My Grand Experiment

[The German Shepherd]

Age plus weight puts me in the range of impossibility...though my Atkins plan is working well.

I did bowl "back then" and I can tell you that there was no such thing as throwing at a general area. An easy shot in the 70's might give you a couple boards of play area and there was a premium on getting two types of roll on your shot - arm roll then finger roll. The shot we call a Typical House Shot (THS) would have been considered to be an illegally blocked pattern that would certainly get any honor scores thrown on them to be disallowed. I bowled an 856 (300-277-279) on an oil pattern that was nowhere near the 5:1 THS we have today and there was oil from gutter to gutter that night as well. Still, my scores were thrown out, and that was the third highest score in the US that year at the time I threw it ...

Jay

I didn't bowl back then so I can't say with any certainty but I think it was just different. You had to get more lift and be more accurate but at the same time speed and rotation were more important. Today there are crankers who throw harder than heck with a ton of revs at a general area.

[Mike White]

bowling wasn't as easy as it was back then.

I think you mean bowling wasn't as easy as it is now.

The way you quoted what you heard would be an obvious contradiction which is why I called it a lie.
I make that same kind of typing mistake so I thought it was funny.

[martinezsam2495]

I think you mean bowling wasn't as easy as it is now.

The way you quoted what you heard would be an obvious contradiction which is why I called it a lie.
I make that same kind of typing mistake so I thought it was funny.

yeah that's what I meant,
:x
"Bowling wasn't as easy as it is now".
you guys knew what I meant,

[Mike White]

I didn't bowl back then so I can't say with any certainty but I think it was just different. You had to get more lift and be more accurate but at the same time speed and rotation were more important. Today there are crankers who throw harder than heck with a ton of revs at a general area.

You used to have to match things to get the ball to hook.

Too much speed compared to revolutions and the ball would slide too long.
Too much revolutions compared to speed and the ball would slide too long.

What you now call axis tilt and axis rotation were other things that needed to match the speed / revolutions for the ball to hook.

Think of it as a car tire on ice, too much power, no traction, too much braking and you skid.

In my case it was more like a bald tire. Not much traction unless you matched it well.

The lanes I played on usually had plenty of swing area, but not much hold area.

When the reactive balls arrived I had a hard time keeping one of those balls on the right side of the lane.
Meanwhile people who used to frequently leave buckets were carrying half pocket hits.

I first tried to flatten out my release to approximate the "bucket leavers" but I found no consistency throwing at 25% "power".
In hind site I probably should have stayed with what I was used to and take my artificial beatings.

[ursus]

Age plus weight? Ouch! Let's see 43 years old, 210lbs. I wish I averaged 253!

One year youger and the same weight. I have a long way to go. Not sure what is more imossible getting my weight down to match my average or getting my average up to match my weight

[GeorgiaStroker]

Age plus weight? Is it possible to average over 300?

[billf]

Age plus weight? Is it possible to average over 300?

Maybe for a week or two with handicap lol

When I left the service I was in a wheelchair or crutches for a few months. Combine that with the first time I ever ate anything with sugar, pizza, etc my weight went from a seriously muscular 268 to a flabby 315. My pants went from a 32 waist to a 42 waist. You all can guess what that did to my blood pressure. Not being able to work out or even walk at that point, I went on the Atkins diet. In about 10 weeks I was down to 240 and had energy to spare. It made rehab after the knee surgeries a breeze. When I got hurt Nov 2010 my weight went back up to 260. Started to just eat only when I was hungry and not just because it was "time" and only allowed to bowl for exercise I'm down to 210. My blood pressure is perfect and so are all the other things those blood tests check.

[backahead]

I'd like to also chime in on the postives of the Atkins diet. I dropped 40 lbs in less than 6mos. It is not that hard and you can eat as much as you want, so long as it's not bread, rice, potatoes and sugar! No beer either After a while, liquor with diet soda is okay. Getting used to massive amounts of vegetables took some getting used to but I'm comparing that to never eating any vegetables. There are substitutes for everything you like. Never imagined I'd eat cauliflower, but I like it now. Make sure you get the book, don't listen to me.

[panbanger]

Back in 2002 I went on the Atkins diet. I weighed 260lbs when I began and 10 months later weighed 175. Over the years since I've gained waaaaay too much of it back - carbs and me just dont get along. I started it up again a little over a month ago and have dropped about 8-10 lbs so far. The weight seems to be coming off slower this time around though. I guess a diet at 32 and a diet at 42 are two very different things lol

[Mike White]

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This is a picture of the former me. Taken back in early 90's. If you are very observant you can see why the bowling center no longer exists.