How has bowling affected your life?

[Greenday]

I started bowling back in 2004, when I was a junior in high school. I bowled with the JV team when there were JV games and since we only had four girls and it was five person teams, I paced with the girls team on the varsity only day. I met many wonderful ladies there and met my junior prom date through bowling.

Senior year, I bowled a mix of JV and varsity. I also developed a tumor at the base of my thumb that was wrapped around the nerve. Doctor nearly had to remove the whole nerve and I would have lost feeling in my thumb for good. But luckily he was an amazing doctor and was able to remove the tumor without hurting the nerve.

I bowled a little bit in college but nothing serious. Just once in a while to keep having fun. The house we went to had a very easy THS and when we'd go bowling with the lasers and getting trashed, they were amazed with my high scores.

In 2010, while I did some logistics for the Army as a civilian, they had a bowling alley on base and it was only $1.50 a game. I bowled there on my lunch breaks all the time.

Didn't bowl in 2011 since there aren't any bowling alleys in Afghanistan. Bowled my first official league Summer 2012 and finished with a 170 average. Simple pizza and beer league.

Now I'm in a slightly more serious league and I love it. I started getting coaching and while I'm not shooting high series each week like I know I could be, my technique has greatly improved. I practice another three days a week. Combine that five days of bowling a week with quitting drinking Dec 23 and I've lost ten pounds in the last month. I feel great!

[billf]

First, congratulations on the choice to quit drinking. It does get easier to pass with time.

Bowling has given me something productive to do with my free time. I've become so obessesed that I now generate more free time for it. Bowling has also afforded me the opportunity to coach the kids in my community which I absolutely love. If I hadn't bowled I never would have become a coach. I remember my first 300 game and was like, what's next. I was truly more excited when one of my clients rolled his first 300 game this past summer. On his second and third I was more like, "ok, that's enough" lol.

My goals have changed. They use to center all around my own bowling. Now I want to see more kids bowling, getting bowling scholarships and enjoying the game.

[scottymoney]

Love to hear the positive changes because of bowling.

I just got back into League bowling this season and it has been great. I am super competitive and it gives me that time every week to take care of that urge to compete. I have a lot to work on in bowling, as my goals are to average 200 in league. I am a ways off from that but I know bowling has given me something to focus my time on that is more positive than other things I would be doing. Like Greenday said that he stopped drinking, I haven't stopped but I drink a lot less than before. Not that bowling has gotten me to stop drinking but bowling provides the social aspect to hang out with people where bars would fill that time before.

All in all I see bowling as something that keeps me focused and looking ahead. If I ever need that alone time to just relax I know bowling is a great way to release some energy and clear the mind. Although at times bowling just makes you more frustrated! lol

[e-tank]

Ive made quite a few new friends from bowling. It also gives me something else to focus on to get better at. Ive never been a super technical person but bowling is a technical sport so its something different and something that im not used to. It doesnt matter how big, fast or strong you are or even how old you are, a strike is a strike. Also i have to show my dad up lol. He has like 2 boxes full of bowling trophies that i have to top!

[noeymc]

i started when i was 7 or 8 went to pepsi cola touranment i think in 2001 or 2002 went to st Louis for nationals where i watched a 14 year old bowl a 300 and kinda of gave up on my self i did go again the next year but didnt make it out of ohio. stoped bowling at 15 or 16 then i switched to wrestling where i was really gifted or so i thought since i been bowling since i was 7 or 8 i ended up not going anywhere because of it and kind of regretted not bowling after the fact i went into the Marines when i got home from that i really only work and then would work out i got board with my life then i met a girl we talked for like 2 months and she asked me to start bowling again ( we bowled together in youth) i said yes i fell back in love realized i had to relearn ALOT and been working on getting back where i was o that girl i started league with never showed up and was kicked off the team -_-

[scottymoney]

i started when i was 7 or 8 went to pepsi cola touranment i think in 2001 or 2002 went to st Louis for nationals where i watched a 14 year old bowl a 300 and kinda of gave up on my self i did go again the next year but didnt make it out of ohio. stoped bowling at 15 or 16 then i switched to wrestling where i was really gifted or so i thought since i been bowling since i was 7 or 8 i ended up not going anywhere because of it and kind of regretted not bowling after the fact i went into the Marines when i got home from that i really only work and then would work out i got board with my life then i met a girl we talked for like 2 months and she asked me to start bowling again ( we bowled together in youth) i said yes i fell back in love realized i had to relearn ALOT and been working on getting back where i was o that girl i started league with never showed up and was kicked off the team -_-

Typical woman! Sorry female site members. lol

[noeymc]

Typical woman! Sorry female site members. lol

do not open this link if u are not 18 or older or bad words offend u =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXieR34Gy3I =D i didnt make a video cuz title has bad word in it

[scottymoney]

do not open this link if u are not 18 or older or bad words offend u =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXieR34Gy3I =D i didnt make a video cuz title has bad word in it

Guess I will wait until after work for this one.

[Zothen]

As the old saying goes"Nothing like a women scorned!" Cool video and song!

Zothen

[Zothen]

Back in late 2011 I was in my garage and opened up my old bowling bag and as I pulled my balls out of the bag I started to cry. My bowling balls were crack or just fell apart in my hands. I was devastated at the loss of my old friends,that I cried for days,before giving my old friends a well deserved burial. The next day I went out and bought new friends and vowed I would take better care of them and now I have deicated my life to bowling in honor of the cherished friends I lost.

Zothen