October 2024 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Coach, I’ve Got a Question! – October 2024
In this recurring feature, I answer questions from Bowling This Month readers and bowlers that I work with. 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...
Creating a Straighter Swing Path
Improving consistency and shot repetition
Every bowler is built differently, but an effective armswing shares common characteristics for everyone. In short, an effective armswing allows you to consistently hit your target and release the ball the same way every time. While there is a trend...
Pin Perspectives: To Benchmark, or Not to Benchmark?
Part of the joy of our sport is in purchasing new toys—ahem, new bowling balls—with which to attack the lanes as we start our league seasons. Borrowing Coach Tyrel Rose’s tool analogy discussed here and here, when we get the...
The PWBA Off-Season Round Table: Rest, Recreation, Training, and Preparation
The 2024 PWBA Tour season ended after an exciting Tour Championship event that came right down to the final frame. The revival of the women’s tour came with a schedule that is very condensed within the spring and summer, allowing...
Bowling Ball Reviews
Columbia 300 Super Cuda PowerCOR
The Super Cuda PowerCOR is the third Cuda remake from Columbia 300 since their manufacturing move in 2019. This one uses the same Cuda PowerCOR weight block as the previous...
DV8 Mantra
The new DV8 Mantra features a new asymmetrical core design that gives it an RG of 2.498", a total differential of 0.047", and an intermediate differential of 0.011". This new...
Ebonite Crusher
The Crusher has a name that is a callback to an older Ebonite classic, the Crush/R. This ball uses the Optimize Hybrid coverstock, a shell that we saw with the...
Ebonite The One Reverb
The One Reverb is the third release in The One series since the manufacturing move from Ebonite International to Brunswick. All three of these balls have used the same Centrex...
Hammer Pure Envy
The Hammer Pure Envy is the fourth dull Envy and the fifth ball in the Envy line overall. There are three different core shapes used across this line. This ball...
Motiv Raptor Rush
The Raptor Rush uses the symmetrical Affliction V2 core shape that was previously used in the Raptor Fury and the Sky Raptor. This low RG and high differential design is...
Storm Phaze AI
The Phaze AI is the latest release in Storm's Master line. It uses the symmetrical Velocity core that powered all the previous Phaze releases, but it is now wrapped in...