Ivan F. Awesome, enjoy the ride! Tripods can be real nice to have (I’m a video guy so I have and use many), but in a pinch if you ever forget to bring it, propping your phone up in your shoe often works as a quick solution you’ll prob always have available to ya as a backup.

Ivan F. Hey! Not sure regarding the Fourth of July special thing. I’m on a yearly membership and yes it’s technically “unlimited” to the amount of video analysis you can post/ask for.

Word of advice though (from experience), go ahead and get your first one going, once Coach Daniel gives you the feedback/stuff to work on, give yourself multiple practice sessions to try and implement the change(s) to your game. There’s a couple things that might break along the way and that’s fine. If it’s comfortable from the jump, you’re prob not doing it right.

There’s a “feel vs real” component to bowling, and that’s the whole trick of leveraging online coaching. He will give you fantastic drills/tips/tricks to guide you and it’s up to you to implement and develop practice strategies to make those changes to your game and be disciplined about it.

Record yourself as you’re checking in on certain aspects. Decide for yourself the 1 to 2 things you want to hone in on, record some shots, sit down and watch them during your practice. Is the thing that you’re feeling showing up on video? If so, by how much compared to where you started? Can you try pushing it further to see what that feels like (safely/within reason)? If so, try it, record it and watch again. Was there an actual change or did it just feel like you were doing more? That’s the magic right there. Explore the boundaries.

If you’re trying to work on pushing the ball further left into your swing slot for instance, your body is calibrated with whatever you’re currently doing as being “straight”. If you tell yourself to push it 2 boards left, you can sometimes feel like you’re actually accomplishing it, but there’s little to no difference. If you tell yourself to try to push it 10 boards left, you probably won’t be able to but it’ll be much closer to where you need to be, and it’s always easy to peel back and go further into your comfort zone if needed and you went too far.

A coach I work with refers to this sort of mentality as “turning a ship”. You’re not going to walk into the lanes, have one practice session and magically avg 20 pins higher from that day forward.

It’s those focused, linear steps that he can provide you with to take, play around with, make them yours and get your body to adjust to, then once you’ve really built it into your game without having to think about doing it, it’s time for another analysis.

Good luck! Sorry, I’m not one for short winded posts…

Welcome Ivan!!

#1 - if you haven’t already, go hit the lanes and record yourself, one shot from behind one shot from the side view. I believe there’s some posts floating around about the more technical side of it. Post it here or in the FB group and tag Coach Daniel Puerto. He’ll give you an analysis and something(s) to work on. Take your time implementing the feedback and let it work its way in to your game (think turning a ship more than flipping a switch).

#2 - you’re already on top of this one, but continue to take advantage of the informative content that’s available, ask questions, etc. Some really great bowlers in this group and even better, fantastic people!

Hey guys, welcome!

Send an email to Brad.Kyle300@gmail.com & they’ll take care of you. Fairly certain you can choose any non-discontinued ball from any of the 3 SPI brands.

Hey Jeremy,

I think there’s a video or post on this somewhere but I can’t find it currently. The basics are below:

- The Basics: camera should be stable, some use a tripod or even your shoe to hold it in place. don’t worry about zooming in, try and keep the videos short (as opposed to keeping camera rolling between multiple shots), can do straight on, side, or both. Coach Daniel will check them all out and supply feedback according to what he’s seeing/what he suggests you work on. You can post them here and/or Facebook group & tag Daniel Puerto.

- Straight On View: should have your full body visible from the start of approach. Ideally set up directly behind your feet as opposed to off to one side or the other on angle. I typically pop the phone on/around the board I’m standing on.

- Side View: if you’re a righty, try and get on an even numbered lane so the ball return is to the left of you and not obscuring your feet/body (odd lane number if LH). Place camera at the foul line 2-3 lanes down, try and fit in entire approach so you can see full body start to finish position in frame. If having someone hold camera, ask them not to follow you, just hold camera frame wide enough to get full approach in.

Hope this helps! Any questions just ask.

Nick Ruiz my numbers are definitely wonky bc of my drift right/miss right situation. But again, they’re all personal to you. Once you find what works for you, it’ll click. To answer the swing path comment, my numbers changed quite drastically when I was able to kill some of the ‘loop behind my head’ in my backswing. So when big physical changes happen to your game, get ready to potentially miss some spares and have to revisit your numbers. Typically, this is only when more drastic changes happen for me, but that’s just part of the roller coaster of evolving your game.

Nick Ruiz did you record yourself and document it that way? Those angles seem to be a hair off, I’m wondering if you need to account for your typical miss (seems like maybe your target miss is 1-2 left). My miss is always right, so if I’m targeting 21, I’m probably hitting 20. Mark Baker has a lot of great info on ‘knowing your numbers’. Has helped me immensely. A 2H buddy of mine is complete opposite and his miss and drift are usually a 2/1 left. We’re on 2 leagues together so it’s been a lot of experimenting and getting to know each others numbers. Once you get that dialed in, if one gets lost, the other can find it that much quicker. Has helped in multiple tournaments where he and I are on the same team/pair.

Nick Ruiz great question and is still something I’m experimenting with.

For me currently, I look at it the following ways:

- if it’s a non-house shot but feels playable like a modified/challenge pattern where there may be some OB, I’ll tend to shoot these with reactive. I’ll ‘hook’ at them slightly but not trying to really hammer on it.

- if it’s ultra flat, I’m not comfortable where the hook is vs the hold, then I’ll tend to shoot plastic. My conversion rate is NOT GREAT though so take for what it’s worth.

The 2,8 - 10/10

The 3,9 - 35/25

Nick Ruiz don’t sweat it. Get the plastic ball, start from a spot you feel comfortable with, track your numbers and find what works. If you need motivation, next time you go practice, leave all reactive at home and only take spare ball. We tend to crave that dopamine from striking, so it can be tough to grind spares practice. It pays off, I promise.

If it helps:

For right side spares (10,9,6,3-6-10) I stand on the same spot (35), and my visual target changes by 1-2 depending on the pin or combo.

Same for left side (7,4,8,2), I stand on 10 and adjust my visual target accordingly. For the 7, it’s 10/12. For the 4 pin, it’s 10/11.

For whatever reason, the 3 pin and 9 pin, I can’t seem to convert those as well cross lane, so I go by feel on those, stand on the right side and go up the boards. Hopefully that doesn’t burn me but when it does, I’m sure I’ll get comfortable adapting my 3-6-10 line to it. For 3-6-10 I’m 35/24.

Nick Ruiz yea plastic for everything for me except if it’s double wood like a 2-8 or 3-6-9-10. If you’re rocking only house, I don’t think there’s any issue with hooking at the left side. But, correct, it’s going to lower your sport avg by a bit until you can get comfortable with that.