Real men don't wear wrist supports

[Mike White]

I understand you wearing one due to injury, but your friend? Are his scores as good without the wrist bowing enhancing devise? Does he have an injury also?

Did he do all of the 300s/800s with a wrist support? I can relate to falls, I had 2 bad ones as an Iron Worker putting up steel,,, First one I broke my neck, but was lucky,, I live with the pain, and then a lower back, L5 and L6 herniation, along with stenosis, and scoliosis, my feet feel like they are on fire, and tingle all the time, so I many times were sandals to bowl.

I wonder where I would be if I would have taken up the sport in my 20s, 30s, 40s 50s,,, I just got started 3 years ago, at 62,, I was in a lot of pain then, but have worked through a lot of it, and feel much better now then each of the last 2 years.

If you wanted to be good back in your 20's/30's, a lot of what you would have learned would actually be detrimental to the modern game.

It was much harder to obtain friction between the ball and the lane, so your revs would have been higher than current, and your speed slower.

Consistency was at a much higher premium than it is today.

Those same skills would cause significant over reaction today.

[Mike White]

I am just going to say it! Wrist machines/deviceses/performance inhancing do-dad's, should be inllegal!

What I am saying is, where does it STOP?

Balls that can make a sloppy throw come back to the pocket even when you miss your target by 10 boards... Wrist devises that you can dial in what pitch you want on your release, whats next,,, its like taking the sport out of the game!!

I think if your healthy, and don't have injuries to your wrist, you should do 90 days for wearing a performance inhancing wrist device! 90 days hard labor!

Everyone is talking about how easy it is to throw 300s.... Quit making error correcting balls that find the pocket regardless of where you throw the dang ball!

Real Men and Women,,, burn your wrist cheating devises, AFTER YOU LEARN HOW TO BOWL!

Pretty soon they will have battery operated Androids, that you can use to ball in place of YOUR SELF!! Where will this all end??????

Be a MAN,,, or WOMAN,,,, bowl like then did in Jesus's time,,,, I do!

If I bowled my third 300 wearing the Mongoose, I would feel like a Cheetah!!!

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But it's ok if you're using a ball that hooks back if you miss 10 boards right, on an oil pattern that stops the ball from hooking if you miss 5 boards left.

[MICHAEL]

But it's ok if you're using a ball that hooks back if you miss 10 boards right, on an oil pattern that stops the ball from hooking if you miss 5 boards left.

No its not OK.... I want to be Born Again!! Give me them old time bowling balls, it's good enough for me! Tell me its not getting rediculus when a broken down X Iron worker at 65 can bowl 300s!! THATS NOT RIGHT!! I think the bowlers of the 50s 60s where much better bowlers then now days!

Back then it meant something to hit your mark, (no forgiveness factor built into the ball).
If you wear a brace for MEDICAL reasons, that's one thing, but if you have a healthy wrist/body, why wear a dial in what ever wrist position, cheating device?

It should be part of what makes the game a sport, not easier!! LOL No wonder they stopped giving out rings, or should I say ONE LIFETIME RING! They, USBC , were going broke with guys like me 65 throwing 300s .... !

Let face it,,, their should be Jail time for anyone using cheating devises,,, I could list dozens of others,,, like TAPE!!! How good would Norm Duke be without that cheating TAPE he uses!! He goes through a box of it each game!!! Ask yourself this: "How good would Norm be witout his tape!!!! I rest my case!

Yes,,, TAPE,,, it starts out tape, then boozes, then kicking their pets/dogs,,, next thing you know, WRIST Performance Enhancer Bowling Devises!!

MY GOD BOWLERS,,, how Fricken Easy do you want to make the sport!! Where is the challenge??? WHEN will this make it easier to get HIGHER SCORES END!!

[dnhoffman]

Lol I'm with ya Iceman, we should get back to rolling big rocks that we mined and shaped ourselves, throwing them wearing nothing but loincloths, at a target of ten pins across 40' of spiked lava, all while surrounded by wild beasts that we have to fend off with our bare hands while bowling. Winner take all....no holds barred, to the death.

[MICHAEL]

Lol I'm with ya Iceman, we should get back to rolling big rocks that we mined and shaped ourselves, throwing them wearing nothing but loincloths, at a target of ten pins across 40' of spiked lava, all while surrounded by wild beasts that we have to fend off with our bare hands while bowling. Winner take all....no holds barred, to the death.

TO THE DEATH?? LOL.... how about just until mutilated, and can't bowl due to lacerations and lose of blood due to wild beast!! Everything else sounds COOL to ICEMAN!!

It would put that 300 RING in a much more coveted LEVEL!! Thanks,,, maybe the USBC will check this out!!!

[MICHAEL]

Should we ban bowling shoes too because they allow a better slide/energy transfer?

Reactive coverstocks are probably out too...

Real Men and Women, burn your shoes!!! Wear Jesus shoes,,, sandals!! That's what I wear! Better yet Bare footed!

Its also a form of cheating doing that damn energy slide transfer thing! All the energy you need is in a ( energy bar, or drinks ), all natural not something
you put on your natural foot!!

This being Sunday, did Moses, or even the apostles mention wearing bowling shoes?????? I rest my case!! It's time to cleanse the sport of all this sin, and cheating ego enhancing devises!!

Are you with me brothers and sisters!!! Are you ready to be Re-Born into the True Sport of Bowling??

[Hammer]

Hey, I got an idea. Let's get rid of wrist supports and just have everybody man-up. If that is the case though let's have baseball players
get rid of their gloves and batting helmets and the catcher should man-up and get behind the plate with no equipment. Football players
should can their equipment then maybe they wouldn't hit the guy they are tackling so hard. Hockey players should go out on the ice like basketball players with just a tank top and shorts and the goalies have way too much equipment which only makes them braver to stop a hard rubber puck coming at them. I am sure more goals would be scored then. All that goalie equipment keeps the scores too low. Race car drivers should can all of their equipment and wear levis and a t-shirt like the old days. All of this equipment in each sport only makes them perform better and we can't have that if we have to get rid of our wrist supports. What we really have to do in reality is get rid of the macho guy stuff and use what we have to if needed no matter what anyone else wants to tell you. I was never an iron worker
and my wrists are not naturally strong. So I wear it because I need it and won't have anyone convince me otherwise.

[MICHAEL]

Hey, I got an idea. Let's get rid of wrist supports and just have everybody man-up. If that is the case though let's have baseball players
get rid of their gloves and batting helmets and the catcher should man-up and get behind the plate with no equipment. Football players
should can their equipment then maybe they wouldn't hit the guy they are tackling so hard. Hockey players should go out on the ice like basketball players with just a tank top and shorts and the goalies have way too much equipment which only makes them braver to stop a hard rubber puck coming at them. I am sure more goals would be scored then. All that goalie equipment keeps the scores too low. Race car drivers should can all of their equipment and wear levis and a t-shirt like the old days. All of this equipment in each sport only makes them perform better and we can't have that if we have to get rid of our wrist supports. What we really have to do in reality is get rid of the macho guy stuff and use what we have to if needed no matter what anyone else wants to tell you. I was never an iron worker
and my wrists are not naturally strong. So I wear it because I need it and won't have anyone convince me otherwise.

I fricken agree with you hammer 100 percent~ When I played football from 7 grade through College, we didn't have all this girly protective equipment, and CRAZY protective rules that the NFL has today!!!

Hey Boxing is all about giving a guy a head injury!! A concussion!! Stop the blood flow to the brain amoung other things,,, have they changed that sport??
Other then gloves, rather then fist,,, (like in the good old days)!

If we are so worried about head injuries, why not STOP BOXING???

American Men, and Women,,, its time to start getting tough~~ we are turning into a soft give me high scores, with equipment that helps me with my bowling self-esteem!
Its time to bowl like in the old days!! No equipment, dress like a cave man, and do away with the bionic man supplemental equipment!!

Baseball still uses the OLD WOODEN bats!! (why?) because you can hit much further with the metal ones, and it would not be fair to the old record holders..... I want those Old Time Bowling Ball, made again!

Do away with the newer guidance system balls, that make even a below average bowler look good~
Do away with every week the House Pattern~~ make is a rule that you put a different pattern down each week,,,,

Then the 300 ring will have a very HIGH COVETED MEANING AGAIN!!

And as for you wearing your wrist guard,,, if a doctors says you need it to bowl, I understand! But it its just weak,,,, MAKE it Strong,,, that's what I do!!
I was not born with the strength of a lion, I developed it working out.

I can give you some good exercises that will help!

[Stormed1]

His name is Curt Jensen and he bowls at Stardust Bowl 3 in Dyer Ind. I don't know his USBC number. But I still feel to each his own as far as braces go. The bigger issues now days are too easy lane conditions and the modern bowling ball.

[MICHAEL]

His name is Curt Jensen and he bowls at Stardust Bowl 3 in Dyer Ind. I don't know his USBC number. But I still feel to each his own as far as braces go. The bigger issues now days are too easy lane conditions and the modern bowling ball.

I agree!!!!! The lanes are WAY TO EASY,,, look at me, broken down old man, and 2 300's, in less then 6 months, plus a 780!! That's NOT RIGHT!! I can handle the better balls, (no pun intended), but the blocked easy house pattern week after week, and week, after week,,,,, Needs to be a thing of the past!

All league should be like the pros bowl, a different sports pattern each week, then start over again! Too many bowlers that think they have what it takes to play with the Pro's!! Those same bowlers with 220 averages would be lucky to hit 200, or 190 on a challenging pattern including myself!!

Sports pattern at least make the game a challenge, and similar to the pro's!! All the equipment, super balls that correct even bad shots, giving you and 10 board target that gets the ball to the pocket... When will it end???

All of us house pattern bowlers, are not as good as we think,,, Real Men Bowl Sports Patterns!! Very little challenge to a blocked house oil pattern!

Storm1 do you know any top Pro's that wear wrist support??? I think its a bad habit to stick with, ONCE YOU learn how to bowl! UNLESS you have a physical injury, weak wrist not included, and a MD gives you a permit, to use one. I have yet to see one in the last 5 years that wears a wrist support.

Everybody has to have that 230 average.... but is it really an accomplishment, when you consider the HOUSE PATTERN, and just to make it even more easy add them da## Dial a pitch wrist guidance systems!!LOL LOL (