Hello from SoCal

[ytlas]

Getting ready to return to bowling after nearly a 19 year layoff due to "Trigger Finger" on the middle finger of my bowling hand. In the 19 years, I got old, weaker, and lost 130# and finally the trigger finger symptoms went away.

I haven't set foot in a local center since the day I quit, and have been completely away from the game so I have a lot of catching up to do on the technological aspects of the game. I never thought I'd bowl again so I tossed most of my bowling balls over the years and only kept two. When I start and get my timing issues straightened out, then I'll be in the market for new equipment.

[JasonNJ]

Welcome. My brother in law had trigger finger and bowling did aggravate it. What helped him was accupuncture, he went for a few months and his trigger finger went away. Good luck with it.

[ytlas]

Welcome. My brother in law had trigger finger and bowling did aggravate it. What helped him was accupuncture, he went for a few months and his trigger finger went away. Good luck with it.

Thank you. I did the cortisone injection and the doctor backed out of doing surgery. When I aggravated it, it was like have a badly sprained finger for over two months. In hindsight I should have just drilled a ball to hold it with the forefinger, ring and pinky and kept bowling. Hindsight is usually 20/20 :)

[bowl1820]

Welcome to the board!

[ytlas]

Welcome to the board!

Thank you

[manke]

Welcome back!! Hope the finger holds up for you.

[ytlas]

Welcome back!! Hope the finger holds up for you.

Thank you. Regardless of what happens, I'm not going to quit this time. :)

[billf]

Welcome to the site and hope your return to the sport is a good one.

[ytlas]

Welcome to the site and hope your return to the sport is a good one.

Thank you.

[LOUVIT]

welcome, there's a few of us returning, for me it was about 25 years. they need to make a catagory for us...lol

from experience new equipment is a MUST!

I'm returning with a bad back and a gain of 100+pounds

[ytlas]

welcome, there's a few of us returning, for me it was about 25 years. they need to make a catagory for us...lol

from experience new equipment is a MUST!

I'm returning with a bad back and a gain of 100+pounds

Thank you. I noticed a lot of people returning to bowling after a substantial layoff. I'm 130# lighter than when I quit bowling so my two remaining bowling balls felt like they belonged to someone else. I changed out inserts so I shouldn't be a hazard to anyone standing behind me.

Agreed that new equipment is a must but I'm going to have to re-establish my PAP. I knew where it was when I quit, but with these "Exoitic" layouts I'd like to be absolutely sure. :)

[Mike White]

Thank you. I noticed a lot of people returning to bowling after a substantial layoff. I'm 130# lighter than when I quit bowling so my two remaining bowling balls felt like they belonged to someone else. I changed out inserts so I shouldn't be a hazard to anyone standing behind me.

Agreed that new equipment is a must but I'm going to have to re-establish my PAP. I knew where it was when I quit, but with these "Exoitic" layouts I'd like to be absolutely sure. :)

I don't think "new equipment" is a must. I really depends on how you learned to throw the ball in the past.

After my 20 year break, all I bought was a #15 plastic ball, and I was averaging 210 until an injury.

It took about 18 months to recover, and I picked up a #14 urethane ball, and shot 300, and averaged 210 for the complete season in multiple leagues.

In November I had another injury (non-bowling related) so I sat out until April.

This last one did me in, I can still roll the ball, but I can't get any hand in the ball so when my commitment is up at the end of August, bowling is over for me.

Besides, I hate the direction the game is headed.

[ytlas]

It's too bad about your injuries. I've been doing squats for a while even before going to the bowling center for the first time in ages. In the times I'd quit for about a year it was my legs that were really sore when I came back.

I've read about "House conditions" and I'll have to take a wait and see attitude. When I quit it was still gutter to gutter in our 6 o'clock league. When we were done they dragged out the Century machine and shimmed it for the 9 o'clock league, and for them it was a carry contest each week. :)



Friend of mine quit for 10 years and he says he now only bowls in sport leagues.

[LOUVIT]

so strange, when I returned I didn't know what a pap or pin or weight block or coverstock even meant. I really still don't In the 80's it was get a fingertip ball and crank. guess I was all carry in my old day's. now I'm confused as hell! I shot 235 the other day and then a 160 or something. Still a bit clueless....lol

[ytlas]

so strange, when I returned I didn't know what a pap or pin or weight block or coverstock even meant. I really still don't In the 80's it was get a fingertip ball and crank. guess I was all carry in my old day's. now I'm confused as hell! I shot 235 the other day and then a 160 or something. Still a bit clueless....lol

A pro can go from 235 to 160 just as easy :)

The Hammer came out in the 80's and that might have been the first time I'd ever heard of two piece ball. The pin placement helped customize the ball's reaction. The blue Brunswick Phantom that came out in the early 90's was the first ball that I'd ever seen flare and it could flare a bunch depending on the drilling. Brunswick offered the Phantom Commander, a two piece plastic jig that fit on a quarter moon scale that you used to lift the PAP from your regular ball and transfer the blue Phantom during layout.

The Black Phantom might have also been designed to flare, but I used a different layout and had just a standard track.

[jimgilmore]

Where in Southern Cal R you. If I may ask.

[ytlas]

Where in Southern Cal R you. If I may ask.

Artesia/Cerritos

[jimgilmore]

i am in lancaster/Palmdale area.

[ytlas]

i am in lancaster/Palmdale area.

In the mid-70's when worked at Western Columbia Bowling Supplies, sometimes I'd have to go deliver bowling balls to Lancaster Bowl or Palm(?) Lanes in Palmdale. There weren't too many places to bowl around there.

[jimgilmore]

We have Sands bowl on Sierra highway and Vista lanes in palmdale