November 2025 Content Archive
Bowling Tips and Techniques Articles
Coaches’ Corner: The Ball Start
Optimizing your use of the ball start drill
Welcome to the second edition of BTM's Coaches' Corner series. In these articles, the focus is on helping coaches improve their skills and approach to coaching, while also providing information that bowlers can apply to their own games. Our last article...
Key Takeaways From the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships
Staying competitive, spare shooting, and warming up
I recently had the opportunity to coach Team Canada at the IBF World Seniors Championships in Reno, Nevada. Like I did with the 2024 World Youth Championships and the more recent Pan American Youth Bowling Championships, I wanted to share...
The Art of Creativity in Bowling Coaching
Six innovative drills to transform technique and performance
In technical sports like bowling, success is determined not only by talent or repetition, but also by creativity. This includes the ability to design drills that challenge the body and mind in ways that replicate real-game demands. Creativity in coaching...
Two Key Factors for Quickly Improving Your Performance
Alignment and ball speed
As a high-performance bowling coach, I don’t really deal with “quick fixes.” There’s no secret to success or shortcut to the top of the podium. However, I am interested in helping athletes achieve their goals faster. As a result, I've...
Bowling Ball Reviews
900 Global Viking
The Viking features a new asymmetrical core shape for 900 Global. The new Strobe AI design gives the Viking an RG of 2.51", a total differential of 0.052", and an...
Brunswick Alert
The Alert introduces a new symmetrical core design to the Brunswick lineup. The Alert core is a low RG (2.478") and low differential (0.037") design that revs up earlier and...
Brunswick Energize
The Energize is the latest addition to Brunswick’s Pro Performance line. This ball uses the same Zone Asymmetric core design that was seen in the Vaporize from the fall of...
Columbia 300 Ricochet Return
Columbia 300's Ricochet Return uses the same symmetrical Ricochet core shape and the same polished box finish as the Ricochet Pearl from December 2024. While that ball used a black pearl...
Motiv Shadow Tank
The Shadow Tank is the next evolution in Motiv's Tank series. This ball uses the Flux Symmetric weight block that has been used in previous balls like the Purple Tank,...
Track Criterion Inverse
The Track Criterion Inverse uses different densities in the weight block compared to previous Criterion releases. Its Criterion ID core has a lower RG, a lower differential, and a lower...