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[Jambizzle]

What it do? I know we have a few bowlers (10 Pin or 5, doesn't matter.)I'm a league bowler, bowling a 179 average, nothing special etc. High game is 269, with a 6 pack start off.My favoured ball is my Absolute Inferno which gets me enough zip when it hits the wall.Post your games, series' etc.Edited because I type like a retard.

[booyaga]

my avg. is a 199 and i bowled with a hammer super flip from like 6 years agohigh game is a 290 in which i hit the last 11....i don't bowl anymore since my team sucked for the past 3 years and we can't smoke in the bowling alleys in jersey anymorethe end

[rocketpoker828]

I hope we have lots of bowlers on this forum. My high game is 267, high series is in the 650s. Though I did bowl an 802 in 9 is Fine.I current throw a Ebonite Total NV, though I use my friends Hammer Black Widow.

[bdc30]

Does wii bowling count?

[James D]

I got 190 at Finchley Megabowl once... I was pretty hapy with that. Even got them to do me a print out of my score to take home, lol.

[BigDMcGee]

300 is my high game.. obv brag. Had an 800 series that day too ( man I was hot). My average topped out at 208 but I haven't bowled in a league in a few years. Got burnt out. It's like I hit this wall, were I wasn't quite good enough to hustle make serious money ( there's a lot of bowling action in the Pac NW, strangely enough, if you know where to go) but I was too good to be a social bowler, if that makes sense.

[rivergirl]

BigDMcGee, on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, 6:26 AM, said:

300 is my high game.. obv brag. Had an 800 series that day too ( man I was hot). My average topped out at 208 but I haven't bowled in a league in a few years. Got burnt out. It's like I hit this wall, were I wasn't quite good enough to hustle make serious money ( there's a lot of bowling action in the Pac NW, strangely enough, if you know where to go) but I was too good to be a social bowler, if that makes sense.

i don't know about where you are, but here they have men's leagues that are pretty competative. My hubby used to bowl in a league with the avg ranging from 175 + and they had pretty good high game and high over sidepots that meant everyone could have a chance at them. It was both social and competative and he really enjoyed it. The pots were way worth winning

[BigDMcGee]

rivergirl, on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, 6:33 AM, said:

i don't know about where you are, but here they have men's leagues that are pretty competative. My hubby used to bowl in a league with the avg ranging from 175 + and they had pretty good high game and high over sidepots that meant everyone could have a chance at them. It was both social and competative and he really enjoyed it. The pots were way worth winning

well, I'm more talking about heads up games between me and another guy. That's where the real action is at. I know the movie king pin ridicules it, but there seriously are people who bet big time money on bowling. I was just never consistent enough. I had an extremely high variance in my games, so It was hard to handicap me. The key to being a good hustler is being able to A) bowl extreme consistantly.. it's not so important how high you score, but to be able to repeat that score B ) to convince people to give you a higher handicap than you deserve ( thus where the edge is created) and C) being to shoot what ever you want. YOu never what to beat a guy's ass, you want to beat him by just enough to win the money, but that's it. It's an art, really, and I wasn't good enough to practice it.The 300 game/800 series is one of the weirdest things to happen to me. It was actually a few years before I hit my "peak" average. I just had a freakishly good after noon. I actually hit 23 strikes in a row, over the course of three games. I remember thinking in the 6th frame of the second game ( the second was my 300 game), when I had hit 12 strikes in a row, that it was such a damn shame I hadn't started off the day like that. By the 8th frame my team had stopped talking to me and by the 9th the whole league was milling around for me. The entire alley stopped during my 10 frame, everyone was watching me. It was really, really weird. The whole day, not only did I never have an open frame, I never had to pick up more than 1 pin! Not one split, not one multi pin pick up. The only pin I left all day was either the 7 or the 10. it was so, so strange. It was pretty much the only time in my competitive sports life that I was " in the zone" I felt like the bishop from caddyshack.

[dapokerbum]

I got burned out as well, but a couple years ago my average was 195, my high game was 273, and my high series was 724.I was on a league when I bowled the 724 and was going to stay in the league just so I could get the trophy for having the best series during the league. Well sure enough two weeks later a dude rolled a 726 and I quit the league the next week and haven't been back since.

[Hidden Dragon]

The vision I have in my head of Mac is aesthetically the bowling type, but actual personality-wise, the only time I can picture you doing it is ironically or as part of a Big Lebowski-themed party or something.

[BigDMcGee]

Hidden Dragon, on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, 6:10 PM, said:

The vision I have in my head of Mac is aesthetically the bowling type, but actual personality-wise, the only time I can picture you doing it is ironically or as part of a Big Lebowski-themed party or something.

when I had long hair and a beard, I once went as the dude for halloween, with the robe and flip flops, drank white russians the whole night, and got head from a girl creatively dressed as a naughty devil, whom was also large stoner, and a huge fan of the big lebowski. Perhaps this is part of my extreme love for the movie, is no other movie has given me so much, while asking so little.

[showstopper24]

I used to bowl a lot but haven't done it recently.For you serious bowlers...do you bowl it straight, or do you spin the ball?

[dapokerbum]

showstopper24, on Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 3:14 PM, said:

I used to bowl a lot but haven't done it recently.For you serious bowlers...do you bowl it straight, or do you spin the ball?

I kinda hope this is a joke ... but yeah ALL serious bowlers spin the ball.

[Ron_Mexico]

two high games, 171 and 190. I was drunk both times. I had a run last year where we were bowling once a week but I hadn't bowled for 20 years. I always equated it to being trailer trashy, but I found that I enjoyed it. Me and my friend went once a week, sometimes twice a week for 8 months straight. What made it funny was that we refused to buy shoes or a ball. I found a nice house ball, but it disappeared and we probably spent so much money on rental shoes that we coulda bought the top of the line shoes. When my knee gets better, we might join a league, but we want to be the only two members in the whole league that use house balls and house shoes. He's good, I'm not. But that's why they have handicaps.

[Poppy_Hillis]

I bowled a 206 when I was 8. Still my high game though, haven't bowled much since I was that young.

[BigDMcGee]

Ron_Mexico, on Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 4:48 PM, said:

two high games, 171 and 190. I was drunk both times.

Being a little drunk is a prereq. of bowling good. The key is to get to a nice equilibrium. I don't bowl great stone cold sober, and I bowl terrible when I'm really drunk (it's rare for me to be really drunk, however, since I am a large guy and never drink that many drinks to get that drunk). The key is getting a little drunk, a little buzzed. Not so drunk that it effects your hand/eye severely, but with a nice enough buzz that you don't get nervous or get the yips, and you can bowl a nice, relaxed, easy game. Plus, bowling is a social game, and basically a drinking game, so it's all part of the atmosphere. I think since I cut down on my drinking that it had alot to do with me quitting bowling, actually. Bowling alleys are basically really large bars, and I frankly needed to cut back on my drinking, and going to a place filled with functional alcoholics really didn't appeal to me.

[rivergirl]

dapokerbum, on Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 8:25 PM, said:

I kinda hope this is a joke ... but yeah ALL serious bowlers have balls designed to spin and drilled to correctly.

fypPS..i remember the days before reactive resin.

[FARGOpokerND]

rivergirl, on Friday, June 13th, 2008, 9:30 AM, said:

fypPS..i remember the days before reactive resin.

lol

[FARGOpokerND]

I APPROVE OF THIS THREAD!!!A little bit about me and my bowling-I've been bowling juniors competitively since 13 (I am 21 now), I've done travel leagues around my state, as well as Upper Midwest Tourneys (Minnesota Juniors Bowling Tour, 3 titles won), as well as the Junior Bowlers Tour - South West. My ND Travel Team has won 2 state titles, I have made 4 singles state finals, been to the Jr Gold Championships 3 times (not like mens, you have to EARN your spot to this....)Last year I averaged 210+ in 4 different leagues at 4 different alleys.I started up North Dakota State's collegiate bowling program (ranked top 25 in country last 2 years) and we travel around the country to bowl.I started up and coached my old high school's bowling team last year.I'm no baller like BigD though, I only have high game 299 and series of 776 (259 259 258 lol)Oh yes, under my bed, I have 21 bowling balls.

[MapleLeafs]

I've bowled for the last 17 years, and my high point was coming 3rd in the U-18's as a 16 year old at the Canadian nationals, which got me an appearance on the TSN pins game. (Canadian show)High game is only 289, and I have a feeling the 300 will never come. High series is 754. I'm currently throwing a 15 lb. Storm Paradigm. (I know, time to upgrade) and my average is 201.For anyone who remembers Mike Miller, I throw the ball without my thumb in it like Mike which generates a ton of hook which I thought was cool for show early on, but now it's just meh.