June 2024 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Coach, I’ve Got a Question! – June 2024
In this recurring feature, I answer questions from Bowling This Month readers. If you have questions, please leave them in the comment section below so I can address them in a future installment of Coach, I’ve Got a Question! I've been struggling...
Keeping Bowling Hands and Wrists Healthy
Exercises to improve strength and mobility
In my previous articles over the last few months, I've covered ways to keep the knees healthy and how to maintain shoulder function with preventative mobility and strength exercises. Continuing with this theme, this article focuses on the health of the...
Physical Game Mismatches
Caught in the crossfire between the classic and modern styles
As many BTM readers know, bowling’s older days rewarded precision. The lanes, oil patterns, and bowling balls combined to create an environment where accuracy and precision were the most important elements of the game. As a result, the dominant way...
The BTM Player Profile: Jason Belmonte
When fans of bowling sit down and have a friendly debate on who the greatest bowler of all time is, it never takes long before someone mentions this month's featured bowler, Jason Belmonte. Looking beyond his incredible on-lane accomplishments, it...
Bowling Ball Reviews
Brunswick Intense Mindset
The Intense Mindset is the third ball in Brunswick's Mindset series. The original had a very dull reactive solid cover, the Perfect Mindset had an HK22-based hybrid shell, and now the Intense...
Columbia 300 Messenger PowerCOR Black/Gold Pearl
The Messenger PowerCOR Pearl returns to the Columbia 300 lineup with some upgrades over the Red/Blue version from the summer of 2022. The Black/Gold color scheme is a throwback to the Ti...
Radical Max Bias
Radical's Max Bias features the same high intermediate differential (0.030"), high total differential (0.050"), and low RG (2.494") asymmetrical core design that was found in the Maximum Results. It pairs...
Radical Rattler NU
The Radical Rattler NU features the low RG and low differential Rattler Symmetric core for the third time in a Radical release, and it is paired up with the most...
Roto Grip X-Cell
The Roto Grip X-Cell brings back the fan-favorite Nucleus core design from the original Cell with an upgrade to the AI outer core system. The result is a slightly lower...
Storm Ion Pro
The Ion Pro is a new ball inside and out for Storm. The TX-16 coverstock was used originally in a solid version on the Phaze II and later in a...
Track Tundra Blue Fire
The Tundra Blue Fire burns its way into the Track lineup for the summer season. This ball uses the same Track Symmetric core design as the Tundra Fire, with a...