How To Pick Up A Spare Video

Spares can be difficult to convert in bowling. Get tips and advice on bowling alleys, balls, shoes, and shirts in this video.

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Move 5 boards to the right
Throw the same ball
Pick up the spare

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Del Warren is the Vice President of the Kegal Training Center. He played on the PBA tour for 11 years where he won several trophies and bowled many 300 games.

DEL WARREN: So, I just left the one, two, four spare. I threw a pretty bad shot, an aired shot as we all do from time to time. How do I pick it up? Well, there's many strategies on spares, I'm going to give you my favorite one for this spare, where as I was standing on 28, looking at 17 at the arrows, trying to throw the ball at the six pin. Just a pretty generic on most house conditions that you want to cross in United States would be to move five boards to the right with my feet. So I'm going to go from standing on 28 to 23 and I'm going to go from looking at 17 to looking at 16, and by throwing the same shot on the same line, based on the amount of friction on the lane, I should get the ball to crossover to the left side of the head pin and pick up the one, two, four pretty easy. Just like that, pretty simple.

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