September 2024 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Choose Your Equipment Wisely
The importance of matching up and understanding ball progression
Bowling balls…there are so many of them to choose from! How do you choose the best ones for your league and tournament arsenal? Do you fully and sometimes blindly trust your pro shop operator or the regional/professional staffer in your...
Coach, I’ve Got a Question! – September 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! With the start...
Practice Plans to Sharpen Your Skills
What you can do to improve in a few weeks
In my years of coaching, most of the private lessons that I do boil down to a few key drills and activities. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced veteran, you can improve your skills by focusing on a...
The Applied Mental Game Pyramid – Part 2
Proactive prevention, awareness, and intervention
From my bowlers ending a championship in tears of disappointment to sharing in the joy of one of my athletes standing on the podium to hear their national anthem, I have had a front-row seat for the good, the bad,...
Bowling Ball Reviews
900 Global Sublime Focus
The 900 Global Sublime Focus is the second ball to be released under the Sublime nameplate. It uses the Immersed Symmetric AI core design that was also used in the...
Columbia 300 Atlas Hybrid
The Columbia 300 Atlas Hybrid shares the asymmetrical Atlas core shape with the original Atlas. This medium RG (2.520"), high differential (0.054"), and higher intermediate differential (0.018") design revved up...
Motiv Subzero Forge
The Subzero Forge is the seventh ball released under the Forge nameplate for Motiv. All of these balls have been powered by the Detonator Symmetrical core design, with each of...
Roto Grip Optimum Idol Pearl
The original Optimum Idol marked the return of the Ikon core to the Roto Grip line. That ball introduced the Amplified Inertia (AI) outer core system to the design, and...
Storm Ion Max
The Ion Max was first revealed in Storm's Ion Pro introduction video as a mystery ball for comparison. While both balls share the Ion name, they are actually very different,...
Storm Summit Ascent
The Summit Ascent joins Storm's Master line for the 2024 league season. This ball takes the low RG Centripetal HD - AI core shape from the original Summit and the...
Track Stealth Hybrid
The Stealth Hybrid is the third release to feature the Stealth nameplate for Track. The symmetrical Stealth core was previously used with a solid and pearl coverstock, and now, for...