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Ive been bowling for years and lately ive been practicing a couple times a week. Ive got my average score up from 140 to 160s in a couple weeks. I read you can make money off of tournaments if you are good enough. Once my average is at 190, I'm good enough for amatuer tournaments.
I played for 2-3 years but had to stop due to a recurring wrist injury.
My best was a 210 game and my average was like 160-170. Used to play in the club leauge and sometimes we would go to the nationals which was always fun.
Hmmm, tips? Focus. Keep your shoulders straight, do not drop your shoulders. That is a mistake a made quite a bit. What is your bowling style? I used to bowl backup style:
Not me but yeah.
Quote:Good now play without the rails.
Once you're good enough rails are counter productive. They put you off and you can actually miss the 7 or 10 on them.
Also, have you ever got a 7-10 split before? That was probably my best moment in bowling, actually getting that split
I always use the rails, and what I find works best is throwing at an 85 degree angle so it bounces back and forth and moves down really slowly, and when it gets to the pins it bounces back and fourth slowly wrecking all the pins one row at a time.
just don't throw it too hard or it will ramp off the rails and into other peoples lanes, and that makes them super mad
For the last year of school we had offsite games as part of our timetable and I picked bowling. There was this one guy in our group of 4 we went with who claimed to be expert at bowling and by expert what he actually did was just hurl the ball at full force into the sides and have it bounce down like pinball and score 8's, 9's and 10's all day erryday.
On the last session though we changed the rail settings when he went to the toilet before the game started, then upon his return we said that the attendant told us the rails were stuck down and there was nothing we could do. He got like 36 while everyone else got 80-90's.
>mfw
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2011 10:05 PM by aaaaaaasd.)
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(12-09-2011 04:11 PM)Elfy Wrote: I played for 2-3 years but had to stop due to a recurring wrist injury.
My best was a 210 game and my average was like 160-170. Used to play in the club leauge and sometimes we would go to the nationals which was always fun.
Hmmm, tips? Focus. Keep your shoulders straight, do not drop your shoulders. That is a mistake a made quite a bit. What is your bowling style? I used to bowl backup style:
Not me but yeah.
Quote:Good now play without the rails.
Once you're good enough rails are counter productive. They put you off and you can actually miss the 7 or 10 on them.
Also, have you ever got a 7-10 split before? That was probably my best moment in bowling, actually getting that split
I got a 9-7 split before. Usually I throw it fairly straight with an ounce of left-handed curve. I'm right handed.
Heh, on the 7-10 splits I smash it as hard as I can in the pocket of the 7. The objective is to smack it across the lane, since I bowl backup it works for me.
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(12-09-2011 06:06 PM)Jesusaurisrex Wrote: I always use the rails, and what I find works best is throwing at an 85 degree angle so it bounces back and forth and moves down really slowly, and when it gets to the pins it bounces back and fourth slowly wrecking all the pins one row at a time.
just don't throw it too hard or it will ramp off the rails and into other peoples lanes, and that makes them super mad
Jesussaurus bowling.
(12-10-2011 03:36 AM)Elfy Wrote: Heh, on the 7-10 splits I smash it as hard as I can in the pocket of the 7. The objective is to smack it across the lane, since I bowl backup it works for me.
Thats damn near impossible since I have to hit I centimeter away from the gutter. Maybe someday.
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2011 03:44 AM by gore goroth.)
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