Article Contents
- 1. The youngsters are alright
- 2. Urethane is king
- 2.1. Why urethane is so efficient
- 3. Backing as much as success
- 3.1. Should you can’t beat them, be part of them
- 4. Girls and the two-handed sport
- 5. Last ideas
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If the youth are the way forward for the game, then it stands to cause that no matter youth bowlers are doing is a sign of the place bowling may be headed.
It doesn’t really feel like that way back, but it surely has been over 20 years since Osku Palermaa and Jason Belmonte burst onto the scene utilizing a two-handed fashion. Prefer it or not, this fashion revolutionized the game as increasingly more younger bowlers adopted it. Now, we nearly all the time see no less than one two-hander on each PBA telecast. All over the world, the two-handed sport is much more dominant.
With this in thoughts, for my first editorial-style BTM article, I’d like to debate a number of the developments I noticed not too long ago whereas teaching on the 2024 World Youth Championships in South Korea.
The youngsters are alright
As some readers could know, I’m at the moment the top coach for the Canadian Tenpin Federation along with being the Director of Content material for BTM. My first occasion again on the worldwide scene was with our youth groups in South Korea.
Having continued to be concerned within the bowling business and dealing with worldwide coaches like Juha Maja and Ernesto Avila, I used to be actually conscious of what was happening within the worldwide scene. That stated, it’s one factor to know that one thing is occurring and one other to truly observe it with my very own eyes whereas teaching in that atmosphere.
One factor I’ll say for certain is that the worldwide expertise on the youth degree is extraordinarily excessive—actually even increased than what I’d seen 10 years in the past. With extra information and higher teaching accessible all over the world, there’s much more parity on the planet of bowling. The place there have been as soon as solely a few dominant nations, the sphere is now far more …