I've been using the airplane analogy for years now. I bowl two-handed and use a 5-step approach. I'm not a pro, just some guy who bowls and started late in life (about 50). I find that bending my knees (and back a bit) on the third step is the way to go. One thing I have never been able to do is a complete follow through with my arm swing. I bring my arm about halfway up, if that. Any time I try to bring my arm higher than that, my shot suffers... badly. I think I'm just not coordinated that way. At my age, I'm not trying to be a pro, just having fun and playing on local leagues. Started in the low 100s about 6-7 years ago and now many scores are in the 220s. Of course, I also have games where nothing goes right. Just trying to have fun, stay active, and build up my average. As for two-handed bowling I think the two most important details are the ball landing on the lane (the airplane analogy) and keeping your elbow in. It is so easy to chicken-wing your shot and that naturally changes the ball's trajectory. Get low, get some good power from your legs, and keep your elbow in. The hardest part of bowling is making changes fast enough as the lane changes and knowing which change to make. A work in progress... as they say.
Thanks for all the tips 🔥Joined a league this year, finished with only 168 avg, but i'm steadily increasing and breaking 200 often now because videos like these help hone in what I need to improve on and what I'm doing correctly.. Threw my high of 278 last week, feels like I have a 300 coming. Thanks for all your help! (Plus many others like Brad&Kyle, Packy, etc..) 👍
I'm a one handed bowler. I find myself standing straight up most the time. I caught myself yesterday while practicing and went oh ya bend my knee and drive from that power step Definitely saw a difference. These lesson videos are awesome
This vis is simply GOLD! Providing tips to a non pro bowler for an ole geezer like me couldn’t be more to life. BTW, the airplane landing is a great visual. Being ex-Navy, I realize I’m more of a “carrier landing” because i can’t bend over much due to weak knees 😢
Love watching these videos for tips and brining them to my local lane to practice. There’s slight improvement, averaging around 150. And getting 200+ every once in a while, but would love to be more consistent with 200
i have been so early to videos lately. and i started using my legs as the driving force of throwing it faster, and i am SO much more consistent and comfortable throwing it faster
Great tip about exaggerating and wanting to feel uncomfortable. It is sometimes tough to break out of that comfort zone when theres a couple of good bowlers flanking you to the left and right. Ego doesnt wanna let go
Not gonna lie, these types of videos help a lot. Thinking about things I hadn't thought about. Hopefully you can tag him like a shark so we can see his progress later on.
I tried working on a silent low release for a year before figuring it out. And flicking downward as oppose to pulling up on it last second was the secret that helped me figure it out. That and exaggerating where it feels like im setting the ball down.
I felt that tip about being tall, im 6’7 300lbs man. Getting low to the ground isnt the easiest but it is helping me be more consistent so that ball isnt dropping so high
Darren, we want more tips/tutorial videos!! Please start making some educational videos too, you've a very nice and clean game style, it's a true pity you don't share some tips with us too!
What a great video honestly I know I personally have a problem with the airplane and also forcing my swing at times. I love these videos and personally practice on myself
From what I can see your dropping or lofting the ball when you are supposed to be smoothly rolling the ball and to fix or alleviate that by getting lower (should not hear a loud thump and this is hard for tall people like me). You're also cupping the ball at the bottom, if you want more revs the finger should be more in the front (curl your arm more closer to your biceps). Your release should be more of a "Spider-man" pushing off your thumb from your palm and rolling off your fingers (aim at the arrows with your thumb, think of your thumb like an engine on a boat). Make sure your arm is straight starting from your palm correlating through your forearm to your elbow in your swing. Don't let the ball out run your feet ( feet move first then arm/ball). And the number one rule is... No matter what, have FUN!
Hey Darren, how are you? I’m a one-handed bowler also about 6 feet tall one of your greatest videos of learning bowling technique is the way to swing the ball. That is my number one inconsistency. I am trying to learn the way Frankie May taught me is the shake hand method I can get the first few parts of it right like put my fingers in my thumb. I can swing back, but when I come forward on the release, I’m having trouble keeping it straight and I’m very inconsistent and I sometimes go to the gutter too much, if I can be more consistent, no matter what ball I’m using or oil pattern. If you can help me that area that would be great. Thank you and take care.
Packy definitely gets lower. Not Simo low that's just a crazy level. The guy could add Troup into that also. Isn't he tall or does the Fro make him look taller then he is? Santtu no one can even copy him I still don't know when he releases the ball he just steps and then the ball is flying down the lane. 😂
I hate to the "Debbie-downer," but, Darren has now made the Pro Vs. Joe form to take him on is now completely useless. He's given a free lesson to someone he's beaten, played people he's already played, and played people he knows personally. So, I guess the form was useless? @darrentang, are you not going through the submissions at all?
I know it's hard to see visible differences/improvements in such a short amount of time and practice, but it should be a no brainer to see a side by side of his initial form (pre lesson) compared to his form post lesson
is there any blind/partially blind pros? i want to get better at bowling and dont really know how try to think about say aiming the ball for lacc of words since i cant really say see the first set of arrows clearly and deffently dont see any detail of than colorful blobs past that. would you have any tips on how to set up with only using the front 3rd of the lane
This man has been striking the whole lesson!
yup .... i have 20plus 300 games does that make me a great bowler........ or does it make my bowling perfect.... no...
😂
There's more to bowling than striking. Especially on ths.
Not discredit pockets shots, but, Spares win games 🙃
No he hasn’t, but one could over analyze the whole process and still mess up.
I've been using the airplane analogy for years now. I bowl two-handed and use a 5-step approach. I'm not a pro, just some guy who bowls and started late in life (about 50). I find that bending my knees (and back a bit) on the third step is the way to go. One thing I have never been able to do is a complete follow through with my arm swing. I bring my arm about halfway up, if that. Any time I try to bring my arm higher than that, my shot suffers... badly. I think I'm just not coordinated that way. At my age, I'm not trying to be a pro, just having fun and playing on local leagues. Started in the low 100s about 6-7 years ago and now many scores are in the 220s. Of course, I also have games where nothing goes right. Just trying to have fun, stay active, and build up my average. As for two-handed bowling I think the two most important details are the ball landing on the lane (the airplane analogy) and keeping your elbow in. It is so easy to chicken-wing your shot and that naturally changes the ball's trajectory. Get low, get some good power from your legs, and keep your elbow in. The hardest part of bowling is making changes fast enough as the lane changes and knowing which change to make. A work in progress... as they say.
Thanks for all the tips 🔥Joined a league this year, finished with only 168 avg, but i'm steadily increasing and breaking 200 often now because videos like these help hone in what I need to improve on and what I'm doing correctly.. Threw my high of 278 last week, feels like I have a 300 coming. Thanks for all your help! (Plus many others like Brad&Kyle, Packy, etc..) 👍
This is just astounding. Thanks so much for filming this and being such a good sport.
I'm a one handed bowler. I find myself standing straight up most the time. I caught myself yesterday while practicing and went oh ya bend my knee and drive from that power step Definitely saw a difference. These lesson videos are awesome
This vis is simply GOLD! Providing tips to a non pro bowler for an ole geezer like me couldn’t be more to life. BTW, the airplane landing is a great visual. Being ex-Navy, I realize I’m more of a “carrier landing” because i can’t bend over much due to weak knees 😢
Love watching these videos for tips and brining them to my local lane to practice. There’s slight improvement, averaging around 150. And getting 200+ every once in a while, but would love to be more consistent with 200
i have been so early to videos lately. and i started using my legs as the driving force of throwing it faster, and i am SO much more consistent and comfortable throwing it faster
Great tip about exaggerating and wanting to feel uncomfortable. It is sometimes tough to break out of that comfort zone when theres a couple of good bowlers flanking you to the left and right. Ego doesnt wanna let go
Not gonna lie, these types of videos help a lot. Thinking about things I hadn't thought about. Hopefully you can tag him like a shark so we can see his progress later on.
I tried working on a silent low release for a year before figuring it out. And flicking downward as oppose to pulling up on it last second was the secret that helped me figure it out. That and exaggerating where it feels like im setting the ball down.
The airplane landing analogy is so good, I’m gonna start using that
Let’s go Darrien, getting better.
I felt that tip about being tall, im 6’7 300lbs man. Getting low to the ground isnt the easiest but it is helping me be more consistent so that ball isnt dropping so high
Darren, we want more tips/tutorial videos!! Please start making some educational videos too, you've a very nice and clean game style, it's a true pity you don't share some tips with us too!
This is dead on for my game! How do I sign up for more lessons?!!!
What you said make sense I will have to try that with how I bowl great video!!!
I hope that you dominate the regionals again this summer, as you have done the past few years.
Love the airplane analogy. Thanks for sharing!
What a great video honestly I know I personally have a problem with the airplane and also forcing my swing at times. I love these videos and personally practice on myself
I would love to get coached, take some tips, and bowl with you one day. Great job!
Honestly, I’m gonna look out for this kid. I have some high hopes right now.
I would also try moving back on the approach a bit. I was up where u are and am also 6 foot, moving back helped me smooth it out
Ohhhh new video!
Thanks for this! I was thinking about getting rid of my push away. Now I see I need to keep it!!!
This was a really good lesson for two-handers!
Eliminating the hop at the end helped me a lot with getting the ball on the smooth
Im 6’2 and a 2 hander and i have a very smooth ball release. Knee bend and how the ball sits in the hand is key
This was great to watch. Thanks for posting
From what I can see your dropping or lofting the ball when you are supposed to be smoothly rolling the ball and to fix or alleviate that by getting lower (should not hear a loud thump and this is hard for tall people like me). You're also cupping the ball at the bottom, if you want more revs the finger should be more in the front (curl your arm more closer to your biceps). Your release should be more of a "Spider-man" pushing off your thumb from your palm and rolling off your fingers (aim at the arrows with your thumb, think of your thumb like an engine on a boat). Make sure your arm is straight starting from your palm correlating through your forearm to your elbow in your swing. Don't let the ball out run your feet ( feet move first then arm/ball). And the number one rule is... No matter what, have FUN!
Fantastic lesson
Great pointers Darren! Made me think about my game for sure.
Hey Darren, how are you? I’m a one-handed bowler also about 6 feet tall one of your greatest videos of learning bowling technique is the way to swing the ball. That is my number one inconsistency. I am trying to learn the way Frankie May taught me is the shake hand method I can get the first few parts of it right like put my fingers in my thumb. I can swing back, but when I come forward on the release, I’m having trouble keeping it straight and I’m very inconsistent and I sometimes go to the gutter too much, if I can be more consistent, no matter what ball I’m using or oil pattern. If you can help me that area that would be great. Thank you and take care.
Thanks for the tips! You rock Darren!!!😊❤
Those tips work for both 2 handed and 1 handed
Great video, can’t wait to get out on the lanes to use these tips
Great video. Great lesson and tip. Thanks.
Cool tech bowling bowling ball Darren tang
Darren, like your technique and demeanor in teaching, do you have a similar vid with a finger right hand bowler
I love your videos thank you for this
great video man :) keep it up! love your content
This actually made me look back. If the ball is too forward is that bad too? (Approach)
Hey he has a System of a Down shirt! Rock on! 🤘
Yahoo thanks discord
Nice SOAD shirt.
DTang coaching!!!
i was hoping to see part of the comparison before and after the lesson at the end of the video tho😅
LET'S GO DARRIEN!
Amazing video about bowling
Is this the new way to hold a bowling ball? So the holes don’t really matter??
Thank you for making this video
If got a train and a lesson from Darren and he ask me “Do you want to go pro one day?” I would say “no i just wanna beat my dad”
He kind a looks like Walter Ray doing two handed bowling
Two hand release was started by Belmonte whom possibly got the idea from children and people who would roll the ball by way of the ‘Granny Shot’.🤔
You think just like Barry bonds did, while swing a bat, about body moment and that is, less equals more.
Do you have any tips for a to had Bowing or something
I will bowl with my family tomarrow for my 19th birthday I will feel like a special privleged teenager
How does one sneak over there and get lessons? 😅😅😅😁
Darren please have this videos more often and where is my league video?!
The difference in The Iceman’s and Packmans approaches and release is crazy different. Packy is way smoother it looks like
Packy definitely gets lower. Not Simo low that's just a crazy level. The guy could add Troup into that also. Isn't he tall or does the Fro make him look taller then he is? Santtu no one can even copy him I still don't know when he releases the ball he just steps and then the ball is flying down the lane. 😂
@@Cdcd4393 santtu arm swing is not crazy either and he generates a lot of power. Prob strong arms
I wanna throw the ball like Jason Belmonte
hope darren create more lesson video!!
Do you have a video like this for one handed bowler?
lets try that with mikey that my help him for it switch !! 😊
Darren do you do one on one coaching? I bowl at Gold Coast.
This is kind of like golfing with the guy who watches you shoot 10 under par and then tells you what is wrong with your swing.
what if you can't use your legs?
Would these tips help one hand bowlers?
*Loose muscle are fast muscle don’t wanna use your upper body for speed* this where osku come in 🗿
@Darren - what happened to Lance? is he still bowling...
this type of videos should be weekly + next time try to coach a beginner instead of an amateur 🤝
sucks i can’t see darren in oahu, i’m gonna be in the mainland by the time he gets here
Instructions unclear I hit the screen TV.
I just get a 6lbs ball and throw it straight between 1 and 3 as hard as I can
did u catch around 1:45 where the kid gave darren the finger when he was adjusting his glasses ? lolol
Is this dude from oppenhiemer
Who do I contact for lessons? Lol
The hardest thing for beginners is to not worry about results. I don't like them looking down lane.
I wish I had a pro coach 😢
Gotta be awkward when your the guy giving the lesson talks to the camera more than you lol
Dam, you thinking about coaching?
Why does this man need coaching if he's been getting strikes the entire time?
…and Darren was never seen again after bowling dahmer struck him in the alley…
Am I the only one who thought Darren was tall?
His first throw was a strike. Why fix what ain't broke?
and not to be that guy but, FIRST!!!
Can you teach someone who’s actually a beginner?? 😂
balls
He's throwing nothing but strikes. Just keep doing what you're doing. Quit messing with it. That's just my opinion.
I hate to the "Debbie-downer," but, Darren has now made the Pro Vs. Joe form to take him on is now completely useless. He's given a free lesson to someone he's beaten, played people he's already played, and played people he knows personally. So, I guess the form was useless? @darrentang, are you not going through the submissions at all?
Third ❤
You still think Simo is better than EJ and Belmo?? 🤔😝 Think again, cant even beat McCune 😁
The fact that you use this one show to come to this conclusion shows how ignorant you are
Your tips only work for i handed bowlers not two
start off by using your thumb.
Clickbait, and didn't pay attention to the poor kid getting "helped"
Great video. You should have just said, stop being a two hander.
I know it's hard to see visible differences/improvements in such a short amount of time and practice, but it should be a no brainer to see a side by side of his initial form (pre lesson) compared to his form post lesson
is there any blind/partially blind pros? i want to get better at bowling and dont really know how try to think about say aiming the ball for lacc of words since i cant really say see the first set of arrows clearly and deffently dont see any detail of than colorful blobs past that. would you have any tips on how to set up with only using the front 3rd of the lane
No idea either but rooting for ya
Can I get a lesson?👋🏽🎳