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What a Difference a Game Makes: Warren explains that just a few games of league bowling are enough to alter the surface of your bowling ball, perhaps dramatically, thereby changing the way it reads the lane pattern. On the right is a ball with a freshly altered surface, and on the left is that same ball appearing to have a more polished finish after absorbing oil on the lane.


TIPS AND TRICKS TO MAKE YOU A BETTER BOWLER By Del Warren & Gianmarc Manzione


SURFACE OBSERVATIONS


Kegel’s Del Warren explains why thinking “out-of-the-box” may not be a good thing in bowling


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he USBC’s recent change to rules governing when and where Open Championships bowlers can alter the surface of their bowling balls—a rules change detailed by Jeff Richgels—shed light on a practice that is


common among the sport’s most competitive bowlers. Among local league bowlers, however, it is more common to settle for the surface a bowling ball has “out-of-the-box.” But out-of-the-box surface—bowling’s version of “factory finish”—does not have to be the only surface for your bowling ball. If you, like many league bowlers, are bowling league on a house shot and


TOUCH HERE to read about the


rules change detailed by Jeff Richgels.


grappling with a high scoring pace that essentially amounts to a carry contest, learning how and when to alter the surface of your bowling balls may give you


just the edge you need to maximize your score. Del Warren, Vice President at the Kegel Training Center in Lake Wales, Fla., has you covered with a series of brief videos in which he walks you through the essentials of ball-surface alteration.


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