Usually with someone’s action being illegal, they’re talking about chucking. You can have a bent arm, as long as it stays bent. If it straightens by more than 15 degrees, that’s an illegal bowling action. The article itself, frustratingly, shows no footage of her allegedly illegal bowling, so I had to go look up her bowling in other games on YouTube. Came across this video first.
Here’s her arm as it reaches the horizontal:
Just eyeballing it with a protractor on my other monitor, that does look about 15 degrees. And she appears to straighten her arm fully by the release. That would mean it’s very close to illegal.
Usually with someone’s action being illegal, they’re talking about chucking. You can have a bent arm, as long as it stays bent. If it straightens by more than 15 degrees, that’s an illegal bowling action. The article itself, frustratingly, shows no footage of her allegedly illegal bowling, so I had to go look up her bowling in other games on YouTube. Came across this video first.
Here’s her arm as it reaches the horizontal:
Just eyeballing it with a protractor on my other monitor, that does look about 15 degrees. And she appears to straighten her arm fully by the release. That would mean it’s very close to illegal.
So does action just mean bowling?
The headline says “bowling action”. It’s referring to the action of her bowling being (allegedly) illegal.