October 2021 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Alignment and Lane Play
Putting the two fundamental concepts together
By Ernesto Avila
If you want to win, you don’t have to make perfect shots. If you need to be perfect, something is wrong. Find the right part of the lane and you’ll have some room to miss and, in turn, you’ll start...
Analyzing the PBA’s Top 10 Players
Physical similarities and differences among bowlers at the top of the 2021 points list
By Joe Slowinski
At the top levels of elite sports, athletes’ physical movements efficiently produce kinetic energy, leading to maximum energy transfer. Put simply, top athletes use their bodies to produce and transfer energy to move, throw, or strike an object or person...
Improving Your Bowling Through Self-Reflection
An example from the 2021 US Women's Open
By Valerie Bercier
Once a tournament is finished, do you take the time to think about your performance? Not the result, but your performance? Taking the time to reflect on how you executed, your mental game, and your lane play choices can be very helpful. You...
Troubleshooting Your League Night
Dealing with common bowling speed bumps
By Tyrel Rose
The first two parts of my troubleshooting series focused on physical issues, such as missing your target and release and balance problems. It’s time to approach things in a different way with another troubleshooting article. Rather than focusing on specific...
Understanding Your Bowling Environment – Part 1
Oil pattern variables and house shots
By Tyrel Rose
You’re bowling on a 38-foot pattern. You use the “Rule of 31” to establish that your ball should come out of the pattern on board 7, giving you a breakpoint around board 6. You take out your benchmark ball, but...
Bowling Ball Reviews
Brunswick Quantum Evo Pearl
The Quantum Evo Pearl uses the pearlized version of the Evolution Reactive coverstock that is finished at 500/1000/1500 SiaAir with Crown Factory Compound, wrapped around the asymmetrical QCS-24 core. This new...
Brunswick Quantum Evo Solid
The Quantum Evo Solid is one of two new high-end Brunswick releases, along with the Quantum Evo Pearl. It features the QCS-12 asymmetrical core shape, which is a lower RG...
DV8 Medusa
The new DV8 Medusa is wrapped in the same pearlized Incite Max Flip coverstock that is used on the Hell Raiser Return. It also uses the brand new Medusa asymmetrical...
Hammer Black Widow Ghost Pearl
The Hammer Black Widow Ghost Pearl joins the Black Widow 2.0 as the current iterations of the iconic Black Widow series. This ball uses the classic asymmetrical Gas Mask core...
Motiv Pride
The new Motiv Pride pairs two new pieces of technology. The Dominion weight block is an asymmetrical core shape with a medium RG (2.50"), medium total differential (0.042"), and medium...
Radical Payback
The Radical Payback features a medium RG, medium differential symmetrical core shape that is wrapped in the new Ai-27 Pearl Plus coverstock. Unlike most pearlized balls, the Payback comes out...
Radical Trail Blazer
The Trail Blazer brings a new asymmetrical core design and a new coverstock to Radical's Top Shelf line. The new core gives the Trail Blazer a 2.484" RG, a 0.052"...