Product Description

Learn how to bowl your best game from one of the world’s top bowling coaches. John Jowdy has coached more than 100 pros, including Mike Aulby, Parker Bohn, Lisa Wagner, and Robin Romeo. In Bowling Execution, he covers every crucial technique.

Jowdy breaks the shot into its components and teaches you how to identify and correct common technical flaws to improve your execution and increase your scores. You’ll learn how to

• choose the right ball and adjust effectively to changing lane conditions;

• improve execution, from stance to follow-through, to help you raise your scoring average; and

• master the mental game to help you break out of slumps, practice more effectively, and prepare for critical situations.

You’ll also find everything you ever wanted to know about hooking the ball, plus shot-making strategies to help you solve problems on the lanes.

Master the game as pro players have, with John Jowdy as your guide, and soon you will maximize your scores!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606152 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review

“I believe bowlers everywhere will want to buy this book. John Jowdy helped me achieve hall of fame status in bowling; now what I learned from John is in print for all bowlers to learn.”

Mike Aulby, 27-time PBA champion and ABC and PBA Hall of Fame member

"John Jowdy takes the complex game of bowling and puts it in an understandable format that no doubt will help all bowlers. When even I had a problem with my game, I trusted the eyes of John Jowdy to help me put my game back on the proper course. John Jowdy takes his experience as an accomplished player and as the coach of many of the current and former greats of the pro tour and puts it into a book that is not only informative but also interesting and fun to read."

Marshall D. Holman, PBA Hall of Fame member and former television analyst for the PBA on ESPN

”Having worked with John Jowdy for a number of years, I think it's great that he has finally put his teaching philosophies into a book. John always tries to keep things simple and work with each person's strengths.”

Nikki Gianulias, Women's Professional Bowling Hall of Fame member, Women's International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame member

“If you are looking to get to the next level, then this book is for you. John Jowdy is one of the best coaches the PBA Tour has ever known. His correlations between what you should do and who have accomplished these feats is unparalleled in any other book on bowling.”

Parker Bohn III, 1999 PBA Player of the Year

From the Publisher
"John Jowdy takes the complex game of bowling and puts it in an understandable format that no doubt will help all bowlers. When even I had a problem with my game, I trusted the eyes of John Jowdy to help me put my game back on the proper course. John Jowdy takes his experience as an accomplished player and as the coach of many of the current and former greats of the pro tour and puts it into a book that is not only informative but also interesting and fun to read."

Marshall D. Holman, PBA Hall of Fame member and former television analyst for the PBA on ESPN

”Having worked with John Jowdy for a number of years, I think it's great that he has finally put his teaching philosophies into a book. John always tries to keep things simple and work with each person’s strengths.”

Nikki Gianulias, Women's Professional Bowling Hall of Fame member, Women's International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame member

“If you are looking to get to the next level, then this book is for you. John Jowdy is one of the best coaches the PBA Tour has ever known. His correlations between what you should do and who have accomplished these feats is unparalleled in any other book on bowling.”

Parker Bohn III, 1999 PBA Player of the Year

About the Author
John Jowdy is a legend in bowling. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an author, speaker, and top coach of the pros. He has coached more than 100 pros, and many of the bowlers he’s worked with—including David Ozio, Del Warren, Randy Peterson, Steve Hoskins, and Kent Wagner—won their first titles after working with him.

In honor of his coaching expertise, Jowdy has been inducted into the Professional Bowling Association (PBA) Hall of Fame and the American Bowling Congress (ABC) Hall of Fame as well as the Texas Bowling Hall of Fame and the San Antonio Bowling Hall of Fame. He has worked with virtually every world-class bowler, including Donna Adamek, Mike Aulby, Parker Bohn III, Nikki Gianulias, Marshall Holman, Dave Husted, Tish Johnson, John Mazza, Amleto Monacelli, Betty Morris, Robin Romeo, Mark Roth, Rick Steelsmith, Brian Voss, Lisa Wagner, Chris Warren, Pete Weber, and Danny Wiseman.

Jowdy is known for teaching the execution and skill of the game, and he has been called the master of teaching the free arm swing. He teaches privately and conducts a seminar series, Bowling at the Highest Level. He’s also a skilled and prolific writer. He has received numerous writing awards, including the most prestigious awards a bowling writer can receive: the Flowers for the Living Award, the Mort Luby Meritorious Award, and the DBA Humanitarian Award. A former president of the Bowling Writers Association, he continues to write a syndicated monthly column that is carried in more than 20 national publications, as well as instructional columns for Bowling Digest and Bowling This Month. Columbia Industries, for whom Jowdy serves as pro tour consultant, has established an annual college scholarship in his honor.

Customer Reviews

FOR BEGINNERS AND PROS
John Jowdy is well-known as a master bowling guru to many professional bowlers. When a PBA or PWBA member has needed assistance in elevating his or her game, John Jowdy has done so with proven results. John Jowdy is the familiar gentleman sitting with a foot long cigar in the first row of many televised matches watching, many time, his students. Therefore, Mr. Jowdy come to this book with much credibility. Many, but not all, bowling books are either too elemental for the intermediate or better bowler, or are filled with outdated information. Mr. Jowdy has bridged the gap between beginners and the better, experienced bowler with this book.
For example, I guess I would be considered a better than average league bowler with a 215 average. The night before my last league night, I read the chapters regarding the free armswing and the outward, rather than upward, follow-through, and put it into practice. The following night, I bowled a 299 game with a total of 16 strikes in a row over 2 games.
I would recommend this book if you are serious about improving your game.

the bowling god speaks
I read the book in one sitting. My first impression was that the game is just not this simple. then I read the book again more carefully and made notes where my game was out of whack. I went to a local house and tried two major changes; and threw the ball better than I have in years, if not ever. Part of John's genius is his unique ability to capture just the essential elements of his sport, but then to describe the common deviations and their effects such that you can discover your problems. I guess the game IS that simple to John.

A Must Read Book to Improve
I purchased this book after missing the second cut in a tournament that I roll in every year. John Jowdy's reputation speaks for itself. After reading the first four chapters on the free armswing, leverage point, hand grips and follow through, I bowled my first ever 700 series in league play (I currently have a yearbook average of 175)and I broke my personal best score twice in the same week (269 followed by 278 two nights later). Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who is serious about improving their game must buy this book