Bowling Cranker Vs Stroker

You can say it quite in between those two styles.

Bowling cranker vs stroker. A lot of players have gone out to state that this amazing style requires almost zero effort when playing. The ball moves pretty quickly between 18 20 mph but when it s good it hits that 10th board and moves oh so smoothly into the 1 3 pocket. This kind of bowling didn t help my team and didn t help me. Whether it be either stroker tweener or a cranker style bowler.

It has a little less hook and fewer revolutions. Cranker violent wrist action med high to high revs med high to high speed. While the stroker bowling style is very different from the cranker bowling style when it comes to the tweener style the stroker shares some similarities. I ve been kind of interested to know a little bit more about how the members of the board bowl so this is a survey thread of sorts.

Stroker style of bowling is a little bit straighter style where the ball goes down a little farther before it goes into its roll and hook. I d consider myself a classic stroker. My objective has been to be more consistent. I won t have a cranker on my team for that reason.

The tweener style is based off the fact that the bowler uses a variety of techniques and styles from both the cranker and stroker style. Cranker tons of wrist action with medium to high usually high rev rate and medium to high ball speed. Tweener cranker wrist movement but smoother med low to med high revs med low to med high speed. The stroker style is the easiest one to decipher as it is full of grace and finesse.

However the ball speed is very high for this style. Tweener cranker wrist movement but smoother low to medium sometimes cross into high rev rate and medium ball. Bowling stroker players typically have between 225 and 275 revolutions per minute as the measured rev rate on their bowling balls. To try to describe how someone bowls.

Stroker no wrist movement low to average rev rate and low to average ball speed. So i would bowl a 250 and hit a 620 or so. Stroker no wrist movement low to average revs low to ave speed. Are you a cranker a stroker a tweener or other.

If you have a modest average ball speed at about 15 16 miles per hour you could be classified as one who uses a bowling stroker style.