Is a resin ball or a 16lb ball right for you?

[Brother_jd]

all you can bowl for 6 bucks. that is a steal.

[AZBowla]

all you can bowl for 6 bucks. that is a steal.

Heck yeah it is! I saw that in my inbox this morning and immediately requested Friday off to go do it - I'd go sooner but I don't get paid till then. I could go by myself sooner but I'd rather take my GF and the kids along and let them bowl also. It's good for up to 4 people at $6 per so for about $25 or so I can take the fam to go bowl for almost the whole day. Can't beat that with a stick!

[75lockwood]

Heaviest ball I own is a 15 pound Dv8 Marauder. I usually throw a 14, but I thought the extra weight might help with carry. When this ball hits the pocket right, it hits like a freight train. I'm going bowling this upcoming friday for the day (AMF has a nice deal going on right now, from 11am to 5pm all you can bowl for 6 bucks - taking the day off to take advantage of this) and I'm going to work on a few things to see if I can increase the number of solid pocket hits I can get with this ball. I think 15 is my max, this ball is pretty heavy and it gives me a workout trying to get the ballspeed up. I might (gasp) try a two handed approach to get some more revs and speed on it. I want to see if I can get better results that way. One thing I do know, I won't keep getting my thumb hung up in it that way! LOL....

thats one way to fix your thumb problem LOL

[75lockwood]

Heck yeah it is! I saw that in my inbox this morning and immediately requested Friday off to go do it - I'd go sooner but I don't get paid till then. I could go by myself sooner but I'd rather take my GF and the kids along and let them bowl also. It's good for up to 4 people at $6 per so for about $25 or so I can take the fam to go bowl for almost the whole day. Can't beat that with a stick!

Can your kids handle that much bowling? i took my 9 year old cousin bowling when there was a 3 hour deal for $12 (number of people doesn't matter), and he was done after 3 games..... he played with the pinball machine while i bowled another 12 or so games lol

[AZBowla]

thats one way to fix your thumb problem LOL

That's what I thought too, but we'll see - I may suck even worse trying to bowl like Belmonte than I did when I tried to bowl in sunglasses like Pete Weber. I did a few practice releases in the front room by rolling it across the carpet and into some pillows though and it seemed pretty easy and natural for me. I even tried the little skip-step Belmonte does at the end and it seems like a piece of cake. Of course hitting a pile of pillows that's 10 feet away from you is much different than hitting a pocket shot down 62 feet of bowling lane, so again we'll see. My GF thinks I'm crazy for trying this but if it works, won't that be something, especially with another ABT tournament coming up next month... muwahahaha...

[75lockwood]

That's what I thought too, but we'll see - I may suck even worse trying to bowl like Belmonte than I did when I tried to bowl in sunglasses like Pete Weber. I did a few practice releases in the front room by rolling it across the carpet and into some pillows though and it seemed pretty easy and natural for me. I even tried the little skip-step Belmonte does at the end and it seems like a piece of cake. Of course hitting a pile of pillows that's 10 feet away from you is much different than hitting a pocket shot down 62 feet of bowling lane, so again we'll see. My GF thinks I'm crazy for trying this but if it works, won't that be something, especially with another ABT tournament coming up next month... muwahahaha...

Lol, all i have to say is all is you will suck at it when you first try, it took belmo years to get that good, if you go into it thinking you will do awesome on the first day, i hate to burst your bubble but you won't lol. if you want to do something, do it right and stick with it! otherwise don't try it

lol i used this exact advice with one of the new young bowlers in my Saturday league, he felt the need to change balls every time he made a bad shot, so i told him to pick one ball and practice practice practice, continually changing and trying new things without sticking to it won't ever do you any good :P

[AZBowla]

Can your kids handle that much bowling? i took my 9 year old cousin bowling when there was a 3 hour deal for $12 (number of people doesn't matter), and he was done after 3 games..... he played with the pinball machine while i bowled another 12 or so games lol

Well since it's only good for 4 people I can't take everyone, so it'll probably just be me, my GF, my 18 year old son and 5 year old stepson (you've seen him on Youtube, he's the little guy who thinks he's pro - he won't let me coach him at all lol). Unless my GF gets the same coupon, then we'll just come in two groups and take up two lanes, muhahahaha... or I might bring my 6 year old daughter and have her look up at the guy behind the counter with her big brown puppy dog eyes and say "pweeeeease can I pway too" and I bet she'll get away with it because she's super adorable and she'll only bowl a couple games anyway before she gets tired of it. We'll see. My whole family is a bunch of bowling addicts though so I'm sure we'll get our money's worth.

[AZBowla]

Lol, all i have to say is all is you will suck at it when you first try, it took belmo years to get that good, if you go into it thinking you will do awesome on the first day, i hate to burst your bubble but you won't lol. if you want to do something, do it right and stick with it! otherwise don't try it

No! I stubbornly reject your reality and substitute my own! LOL...

In all seriousness, I suck now anyway so I'm going to give it a try, see which method feels more "right" and then practice the hell out of it. I figure I have nothing to lose. I've been bowling one handed since I was 12 and have only gotten marginally better mainly because I had never taken the time to really study the game and invest in the proper equipment. Now that I'm doing so, I'm at a good point where it won't hurt to try both methods and see which works better. Perhaps I'll do a hybrid style like Osku Palermaa, where I shoot two hand delivery for strikes and then one-hand it for spares. Who knows. By the end of the day Friday, I'll definitely have it figured out and then I'll be practicing like crazy for December's upcoming tournament out here.

I think I've hijacked enough of this thread - if you want we can talk about this over PM instead.

[Hammer]

WOW! I started reading the second page of my post and I thought that I was on a different post about bargains on bowling at different alleys. We had a deal at our AMF last week of $8.00 for all you can bowl.

[AZBowla]

WOW! I started reading the second page of my post and I thought that I was on a different post about bargains on bowling at different alleys. We had a deal at our AMF last week of $8.00 for all you can bowl.

Yeah sorry about that. I would call Lockwood instead but we save a ton on international long distance charges this way....

Getting back to the topic at hand, I found this on bowlingball.com's FAQ:

Average adult male usually bowls with a: 14-16 lb. ball
Average adult female usually bowls with a: 10-14 lb. ball
Juniors: 1lb. of weight per year of child's age, i.e. 8 yrs old = 8-lb. ball
Buy the heaviest ball that you can comfortably use while maintaining a proper speed. Heavier balls don't always knock down more pins. The impact of the bowling ball thrown would be speed times the mass. Ex: You would be better off with a 14 pound ball thrown 16 mph than a 16 pound ball thrown at 13 mph.
Be cautious of exceptions in size and physical ability; If you are larger/heavier than average, go up in weight; If you are smaller or have limiting physical features, stay lower in ball weight

I am 6 feet, 220 and I roll a 15 pound ball and a 14 for spares so I can get a bit more speed on it than the 15. I think a 16 would be way too heavy for me.