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dale jenkins

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What Happened???
« on: September 26, 2008, 01:36:58 AM »
Remember when bowling was about skill?  Yesterday the low scorer on our team threw an Ebonite NVD and kicked our butts.  He’s never hooked a ball like that in his life.  Ebonite balls have too much technology in them.

 

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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2008, 12:21:39 PM »
The bowling ball technology is fine.  Bowl something other than your THS and see if you still average 210-220.

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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2008, 12:42:36 PM »
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...Yesterday the low scorer on our team threw an Ebonite NVD and kicked our butts...


Then buy one for yourself and join the revolution...
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2008, 05:07:37 PM »
There no reason to complain and spend all this time on this subject.  The world of bowling will lose people no matter what!! If we keep making bowling balls better and better we will lose the people that used urenthane and plastic. If we stop the ball companies from making better balls we will lose alot of young people that want and expect to average 220.  We just need to make sure we keep the next generation of bowling in tune with what the sport is all about.  I us to be the same way, worried about all the new balls coming out thinking the more I bought the better my average would get when two guys at my home bowling alley, Keith Butler and Bobby Hoeger JR. took me under thier wing and showed me that bowling is about your steps, the knee, bend, keeping your head steady, sliding, and not about hooking the whole lane and what new ball was coming out.  If we could all be like these two gentlemen the sport would be great for the next hundred years.  Teach people the basic and then give them the equitment.  I remember one night Bobby and I bowl 3 games at Raceway Lanes in Indianapolis and he beat me ever game, but he did it with his 5 year old columbia white dot and I used some new brunswick.  That night showed me that its not about equitment its about the fundementals!!!!!
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2008, 04:10:09 AM »
it's all about skill dale!!!even the lowest scoring bowlers have to throw the ball half way decent to be able to score!!!and even tho the new balls allow even the least experienced bowlers better chances of bowling 300's....you still have to throw good balls to hit the pocket to score 300's and even more 800's!!!so dale what i would say to you is encourage this bowler to refine his game and maximize his fundemantals so that he can be a solid bowler not only in that house but anywhere he may go and bowl!!!
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2008, 06:51:26 AM »
Well said chatnboy.

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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2008, 06:08:21 AM »
Well, I have an entire bag of high technology balls, and still can't do good every night..
Have my good days and bad ones..

put your friend with his NVD on a tough shot.
Then see how well he does.

But of course anyone with a basic timing and release matched with a good hooking potential ball should have no problem getting strikes...on a house shot...
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2008, 11:13:34 PM »
quit your whining and shut up!
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2008, 09:40:13 AM »
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Remember when bowling was about skill?  Yesterday the low scorer on our team threw an Ebonite NVD and kicked our butts.  He’s never hooked a ball like that in his life.  Ebonite balls have too much technology in them.


Here's a theory.  Maybe it would have been different if you didn't suck?  Maybe.....just maybe.
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2008, 01:13:58 PM »
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Remember when bowling was about skill?  Yesterday the low scorer on our team threw an Ebonite NVD and kicked our butts.  He’s never hooked a ball like that in his life.  Ebonite balls have too much technology in them.


The technology is available to everone else, so no one is at a disadvatage. My recommendation if u do not want to deal with everyone having so much room on the lane, sign up for a pba experience league. At min a sport shot league. I think this would be more to your liking.

This was not to make fun of u or to bash u. Im serious
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2008, 02:25:18 PM »
well i somewhat agree I do like the new balls but ebonite needs a good old urethane and particle. they was great and always will be. I don't know how lane conditions are in your area but in mine they keep going down hill i have a tornado with a 3 to 4 in pin drilled pin over bridge and cg staked and the only line i can holed is gutter to gutter and it still goes Brooklyn i know i have to much hand but when i go to tournaments i love having it so i can get out and have my own shot. so i don't like reducing my revs.
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2008, 02:46:01 PM »
Yes it is always good to stay in comfort zone. But sometimes you will have to change if u would like to become a better bowler.
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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2008, 08:21:59 AM »
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It's not progress, if technology replaces skill.

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Re: What Happened???
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2008, 08:26:34 AM »
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By reading these comments and taking pieces of some to reach a question...

My question is... If the headcount of bowlers is so low, then who are the ball companies selling balls to?

My conclusion is that bowling is more popular in other countries than it is here in the U.S. If that's the case what are they doing differently than us?


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they are marketing the sport/game.  they have made it highly competitve and something that the people who participate aim for.  Centers in the US are more concerned about birthday parties and 4-5 buck game prices, they dont care about leagues (dont get me wrong there are still alleys that do it right, but they are becoming harder to find)  Bowling in the US is dying because alley owners dont feel the need for leagues (they will soon find that is not the case)

I am fortunate, we dont see a ton of 300's so when one is shot, it is still special, and the bowler still has to execute 12 shots
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