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The last several weeks I’ve featured a recent interview with current Junior Team USA assistant coach Mike Shady. This week, Mike and I discussed how tournament lane play strategies continues to evolve, how the learning curve bowling on PBA patterns has been drastically reduced, one of the most definitive explanations behind what is known as the ‘Straub pushaway.”
When Shady and I were in our 20s in PBA regional and national tour competition in the few years of pre reactive resin 1988-91, lanes were stripped by hand, oiled just once a day with a hand-held bug sprayer pumped by hand and a lino duster. Regional qualifying was in two five-game blocks. The late squad of both A and B squads played very different than the early. One strategy was to move a little and use a weaker ball, or using bowler lingo, shell down but stay in the same portion or zone of the lane. Another was to move left, pushing more oil downlane, then once the ball didn’t turn the corner, start moving back right in the later portion of the second block. This practice was told to me by a PBA Senior Tour player who was a regular on the ESPN finals at that time, so it definitely has some validity.
According to Shady, with the increased use of urethane, this these two strategies have come back.
“The European players using urethane have simplified the game much like you and I (me) did in college (in the mid-80s). When you do move, it may be half a board. Throw on top of it until you wear it down. On the other hand, our tour players today may move a whole zone, perhaps 15 to 20 boards.”
One of the biggest changes he has seen is the adaptation of today’s college players to top international and PBA Tour competitions. The adage used to be decades ago new Tour players needed several years to bowl on those patterns to get used to ball motion, pattern transition, and bowler’s physical adjustments. That is not the case anymore. The time taken to learn to score on the tougher patterns is also greatly decreased.
And the European two-handed players often throw nothing but urethane. They have not thrown a high-performance resin ball in three years, and 98 percent of those balls are Purple Hammers. That’s all they throw. Kelly Kulick told me at a tourney with Team USA in Seoul, South Korea, there were thirty-six other countries, all throwing urethane.
“Three years ago, everyone was whining about what urethane did to patterns. Now that everyone has seen it, it has become acceptable. They’ve adapted and adjusted. If I see that a bunch of times, I’m not going to complain, I’m going to figure it out,” Shady said.
Here’s an explanation about what many have wondered about since Straub took over at Nebraska. Why the traditional very pronounced pushaway? Here’s an explanation.
“He knew it created rigidity and a game that was very methodical. But also, as part of a team sport with that pushaway, he could control that player on the lane during team play. Then, he could tell a player what adjustment to make, and boom, it worked just like that. If you have a unique bowler with an unorthodox approach, making an adjustment during team play, it’s much more difficult for a coach to choose the best solution at the time. The sixteen national championships for both men and women, speaks for itself,” Shady said.
The latest in his Backstage Bowling instructional videos produced by Mike Flanagan’s Inside Bowling group were uploaded two weeks ago, including the Hayden Stippich video describing his crash course to add a slide at the end of his two-handed style. Stippich won the PBA Tour Trails and an exemption for next year’s tour.
Shady could not emphasize enough the importance of treating bowling as a sport if a player wants to become better, especially at the highest levels. Establish what goals the player has in mind and design a program to meet those goals. Embrace the work it is going to take, there will be ups and downs in this athletic endeavor. When the goal is achieved, the player may want more. That’s where the fun is.
Until next time, go make some more ball dust.
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