Lots of good advice on this forum. Many people happy to help. Congrats on the good bowling
Thanks to BowlingBoards.com
I am a new bowler and my wife talked me into joining a mixed couples "fun" league.
We only bowl every other Saturday and as I stated it is supposed to be a fun league.
Our team is tied for 1st place due to the fact that my wife and her brother are good bowlers. Myself, I only have a 122 average and my sister-in-law has a 109 average. but even if my sister-in-law or I do bad, our spouses do not get mad at us. We are trying and learning and this is a fun league.
I do have to say though I have noticed that a lot of these bowlers seem to take this way too serious.
For instance, last night we had the other team that is tied with us bowling a couple lanes down and the husbands where actually yelling at their wives because the wives where not bowling too well.
That did not sit too well with me so it was that much sweeter that we took 3 out of 4 games and their team dropped 3 out of 4.
We are supposed to be having a good time!!
Well the reason I wanted to thank BowlingBoards.com was that up until 3 weeks ago my average was 112.
Bowled 3 good games 2 weeks ago and my average increased 10 pins from 112 to a 122.
I watched a couple videos on here and found out I was standing all wrong, aiming for the wrong arrows and last night I bowled my best 3 games ever, a 157, 165 and a 142.
I even got my first turkey!!!
I figure if I try to fix 1 thing at a time maybe I can get a little better.
2 weeks ago I fixed what dots I stand on and which arrow to aim for and how to adjust for spares. This week I realized that when I release I was almost 2 feet back from the foul line, I adjusted so I am now only about 4-6 inches from foul line. I figure why throw the ball further than I have too.
I do throw an arrow straight ball and maybe sometime in the future I would like to learn how to throw a hook but I do not want to try to change too much all at once.
Frank7pt
Lots of good advice on this forum. Many people happy to help. Congrats on the good bowling
Welcome Frank. You will find a lot of useful information here before you know it, you'll be hooking the ball and throwing 200s.
lots of great people on this site , no haters like on some other sites ,, keep that average rising
I have learned so much here! Everyone is willing to help!! Keep checking back!
In my bag: Roto Grip UFO, Roto Grip Hyper Cell Fused and Roto Grip Hustle hyb
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Glad to hear that you're having FUN bowling , that above all is the reason to play the game. You might as well stick around here a little bit and become a little better, but don't forget, it's all for fun !
Glad to hear that your enjoying the sport and finding helpful info here.
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nothing better than progress. we all take the game seriously but yelling at a teammates, yet alone your spouse, is bad sportsmanship. To act like they themselves wont have a bad is pretty dumb since they aren't pros.
In my bag: Roto Grip Haywire, Ebonite Cyclone Gamebreaker, Brunswick danger zone vintage, Brunswick C-system Maxxed out and Columbia WD. High Game 300 (x3) high series 790...still searching for the 800.
Yeah. We get the feeling that the other teams in the league are happy we are giving that team a run for first. It's still early though.
I got a lot of room for improvement so I'll keep watching videos and hope I slowly get better.
Most imortantly we are have fun at it
Frank7pt
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