Onder Gurkan 9/25/23 Onder Gurkan 9/25/23

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.

Roland Hickland 9/24/23 Roland Hickland 9/24/23

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.

Louise Sonne Schjellerup 9/23/23 Louise Sonne Schjellerup 9/23/23

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.

Muriël Verbruggen – Van Langenhove 9/22/23 Muriël Verbruggen – Van Langenhove 9/22/23

NO THUMB LAYOUT SYSTEMS - 2LS vs PAL vs Dual Angle

Costas Mitsingas

EBF Instructor and IBPSIA Instructor Costas Mitsingas will present ball drilling layouts for 2-handed bowling.

COSTAS MITSINGAS

MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology

MSc Sports Coaching

USSA Sports Coaching

USSA Sports Psychology

USSA Sport Conditioning

USSA Rehabilitation Diploma

USSA Sports Medicine

EBF Level 3 Coach

EBF Coaching Instructor

EBF Drilling Instructor

USBC Gold Coach

USBC Coaching Instructor

Dick Ritger Level 3 Coach

IBPSIA Advanced Certified Technician

IBPSIA Master Instructor

Powerhouse Advanced Certified Technician

KEGEL Lane play methodology workshop certification

KEGEL Oiling pattern design workshop certification

KEGEL Ball drilling dynamics workshop certification

KEGEL Advanced Pro-Shop Technician certification

Brunswick Lane and Ball Connection workshop certification

Advanced Life Support certification

Red Cross certified

APOEL Head of Sports Department

Onder Gurkan 9/21/23 Onder Gurkan 9/21/23

WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT STRING PINSETTERS….OR DON’T!

Gus Falgien

Gus Falgien from US BOWLING will talk about the differences between existing traditional strings and the Modern String Pinsetter.

GUS FALGIEN

Marios Nicolaides 9/20/23 Marios Nicolaides 9/20/23

WHY ARE THE RULES SO COMPLICATED?

Marios Nicolaides

Marios Nicolaides will present the latest rules and a guide to help coaches to find their way within the complicated rules…

MARIOS NICOLAIDES

Onder Gurkan 9/20/23 Onder Gurkan 9/20/23

GAME ON: THE ART OF LEARNING THROUGH PLAYFUL STRATEGIES

Calvin Murray

This presentation explores the integration of gamification techniques into sports coaching to enhance athlete performance and engagement. We’ll discuss how elements of competition, rewards, and interactive challenges can transform training programs, boost motivation, and drive better results. Examples and practical tips for implementing gamification in bowling will be highlighted, emphasizing the potential benefits for both coaches and athletes. Join us to discover innovative ways to level up your coaching game!

CALVIN MURRAY

Calvin Murray has been working as a Scottish National Team Coach since 2014. He is active in contributing to the development of EBF coaching programs and has recently taken up the role of National Head Coach for Scotland.

Onder Gurkan 9/19/23 Onder Gurkan 9/19/23

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.

Louise Sonne Schjellerup 9/19/23 Louise Sonne Schjellerup 9/19/23

GROUP WORKSHOP: HOW TO HANDLE THE “DIFFICULT” SITUATIONS IN BOWLING?

Louise Sonne Schjellerup

There is no easy ride in bowling… throughout a bowling event, “things” happens which has nothing to do with the technic or tactics of bowling…

It can be a consequence of the games but not always… it can be conflicts, anxiety, lack of trust, resilience… it can be within the specific bowler, within the group of bowlers or within the whole team.

The do and don’t s of the coach – a tool box preventing and working with the “difficult” situations…

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.

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.

Onder Gurkan 9/19/23 Onder Gurkan 9/19/23

ON-LANE WORKSHOP: DRILLS FOR IMPROVEMENT

Piritta Kantola

Piritta Kantola, co-chairperson of the EBF (European Bowling Federation) Educational Committee, will share her coaching expertise in this on-the-lanes session.
She is set to present a series of drills to enhance the skills of all bowlers. Whether your bowlers are aspiring novices or seasoned pros, Priritta's insights will help you to have more tools in your coaching toolbox.