hey for those of you that are die hard bowlers with a decent knowledge of ball motion I found this cool software. you can get a free trial for 5days and mess around with it.
not sure if we can put in links so just google ebonite blueprint software.

Solid prop. Would like to know the end result.

I bowled in a league like from 5th grade to the first year of high school, my average was around a 160 and my high game was a 210 or around there. I threw the ball with a hook and whatnot. Then when I went bowling like 5 years later I brought my spare ball with me because I couldn't find my normal bowling ball, and just threw it from the right hand side of the lane as hard as I could in a straight line at the pins and ended up bowling a 235.

Bowling is fun but I haven't bowled in like 3 years, I need to bowl again!

I volunteered for Special Olympics bowling 3yrs. in a row. My highschool had a mandatory 30hrs. of community service per year.

I got kicked out on my 3rd yr. The parents and coaches (yes, special olympic bowling coaches) take the "competition" ten times more seriously than the participants. So I'm in charge of one of the lanes and one of the kids scores something like an 11 for the first game. He was obv. not happy. I felt bad, so for the second game I put up the bumpers. It made him extremely happy to be knocking down pins every roll. Half way through the game the parents/coaches noticed and gave me a good lecture and relieved me of my duties.

I'm not a very PC guy. Bottom line is they're retarded and doing well makes them happy. So why turn it into a massive competition that the competitors have little self-awareness over and instead let them enjoy the game. It was almost a "who's the least retarded person" competition as they did the best. There was no chance the kids on my lane were going to come close to winning. They still weren't going to break 100 and some of the less challenged participants were scoring close to 200, if not higher.

Not sure whats worse, bowling god ****ing awful tonight or bowling so awful that it took me 2 and half games to realize I was bowling on a 36ft sport pattern and not the normal 42ft house shot. Found out the house I bowl at puts 10 lanes with a different sport shot each week and for some reason didn't have time to strip and re oil. And fwiw I think it is awesome they do that and will be going every Sunday but after showing up late and only getting 2 practice shots in I was bowling so ****ty and just just kept fighting the lanes before I realized I was throwing the total wrong ball with the wrong surface and the wrong break point. 36ft sport pattern plays super different then a 42 ft house shot for those who don't know. I didn't even have the right ball with me for the shot. I am looking forward to practicing on a sport shot once a week though.
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I used to live for bowling. Started when I was 13 and quit 5 years ago at 31. Bowled all of the big Vegas tournaments back when they paid 100-200k for 1st. I felt lie I was always close but could never get over the hump at that level. It is crazy how in the 90's the PBA was basically the minors and all of the great bowlers were bowling the megabuck and action events. Now those guys are all on tour.

For the last 6-8 years I bowled exclusively on sport or PBA leagues. It helped my game tremendously. I have 10 300's and the first one has meaning even though it was on a house shot, but the two that mean the most were a 300 in a doubles tournament on a brutal shot when we were down 80 pins going into the last match and won by 5. The other was a 300 on a sport shot. It was one of the first 50 or so ever shot and is still the only one ever shot in my state. It was the most nervous I have ever been and I received a crystal bowling pin from ABC and it's the only award I display.

I grew up around the game and I loved it. Once the tournament scene died I started losing interest, then I had kids and discovered poker and that was the end of bowling for me.

yeah poker being killed is the reason I started bowling again. When I first turned adult from yaba there was tons of great tourneys to bowl, I lived in San Diego and any weekend you could bowl an ABT or NABI event (assuming your not pba member) and the first prize was always a 3-5k. There was also tons of scratch leagues plus you could probably find a scratch 6 gamer almost every weekend within like 30 miles of you. When I came back I was blown away by how lame tourneys have gotten. The house I started bowling at again doesn't even have a scratch league. That ****ing blew my mind.Now everything is handicap and Now that I live in Texas it seems like if I want to bowl a 6 gamer in the $100-$200 range I will have to run it myself. Kinda makes me want to consider using my college money the military gives me when I get out and go bowl incollege since I have all 4 years of eligibility still. Seems college is the only place left with decent tourneys. I mean even if I went and bowled a pba regional and won I would still be broke. I must have a ton of poker cashes for much higher then what a "regional" pro makes.

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i shot 300 tonight in practice. 268 300 222 790. only my 3rd lifetime 300, all in practice. my high is 289 and 787 in league. 801 in a tournament.

i bowled from 1984-87 and averaged about 190 when i was between 11-15 then quit for about 23 years and have now been back since last April. booked 218 last year. ive only bowled a few tournaments on sport shots and im about 200 for 18 games.

im fully into it but i know that its just adult ski ball. i find it funny when i beat on dudes that have been bowling full time their whole lives or are "pros". lol

also,i love guys that can barely average 200 on easy house shots that have pba cards.

started going about 2 months ago- threw a straight ball, averaged like 95. My lifetime high was 178.


then i learned how to curve it, though i dont use my thumb.

over my last 30 games (we have an all you can bowl so we get 15 games in a night) ive averaged 186 and have broken my high score multiple times. the last game i bowled last time was a 255 (my new high).

still using a house ball, gonna get my own for xmas i believe.

Think I am going to finally get a new ball or 2 since all mine are old. Holding out till the brunswick nexus comes out. Looks pretty ****ing solid if it is even half as good as it looks on video. Comes out the 11th I think

A guy on Brunswick staff bowled 300 against me tonight first game out of the box with the polished Nexus. It looks really, really, really good.

was it a polished nexus solid one or the pearlized one

the nano is the best ball on the market right now. i just bought a new one 2 weeks ago. shot 671 last night with it. could have struck out for 279 but left a ringing 10 and missed it in the 10th like a moron for 246.

pearl