1st night completed and, like White Dot, I will be back next week.  We have 15 teams of trios.  I was concerned about too many ultraserious big shots, not the case at all.  Serious, yes, but there to have fun also.  Many are regulars and a few of us newbees.

A moment of panic when I was introduced to one of my teammates.  The 1st thing he tells me is he plans on us taking no lower than 5th place in the league.  My 1st thought is, this is going to be a long 12 weeks.  I later found out he is a 169 bowler on the THS.

The league format is 2 games of position, then 2 games of league competition, a total of 6 points per night.  Since it is the 1st night everyone will bowl 2 on their starting lane, then move a pair to the right.

Our 1st pair had a fairly easy shot, not a lot of strikes, but makable spares.  One open per game in the 1st set for 191-182.

We move and I wasn't as fortunate making the adjustments.  The shot was somewhere between 10 and 13.  Outside of 10 was OB, inside of 13 the ball slid and left splits.  I managed 4 opens in game 3, 3 of which were splits.  One of them the sour apple or lily and I managed to put the ball nicely between the 5-10 missing both  I finished with a 139.

The last game I refused to hit 10, I either pulled it out to 9 or in to 13, both were not good places to be.  I did pick up a few more spares and left a few less splits for a 154 and an evil 666 series.  A 166 average, not bad since my book in the center on the typical shot was 180.  The biggest thing was I did not allow myself to get frustrated and maintained a good attitude.
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Age is only a state of mind.  Since I lost mine years ago, I must be really young

Well as Ken said it was 42' of pure enjoyment.
Looking back I realized that I haven't used my oil
game in so long that I was rusty.  I was holding the ball
low in front of me instead of to my side.  IT cause a few
acuracy problems, but nothing to major.  Ken also mention
having to many balls.  I guess I am kind of there to learn
what my balls will do, so I bring as many as I can

I will say that yesterday made me think about how I want to set
up an arsenal.  I think I am going to go more with surface changes
more than layout changes.

I was bowling yesterday and playing a little with my schorcher,
but for the most part I was using my two charcoal executioners.
I started the first game with a 167, not bad.  The ex was moving
more than the scorcher to me (must mean that this wasn't a true flood).
The ex was drilled label leverage and was in box condition.  

Second game I was still getting a good responce from my ex until
about the 8th frame.  I started to get a little to loose, and my
ball speed was getting up there.  Very bad for 42'.  Still pulled
out a 172.

Third game a switch to my ex drilled 315.  I liked the read I was getting
except with with my ball speed I needed a little more surface on that ball.
I ended up fighting my ball speed that game and shot 138

I think I am going to get another ex and drill it 315 but leave it in box
condition, or even scuff it a tad, because I like the reaction of that drill.


Sr.

I went back to the 3" approach and the timing improved

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Eric T. Spivey, P.E.
 Visionary Test Staff Member
http://www.visionarybowling.com

Well, this kinda sucks.  Our sport league was suposed to start last nite.  We had 6 people show up.  So much for the league.

The house let us bowl for free though just so we could tell everyone what they were missing.

First time I've been able to bowl since the car wreck so I'm pretty satisfied.  Shot was pattern E.  Don't know where they came up with it pertaining to easy.

154 1st game, 3 big splits 3-5-7 frame, used my Pearl Bomb.

Switched to my Thing 2d game, 184, one open.

Lanes opened up 3rd game, shot clean 226, 564 series.

Unfortunately, doesn't look like we can get up to the 20 people the house needs to justify running the league.  Its really a shame, all of us had more fun trying to find the shot and ending up with 150 games than we do when we just dump it right and hope for the carry.


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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel

1st law of combat, "Bullets always have the right of way"

White Dot, congrats on those fine scores! I only wish we had the same shot to look at for a few weeks. This league changes shots every week.  I'm not sure if this is gonna cure me or kill me!

Sr, sorry to hear about the poor turnout for your league. We certainly didn't have that problem here. I believe we have like 22 teams in our house.

One nice fringe benifit to sport leagues that I see already, since you mostly have serious bowlers, you get pretty decent participation in the jackpots $$$; nothing huge, but a few wins could cover a bruised ego nicely.
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kendog
avoids spare shooting at all costs
just throw strikes, and check your own spelling

First night last night: PBA pattern A2

168-159-152: 479

Easily 100 pins in missed spares (and not counting splits!)

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Kill the back row