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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: bcw1969 on February 09, 2017, 08:58:00 PM
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Tonight the team we were bowling against, their anchor man actually forgot his equipment--I have never seen that before, and I don't believe I have ever done that in all my years. He is a 190 avg bowler and proceeded to bowl anyways using house shoes and someone elses ball. It didn't go well for him or his team, he barely cracked 400 and they lost all the points.
Have you ever forgotten your equipment?? and if you did would you bowl anyways or would you just put yourself in as an absent bowler?
Brad
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Using someone else's equipment wouldn't be a problem, because I know most of the guys who have things close enough for me to use.
Now, those house shoes? That is another story.
Might just have to sit one. out.
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I would bowl if I could borrow some decent shoes, even if I had to use a house ball, but I would never in a million years bowl league in house shoes. Last thing I want to do is pay money to fall on the lane in front of everyone.
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I buddy of mine who's a 220 avg bowler forgot his equipment. Used house shoes and a friends ball and went 300/800.
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I would never wear house shoes to bowl league.... As mentioned, it's always another week.
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There has been a few nights when I had thought about leaving my stuff on the lanes and giving up but is has never happened!! And I am glad for that!
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I have never forgotten the equipment. There was once or twice I forgot the shirt, but my good wife delivered in the clutch!
It's always an issue of which ones to take with me, because on most house shots any of them are good if I am.
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I have once; I had intended to eat dinner at the restaurant across the street from the lanes before league, so I just turned around and went home and got my stuff.
I did end up missing most of warm ups, but it was ok.
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I switch bags, either with my 3 ball roller and joey or to my two tote bags...well one time I forgot the Vise IT pouch in one of the bags. My spare ball doesn't have an IT on it, so I used that ball instead.
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Just did this during the current bowling season. House I bowl at on Tuesdays and Thursdays is about 35 minutes one-way from my house. I was going early to toss a few games with my teammates before league started. Arrived at the bowling alley.....empty trunk. I could not believe it. Turned around, drove straight home, retrieved my stuff, and made it back to the house 5 minutes before league practice started.
I hope I NEVER do that again.
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Yep. Forgot my gear once when I was late for league after having to deal with an issue at work. Ended up using a teammates Fab Blue Hammer and a pair of house shoes.
teammate has a much lower rev rate than me, and has a much weaker drill on his blue hammer than mine (his low rev rate and ball speed compensates for that), but I was able to square up and shoot low-mid 200s for the night.
But again, those house shoes. I never want my feet nor my kids feet anywhere near those for as long a we live!
BL.
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Yep, been there, done that. My garage is behind my house. I take my gear out of the house through a sliding glass door and put it on the deck where I walk by it going to the garage. Put the gear out, locked up the house, walked right by the bag into the garage and drove 50 minutes to the bowling alley.
Nothing in the trunk of course, because my stuff is still sitting on the deck. I was going to buy some new shoes and just use a house ball, but the pro shop doesn't stock high end shoes, so I just spectated for the night.
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I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes. For me, it is more about my push off than my slide. I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe. I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.
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I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes. For me, it is more about my push off than my slide. I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe. I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.
I could deal with the idea of the slide and/or push off not being great.
I can't deal with the idea of wearing shoes that have been worn by so many different people.
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I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes. For me, it is more about my push off than my slide. I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe. I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.
I could deal with the idea of the slide and/or push off not being great.
I can't deal with the idea of wearing shoes that have been worn by so many different people.
I can understand this aspect. For me though, my feet have been in worst situations than shoes worn by some teen who hasn't showered in 3 weeks. (10-years in the Marine Corps will do that to you)
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I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes. For me, it is more about my push off than my slide. I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe. I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.
I could deal with the idea of the slide and/or push off not being great.
I can't deal with the idea of wearing shoes that have been worn by so many different people.
I can understand this aspect. For me though, my feet have been in worst situations than shoes worn by some teen who hasn't showered in 3 weeks. (10-years in the Marine Corps will do that to you)
4 years as an 11B in the Army. But those sweaty, nasty and smelly feet in my Corcoran's were MINE. Not someone with whatever kind of foot fungus they may have.
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I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes. For me, it is more about my push off than my slide. I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe. I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.
I could deal with the idea of the slide and/or push off not being great.
I can't deal with the idea of wearing shoes that have been worn by so many different people.
I can understand this aspect. For me though, my feet have been in worst situations than shoes worn by some teen who hasn't showered in 3 weeks. (10-years in the Marine Corps will do that to you)
4 years as an 11B in the Army. But those sweaty, nasty and smelly feet in my Corcoran's were MINE. Not someone with whatever kind of foot fungus they may have.
Training at Fort Lee they had us running through a creek only to find out after a couple of weeks raw sewage was being pumped into the creek. One guy left his shoes and socks in a gear locker and the waste ate a hole in the bottom of the metal locker. So much fun.
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I'll do one better....years ago my brother was visiting late 80's or early 90's...I lived in south florida and he lived approx. 230 miles away in tampa florida..we did a little bowling down there on the weekend and he got all the way back to tampa and realized he forgot his bowling bag..he had league the following day or so and he drove all the way back down to pick up the equipment and back again. That's a lot of driving in a short span of time.
Brad
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I'll do one better....years ago my brother was visiting late 80's or early 90's...I lived in south florida and he lived approx. 230 miles away in tampa florida..we did a little bowling down there on the weekend and he got all the way back to tampa and realized he forgot his bowling bag..he had league the following day or so and he drove all the way back down to pick up the equipment and back again. That's a lot of driving in a short span of time.
Brad
More dedicated than me. :o
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Happened to me one time. I was one who always had my equipment in my car. One night we took my then girlfriends car and had transferred my stuff to her trunk. The following week; I forgot to take my stuff back out of her car and in to mine. So when I got to league and opened my trunk; the trunk was empty. Never happened again.
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Well, I've never forgotten my bowling ball. But because I switch bags, I've forgotten to take my shoe, ( I only use the sliding shoe) many times. I usually wind up just bowling in my sneakers. Last time it was the best thing, cause right after that the rain cause the lanes next to the door to stick, with no slide. I managed to survive the night by moving up on the approach and remembering I'm not going to slide.
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I store my stuff in lockers at the alley so don't have to worry about this
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I had an experience about 20 years ago. I didnt forget my equipment, but I got in a car wreck while out of town at a tourney. Got a ride home but couldnt get my equipment from the car. The following week in my money singles league I found a spare pair of shoes but only had an old yellow dot and black diamond to take to league. I went down with low expectations and started with the yellow dot. Shot about 630 on a high scoring condition the first three with poor carry. Decided to try the black diamond and shot 700 the next 3 to win the nightly side pot. A couple of the young guys thiught I was some kind of legend but in truth I had a great look in this second shift league with the old hard rubber ball, although I never would have thought to try it if I had my resin equipment with me
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Worst I have ever done is forgot the key to my locker. With the design of the lockers, though, I was able to unscrew the hinges from the frame in like 15 seconds. House even supplied the screwdriver
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The dumbest thing I've done is switch out a couple of balls and leave my primary thumb sleeve in one. Thankfully, I had a back up sleeve.
I've seen other instances of people leaving thumb sleeves at home or in a hotel room.