Showed up early bowled 2 practice games 140, 130 was not bringing my arm close to my body, hence all my shots were right of the target.
In the league we were bowling opponents, 3 bowlers around my age early to mid 30s. One of them is missing an arm, but he throws 21 mph straight ball, though I found out it's only 12 lbs. The other bowler throws backup ball with high revs, his backswing is head high, third bowler is a cranker too. In the past I bowled really badly against them. They trash talk, one time I told them before the start of the match "We'll whoop your behind" and proceeded to bowl one of my worst outings ever.. Today one of them told me "We swept last week, we'll sweep you tonight" I did not say anything back to him. Their averages were 156, 157, 158 going into the night.
147 173 155 475
I was slightly above average, as were my teammates, one arm guy bowled good, his friends did not, we swept them. Felt really good.
Stayed to bowl 2 more games afterwards
187, 194
Strikes began to fall, I even struck without hitting a headpin, lol, I wish I was so lucky during league play.
110 146 139 149 176 151 134 160 158 210 179 149
First ball I threw went into the gutter, threw another gutter in game 1, was awful on single pins today. Late in the day I found the strike like, its the first left arrow, which I never played before. For once good thing I paid for 2 hours instead of 1, salvaged a 155 average on the day.
League Nights
11/10 167, 128, 169 464
11/17 148, 166. 141 455
11/22 Hit a special at another alley, second time ever at that alley. After 08:30 pm till close $10, bowled astounding 15 games, and threw a game just hitting the 7 pins. Averaged 138 in those 15 games, this house is low scoring, strikes are difficult to come by, and splits galore. If I'll ever come back to that house, I will not go by myself. Has anyone ever here bowled 15 games in less than 3 hours?
11/23 scheduled a lesson with the coach at my league AMF house. He was coaching his hs teams, afterwards worked with me, my first lesson since August. Five straight weeks I bowled 450 in the league, but only once in those 5 weeks I hit 500, so my average plateau.
183, 160, 233 576, 233 is my highest game ever. Made a spare in the first, strike, chopped a spare in the third and threw 6 straight strikes afterwards, first time I ever threw 6 in a row. Made a spare in the 10th, hopefully I'll bowl better tomorrow in the league play.
Some moderate success to report in league play
01/19/16
176 158 187 521
following week was canceled due to snow storm
02/02/16
203 137 163 503
My first consecutive 500s
Good bowling Mike. Expect many more of them and then your first 600!
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Haven't posted here in a while, was up and down season finished with either 150 or 151 average, it was at 153 at one point, then went into a 2 month slump where I failed to hit my average in 7 out of 8 weeks. Last 3 weeks I bowled over my average in a league including my new league series of 559 and single game 220.
In the month of April I posted overall average of 165, and started May similarly. Today though was magical.
128, 154, 205, 269, 168, 159, 185.
269 started with 8 in a row, after 6 lady on the right lane was watching me, made me nervous, left a 3 pin on the 9th, made my conversion, struck the 10, 7/ for a 269, previous high was 240. I never bowled 3 200s in a game, thought today was the day. Didn't happen. On the lane right of me a guy posted 220 plus in 5 out of 6 games, he told me he has a 230 average.
05/31
223, 194, 149
Concluded month of May, my best ever month of bowling. Bowled 88 games, average was 168.86. 13 games out 88 were 200s. 21 were below 150. Still below 50% on the 7 pin. I'm skipping summer league, but using AMF pass daily, hopefully will be over 170 in june.
6/2
Burnt up lanes
164, 179, 178 521
5 strikes in games one but only one spare conversion, last 2 games nothing special
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