May 2014 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Bowling Ball Surface Management
Beginning and advanced techniques to improve your game
By Tyrel Rose
It used to be so easy: there was dull and there was shiny. Dull balls were for oily lanes; shiny balls were for dry lanes. These days? Surface roughness is a key component to ball reaction and with the variety...
Is the Bowling Season Really Over?
A checklist for a productive summer
By Jack Schmid
The primary bowling season for this year has come to an end and the time has come to make some decisions about your bowling game. These important decisions will both help you assess your prior season and better prepare for...
The Ledge
Using other's lines to help yourself
By Rob Mautner
During the '80s and '90s, two major things changed in bowling: lanes began to change from wood to synthetic material and bowling balls were developed with reactive resin cover materials and cores with dynamic weight imbalances. These two changes affected...
The VAR-E System
Changing axis rotation to change ball motion
By Joe Slowinski
Over the last 20 years, the bowling community has continued to become an equipment obsessed and bowling ball consumption oriented culture. Every day on social media you see bowlers zealously sharing their enthusiasm for new bowling balls. As a coach...
The Well-Accessorized Bowler – Part 1
Stuff you can't do without
By Susie Minshew
Like all sports, bowling has a variety of paraphernalia designed to aid performance. Some really help and others are more for attitude than actual physical benefit. Don’t treat those types lightly. They can be very valuable assets since you’ll perform...
Bowling Ball Reviews
AMF Darkness
The Darkness is the newest addition to the AMF line up. This ball uses a similar core shape as the Incinerate, but the densities have been changed. The RG is...
Hammer Black Widow Assassin
The Black Widow Assassin is the reincarnation of the Black Widow series to the Hammer line up. This new offering surrounds the ever popular Gas Mask core with the Next...
Hammer Deadly Aim
The Deadly Aim is the newest high performance ball for Hammer. It features all new technology from the inside out. The weight block is a new core shape, the process...
Radical Yeti Unleashed
Radical adds the third Yeti to their product line with the Yeti Unleashed. This ball takes the same Yeti core from the previous two releases and surrounds it with a...
Storm IQ Tour Fusion
The newest addition to the Master line is the Storm IQ Tour Fusion. This ball takes the same weight block that was used in the IQ Tour and IQ Tour...
Storm Pitch Black
The Pitch Black is the newest addition to the Thunder line for Storm products. This ball features a new urethane coverstock, as well as a new core. The core has...
Storm Zero Gravity
The Storm Zero Gravity is the latest release in the Premier line for Storm. This ball utilizes a new coverstock formulation that is a solid version of the ERG coverstock...
Track Tour X
The Track Tour X uses the only symmetrical core in the current Track line up, the DNA core that was also found in the 300C Solid and 400A Special Edition....