Just been skimming through this from Mo Pinel.

I haven’t seen it before and was wondering what others thoughts are.

Some new conclusions from the new rules for weight holes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOOZdetR2Fs

And the game continues to loose participation since the early 80's, but we keep chasing score and rev rate as a means to keep people in it.

 The reality about a 10 year old bowler is that due to extremely easy house conditions there's shots where the same ball can go flush going straight up 3rd arrow and being leaked out to 5 from the 3rd arrow by the same bowler on back to back shots. Everyone gets a nut for 300 sometimes but if a 10 year old can out average you over the course of a season on that same shot, then that ten year old is better. You have stats and numbers to back it up. The pins however react to entry angle and the force of which the ball hits the pins. It doesn't know if a 10 year old threw it, or if a 6'4 220lb man with 4% body fat threw it.

With all of the focus on the bowler and not the physics of what happens after the foul line, it boils down to jealousy. Jealousy that someone can funnel hack their way to throwing a more powerful ball than you can generate "traditionally". Walter Ray is one of the most accurate bowlers that ever lived and he taught himself how to bowl two handed after 50 years of age. Even he can't turn it on and "cheat" his way to winning every week.

I think your argument of "cheating" would hold a lot more weight if there were more documented cases of traditional style bowlers converting over to two handing it and dominating. It doesn't happen. The two handers aren't cheating, it's just a different set of mechanics that cause them to shape the lane different. It's only "exploitable" in maybe 6 tournaments a year on the PBA tour where the people that can bend it from a lane over to the left have the best shot at getting through the late blocks with a 250+ look. At the league and recreational level this isn't an issue. Even in the overwhelming majority of competitive tournaments it's not an issue. If any tournament it's an issue is the 12. & Under and under 15 divisions where kids can generate "adult" speed and rev rates but eventually as they more up, everything levels out.

Or the 10 year old that shot 300-630. What's the bigger threat to bowling? The 10 year old two handing a 12lb target zone? Or the house shot that's easy enough to shoot 300 on with a 12 lb plastic ball?

As for the 300, 630 that has been a symtom of the game for 20 years since resin staeted blowing up patterns.  I dont remember the first time I shot 300 with a sub 700, but it has happened several times.  Worst I remember, shot 300 the second game in a 4 game league.  Never got a double the last two.   Shot about 860 for 4. 

If there's no rule against it, is it really cheating?

Guilty in the court of public opinion.... and I guess that is all that matters now-a-days.

The "cheat code" analogy is severely flawed. It literally says CHEAT, and it IS a form of cheating while playing a video game. Not sure how one can suggest it isn't.

In terms of putting an extra hand on the ball, that hand does NOTHING with regards to adding revs to the shot. It is simply to stabilize the ball during delivery.

Throwing two handed is not easy. Even if you can generate the extra revs and get it on the lane, it isn't easy to control. Many people can't do it. Just as many people can't generate a high rev rate throwing the ball with the thumb in.

People used to use just one finger and a thumb. Should we be promoting that style still? Isn't that more pure? Why is there a "correct" way to throw a hook? Get over it.

Also, to compare basketball to bowling - ie. pro vs 10 year old. If you can't see the difference in the two sports... wow.

In golf , Was belly or anchored putting considered 'cheating'? How about Snead's original croquet style?
 NOPE......not until a few years later when the USGA & R&A made rules that deemed it so.
Don't expect the USBC to do the same...……….