Holman's starting approach was partially learned by a tremendous bowler that mentored him here in southern Oregon when Holman was growing up, Jerome Lee. Jerome too starts with the ball low and bent over, then starts the pushaway and never budges his head throughout the approach all the way to the line and is dead solid. Jerome is in his 70s now and still can whack 'em with the young guys and can show the seniors a thing or two at the big events like the Senior High Roller and such. A great man to know too.

As far as the question at hand, as far as textbook styles, I echo the choice of Ozio and Voss. In a way I think reactives helped Ozio because he had such an effortless release to begin with and he could just pure them down the lane and then have the reactive hit at the pocket. I must say the stories I have heard about Ozio playing straight up 1 board with a Blue Dot are crazy.

With Pete Weber, I agree he had a release you just couldn't teach. It was certainly special but he had a lot more hit at the bottom with urethane than he does now. I actually like his reactive release better because it's so effortless at the bottom with plenty of roll still. But I can tell with the back and forth with thicker oils combated with stronger coverstocks that his roll and tilt no matter how good just conflicts. You could see him just light up at the plastic ball tourney last season since he could actually hit the ball at the bottom again. Shows how much of of a talent he still is that he can still be a top tier bowler.

As for lefties, I still am amazed at how well Aulby could get a ball down the lane with lower ball speed and decent turn. You have to have a special release to get that and his was just as good with plastic, urethane, and reactives.

Another great stylist, but a bowler that was never able to fulfill his potential due to unfortunate circumstances is Rick Steelsmith.

Wayne Webb should also be added to the list of great stylists, whether he was holding the ball down by his side and balanced only by his bowling arm, or whether he was holding the ball up conventionally with the non-bowling hand supporting some of the ball's weight.

Other fine stylists that come to mind:
Mike Durbin, Randy Pederson, Doug Kent, Robert Smith, Dave D'Entremont, Gary Skidmore, Mark Baker, Tony Westlake (loved his game), Steve Wunderlich, Pete McCordic, Tony Reyes, and Mike Edwards.
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Jason Queen had pretty good form.

Right hander--Brian Voss  Left hander---Mike Aulby

Guppy Troup! that guy had style...
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