EVOLUTION OF TWO-HANDED BOWLING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Piritta Kantola - Robert Andersson
Piritta Kantola and Robert Andersson will talk about the evolution of two-handed bowling and present the latest results of a biomechanics study concerning the swing and how to produce ball speed.
PIRITTA KANTOLA
2023- Today / Co-chairman of Education and Technical Committee: European Bowling Federation
2021- Today / National team coach for womens team: Finnish Bowling Federation
2020-2022 / Head of youth coaching: Finnish Bowling Federation
2019-2022 / Head coach of Team Future (U16): Finnish Bowling Federation
2017- Today / Pro shop operator: Kuortane Olympic Training Center
2009- Today / Instructor and a member of the Educational Committee, Coaching education levels 1, 2 and 3: European Bowling Federation
2008- Today / Director of Bowling Training and Education Center: Kuortane Olympic Training Center
2006- Today / Head Instructor, Coaching education levels 1, 2 and 3: Finnish Bowling Federation
2006- 2012 / National team coach for juniors and youth: Finnish Bowling Federation
2002- Today / Classroom teacher (2004 Master of Educational Sciences)
2000- 2006 / Assistant coach for Juniors and youth: Finnish Bowling Federation
1997- 2016 National team bowler, Championships and European Bowling Tour
ROBERT ANDERSSON
Education
Step 1-4 under the Swedish bowling federation.
Step 5 under Swedish sport ministry, 2 years sport university.
EBT Level 3
Studies published in Sweden
2012-2013 Timing Angle and Ball Speed among Nordic Elite Bowlers
2014 Down Swing ratio
2015 Study of the movements in bowling with Qualisys (3d reconstructions)
2015-2016 DAB (Data Analyze Bowling). A web based way to keep track of the changes in a bowler’s technique.
2020 Injury prevention in 2-handed bowling.
Assignments in National teams
2011-2017. Coach in Swedish youth team (under 21)
2017-2018. Head Coach Saudi Arabia
2018. Coach with India for Asian Games
2019. Coach for Philippines during SEA Games
2018-2020. Head Coach Iceland
2019- Head Coach Sweden Woman
2022-. Head Coach Sweden Man
2023-. Head Coach Sweden Junior and Youth
Speaker in international bowling conferences:
2013 Icoach Etbf in Finland
2016 World coaches conference Arlington Texas
2016 Women bowling conference in Singapore.
ADVANCED BOWLING BALL SURFACE: WHY THE RATE OF SURFACE CHANGE DETERMINES WHO WINS
Ronald Hickland
The topic I will cover will be Bowling Ball Surface. The rate of surface change from both a chemical and mechanical standpoint. We will discuss how to measure surface changes, techniques, and strategies to help both a player, and a coach control surface changes over time. We will talk about Urethane, Micro Cell Polymer, Reactive balls and discuss how they each respond to surface.
RONALD HICKLAND
Ron has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. Ron is a certified Silver Level USBC Coach who regularly coaches Professionals,Celebrities, and Bowlers of all levels. Ron designed, developed, and tested bowling balls for Ebonite, Hammer Columbia 300 and Track for 14 years as a Manager of Technology. Ron holds a United States Patent on a Bowling Ball Restoration Product. Ron is currently CEO of Creating The Difference a bowling education company that offers education and products designed to help the bowler. CtD was founded by and his partner in 2015 and has almost 2000 Staff members world wide. CtD offers bowling ball cleaning products like That Purple Stuff and So Fresh and So Clean. Recently CtD launched TruCut Sanding Pads. These pads were specifically made for bowling balls. CtD has also partnered with Turtle Wax to create TruCut Hand Applied Polish. A polish that can be used by hand or on a spinner. Both of these products offer unique performance in altering the surface of the bowling ball.
HOW TO BENEFIT FROM A SPORT PSYCHOLOGIST? THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK IN BOWLING…
Louise Sonne Schjellerup
What is the work of a sport psychologist in bowling? The psychological challenges in bowling? What to expect from the sport psychologist? What to be aware of? The work with bowlers? The work with coaches? The work outside the lanes and on the lanes? The ‘on-set’ sport psychologist versus the ‘home’ sport psychologist?
What’s is in it for me as a coach?
LOUISE SONNE SCHJELLERUP
My own sports career as a figure skater was the pistol for my passion and interest for the sport psychology and the possibilities in the sport performance lying within this aspect.
I choose a university degree in sport from which I decided to focus on the psychology in a performance enhancing perspective. Halmstad Högskola served me the perfect opportunities and three years later I left Sweden with a European Master degree in sport and exercise psychology.
Since October 2008 I have worked as a fulltime sport psychological consultant at Team Danmark working with individual athletes, national teams and coaches from: ice hockey table tennis, bowling, water-skiing, cycling, figure skating, ice hockey, shooting, handball, tennis, swimming, military battle, dressage - and jump riding, kayak, ballroom dancing, handicap sport (dressage, swimming, track and field, table tennis) etc. In addition to this I have worked as the national sport psychologist at competitions, several Europeans, Worlds and the Paralympics 2012 and doing workshops and educational programs for athletes and coaches across sports.
In 2014 I moved to Sweden continuing my work, focusing particular on the Swedish national teams in bowling – from junior to senior, working with the players, the team and the coaches.
DO WE STILL NEED TO FOLLOW? .. EVEN TWITTER IS NO MORE.
Sven Sager
FOOD FOR THOUGHT SESSIONS
This topic is a kind of follow up on the famous article and presentation from Ted Thompson during the iCoach 2013(?).
Since then the sport has developed further and the new question should be "Do we still need to follow?“ Adopting to a constantly changing environment is part of our sport, but is it still state of the art, actually was it ever needed? Is it even more like turning into unfair conditions?
This presentation is more aiming to be a discussion about what we as tournament and championship organizers, but also as coaches need to give the sport a fairer environment or playground.
We will talk about today’s bowling issues, needs and the root causes for issues during tournaments and championships to make a more fair environment for our athletes.
SVEN SAGER
Sven entered the bowling universe, today also know as the bowling bubble 31 years ago in the age of 6 where wooden lanes and manual score taking were the sate of the art.
Today he is member of the EBF educational and technical committee, technical delegate in Germany, Team Germany coach, technical director of a bowling center, tournament director, member of the Specto team, contractor for Bowltech, so he literally lives Bowling. He usually likes to stays more in the background, watching, analyzing. But if you ask for an opinion it’s guaranteed you will get an unadorned reply. Svens policy is, there are no stupid questions, since the best questions coming from outside the bubble. But there are very stupid answers like „we always did it that way“ and „we never did it that way“. So better be prepared with an answer that does not include one of these two sentences.