How To Pick Up The 10 Pin Video

The 10 pin is one of the most dreaded pins in bowling. Learn how to pick up this difficult spare and get tips and advice on bowling alleys, balls, shoes, and shirts in this video.

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Move all the way to the left
Set your feet, body, & head along the target line
Point left toe at the 10 pin

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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: Okay, all right, so I've just left the dreaded 10 pin for right handers. It is pretty scary, it is right over here on the right hand corner. Most people miss the 10 pin because of some very basic mistakes. So, we are going to take you the procedure one, you want to move all the way to the left, just as far as left as you can to get away from that right hand gutter, and to give yourself the motion for air. Two, when you set up, you want to make sure that your--again just like we have talked about, set your feet, get your body on the right position, getting this body angled towards that 10 pin is just like you are firing a gun or you are shooting a bow and arrow. So, right now I'm positioning myself so that my left toe is going towards the 10 pin and then I'm going to draw a line once I get in my set up, from the 10 pin, through the 10 pin, to where I like to look at it, wherever that line intersects, right here to my swing, that is what I'm going to look at. So, I have two points intersecting with the straight line, hopefully I can make it, let us check it out. Take a little practice swing there, again we want to visualize the line, from right here, I'm going to look at board 21.

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