Beer and bowling

[the_halfie]

Agreed crimson. I try to keep my alcohol intake at a decent pace, enough to catch a slight buzz, then carry the buzz, and when I'm ready to leave feeling REALLY good (I don't drive so we're good to go there). It also helps that my whole team is there to have fun, and we all drink.

[maximumslinky]

i really enjoy drinking beer but when it comes to bowling i find that more than a couple beers kinda slows me down and it start to get the full feeling in my stomach. i have been getting it down to a science by subbing a whiskey instead of a beer. i usually drink 1 beer while i am waiting to get the first game started and then a shot of pendleton between the first and second game and a second beer that i slow drink during the end of the second and the beginning of the third game. perfect amount of aiming oil in my system to bowl well and not over think (when i over think, i over adjust and usually make an unnecessary ball change). you stay sober enough to not have it effect your motor skills and are still well under the legal limit to drive home. i should have tried for a government grant to perform these studies

[the_halfie]

Well at my bowling house, there's no liquor unfortunately just beer. Otherwise I would probably have Jameson's whiskey vs the beer.

[DrOcktagon]

I never drink, but I almost always smoke before league. Granted, I almost always smoke before, during, and after everything, but I honestly find it helps with my bowling. There are some people who find marijuana to be a performance enhancer; I am one of those people. It won't help you be better at something than you naturally are, but it helps me reach my full potential on the lanes.

[Tampabaybob]

Many years ago, I was bowling up North in a League in Westerly, Rhode Island. One of my teammates was a pretty heavy drinker, you know the type, has his first pitcher sitting there before he rolls his first practice ball. So he starts edging me on to join him for a beer. Well, one leads to two, and so on, but I'm throwing all strikes. By the 10th frame it really starts to kick in, I shoot a 280 + game, keep drinking, and can't hit a bull in the axx with a bass fiddle the rest of the night !! The team captain got on this guy SO BAD for getting me started I thought he was gonna throw him off of the team ! Well, that was probably the last time I ever drank THAT much while bowling. Now it's coffee or soda. Helps keep my average up. LOL

[the_halfie]

Bob THAT'S pretty funny dude LOL!!! My first league season I'll admit, I drank WAY too much to hit anything in the third game. This past season I slowed it down considerably and man you could really tell lol. I actually seem to bowl my best games between the 2nd and 3rd this year .

[GeoLes]

To paraphrase former New Jersey Governer Keane,


"Bowling & Beer. Perfect together!!"

(It used to be "New Jersey & You. Perfect Together" )

[the_halfie]

I just might have to start using that slogan lol

[dnhoffman]

I too have suffered from the game 3 beer blues

A couple of the guys I bowl with are big beer drinkers and I have to actively moderate my consumption or I go sub-600 quickly.

[the_halfie]

dnhoffman that's not an issue for me at the moment, I still haven't tacked on a 400 series yet, I've missed it by as little as 3 pins before. I'll get there eventually some day, hopefully lol just going to take A LOT of practice and learning.