In an increasingly congested Australian sporting landscape, the ability to strike at the right time is an undoubted asset.

Taking that opportunity with both hands is tenpin bowling wizard Jason Belmonte, who continues to not only re-write the record books, but also change the entire way his sport is played.

After going professional a decade ago, Belmonte is now ranked number one in the world and already holds the mantle for the most majors in tenpin history.

He's earned millions of dollars bowling around the globe in front of thousands of screaming fans and is proud to be pulling his weight for Australia's sporting legacy.

"I love sport in general and I love Aussie sport, and one of the things that I think we can confidently say is that on a world scale, it's been a while since we've had an athlete that was the best in the world at something," Belmonte said.

The Belmo bubble: Jason Belmonte says he goes into 'beast mode' when he competes. ( Supplied: Professional Bowlers Association )

Belmonte is certainly the best at his chosen sport and he can now legitimately claim to be one of the nation's most successful athletes.

"The rugby, we're not the best in the world at that. And we're not the best in cricket anymore," he said.

"Even our swimmers, when we lost Ian Thorpe, we're not the best swimmers anymore and we don't have a 400m runner like Cathy Freeman.

"It's like everything that we do, we're not winning. And I'm just glad that I can say: 'Hey Australia, we have someone from our country that is winning. We are the best in the world at something'."

Leaving his mark

After he dominated the local tenpin bowling scene, followed by Europe, Belmonte joined the prestigious Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour in 2008 and was named Rookie of the Year in his first season.

He has been named the tour's player of the year five times since and, at 35 years of age, Belmonte's only just getting started.

"I think long-term my goal is to probably set a number in major championships that will take some serious rivalling to ever catch," Belmonte told the ABC while back in Australia on a rare break in the international circuit.

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"In my 2017 season I did something that had never been done before and we have five major championships in a year, and I was the first player to ever have won three of them in a single calendar year."

Midway through the current season, Belmonte has already registered more total wins than he did in 2017 and he is now eyeing off the only major he is yet to win — the US Open.

"There's huge potential for me personally to have just a season of all seasons," he said.

"It's kind of like season eight of Game of Thrones; it's the one that we all talk about for a really long time."

Tenpin bowling is a big deal in places like North America and Asia, and Belmonte is the King Pin.

He's been invited to more weddings than he can remember, is a star attraction at bowling fan days and has been permanently etched into people's lives.

"There have been a few people … that have tattooed my logo on their forearm, on their leg and on their neck," he said.

"I love Roger Federer, I think he's a great athlete. Would I see myself tattooing RF on my neck? I don't know about that.

"So that's a really unusual thing to see."

Strike a pose

While it's not unusual for an Australian to be at the top of their sport on the world stage, where Belmonte continues to set himself apart is how he has revolutionised tenpin bowling.

His two-handed style originated when he was a toddler, bowling in his parents Aldo and Marisa's lanes in Orange, in the Central West of New South Wales.

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He was too small to bowl with one hand, so used two.

It's a method he's never erred from even as he grew towards being the most dominant athlete in his sport.

"It's such a wild thing. I don't really think about it a whole lot, but the more I think about it, I actually feel nervous thinking about how you can change a sport that way," Belmonte said.

"There are thousands and thousands of kids and adults alike who are adopting the style and it makes me just so grateful that these kids don't have to worry about the 'Hey you're not bowling the right way' kind of conversations."

For Belmonte, he's seen his unorthodox style go from being dismissed to embraced.

From ridiculed to revered — Jason Belmonte's unorthodox, and hugely successful, two-handed bowling style. ( Supplied: Professional Bowlers Association )

"That's one of the coolest and weirdest things, to say 'Hey, it's not ridiculed anymore. It's a legitimate style because you did it'," Belmonte said.

"You were the first guy to do this, and now everyone that's doing it can use you as 'Hey, if it's alright for the best in the world it's alright for me too'."

Determined to stay at the top of his game, Belmonte also wants to expand the sport's profile internationally, as well as in Australia.

"For me personally, if the sport grows in recognition, then the achievements by default become more recognised for what they are. I don't think it works the other way," he said.

"You can say how great my achievements are, but if people see bowling as a recreation, then people don't really have any full respect for or understanding of the sport that I do."