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    Anyone have any suggestions for a favorite bowling book for helping to improve a game to anything about bowling. This includes magazines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrmc114064 View Post
    Anyone have any suggestions for a favorite bowling book for helping to improve a game to anything about bowling. This includes magazines.
    There are a bunch of resources out there. Revolutions II by Chip Zielke is a must read if you want to understand ball reactions, and drilling. Bowling Execution by John Jowdy is a series of instructional essays by one of the great bowling coaches. I'm reading and re-reading Joe Slowinski's Bowler Reference System is a good one for learning how to adjust your ball reactions by varying your hand and finger positions. Anything by Fred Borden is good but they're harder to find. Bowling This Month is a great magazine to subscribe to.
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    JerseyJim gave you some very good suggestions on bowling books to read you
    can find a bunch of bowling books right here
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    Trying to find that Revolutions 2 book but cant seem to find it. Only on amazon for 20 but that is it any where else they may have it for cheaper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrmc114064 View Post
    Trying to find that Revolutions 2 book but cant seem to find it. Only on amazon for 20 but that is it any where else they may have it for cheaper.
    It's a niche book with a small volume published, it's hard to find cheap. I paid $24 for mine 7 years ago.
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    Thanks for the suggestions. I'm always looking for new reading material and wondered about the magazine. Came close to subscribing to it and was going to ask if anyone else had before doing so
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    Quote Originally Posted by littlelegs View Post
    Thanks for the suggestions. I'm always looking for new reading material and wondered about the magazine. Came close to subscribing to it and was going to ask if anyone else had before doing so
    Great magazine, there's almost too much information to process. There are a bunch of coaches who contribute articles. Susie Minshew, Ron Clifton, Joe Slowinski and Dean Hinitz are just a few of the well known names that have written articles in BTM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JerseyJim View Post
    It's a niche book with a small volume published, it's hard to find cheap. I paid $24 for mine 7 years ago.
    How big of a book is it and at what level of expertise do you need to understand the main points in Revolution 2?

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    Is it worth the 20 some dollars?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrmc114064 View Post
    How big of a book is it and at what level of expertise do you need to understand the main points in Revolution 2?
    I don't think that it's even 100 pages long. For me it was worth the $20 to gain an understanding of modern ball technology, and the difference between layouts at the time. It also goes into altering the surface of the ball. You can probably gain the same knowledge by searching the web. You don't need a high level of expertise to understand the main points of the book.

    Watching this video from Fred Borden would give you an idea of some of what is in the book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U631I...ure=plpp_video
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