Curiosity...while bowling?

[billf]

Bowling at all? If someone can throw a 103 upside down and I struggle to get that bowling normally, I don't think I've chosen my new obsession well.

Sure you have. My daughter started with a 102 average her freshman year of high school. Senior year she was captain of the team and finished fourth at State. Today she is averaging 235 in our summer league. We all start somewhere and it comes easier for some than others but eventually you can be where you want to be in this game.

[GeoLes]

I can't say there is anything i wish I did not do. Everything is part of the learning process for me.

If I can think of anything, it would be listening to my wife. She lectures me about bringing too many balls. Listening to her we hauled the Raw Hammer Jacked and the Tzone for spares. Sunday afternoon the lanes were dry, probably not being oiled all weekend, and here I am with a reactive resin early break ball. I tried everything I could think of and finally remembered that I could add more roll and cut back on the reves by moving the thumb and index fingers close to center.

Even then, playing from far left over the 2nd mark, I was able to find he pocket. I finally finished using my TZone as a first ball.

[billf]

I can't say there is anything i wish I did not do. Everything is part of the learning process for me.

If I can think of anything, it would be listening to my wife. She lectures me about bringing too many balls. Listening to her we hauled the Raw Hammer Jacked and the Tzone for spares. Sunday afternoon the lanes were dry, probably not being oiled all weekend, and here I am with a reactive resin early break ball. I tried everything I could think of and finally remembered that I could add more roll and cut back on the reves by moving the thumb and index fingers close to center.

Even then, playing from far left over the 2nd mark, I was able to find he pocket. I finally finished using my TZone as a first ball.

Better to listen to the wife and bowl like crap dealing with the lanes than to not listen to the wife, bowl great and deal with a pissed off wife.

[GeoLes]

"Better to listen to the wife and bowl like crap dealing with the lanes than to not listen to the wife, bowl great and deal with a pissed off wife."

Is that the bowling version of the Chinese proverb ......

"Happy Wife,
Hapy Life"


More like...

"Happy wife,
Crappy Bowl"

[J Anderson]

what is 1 thing you wish you had never tried... BOWLING... while:
taking your STANCE....
standing on the APPROACH...
taking STEPS to the foul line...
watching your TARGET...
RELEASING your ball...
during your FOLLOW-THROUGH...
what is the 1 thing you wish you had never, never ever done in a bowling alley?

I don't regret anything that I've tried while bowling. Either it worked, showed possibilities, or proved to be something I either can't or shouldn't do.

My only regret is that during my first season of sport bowling I got up and took my turn while some one on the adjacent pair was in the tenth frame of a potential perfect game. In my regular league there had only been one 300 game in 60+ years so I was unaware of the unwritten rule that everyone around the person going for the 300 has to stop and get very quiet so that the bowler can experience the ultimate pre-shot nervousness. I wasn't even aware there was a potential 300 being bowled since it was in the other league.