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Featured Bowling Physical Game Articles
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...
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...
Physical Game Mismatches
Caught in the crossfire between the classic and modern styles
As many BTM readers know, bowling’s older days rewarded precision. The lanes, oil patterns, and bowling balls combined to create an environment where accuracy and precision were the most important elements of the game. As a result, the dominant way...
Nuances of the Armswing
Timing, direction, and finding what works for you
From one-handed swings to two-handed swings, from short, compact, muscly swings to long, loopy, effortless swings, and from the textbook to the unorthodox and everything in between, there are almost as many armswings out there as there are bowlers. That...
Controlling Ball Speed
A practical approach to adjusting ball speed
I first faced the need to change ball speeds back in 2006, when dual lane conditions were first used at the Junior World Championships. We were bowling on 33-foot and 48-foot patterns that year when I realized the need to...