On "bad nights"....I've thought abouut it.Originally Posted by bowl1820
If you want more of a challenge, go out on league night and bowl with just your plastic ball all 3 games. Then if bowl a 300 game or 800 series you got something to crow about.
Right handed Stroker, high track ,about 13 degree axis tilt. PAP is located 5 9/16” over 1 3/4” up.Speed ave. about 14 mph at the pins. Medium rev’s.High Game 300, High series 798
"Talent without training is nothing." Luke Skywalker
On "bad nights"....I've thought abouut it.
In Bag: (: .) Zen Master Solid; (: .) Perfect Mindset; (: .) Brunswick Endeavor; (: .) Outer Limits Pearl; (: .) Ebonite Maxim
USBC#: 8259-59071; USBC Sanctioned Average = 192; Lifetime Average = 172;
Ball Speed: 14.7mph; Rev. Rate: 240rpm || High Game (sanc.) = 300 (268); High Series (sanc.) = 725 (720); Clean Games: 198
Smokey this is not 'Nam', this is bowling. There are rules. Proud two-time winner of a bowlingboards.com weekly ball give-away!
Real men do what they decide to do and will ignore people that try to tell them what they should do.
That also describes overbearing men and stubborn men...and sociopaths...and most criminals. And Paris Hilton.
In Bag: (: .) Zen Master Solid; (: .) Perfect Mindset; (: .) Brunswick Endeavor; (: .) Outer Limits Pearl; (: .) Ebonite Maxim
USBC#: 8259-59071; USBC Sanctioned Average = 192; Lifetime Average = 172;
Ball Speed: 14.7mph; Rev. Rate: 240rpm || High Game (sanc.) = 300 (268); High Series (sanc.) = 725 (720); Clean Games: 198
Smokey this is not 'Nam', this is bowling. There are rules. Proud two-time winner of a bowlingboards.com weekly ball give-away!
Sports vs HOUSE
I don't think I have ever read anyone on this website say, and post their scores based on a Sports league? Is there a web site that the BiG Boys go to that bowl the sports patterns?
I know,, iceman your don't bowl one, but I would do it in a snowball minute if I could find one close to where I live! I will work on it!!!
It would be COOL if this website had a POST YOUR SCORE SPORTS PATTERNS THREAD!! Each person could post their scores, and what pattern, and maybe the HIGH game and LOW game of the night! Just a thought!
I think on Awardscom they should specify what pattern a person bowled, along with the three scores... Should be a special honor for like the U.S. Open 300 game!
Don't walk on Thin Ice!
IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE EVOLVED INTO?? (if you believe in evolution)
It's not about a CHALLENGE-per-say! We could bowl on our knee's, or like I did in the seniors league last year, backwards, upside down, with my head between my legs!!
We simple want to make it a level playing field with the Pro's! Make it mandatory that ALL SANCTIONED LEAGUES rotate sports patterns each week!
In golf when I play the back tee's, say at a famous golf course, (you pick one, any one!), If I have a great score, I can take pride in the fact that I beat Tiger Woods on that given imaginary day,,lol!!
What IN THE WORLD WOULD BE WRONG WITH THIS RULING!! Why the SPECIAL EGO inflating oil for Joe, need my Ego stroked public???
Don't we have more PRIDE THEN THAT!! GEEEEEE....
It's like I said, with the balls we have now days, with those DIAL a Everything Wrist Devises, Changeable Soles,,, Magic strike socks,, Tape,,, aiming devise correctional glasses that compensate for a not perfect house oil conditions,,, Strike cologne,, super absorbent oil removing towels for oil, ect ect...
When Will IT END, this need to make bowing NOT a SPORT, but an Automatic 300, each and every time out!! My God,,, Bowlers,,, is this what we have evolved into????
Don't walk on Thin Ice!
Sorry but all I hear is a lot of condescension and arrogance and no actual experience. I respect your desire to experience more of the sport and suggest you get out there and do so. But, for me, here is the bottom line:
Bowling on nothing but your same alleys house shot 4+ times a week for a few years and getting two 300s is great, don't get me wrong, but you're a long way away from having the scores and experience with the sport as a whole - THS, sport shot, tournament, or otherwise - to make a judgement on anyone else about what equipment they use, what pattern they bowl on, what scores they do or do not post, or otherwise...
And I realize that most of the time you're just being goofy and playing around but it can come off as arrogant and I honestly just don't see where you get the bowling "street cred" to be so judgemental.
I'll shut up on the subject now, it's a free country and you're entitled to your opinion as much as I am. I do appreciate all you contribute to these forums and the fun posts you make as well as the serious ones.
Just giving you my 2 cents on it.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of growing up to play center field for the NY Yankees, like Micky Mantle. By the time I graduated from high school, at 5'8", 125lbs, with an amazing ability to drop any baseball that touched my glove, I knew that dream was not going to come true. For 99% of us, whether the sport we dreamed of is bowling, baseball, football or cricket, by the time we grow up we know we're not capable of being professional athletes. The vast majority of amateur bowlers know that they're not really that good, and have no desire to have it proved to them on a weekly basis. To make all sanctioned leagues bowl sport patterns will kill the sport.
I do agree to a certain extent that the THS does favor bowlers who throw a hook, but since most bowlers can learn how to throw some sort of hook, I don't consider this to be patently unfair. As for all the "guarantied strike" gimmicks that you decry, many of them have been available to the pros for years. Its just that when urethane balls were developed a lot more amateurs showed interest in them than the manufacturers expected. They though the market would just be the membership of the PBA and maybe a few dozen high level amateurs. All of a sudden the equipment manufacturers realized their market for high end stuff was a hundred times bigger than they thought.
While I agree that THS bowlers with averages between 200 and 220 who strut around like their as good as Pete Weber could stand to be taken down a few notches we should not, indeed can not, turn the clock back to 1979.
John
I don't think Michael's intent was to insult those of us who find that a THS is as much of a challenge as we can stand. I think his intent was to call out those bowlers who average 200 to 220 on the THS at their alley or throw a 300 on it and strut around like PDW.
John
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