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Title: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on November 15, 2018, 11:59:30 PM
So first game in leagues tonight, I had a decent game going. Nothing spectacular but on pace for average....  then in the 9th frame I Had a terrible first ball and ended up leaving the 4, 6, 7, 9, 10. Sucks I know. Cost me average and cost the team the game.

So I’m like, just fire it out there and hope you can knock a few pins around. It’ll at least take some frustration out. So I do. Stand left, fire right. Hits the 6-10 perfectly, 6 pins falls across the lane. Somehow ricochets off the 7 and takes out the 4.....  only problem was it came in front of the 9 pin..... 

Any one else have similar or other odd things happen to them?
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: bradl on November 16, 2018, 02:10:51 AM
So first game in leagues tonight, I had a decent game going. Nothing spectacular but on pace for average....  then in the 9th frame I Had a terrible first ball and ended up leaving the 4, 6, 7, 9, 10. Sucks I know. Cost me average and cost the team the game.

So I’m like, just fire it out there and hope you can knock a few pins around. It’ll at least take some frustration out. So I do. Stand left, fire right. Hits the 6-10 perfectly, 6 pins falls across the lane. Somehow ricochets off the 7 and takes out the 4.....  only problem was it came in front of the 9 pin..... 

Any one else have similar or other odd things happen to them?

Try taking the 6-9 only off the rack, on 5 in a row.

Yep! This guy!!!

Better yet, leave a washout. 1-2-4-6-10. Throw at it, thinking you're going to pick it up like a 3-10... and go through the 1-6 gap cleanly, missing the entire lot.

Yep, again! This guy!!  :-[ :o ???

BL.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Mbosco on November 16, 2018, 05:02:34 AM
Remember the summer series where Norm Duke was needling Brian Voss for missing the super washout?
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: tank38 on November 16, 2018, 07:11:19 AM
So first game in leagues tonight, I had a decent game going. Nothing spectacular but on pace for average....  then in the 9th frame I Had a terrible first ball and ended up leaving the 4, 6, 7, 9, 10. Sucks I know. Cost me average and cost the team the game.

So I’m like, just fire it out there and hope you can knock a few pins around. It’ll at least take some frustration out. So I do. Stand left, fire right. Hits the 6-10 perfectly, 6 pins falls across the lane. Somehow ricochets off the 7 and takes out the 4.....  only problem was it came in front of the 9 pin..... 

Any one else have similar or other odd things happen to them?

Try taking the 6-9 only off the rack, on 5 in a row.

Yep! This guy!!!

Better yet, leave a washout. 1-2-4-6-10. Throw at it, thinking you're going to pick it up like a 3-10... and go through the 1-6 gap cleanly, missing the entire lot.

Yep, again! This guy!!  :-[ :o ???

BL.

We actually call that leave the dollar shot in our league. You leave it and everyone will yell dollar or more sometimes and the person who left it will try and hit the hole again without nocking any more pins down to win the money. We had a guy take home $100.00 once for doing it.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: DP3 on November 16, 2018, 07:32:13 AM
I'm legit 50% on makeable spares this season and still averaging 19x. I literally have zero focus, mechanics, balance on any back row leave. If it's chopable, I will chop it. Plastic, Resin, Urethane, Straight & Flat, Rotation & backing off the revs..... doesn't matter I'm missing everything right now.

I deserve to average 160, but if I made half the spares I'm missing, I would average 220 easily. No clue how this is real.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: mainzer on November 16, 2018, 07:39:09 AM
Every shot I threw with a Motiv ball was a how the f did that just happen situation.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: 2handedrook12 on November 16, 2018, 09:34:17 AM
One of my years for tryouts in college, I went front 7, missed a move and left a 4-6, strike in the 9th, went 2-1 first shot in the 10th and 7-10. That was one of the few games were I hit my target at the arrows breakpoint while having my speed within .3 mph every shot.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: JohnP on November 16, 2018, 11:08:47 AM
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I deserve to average 160, but if I made half the spares I'm missing, I would average 220 easily. No clue how this is real.

Simple, THS.  --  JohnP
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: DP3 on November 16, 2018, 11:43:13 AM


Simple, THS.  --  JohnP

Hot take LOL.

House shots make everyone a better spare shooter except me. There's no thumbers that haven't missed a tenpin in years in my association because they wind it up and slow hook a backup ball coast to coast at it.

I'm need to take a more hack approach to this league stuff. No more time for watching the plastic slide and miss it by 1/4" right, or chopping the front pin off of every combo spare going straight and flat at it. :D
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Strider on November 16, 2018, 12:30:40 PM
I think my favorite was at Nationals about 10 years ago.  Leave the big 4.  Just trying for the 6-10 for the count.  Miss a little right hitting only the 10 pin which bounces off the back and side boards missing the 7 pin and taking out the 4.  That's right, I picked the 4-10 off the big 4...
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Impending Doom on November 16, 2018, 02:02:46 PM


Simple, THS.  --  JohnP

Hot take LOL.

House shots make everyone a better spare shooter except me.

WRONG. House shot heroes aren't better spare shooters, they have (wait for it) TONS OF MISS ROOM!
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: BowlingForDonuts on November 16, 2018, 02:06:09 PM


Simple, THS.  --  JohnP

Hot take LOL.

House shots make everyone a better spare shooter except me. There's no thumbers that haven't missed a tenpin in years in my association because they wind it up and slow hook a backup ball coast to coast at it.

I'm need to take a more hack approach to this league stuff. No more time for watching the plastic slide and miss it by 1/4" right, or chopping the front pin off of every combo spare going straight and flat at it. :D

I really cut down chopping pins when I started using Royal Compound instead of polish on my plastic spare ball.  Get just a little tiny bit of turn on the end that helps.  I naturally tend to make balls go fairly straight though so when I miss I know by the arrows.  When you want to take the hack approach I'm your man :).
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: JohnP on November 17, 2018, 11:53:43 AM
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WRONG. House shot heroes aren't better spare shooters, they have (wait for it) TONS OF MISS ROOM!

My response was really intended to explain how he's averaging 180 instead of 160.  --  JohnP
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: BeerLeague on November 19, 2018, 07:26:29 AM
How's this ....

Brand new pins, 7-10 split.  I go after the 10 pin, bounce it out of the pit, hit the left sideboard, hit the 7 pin, SLIDE IT near the 4 pin spot and IT DOESN'T FALL.

Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Impending Doom on November 19, 2018, 08:40:24 AM
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WRONG. House shot heroes aren't better spare shooters, they have (wait for it) TONS OF MISS ROOM!

My response was really intended to explain how he's averaging 180 instead of 160.  --  JohnP

I was responding to DP3. :)
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: DP3 on November 19, 2018, 09:20:22 AM
16 years of contributions on this forum and still only 3 people know and understand me.

Impending Doom, Northface, Jesse James.... I would be nothing without you guys.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Impending Doom on November 19, 2018, 10:12:07 AM
16 years of contributions on this forum and still only 3 people know and understand me.

Impending Doom, Northface, Jesse James.... I would be nothing without you guys.

Northface and me. Only 2 good reasons to come to Chicagoland.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: DP3 on November 19, 2018, 11:00:23 AM
Northface and me. Only 2 good reasons to come to Chicagoland.
(http://i.imgur.com/BSwgL.png)
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Impending Doom on November 19, 2018, 11:21:16 AM
Northface and me. Only 2 good reasons to come to Chicagoland.
(http://i.imgur.com/BSwgL.png)

YE DON'T LIVE HERE NO MORE!
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: shakezilla9 on November 19, 2018, 04:31:52 PM
I think my favorite was at Nationals about 10 years ago.  Leave the big 4.  Just trying for the 6-10 for the count.  Miss a little right hitting only the 10 pin which bounces off the back and side boards missing the 7 pin and taking out the 4.  That's right, I picked the 4-10 off the big 4...

Sorta like how I can only ever manage to pick up the 6-7-10 when I've left the big 4.....
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: TDC57 on November 19, 2018, 08:16:37 PM
A teammate left the 1-2-4-6-10 last Wednesday and on the spare attempt, went right through the 3 pin window and left all untouched!
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Bowlaholic on November 19, 2018, 08:46:49 PM
Left the 1,2,4,10.  Took out the 1,2,4, with wrap around the 10.  The bowling gods are cruel!
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: themagician on November 20, 2018, 06:40:42 AM
I suppose it counts, I left the 4-6-7-10 in a tournament Sunday, and took the 7-10 off it without the 4 or 6 wiggling.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: ksucat on November 20, 2018, 10:46:21 AM
Watched a college kid leave 1-2-4-6-10 throwing big hook ball.  He then threw big curve backup ball at spare and took out only the 2 pin.  I couldn't help but crack up.  Good thing we don't score like golf and have to clear all the pins because he may have needed 3-4 more shots at this rate.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: shakezilla9 on November 20, 2018, 02:11:20 PM
Watched a college kid leave 1-2-4-6-10 throwing big hook ball.  He then threw big curve backup ball at spare and took out only the 2 pin.  I couldn't help but crack up.  Good thing we don't score like golf and have to clear all the pins because he may have needed 3-4 more shots at this rate.

I guess that would be known as the double super washout
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: shakezilla9 on November 20, 2018, 02:23:20 PM
Last night I was on the front 10 on a "Challenge" pattern (Beaten Path). Everyone in league stops to watch me as I finish out the game.

Anyways, 11th shot slipped a little outside, but I caught all of the ball at the bottom, and the ball screams off the outside into the headpin leaving the 3-4-6-7-9-10.

I've left my fair share of Greek Churches on hits through the face, but getting only 4 pins from clobbering the headpin while on the front 10 stung hard.

Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: themagician on November 20, 2018, 02:42:31 PM
Last night I was on the front 10 on a "Challenge" pattern (Beaten Path). Everyone in league stops to watch me as I finish out the game.

Anyways, 11th shot slipped a little outside, but I caught all of the ball at the bottom, and the ball screams off the outside into the headpin leaving the 3-4-6-7-9-10.

I've left my fair share of Greek Churches on hits through the face, but getting only 4 pins from clobbering the headpin while on the front 10 stung hard.



I'll raise you one better on that same leave, I did it with the front 11 for 294. I laugh about it now, but that night I wasn't the happiest person in the building, i'll tell ya that much lol
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: mike300 on November 20, 2018, 03:10:31 PM
Left a solid head pin on a high flush hit, it spun it's way back to the 8 pin spot and stood. It was on a fill ball so it was actually way better than just striking, I wouldn't remember that strike 20 years later.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: DP3 on November 21, 2018, 07:43:32 AM
Back in 2001, my friend and I were going to bowl a JBT at Ocean Lanes. We drove to Ocean Lanes in Ocean City, MD 2 hours away. The tournament was at Ocean Lanes in Ocean City, NJ.

Then we got a speeding ticket on the way home.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Impending Doom on November 21, 2018, 03:03:03 PM
Back in 2001, my friend and I were going to bowl a JBT at Ocean Lanes. We drove to Ocean Lanes in Ocean City, MD 2 hours away. The tournament was at Ocean Lanes in Ocean City, NJ.

Then we got a speeding ticket on the way home.

Lesson learned here... Always carefully read the tournament flyer.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: dmonroe814 on November 24, 2018, 02:51:10 PM
Mine is carry frustration.  Twice in one season, I left a stone 8 pin on a 10 bagger.  I seem to leave more than my share of 8 pins.  Has to be a reason other than bad luck.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: JohnP on November 25, 2018, 02:06:25 PM
I have only turned my back on a strike ball once.  I had seen others do it and it looked cool, so I decided to do it when I threw a ball that I knew was going to strike.  I finally threw that ball, it came off my hand perfectly and was right on line when I turned my back as it reached 40'.  I smugly walked back to the bowler's area to sit down when one of my teammates said "You left an 8 - 10".  I didn't believe him, but when I turned around, there it was.  I said to myself "Never again".  And I never have.  --  JohnP
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Deaddan on November 29, 2018, 03:23:57 PM

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Try taking the 6-9 only off the rack, on 5 in a row.

Yep! This guy!!!

Better yet, leave a washout. 1-2-4-6-10. Throw at it, thinking you're going to pick it up like a 3-10... and go through the 1-6 gap cleanly, missing the entire lot.

Yep, again! This guy!!  :-[ :o ???

BL.
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Funny you had that happen.  I missed it the bottom, the ball flattened out and hit the 6 in the face.  The 9 must have been off spot because I only took out the 6.  Was crazy.  I also  one took the 7-10 out of the Greek Church(that was bitter sweet)
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Geigs on December 06, 2018, 06:28:50 PM
Had the front nine once in a tournament, hit my ankle next shot and it went in the gutter. Also took the 9-10 out of a full rack, twice. Just a couple wtf just happened moments for me.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on December 13, 2018, 11:45:19 PM
Man, weird stuff keeps happening. The guy I was bowling against tonight left a 6, 7, 10 and got the 6 and 10 but slid the 6 in front of the 7 missing the split.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: rocky61201 on December 14, 2018, 10:34:48 AM
Horrible first shot left me the 9/10 but the 9 was rattled and moved off the spot to the left just a little.  My spare shot split the 9/10 perfectly and missed both of them.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: don coyote on December 14, 2018, 11:41:14 AM
Once back doored a 4 pin which slid into the 1 pin spot. Team gave me grief about nobody leaves a 1 pin in a rack, nobody.....
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on March 05, 2019, 12:30:59 PM
man i had another one in my sport league.  not even sure how i left a 7-8.  missed a little right and the oil took it down to far.

anyways, fired it down there, put the 8 into and back out of the pit to hit the 7 to make the spare.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: sneaky PETE on March 05, 2019, 01:58:04 PM
a couple weeks ago i left a 1, 8, 9. i was really confused
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on March 05, 2019, 02:01:31 PM
a couple weeks ago i left a 1, 8, 9. i was really confused

haha me too.  this sport shot stuff always gives me weird stuff
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: shakezilla9 on March 05, 2019, 04:28:35 PM
A month ago I was bowling a tournament and took the 6-9 off of a full rack.

No idea how the ball both managed to stay on the lane and retain enough energy to take the 6 through the 9 considering it was a 36' pattern.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: Geigs on March 05, 2019, 04:47:20 PM
Taken the 6,9 out of a full rack a few times. It’s just like hooking between the 3,10 baby split and missing both which I’ve also done. same deal. Pretty crazy, but not that uncommon. Saw a guy leave the 1,7,10 at a tournament this wknd, didn’t cover it, just got the head pin.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on March 05, 2019, 05:10:15 PM
Similar I put the ball between the 3-10 and didn’t touch a one
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: SG17 on March 05, 2019, 09:40:52 PM
I once the saw the 4 or 5 year old grandson of a teammate, get a 2 count while taking out just the 1 and 5.  shouldn't be possible.


here is what I saw, the little guy was throwing the lightest ball the center had. he hit the head pin square; sending it straight back into the 5.  the 2,3, 8 and 9 all wiggled, but all stood back up.  the ball deflected from the head pin and ended up in the gutter just inches from hitting the 10.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: sneaky PETE on March 05, 2019, 09:56:11 PM
3 years ago i was bowling at a house that was very dry and this kid was bowling a couple lanes down and when he threw the ball it had sort of a back spin (skidding forward but spinning backwards) and when it got to the dry it started rolling back to him! another thing i saw that was crazy, i was practicing around 5 years ago and there was some kid and his mom bowling next to me and i happened to look over and see the kid make the 4 6! no joke his ball was moving so slow it rolled over just enough to slide the 4 over into the 6. seeing the reaction of the kid and his mom i don't think either of them had a clue of what he just did.
Title: Re: Ever had a “how the f—- did that just happen” situation in bowling?
Post by: michael.willis9 on March 05, 2019, 11:49:25 PM
A month ago I was bowling a tournament and took the 6-9 off of a full rack.

No idea how the ball both managed to stay on the lane and retain enough energy to take the 6 through the 9 considering it was a 36' pattern.

I’ve never seen the 6-9 out of a full rack. Then you mentioned it. Then I saw it happen in our league. Weird