It has been attributed to Mo Pinel that some day we are going to say...."Two handed bowling is the future of bowling".
As a fella lucky enough to have a son that started naturally at age 5, was told incorrectly that he could not do it in league at age 6 after a 190 game(and cried and went home.) Then took it up again in his teens after seeing it again and is now occasionally scraping up towards 240 in his leagues.
It is a great method! As an injured righty who switched to lefty after a bad right handed thumb injury I wished I had taken up two handed right bowling! I still might!
A couple of comments I would make regarding the technique is
1. Jason Belmonte is the best bowler on the planet because he has the best fundamentals of the two handers. Better timing, better balance, ball closer to his ankle, combined with the ball roll of the more powerful two handed style.
2. Ability to easily and strongly change axis rotation is one of the great assets of the two handed bowler!
3. The analogy to bowling is the two handed backend in tennis. The losses of the most skilled one hander of all time Roger Federer are almost all caused by his weaker one handed backhand versus his other elite competitors more versatile, powerful, and last second adjusted two handed backhands!
4. I have watched both traditional two handed bowlers and the more powerful 3rd step skip method used by the more powerful two handers(Belmonte, Palermo, my son and many others). If you are going to try it the skip step method is in most cases the way to go, more ball speed, seems to be the result and the matchup of the always present more revs from two handed is a much better combination when combined with the possibility of hyper speed.
Final comment, my sons journey in to the upper top hat average regions is fueled by fundamentals. Timing, balance, and foot position at the foul line combined with closeness to the ankle drive periods of superior performance. Neglect of these the opposite. These same ideas of course necessary for great one handed bowling also and also the reason for Belmonte's separation from the rest of the growing pack of two handers on tour.
Regards,
Luckylefty
