Because it’s “different”.

 When you’ve studied and worked a long time to perfect a needed set of skills, you easily tend to resent those who would seek to change the skill set completely that took you so long to learn.

 I was one. I absolutely HATED reactive resin balls because they negated release skills I had learned that gave me an edge. They enabled people with what I considered “bad” releases, who had not been able to generate carry power with the older technology, to now throw the ball with their weaker “natural” release, and hit/carry as well as I could.

 I felt cheated because I had to learn the right way to generate power with ball roll, but now you could just do it with balls the generated the friction with the cover technology, and right themselves into a roll with a gyroscopic weightblock.

 Two handed bowling is no different. It lets guys who aren’t physically strong enough to do it with one hand to use their second hand to help generate power. Older players didn’t do it that way. Instead, we were taught to perfect the “proper” release and told to perfect that as much as we could, cause that’s all you can do. We weren’t taught anything else, so maybe we felt like the young two handers were cheating both us and the system.

 There is hope though. I have gotten over it all, and I think many of us “old guys” are trying very hard to move into the 21st century, lol.

Quote from: Juggernaut on January 30, 2022, 06:31:04 PM

Because it’s “different”.

 When you’ve studied and worked a long time to perfect a needed set of skills, you easily tend to resent those who would seek to change the skill set completely that took you so long to learn.

 I was one. I absolutely HATED reactive resin balls because they negated release skills I had learned that gave me an edge. They enabled people with what I considered “bad” releases, who had not been able to generate carry power with the older technology, to now throw the ball with their weaker “natural” release, and hit/carry as well as I could.

 I felt cheated because I had to learn the right way to generate power with ball roll, but now you could just do it with balls the generated the friction with the cover technology, and right themselves into a roll with a gyroscopic weightblock.

 Two handed bowling is no different. It lets guys who aren’t physically strong enough to do it with one hand to use their second hand to help generate power. Older players didn’t do it that way. Instead, we were taught to perfect the “proper” release and told to perfect that as much as we could, cause that’s all you can do. We weren’t taught anything else, so maybe we felt like the young two handers were cheating both us and the system.

 There is hope though. I have gotten over it all, and I think many of us “old guys” are trying very hard to move into the 21st century, lol.

I'd agree with all that, and also add that the two hander doesn't have to worry about "thumb drag" or whatever you want to call it.

I'm sure many a bowler has grabbed it at a clutch moment or two and it cost them, whether a title or a local sweeper.

I coached high school bowling for 15 years, hung it up in 2019. The amount of two handed youth bowlers is astounding, but if it keeps the sport alive I'm ok with it. Jason Belmonte definitely inspired a generation that's for sure.

The percentage of people complaining about anything hasn't changed that much over time.  The difference now is they have a platform to post their complaints.  And posting their complaints gives them some sort of fullfillment by finding at least a couple people on the internet to agree with them.  Instead what they should be focusing on is  themselves and what they can do to improve.