Choosing The Right Weight Bowling Ball.
This is a bowling tip for those that are not sure of what weight bowling ball they should use. I see a lot of people use the wrong weight bowling ball for the wrong reasons. This is a concept that is miss interpreted do to the fact that, because we use our arms in bowling us as humans think that all the physical work in our body is in the arms. This is not true most of the effort in bowling is in the legs and mainly in the slide. All the arms do is hold the ball and swing it, but that does not mean that we have to use our physical force to do this.
Now griping the ball, yes that takes some muscles and tendons in our wrist and hand. But the arms only use gravity to swing the ball and the only pull of the ball on the arm is on the shoulders.
To really swing a bowling ball correctly the ball weight dictates the force involved in the amount of speed in the swing and its height. One should not force the ball with arms strength, but let the natural force of gravity do the work.
So one should use the heaviest ball they can grip with comfort. Now anything under 15 pounds will give the bowling pins an advantage because each pin weighs 3.6 to 3.8 pounds and there are 10 of them so you are trying to knock down about 36 to 40 pounds with a full rack. Now remember the heaviest bowling ball allowed is 16 pounds. So all this beings said outlined below are a few rules to follow.
1. Choose the heaviest ball you can handle with comfort.
2. Use gravity as the applied force in swinging the ball.
3. Most of the effort in bowling is in the legs not the arms.
4. Most the muscles and tendons in the arms are in the shoulders, wrist, and fingers.
5. A full rack of bowling pins weighs about 36 to 40 pounds.
6. The maximum bowling ball weight is 16 pounds.
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