Greetings from Austin TX

[JDHamm85]

Hello there,

Been lurking around for about a month now, ever since I started getting seriously back into bowling again, and thought I would finally join the board and start posting some.

The name's Josh. I'm originally from Nicholasville KY. Moved to Austin 6 years ago to be with my now wife. Started bowling when I was 8 or 9, started youth bowling when I was about 10. Both parents and both older siblings were avid bowlers. My older brother has actually rolled 4 300s.

Haven't bowled in a league in about 7 years, in which I did win the high handicap game for the year. Looking to join a league in the fall here in Austin.

I guess the fondest memory I have of bowling was opening up with the front 9 one year during the team event in the youth city tournament when I was about 13 or 14, only to leave a ringing 10 to open the 10th . Missed it, and finished with a 267, which would be my highest score up until 3 weeks ago when I rolled a 269 during some open bowling.

[classygranny]

Welcome to the boards...lots of good information and conversation!

[Judy clemons]

A great big Texas size welcome pin pal, JDHamm85
welcome to our bowling boards world.
Your welcome here as the flowers in May
we're glad your here and hope you stay to
share with us your bowling days.

[JDHamm85]

Thank you very much ladies!

[billf]

Welcome to the forum Josh. Glad to see another bowler return to the sport.
You can obviously bowl. Have you thought about being a volunteer coach for your local youth league?

[got_a_300]

Welcome to the boards Josh you will find a lot of very knowledgeable
and very helpful people on here that are more than willing to give
bowling advice and tips.

[JDHamm85]

Thanks Bill and... Bill (300) lol. By reading through most of the threads over the last month, I feel like I've improved my game considerably. I'm self taught, and always knew the basics (move where the ball is moving, throw slower on oily lanes / quicker on drier lanes, don't squeeze the ball at the bottom of your swing otherwise you'll pull the ball, etc), but now I know more about increasing speed, flare, layouts and the like.

I haven't really thought much about coaching, but I think it would be fun. My daughters are 3 years and 5 months, so maybe when they get older, and they like bowling, I'd give it a more serious consideration.

[Bonebrake]

Kinda late but welcome to the boards lol