Bowling Ball Motion Articles
Bowling ball motion is an incredibly fascinating and complex topic. There are so many factors that contribute to how your ball behaves on its trip from the foul line to the pins that it can be mind boggling to keep it all straight!
Bowlers who take the time to study the intricacies of ball motion absolutely, without any question at all, have an advantage over their less educated counterparts in today's modern game. Ball motion knowledge can help you make better lane play decisions that will help you maximize your scoring potential. It's one of our sports "soft skills," if you will.
Do you understand how your delivery style contributes to your ball's behavior? If you increase your rev rate, for example, do you know how and why that affects your ball's motion? Do you understand how bowling ball surface adjustments will affect your ball's motion? Do you understand the basics of how different oil patterns favor different types of ball motion shapes?
These are just a few of the topics that our contributors regularly focus on. Study their articles and apply their knowledge to your game so the next time you're confronted with a tough ball motion situation in your next tournament, you'll be better equipped to make the right decision!
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Featured Bowling Ball Motion Articles
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...
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...
Of Urethane and Backup Balls
Trends from the 2024 World Youth Championships
If the youth are the future of the sport, then it stands to reason that whatever youth bowlers are doing is an indication of where bowling might be headed. It doesn't feel like that long ago, but it has been...
New Environment, New Solutions
Solving corner pin problems on house and sport patterns
Let me start off this month’s article by stating how lucky I feel to be back writing for BTM. I stepped away from writing for a while, and I am thrilled to be back putting pen to paper and providing...
Kicking Out the Corners – Part 2
The flat 10 versus the weak 10
In the first part of this series, we discussed the solid, or ringing, version of the same-side corner pin. For righthanded bowlers, the 10 pin is one of the most common leaves you'll see. For lefties, it's the 7 pin....