After more than four decades in bowling and 124 titles in five continents, Philippine bowling legend
Paeng Nepomuceno has been sharing the secrets of his success with his fellow bowling athletes and coaches. The
Mastering the Mental Game seminar, which was held on Wednesday, May 1, at Paeng's Midtown Bowl in Metro Manila, Philippines, attracted USBC Bronze and Silver level coaches as well as a mix of veteran and youth bowlers. Due to the overwhelming response, Paeng has scheduled another seminar for Saturday, May 25, at the same venue.
USBC coach, instructor and international ambassador Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno has conducted a USBC Silver Level Seminar in Manila, Philippines, January 14 to 16. The seminar was held at Paeng's Midtown Bowl with five Filipino coaches participating in the elite class. Nepomuceno is a living legend in his country after winning 124 career titles all over the world. It was the first USBC seminar held by USBC's busiest international coach in the year 2013.
Stephen Padilla (pictured) of Mansfield, Texas, has logged more than a decade of experience as a certified bowling coach and recently reached the pinnacle of his field by earning Gold-level coaching status from the USBC Coaching Certification and Development department. Padilla, 36, is a USBC Coaching Specialist at the International Bowling Campus in Arlington, and his primary responsibilities are organizing and conducting Silver certification classes.
The International Art of Bowling (IAB), which was established in August 2010 by USBC Gold coach Ron Hoppe and USBC Silver coaches, Jason Belmonte and Diandra Asbaty, has announced today the launch of The Circle membership, a special membership tier that offers added benefits and features. The trio boasts more than 80 years of bowling and coaching experience that includes success at the youth, collegiate, international and professional levels. 
The Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) today signed a co-operative agreement with the United States Bowling Congress (USBC). Thanks to the Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress who facilitated the link, the signing signifies the establishment of a long term partnership between the HKSI and the USBC in the exchange of high performance training, sports medicine and sports science research, testing and scientific data.
Wichita State University (WSU) Head Bowling Coach Gordon Vadakin (pictured) has been chosen as the 2012 inductee into the Bowling Coaches Hall of Fame. Vadakin joins previous inductees Dick Ritger, Tom Kouros, John Jowdy, and Fred Borden in bowling's newest Hall of Fame. Only one coach is honored yearly among bowling's active coaches; but coaches from bowling's rich history who are deceased or retired are also recognized in the Trailblazers category. This year's Trailblazer inductees are Joe Wilman and LaVerne Carter.
For youth bowling coaches, volunteers or parents of children involved in the sport, USA Bowling will provide coaching seminars designed to teach basic bowling coaching skills. The USA Bowling Coaching program already has scheduled 52 seminars throughout the country this fall, and additional seminars will be added. The seminars are a continuation of the program started last year that drew more than 1,100 participants. The seminars are free, are three hours in length and include on-lane and classroom instruction.
The deletion of resurfacing requirement rule in 1964 created a huge asymmetric lane wear issue, which culminated with the PBA creating a lane maintenance division, and implementing their own lane surface policies for PBA Tour events. But today, with the large number of synthetic lanes, we have not only asymmetric wear issues, we found bowling lanes can also have severe asymmetric levelness issues. For Kegel and the LaneMapper project, our next challenge was to find a way to easily show the affects gravity had on a bowling ball on any one lane at any specific distance.
International bowling ambassador Paeng Nepomuceno (pictured), Philippines, flew to Jakarta, Indonesia right after the Christmas holidays to hold a United States Bowling Congress Level One and Bronze Level certification seminar from December 26-28. The seminar, which was made possible thanks to the support of the National Olympic Committee of Indonesia (CONI), was organized by Hasrial Arimis, President of the Persatuan Bowling Indonesia DKI Jakarta Chapter.
Like in many sports, the European Tenpin Bowling Federation provides educational programs and activities to its members. iCoach 2011 - ETBF International Bowling Conference is the star event of the year and the first conference about bowling coaches in Europe. The iCoach 2011 will take place at Kuortane High Performance Training Center, Finland on November 12-13 and will provide the latest information about coaching, sports science, psychology, coaching methodology and coaching tools. 
United States Bowling Congress coach-instructor and International Ambassador for Bowling, Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, Philippines, certified eleven new USBC Silver Level coaches during a seminar held July 6-9 at state-of-the-art Hong Kong Bowling City in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, site of the 2011 World Women's Championships. Fresh off his 123rd career title and his record 8th win in the Philippine Open last month, Paeng trained coaches from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Japan.
USBC Gold coach Costas Mitsingas (pictured with a student) of Nicosia, Cyprus, has organized the first Ebonite Powerhouse Clinic at Bowl Arena Spandau, a 20-laner in Berlin, Germany from Feb. 14-21, 2011. 20 students including four youth bowlers from 14-17 years of age rgot eight hours of instruction over two days including three hours individual coaching by Mitsingas, who was assisted by multiple German champions Bodo Konieczny, Marco Baade and Sven Riegel.
Since 1997 more than 10,000 individuals, 500 professionals and 50 national teams have chosen the Kegel Training Center at the Kegel headquarters in Lake Wales, Florida to advance their game as well as to prepare for major events. In the past year, the Training Center coaching staff has helped bowlers in Asia, Europe and the Americas win medals and trophies in important competitions.
Before finding unprecedented success at major international events this summer, several teams spent quality time training at the International Training and Research Center. Teams from the Dominican Republic and Singapore found success in major events after training at the ITRC, located at the International Bowling Campus in Arlington. The ITRC is a joint venture of the United States Bowling Congress and the Bowling Proprietors Association of America. 
First, the good news: While I did not bowl a single 200 game my entire 17 weeks in the sport league I bowled before working with USBC Silver coach and five-time PBA titlist Bob Learn Jr., it took me just two games this time around.
In my first night of sport-league bowling since working with Bob, I shot a 213 in game two. After 17 straight weeks of failing to shoot 200 on sport shots, that 213 felt a bit like I had just struck oil while digging in my own front lawn. Now for the bad news: I still have a lot of work to do.
Coaches from 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bowling programs visited the International Training and Research Center over the weekend to learn from Team USA coaches how to improve player performance. The inaugural National Tenpin Coaches Association NCAA Coaches Forum brought together 33 head coaches and assistant coaches from across the country. Training included equipment analysis and management, lane maintenance pattern analysis and competition management.
The Kegel Training Center and Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands, have announced the Grand Opening of Kegel Training Center Europe NL. This new facility is located inside Dolfijn Bowlingcentrum, in Tilburg, Netherlands. The new training center will feature the latest in bowling coaching tools such as Dartfish video software with HD cameras and 4 lanes of Computer Aided Tracking System or (C.A.T.S.).
Paeng Nepomuceno (pictured right), a USBC coach and International Ambassador for Bowling, recently concluded a Tri Level USBC Coaching conference in Singapore. Nepomuceno held the coaching conference at the Singapore Chevrons Bowling Center from July 30 to Aug. 1. It was the first time, due to schedule constraints, that Nepomuceno did the seminars back-to-back, doing both Level 1 and Bronze Level and Silver Level Seminars on the same three days. 
August 1st was the last day of the tenth annual Pro Image Bowling Camp, or as I call it "Bowling Boot Camp" here at Rockaway Lanes in New Jersey. This year there were 48 students, spanning ages 12 to 72, who came from Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and even Texas. There were five females and 43 males, three lefthanders and 45 right-handers. Of the 48, 28 or more than half were there for their first time. Eleven were there for their second, six for their third, one for a fourth, one for a fifth, and me for my tenth.
If you read my previous story on breaking free of the house condition mindset, you know me now as the hack who tried his luck on Sport Bowling patterns after 20 years in the delusional wilderness of house-shot leagues.
But it was not enough for me to confirm the pro shop banter I'd heard about how ignorant the typical house bowler tends to be of the chasm between "recreational" and "competitive" bowling. I wanted to know why. For answers, I turned to USBC Silver coach and five-time PBA titlist Bob Learn Jr.