• choose target point
• choose touchdown point
• take appropriate setup location
• feet parallel with target line
• focus eyes on visual target
• execute well
• analyze the results
• adjust target line
• repeat execution

• two students work together per lane
• partner needs to stay on either side of bowler at the foul line

• 12-inch rulers, 1 per student pair

• take a delivery position at the foul line with your ball dangling to your swingside.
• sit even lower than normal until the ball touches the approach.  Maintain proper posture.
• partners use a ruler to measure the distance between the inner edge of the sliding foot and the center of the ball touching the approach.  Repeat five times
• average the five measurements and you have your own placement distance in inches.

• determine personal placement distance in boards after 5 measurements

2.  Straight Ball Strike Targeting
*group management

• two students per lane: One bowls while the other observes and records
• during this drill, let student talk to partner as directed, but discourage visiting

• 1 roll of dark tape, optional

• bowl 10 first-ball deliveries using an 8 to 10 target line
• partners, you will be recording information but not the number of pins knocked down.  Prepare your scoresheet.
• set up on the same board every time.  Be sure to tell your partner what board this is because it will be recorded as your 'setup' location.  After you roll the ball, look at your sliding toe.  The first whole board to the inside of that foot is your 'slide location'.  After each ball, tell your partner what board it is.
• the partners job is to watch for and record the board over which the ball passed when it passed the arrows (target area board), and the board over which it rolled when it hit the pins (impact board).  Don't watch the bowler's form.  Give the bowler a point whenever an entry matches the ideal location as described in your book.

• complete 3 trial games, rating slide location, target area, impact board, and total points.

• reduce success goal
• move target closer by putting a piece of dark tape on the target area board.  Use 2-foot increments until student is regularly hitting target area board.

• increase success goal