December 2011

Volume 18, Issue 12

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In the search for ultimate answers to the aws in ones game, Dean Hinitz offers a different approach: plug your energy drain holes, get down to the ground level, and handle things at the roots.

Exploring the game as a spiritual experience

Susie Minshew shows you how to ever so slightly tweak your hand positions to multiply your reactions and give you lots of options.

Rening your reaction

This motto not only dened the life of the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, but reected the actions of many of the greatest players in bowling history. John Jowdy walks you through the many ways bowling's greats threw away the book and created their own rules.

Doing it my way

A readers eyesight problems led to Bill Halls exploration of feeling rather than merely seeing the changes that lanes go through as they hit oil patterns and go through their lane transitions. But heres why you might be missing them on a regular basis. Ron Clifton identies ten mistakes in shooting spares and tells you how to x them.

How to feel the friction

QUICK INFO
38 At-A-Glance Ball Chart 26-27 Ball Tracking Results 32-33 3D Ball Comparisons 50 Ball Company Directory 51 Compare-a-Ball

Spares are soooo boring

Paul Butcher has a plan for how you can schedule exercise and tness into your busy life, what to include in your plan, how often, how many reps, and what duration. A sample tness program is included.

The Big Four keys to proper exercise programming

How much should I practice?

Chris Mesagno matches practice to personality, outlining research ndings that show how the characteristics of your personality may be the critical factors in determining the amount of practice you need during training.

Finish at the foul line

A good start insures a good nish position. Jack Schmid walks you through the ner points of positioning yourself at the approach, including how to do a one step drill.

Dening the game through biomechanics

Joe Slowinski takes on the physical game of Amleto Monacelli in the language of biomechanics to give coaches and players a more extensive professional language. Why? To more accurately articulate the movements and positions of the physical game.

BALL TALK REVIEWS

900 Global Hook! Pink/Black p28 Columbia 300 Benchmark p29 DV8 Too Reckless p30 Ebonite Warning Sign p31 Lane #1 Panther Pearl p34 LoMar Private Label by Ebonite Undefeated p35 Motiv Primal Impulse p36 Radical Slant Hybrid p37

DECEMBER 2011

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