Anybody Bowl?

[ERC7.5]

Yea funny that you ask because it is sanctioned and i did not get a ring or anything. it was in a high school tournament and my coach didnt file his paperwork in tmie. For my last 298 (in my league) i believe i get an 11 strikes in a row plaque

Yeah, unfortunately they don't do the 298 & 299 rings any longer.

http://www.bowl.com/Downloads/pdf/aw...9HighScore.pdf

[ugottabjoshinme]

Ya,

On the worst game you can bowl front, one of my best friends bowled a 290. Problem is is that it was 11 strikes and then a gutter...hahaha

[ERC7.5]

Can I ask how you bowled a 281? First 10 strikes and then a 1 spare?

Hmm....I'm going to have to look into that....I don't recall ever doing that. I'd better check that I didn't get that confused with the 681 I threw earlier this year. My high game coming into this season was 280 and I know I beat that....maybe it was higher than 281....stupid beer.

On the worst game you can bowl front, one of my best friends bowled a 290. Problem is is that it was 11 strikes and then a gutter...hahaha

I was running a tournament this past weekend. Someone had thrown a 290 and a friend asked if he spared then punched out....Umm.....only one other way to throw a 290. That would be painful!

[Grndslmhttr3]

Well, as not impressive as it may be to you, I broke my personal record with a 180.

[bogeyhitter25]

Don't mean to brag, but one time I shot a 88.

[ERC7.5]

Can I ask how you bowled a 281? First 10 strikes and then a 1 spare?

Still working on getting my scores for my league so I can see what this actually was....

693 last night. So disappointing. Missed a 10 pin and chopped a 3-6-10 in the first game. 202-234-257

Don't mean to brag, but one time I shot a 88.

Ya don't mean to brag then you go and brag....sheesh. lol

[jermzkill]

I won a junior league with 3 other team members when I was 14 or 15... my highest series was 640, that includes my hadicap

[ugottabjoshinme]

Why would you be irritated with people who taking it seriously? Its really the same type of thing when people take golf so seriously.

[bogeyhitter25]

Don't mean to brag, but one time I shot a 88.

I was joking! Everybody on this thread is saying how they shoot in the 200's haha.

[flopdarock]

i love bowling... i dont bowl often... when i was a kid the fam would go all the time due to my dad being on a league... he was an incredible bowler... tons of trophies... my brother takes it more seriously than i do... if you chalk up all my scores id say id average about 150 range... san diego had better bowling alleys than over here... id have to go on base for a decent alley... all the public ones here are pretty run down

[LongDrive04]

I like to bowl. I still bowl the old school way though.

[jermzkill]

i love bowling... i dont bowl often... when i was a kid the fam would go all the time due to my dad being on a league... he was an incredible bowler... tons of trophies... my brother takes it more seriously than i do... if you chalk up all my scores id say id average about 150 range... san diego had better bowling alleys than over here... id have to go on base for a decent alley... all the public ones here are pretty run down

I actually hate the base lanes in VA... they are all wet lanes so my ball doesn't hook correctly. I have to throw my ball extremely slow to get it to hook!!! I love amf dry lanes!

[Paradigm]

I actually hate the base lanes in VA... they are all wet lanes so my ball doesn't hook correctly. I have to throw my ball extremely slow to get it to hook!!! I love amf dry lanes!

assuming you're right handed, you should stand on the right side of the lane and keep normal speed. there's usually less oil on the sides. i have the opposite problem, the lanes i play at are not consistent at all. theres days where i play far left, hook it to the far right and still hit the 1-2 pocket.

[mirv]

i loved bowling there for awhile when i was younger. i managed to get fairly decent at it, usually averaging around 180 and having a high score of 247, i think it was. problem was, though, that the nearest lanes were a full half hour drive from my house and gas prices were on the rise, so it was running me into a fair bit of money to go bowl twice a week on average. eventually i took up chess as my new obsession, since it was free (other than the initial purchase of a board and some books) and i could play at home.

...and then came golf, and i'm shelling out more money than ever before, haha.

but anyway... i bowl maybe two or three times a year now, and i'm still always over 100, but i don't think i've broke 150 in a good long while.

[TCCcaddie]

I go bowling with my friends all the time. Usually on Friday or Saturday nights. No, we dont not have lives. The bowling is in a darkend alley with strobe lights, black lights, and lasers and club music playing. Its called Atomic Bowling and its the best.

[jermzkill]

assuming you're right handed, you should stand on the right side of the lane and keep normal speed. there's usually less oil on the sides. i have the opposite problem, the lanes i play at are not consistent at all. theres days where i play far left, hook it to the far right and still hit the 1-2 pocket.

i'm right handed and start on the left and let the ball hook. I guess I could try standing on the far right but i'm thinking i'd have to change my throw. Either way these wet lanes dont hook, you ball will just glide on this stuff! I talk to some of the people at this place that have their ball hook so much and they all have a massive weight inside the ball to make it hook. I have a weight in mine but the placement of it is different.

I was thinking of getting my ball redrilled, does that ruin the ball at all? filling up the old holes and drilling new ones.

[Paradigm]

i'm right handed and start on the left and let the ball hook. I guess I could try standing on the far right but i'm thinking i'd have to change my throw. Either way these wet lanes dont hook, you ball will just glide on this stuff! I talk to some of the people at this place that have their ball hook so much and they all have a massive weight inside the ball to make it hook. I have a weight in mine but the placement of it is different.

Redrilling the ball will not harm the ball as long as it's done properly. I have been thinking of doing mine soon to get the span changed. As far as the weight goes, they wouldnt have any weights added that weren't in the ball from factory, as it would be against the rules and impossible to do. Most balls have a certain shaped core that react different ways. The combo between core, coverstock and drilling is what gives you the amount and type of hook...aswell as overall skill of course.

But about the wet lanes shot, try keeping the way you throw as is, but move further right and aim for the same spot. Should work out with a little tweaking. Depending on the lane condition, you have to adjust accordingly.

[flopdarock]

I go bowling with my friends all the time. Usually on Friday or Saturday nights. No, we dont not have lives. The bowling is in a darkend alley with strobe lights, black lights, and lasers and club music playing. Its called Atomic Bowling and its the best.

that is sooo fun... brunswick in san diego had that... and there is another alley with giant screen tv's... its like clubbing at a bowling alley... throw in a few pitchers of beer and it makes a great night... hahaha