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[zdawg]

Aslan and all,

Will you accept pictures of my scores? Just finished bowling my 4 games and while they are nothing to write home about, they do not provide print outs.

Good question, I don't know if my center provides print outs either. I think we should allow pictures especially in the case that an alley doesn't provide print outs

[Mike White]

Aslan and all,

Will you accept pictures of my scores? Just finished bowling my 4 games and while they are nothing to write home about, they do not provide print outs.

What? The great and powerful random number generator sent you to a place that can't print?

I guess we have to rely on that honor thingy.

[Aslan]

mike i gotta disagree it will test your ability to find a line on any lane condition

In Mike's world, all bowlers bowl on conditions they find ideal to their technique and any time someone "struggles", it's because someone obviously didn't maintain the lanes in the proper way.

Odd…but if you watch the actual VIDEO of the tournament I CHAMPIONED….you'll see a couple shots where Mike throws his ball almost directly in the gutter. Now, if it were me…I'd say poor release, didn't get my shoulders parallel. However, I'm sure Mike's explanation is that the lane wasn't level, they have magnets in their gutters, and he was distracted by casual bowlers in his peripheral.

Aslan and all,

Will you accept pictures of my scores? Just finished bowling my 4 games and while they are nothing to write home about, they do not provide print outs.

Yes. Actually, those are just as good as printouts.

[Aslan]

All-

As of today, I don't have scores for:

- tr33frog
- Bunny
- vdubtx
- JAnderson
- noeymc
- Mudpuppy
- Stormed1
- ZDawg
- JDilly

If anyone above HAS bowled and sent me scores, please let me know when and how you sent them so I can try to locate them.

Not sure, but we may have lost Bunny. Supposedly she bowled with MikeW last weekend but I only got his scores and not her's. And I've tried to reach her via PM and e-mail without much luck. Hopefully she's just busy or maybe on vacation or something.

For everyone else, you got 5 days….so please keep that in mind.

[classygranny]

I know April isn't even over, but - do you have any idea when you might have alley assignments for May. Even though I probably can't bowl until after the 15th, my schedule is filling fast. Would be nice to coordinate bowling with appointments in the same part of town. Sorry, but May is short for me...lots of work, bowling pot-lucks, bowling meetings and oh, yes...the long, overdue VACATION!

[noeymc]

yea not much see unless you like depression in ohio lol and i dont think it will be apart of it lol hey i need to know if i can bowl next month on the 2nd sadly ive been working 12-16 hours past two weeks including weekends i was late to bowling league last week prob will be again tomorrow

aslan need to know about this one

[Mike White]

In Mike's world, all bowlers bowl on conditions they find ideal to their technique and any time someone "struggles", it's because someone obviously didn't maintain the lanes in the proper way.

I understand you lack experience and ability.

Odd…but if you watch the actual VIDEO of the tournament I CHAMPIONED….you'll see a couple shots where Mike throws his ball almost directly in the gutter.

Lets recap, 1st ball of the competition I sent out expecting to find friction. In the 3 shots I had made in practice on that lane, I hadn't found friction outside, but I hadn't thrown the ball out past the 5 board. Knowing that the lanes had just been oiled, it was a reasonable assumption that there would be some friction out there. I was wrong, there was ZERO friction. Notice on the 2nd shot of the 1st frame, I threw the ball straight up 10, and it stayed on the 10 board all the way down missing the head pin. Again, ZERO friction.

You wouldn't notice such things because you don't take advantage of friction, which explains why your average is as low as it is.

The only other ball I had go into the gutter was a shot at a 7 pin, and it would be an extreme stretch to call that "almost directly"

You however threw countless balls into the gutter. When shooting at a full rack, and not hitting the 1, 2, or 3 pin is just about as bad as throwing it in the gutter. How many times did you manage that feat?


When you want handicap, the conditions you compete under should match the conditions under which the handicap is based on.

Lets take a different example to highlight the problem of "further leveling the playing field"

Instead of bowling, we go target shooting. You have the ability to group all your shots at 100 yards, in a 2.5" diameter circle, while I can only manage to keep my shots in a 5" diameter circle.

We go to the local range, that has 2" diameter targets at 100 yards. You manage to hit the target 64 times, while I manage to hit the target 16 times.

We decide to level the playing field by you giving me handicap. We agree that 43 shots is reasonable (64 - 16) * 0.9 = 43.

To further level the playing field, we go across town to a different range. It happens to use 1" diameter targets.

You score 16 hits, while I score 4 hits. Due to my handicap of 43 shots, I win 47 vs 16.

You claim the targets were too small to be fair, so the next time we go to yet another range.

This place has 4" diameter targets. You feel confident because you know you're going to score 100. And you do, but I score 64 hits.

My 64 hits, plus my 43 handicap nets me a score of 107, again giving me the win.

The more you level the field without adjusting the handicap accordingly, the less skill has to do with the results.

[Mike White]

or you should have ball'd down and playd on the 2 board ? i wasnt there so i cant tell but i never bowled on a shot where i couldn't strike even on sport shots

You're listed as a 161 average, thats plenty evidence that you've bowled on a shot where you can't strike.

[noeymc]

You're listed as a 161 average, thats plenty evidence that you've bowled on a shot where you can't strike.

last year was my first year back... and it was on a what was known around here as a very tough house shot did i strike every ball no but i avged 4-5 a game spares killed me mostly

[vdubtx]

You're listed as a 161 average, thats plenty evidence that you've bowled on a shot where you can't strike.

SMH... What's your excuse for not striking consitantly? Oh yeah, it's always the lanes fault not yours right? With all that knowledge and accessibility to equipment, you should be a 240 average house bowler Mike.