Videos and tips for Sport Bowling

Sport Bowling patterns are used in the highest level of competitions such as the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) and Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) tours, and World Bowling championships events.

Below are videos to help you understand several of the different patterns you might compete on in a Sport Bowling league.

PBA Experience
Click here for a pdf that explains the PBA Experience "animal" patterns along with a tip from a PBA Tour player on how to attack the pattern.

To also help you play some of the more popular PBA Experience "animal" patterns, check out these videos:

• Chameleon 
• Cheetah
• Scorpion
• Shark
• Viper
 

World Bowling
Bowling in international competition means bowling on some of the most challenging lane conditions in the sport.In the following videos, Team USA bowlers give you their tips and plan of attack on the four short, medium and long international patterns.

Short patterns (click on the name to see the video)

BEIJING
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
LOS ANGELES
• Kelly Kulick
• Liz Johnson
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
STOCKHOLM
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Kelly Kulick
• Chris Barnes
 
SYDNEY
• Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
• Liz Johnson
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Chris Barnes   
 

Medium patterns (click on the name to see the video)
  
ATHENS
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Liz Johnson
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
ATLANTA
• Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
MONTREAL
• Chris Barnes
 
SEOUL
• Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
• Chris Barnes   

 
Long patterns (click on the name to see the video)
  
LONDON
• Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Kelly Kulick
• Liz Johnson
• Chris Barnes

MEXICO CITY
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Kelly Kulick
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
PARIS
• Kelly Kulick
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 
TOKYO
• Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
• Shannon Pluhowsky
• Kelly Kulick
• Liz Johnson
• Chris Barnes
• Shannon O'Keefe
 

Additional information

The USBC Bowling Academy also has put together many outstanding videos to help bowlers, including a couple of videos to help you understand oil and oil pattern sheets.

Each oil pattern has a "diagram" to show how the oil is placed on the lane. To understand how to read these oil pattern sheets, click on the video below.

Click on the video below to learn more about the different oils used on bowling lanes.