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Two handed style – How does he do it?

Jason bowls right handed, but he uses his left hand as a guide. In fact, when you slow down his release via a high-speed video camera, you actually see him releasing the ball with one hand. His left hand comes off the ball before his right hand, meaning he's actually using an extended two handed approach. His left hand doesn’t come off the ball though till the very end of the release.

Jason holds the ball in both hands all the way through his push away and back swing. Having the left hand still attached to the ball means that the weight of the ball is split in both hands. So now he has less pressure on his wrist to create maximum amount of revolutions (an average of 600 RPM).

The back swing can’t be as high as a one of a handed bowler, because both his hands are still on the ball, so to generate ball speed he does two main things. He uses his hips and legs to produce ball speed, together with what has become a famous little ‘skip’ from his 3rd to his 4th into his sliding 5th step. These two main points are the main reason he can generate such high ball speed with such a small back swing. Due to smooth technique he has more ball speed and more power than almost every other bowler in the world, but he uses less effort. That’s an advantage for two handed bowling!

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Опубликовано Storm Bowling 7 декабря 2016 г.



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Two handed style – Why does he do it?

Jason was born just weeks before his family bowling business in Orange, New South Wales, Australia opened. From his early childhood he was taken to the bowl instead of day care. When he was 18 months old he got strong enough to push a bowling ball on his own and that’s when he began to bowl. In 1985, the lightest bowling ball they had was 10lbs, carrying this was almost impossible for a 1,5 year kid. So Jason started to bowl by pushing the ball down the lane with two hands, an approach he developed over the years. His style was quite rough and complicated, so many of the local bowlers and even national coaches would try and convert him to the 'normal’ way of bowling. Fortunately, he was stubborn enough and ignored them. His parents were not bowlers themselves, and their limited knowledge in coaching meant they didn’t want to try and change his style. Otherwise, who knows what he would be doing if he had listened!
So Jason kept on developing a two-handed style which he uses today, placing only two fingers and no thumb in the ball to produce more revolutions. His style is becoming more and more popular around the world. An army of two handed bowlers is hitting the lanes nowadays. Which is more - Jason helped the two handed style to become a legitimate style to the many critics around the world! Naturally, we have it in our game!

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Опубликовано Ultimate Bowling Products 6 декабря 2016 г.



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