September 2013 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
A Game of Risk
Are you willing to take it?
Bowling is a game of risk; it is a game of decisions; it is a game of character; and it is a game that expresses your personality. Every shot offers you choices. As you well know, every single choice you...
Changes
Things to look for as the new season begins
Many bowlers take the summer off before they start getting ready for the new league season. It’s during that break that many things change with the bowling environment - newer bowling balls, lane oils, or lane machines, for example. There...
Getting Conflicting Advice, and What’s More Important: Technique or Results?
Welcome a new contributor to the Round Table, PBA Champion and Silver coach Jeff Carter. He’s one of the successful coaches who will be leading us through a discussion on two interesting questions. Our first topic deals with the best...
Recognizing and Producing the Matching Up Process
Provide maximum energy to the pins in a score producing way
You’ve heard people talk about not being matched up; that’s why they lost or didn’t score well or whatever. They are very likely telling the truth. Matching up is paramount to success in bowling. It's the transference of energy from...
Starting From the Ground Up – Part 3
Hands and arms: What do I do with them?
The term hand-eye coordination is defined as “the ability to coordinate vision with fine motor skills.” Since bowling is a precision sport, everything a bowler does is to promote successfully knocking down pins by coordinating movements to direct the ball...
Take Charge with Technology – Part 1
Apps for video recording, editing, and playback
It is an amazing time to be a bowler. New high-tech bowling balls are introduced each month. Bowling shoes with interchangeable soles and heels are commonplace. Everywhere you look you see mobile devices. While many bowlers use them to check...
The Art of Unlearning
Revisiting seven misconceptions about how balls perform
It has been four hundred years since Sir Francis Bacon wrote that “knowledge is power,” yet it has never been truer than it is today. It has always been difficult to gain knowledge as learning often entails unlearning beliefs. Unlearning...
Training Two-Handed Players
Recommendations and drills for all phases of the physical game
As I travel the world training players, I see a steady increase of two-handed players, a direct reflection of the success of Osku Palermaa and Jason Belmonte. In fact, as I write this, Brian Valenta, another two-hander, won a PBA...
When to Make the Bat-Call
Calling a coach should not be a last resort
There comes a time when even the best bowlers in the world need to seek help from a coach. It seems to me that accomplished bowlers often wait too long before they call their coach or seek outside help. When...
Bowling Ball Reviews
900 Global Desert Hook
The Desert Hook is the latest entry level release from 900 Global. It has a modified weight block from the previous Hook! balls with a higher RG and a lower...
900 Global Hard Drive
The Hard Drive is the newest high performance ball in the 900 Global line. This ball is the first in the new line that will replace the Train series. The...
AMF Heat Stroke
The Heat Stroke is the medium performance release for AMF this summer. The core is one that has been used throughout the years and, in the Heat Stroke, is surrounded...
Bowlers Paradise Pegasus
The Pegasus is the first Bowlers Paradise ball we have reviewed. This ball uses a pearl reactive coverstock with a high RG, medium differential core. The medium test pattern gave...
Elite Echo
The Echo is a pearl resin coverstock that engulfs a higher RG, medium differential core. This ball is finished with a 4000 Abralon finish, giving it more traction than other...
Elite Treason
The Treason is a mid-price release for Elite. Both Elite balls we tested this month were not high performance releases. Previously, the Elite balls we reviewed were at the high...
Lane #1 Crank
The Crank is the first release in a while that uses a particle pearl coverstock. Lane #1 has paired this cover with a brand new core shape. The Warped Asymmetrical...
Roto Grip Deranged
The Deranged is the follow up to the Disturbed in the HP3 line for Roto Grip. The Deranged uses a pearlized 61MH coverstock to surround the same core as used...
Roto Grip Scream (2013)
The Scream has been given a new color from last season, while the core remains the same. This HP1 release comes at a 1500 grit polished box finish which we...
Roto Grip Shout (2013)
The 2013 Shout is one of two new releases this summer for Roto Grip in the HP1 line. The Shout takes the Late Roll 46 weight block that was the...
Roto Grip Totally Defiant
The Totally Defiant is the fourth installment into the Defiant line. Roto Grip has not changed the core in any of these releases, instead relying on the coverstock to provide...
Seismic Venator
Seismic has introduced a new core for their latest release, the Venator. The new low RG, high differential Tenaci core is surrounded with the S.F-7/9 solid reactive coverstock. This cover...