Video: Ed Greene’s 300 game

Thanks to Sandi Litchfield (who posted this on Facebook), for the first time on this blog, you will see a big local bowling moment: the final strike of Ed Greene’s 300 game last night. Greg Banks, a teammate of Ed’s, captured the moment for YouTube:

I believe the first coming up to Ed to congratulate him is Bob Young, our esteemed Brockton Bowling Association manager.

Just showing off

Couldn’t pass this one up 😀

Only a two-handed bowler (Osku Palermaa, in this case) could pull off this trick shot:

My first bowling videos

A couple of items of administrivia before we get to the meat of this post: first, I have created a “Videos” category for use when I post my own bowling video to the blog; second, the “Author’s Links” sidebar section now has a link to my videos on YouTube.

Now, for what I’ve been wanting to do since I started bowling again: get video of myself online. I’ve come up with two short videos, one with a side view (useful for illustrating my timing) and one with a back view (useful for showing swing plane and release). The side view first…videos will be embedded in posts from YouTube, but there will also be a link for downloading for those who wish to analyze them frame by frame:

Download video above (WMV format)

Now the back view:

Download video above (WMV format)

Thanks go out to my best friend, Ed, who was involved with the filming and editing, and to “saito`” on EFnet IRC for hosting the downloads. 😀

A two-handed approach

Thought I’d post about Australian sensation Jason Belmonte, who was recently named as a USBC Youth ambassador. Why the sensation? He uses a two-handed delivery with the skill and results that put most of us one-handed bowlers to shame. Below is a YouTube video showing Belmonte in action against England’s Paul Moor in the finals of last year’s World Tenpin Masters…

EDIT: Just as I posted about this style, it seems, Walter Ray Williams Jr. tries a shot like that in the Pepsi Championship final today. It was a throwaway shot, as he did it in the 10th frame after he had already lost the title to Mike Scroggins.