Tuning Up Your Bowling Technique -- Picking Up Spares

Why bother to pick up your spares?
All too often, beginning bowlers overlook clearing their frames. They're just delighted to have knocked down any pins at all, and laugh as they shoot yet another obvious gutter ball down the alley.
Picking up spares is the one thing that even a beginner bowler can learn to dramatically improve their game. It can easily make the difference between a 110 and 180 average!
While strikes are an important thing to learn, for a beginning to intermediate level bowler, I advise this: Clear your spares and the strikes will come. You'll beat most of the competition by simply clearing your frames.
Tools of the trade
Professional bowlers use a "spare ball". That being a regular, plastic ball they use solely for the purpose of pick View the rest of this article