Awesome! Here’s some general knowledge to help you.

Bowling is about making moves and adjusting. Not really throwing this perfect shot. The perfect shot comes every once in a while and good form comes with you being very familiar of your swing through practicing, but being able to make changes, being fearless, and not being so stuck in one way of throwing it - is a super power.

So when you’re practicing. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Keep the upper body loose so you can feel your legs and use them as necessary.

If you need speed, drive with your legs. If you need hook, be gentle. Having hook is a ball speed thing, not a rev thing.

Most people struggle with being gentle. Most people also overthrow the shot. Especially when trying to hook it.

To fix a drift, you have to reteach your brain what straight feels like. Your brain thing that drift is straight, so actually straight will feel like your walking to the right. When you’re practicing, make your approach drift heavily to the right wall. Get it on film. And see how straight it was. Repeat until you eventually get it straight. And then drill that into your head! lol

You have to learn the feel of keeping your foot closer to the ground. So it never really comes off of the floor. It’s a feel thing. Go to the foul line and do 1 step drills until your foot doesn’t leave the ground when you slide. Work your way back to the full approach

How did it go?

38ft is pretty short. I would encourage some kind of urethane in there honestly. It’s just a really amazing ball at times on patterns 38 and shorter.

To make your swing straight, do this:

Video yourself a lot until the swing is straight. Go all the way to the foul line and do a no step, swing the ball, and watch the film. Swing the ball in the opposites directions until the swing is straight.

You push the ball to the right, making the balls swing path sideways, making the swing come behind your back. If you push the ball away to the left, that will correct the swing path some. Push the ball away to the left, video it, and see the difference in swing shape. And keep doing that until the swing is more straight.

Keep it very simple. No steps and 1 steps. You can do this drill at your home. Swing the ball in your basement and release it into the couch and video tape it. You will eventually get familiar with what a straighter swing feels like, and then you will be able to be more accurate.

Thank you!