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By turning the two-handed bowling technique into a new and improved fluid motion, a team of Bolivian bowlers are taking the world by storm. Young practitioners of the novel style showed up at a bowling alley in Santa Cruz on Tuesday to practice the technique developed by successful Australian bowler Jason Belmonte.

Just two fingers are inserted into the holes and the thumb is left out. The right hand is used to cradle the ball and create extra spin on release. Then, if you’re lucky, you get a strike. Trainers in eastern Bolivia are studying videos on YouTube of Belmonte and fellow two-hander bowler, Osku Palerma.  They’re passing the technique on to young bowlers like Sebastian Nemtala Garcia.

[Sebastian Nemtala Garcia, Amateur Bowler]:
“(I learned) from coach, Bene Villa and players Jason Belmonte and Osku Palerma, who are also two-handed players. The method can be learned more quickly and because we are training for the Bolivian Games, we had to learn as quickly as possible. There isn’t much time, so we opted for this more effective way of playing.”

A two-handed ball nearly drops into the right gutter before veering back into the pins. Properly thrown, it can rack up strike after strike. Marcelo Garafulic, the president of the Bolivian Bowling Federation, wants to bring up an entire generation of bowlers using the unusual, but successful, technique.

[Marcelo Garafulic, Bolivian Bowling Federation President]:
“We’re specializing and focusing on two-handed bowling in Bolivia with concrete results. We get more medals this way.”

Training started at the end of March 2008 . Since then Bolivian bowlers have had unprecedented success in international tournaments, winning medals in Argentina and Brazil. They’ve also managed to win the elusive perfect game, not once, but twice.

[Marcelo Garafulic, Bolivian Bowling Federation President]:
“Gold, silver, bronze; we won all the medals there were to win, and Bolivia had never won an official championship. We also got a perfect game, which means three hundred points, all strikes to the end. Thanks to these clinics we got a perfect game in a month and two months later another three hundred. Breaking the record of thirty four years with no championship and then this perfect game.”

And with young bowlers from Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and La Paz honing their two-handed throws on the lanes five hours a day, Garafulic hopes Bolivians are on the way to joining Belmonte on the professional ten-pin circuit.

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