February 2024 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Coach, I’ve Got a Question! – February 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! When is the...
Less Spin, More Roll
Drills to reduce your axis tilt and improve your release
The bowling release is crazy. It’s wildly complex and bafflingly simple at the same time, depending on how you look at it. For most bowlers, the release is one of the hardest parts of the game to learn and change....
Making The Most of a Low Rev Rate – Part 3
More tilt, more problems?
So far in this series, we've covered three of the basic types of lower rev rate bowler styles: gunners, rollers, and turners. To wrap things up, we'll cover the spinner type. To be clear, this isn't referring to helicopter-style spinners, a...
The BTM Book Report: ‘Relentless’
In Relentless, author Tim S. Grover introduces his three personalities as they relate to performance. Coolers are the role players, performing well as needed but happy to let others take the...
Bowling Ball Reviews
900 Global Harsh Reality
The Reality has been a mainstay in the 900 Global line since the start of 2021. The new Harsh Reality brings back the Disturbance Asymmetric core design, but with an upgrade...
900 Global Xponent Pearl
The Xponent Pearl is the follow-up to the Xponent from the fall of 2023. Using the same Shrapnel 2.0 Symmetric core as the original, this ball features the Reserve Blend...
DV8 Trouble Maker Pearl
The Trouble Maker Pearl is the follow-up to DV8's Trouble Maker, which was introduced late last spring. Like the original, this ball also uses the symmetrical Dualistic core design, but...
Ebonite Emerge Hybrid
Ebonite's new Emerge Hybrid is the follow-up to the pearlized Emerge from last summer. Both balls share the asymmetrical Emerge core design and the same shiny box finish, with the difference...
Motiv Evoke
The new Motiv Evoke makes its presence known with a bright color scheme that is noticeable from anywhere in the bowling center. Its new Overload Asymmetrical core design gives it...
Motiv Tank Rampage Pearl
The Tank Rampage Pearl is the latest Microcell Polymer offering from Motiv. Its Frixion M6 Pearl MCP coverstock is a new pearl upgrade from balls like the Blue Tank and...
Radical Breakaway
Radical's new Breakaway uses a new symmetrical core and a new solid reactive coverstock. The Breakaway core has an RG of 2.528" and a differential of 0.041", which are both higher...
Roto Grip Attention Star
The Attention nameplate has been used previously in several international releases from Roto Grip, but the new Attention Star marks the first time it has been used in the North...