Bowling better (Image: Action Press/Rex Features)
IF YOUR tenpin bowling is a bit off-target a smart training ball might one day keep your shots out of the gutter.
Sports scientist Franz Fuss of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia fitted aluminium tubes in the thumb and finger holes of a regular bowling ball. Each tube had a strain gauge at the bottom to measure and log the forces the players’ fingers were applying on each shot.
Ten players of differing abilities used the ball to attempt various shots. Fuss found that the strain gauge measurements from the ball…
