your bowling strike percentage through the roof? Today, we show you 3 ways to add more hook and strikes to your game! #bowlingcoach #bowling

I'm USBC Silver certified coach Arthur O'Connor, and I'm here to promote the sport I love -- bowling.
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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Jonathan Wants More Hook
02:05 Increase Rev Rate

[dalewiederholt]

Just what we need on slow lanes, more hook!

[rickdavis]

Love watching your videos. I bowl in league and also regional tournaments and I have tried some of your techniques and they have helped correct bad habits I form from time to time. I look forward to continue watching your new and old videos.

[charlesdoyle]

Thanks, Coach Art. Very timely. I've been working on that hand position for about two weeks now. It does help when I get it right. Would love to see more about it, like how it looks from behind before you release it. I'm trying out pointing my index finger down to the floor before release.

[TraumaER]

Even though I can hook the lane now, if I could do it over again, I would have stuck with a lighter ball when I was younger and mastered releasing that. Then every year increase by 1lbs until I got to 15 lbs.

[nicotine]

huge thing on top of all this is maybe slowing the ball down. Giving it more time to get into its roll phase can usually help create more angle as well

[SirJoelsuf]

I had less rotation than the kid in the video at one point. Then started doing Drop Your Damn Shoulder. Rotation went up from like 220 or so RPM to about 350 or so. DYDS changes EVERYTHING.

Weirdly enough, lofting also helped. Guess my timing was too early or something.

[Fejix]

Only other thing I would add that can massively affect hook potential is ball speed. Slowing down definitely gives the ball more time to read the lane and roll in the backend vs speeding up to limit the backend potential.

[theavengers.]

Covid need to be gone for me to hook bowling

[timothyyee]

I’m not sure if this is good or not but I tilt my wrist where my palm is facing out and turn it where your palm is facing the other way

[joshuawhite]

Last week I left so many ten pins during leave and experimented during practice with my hand position. I am striking a lot more by having my middle and ring fingers at the 9/8 o’clock positions. It’s a little more exaggeration than what you mentioned, but it really has worked for me.

[JoeBrrFan]

I started cupping my wrist more, and my hook increased tenfold.

[JoshyTB]

Does the same thing apply for 2 handed bowlers?

[CasualGamerPlays]

@Arthur O'Connor, i'm a two finger bowler, no thumb. What advice could you give me to increase my rev rate and get out of the ball clean? If i need to send you a video of me bowling, i can do that, in order to get some advice. Thanks in advance

[Smb]

I struggle with the hook I don’t think I release right

[rogerwestergaard]

How do you get less hook?? Every ball I own is too aggressive. I use a 14 pound ball, am 74, a get about 13-13 mph. Thanks

[denmanfite]

4:25 that was a pretty mild hook- right??

[derekm.toohey]

Surface really is a lot of trial and error, and you can really screw yourself over if you sand a ball too much but dont have higher grit pads on hand to make it smoother lol

[robertjohnson]

Any tips for girls that have a wide carry angle that causes her forearm and hand to naturally point out from her body. A coach recently had her start with her hand more on the side of the ball which helped her swing, keeps the ball by her ankle at release, but this change decreased her power.

[daveshostack]

BIG HOOK DOES NOT MEAN MORE STRIKES AND/OR MORE SPARES. IN FACT IT HURTS YOUR CHANCES OF MAKING SPARES.

[glenstokes]

Every time I release the ball like a yo, yo I miss My mark, or it slides all the way down until it hits the pins