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HamPster

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Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« on: July 30, 2009, 04:48:34 AM »
Lol here's one that will get a million replies . .  Whether you've won a PBA title, or regional, or even if your only accomplishment so far is a 300 on a house shot, I'm curious what people on this site have accomplished.  Doesn't have to be a score, it could be a tournament win, could be a nice few game set, could be mastering a certain look, could be beating a pro, could be successfully figuring out a seemingly impossible shot, what have you.  Or maybe you have more than one that you're proud of, list them all.  As for me . .

I have a 200+ average with both hands.  

I've cashed in EVERY SINGLE tournament I've bowled in that has a format of 10 games or more, and I'm talking 25-30 of them.
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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 01:06:14 PM »

My greatest bowling accomplishment is that my son and I bowl 2 leagues together, and enjoy it thoroughly. Even through his teenage years when we didn't agree on much we could always go bowl and patch up any differences.

All the 300 games and the 800 series pale in comparison.




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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 01:15:01 PM »
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dogman666

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 01:25:40 PM »
Bowling the first 800 in my house only to find out that in the late league someone beat my score by one pin.
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Dan Belcher

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2009, 01:33:51 PM »
So, what does it say about me that my greatest bowling accomplishment occurred when I was 10 years old?    I won the gold medal in my age bracket in the Bluegrass State Games way back then in 1994.  Since then, I haven't won any tournament, no matter how big or small, nor even been all that close!
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laddog54

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2009, 01:38:14 PM »
My last tournament as a junior I was bowling my first tournament with my new girlfriend (now wife of 14 yrs)at the old Stadium Bowl in Houston. She was ave around 160 for the year and was on pace to shoot her first 600. I was even after 2 games and we had a shot at first. She shoots 230 and I go 289 to win her her only city title.
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bowlingaddiction

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2009, 01:39:23 PM »
of all the individual accomplishments my greatest was a team one when i had to make the the big four in the tenth frame of state (Indiana Youth Travelers) and i did so. I really love that one because to this day I bowl with that same team although we are adults
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Gene J Kanak

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2009, 02:00:34 PM »
I only have a few modest accomplishments:

1. Started with the front 8 and finished with 269 during a regional on Scorpion. It was my first time bowling on that pattern. I only finished plus 4, but it was nice to come back from a terrible first few games.

2. 804 - 279-246-279  I was proud of the 800 because I thought I'd need to shoot 300 to shoot an 800. I left a 4-pin in the fourth or fifth frame of the last game, so I knew I needed to pretty much go off the sheet for the 800. It was cool to pull that off.

3. Striking out in the 10th to win a league championship for my mixed team. I don't take much stock in league, but my wife, brother-in-law and mother-in-law were on the team, and they were excited about it, so it was pretty cool.

4. I won a qualifying tournament that earned me a free bowling ball and an entry into the regional that was coming to my town. I was somewhat unknown in my area at that time, and I was able to get past some of the more-respected bowlers in that area, so it was a fun coming-out party for me.
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tuckingfenpin

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2009, 02:07:52 PM »
Watching my dad throw his first 300 game in a league setting. He's been at it for 20+ years and finally pulled one off with a Tornado. He was pumped, lol.
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Artimust

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2009, 02:08:00 PM »
Becoming a youth coach and giving back to the kids.
Winning first place in a family doubles tournament with my 9 year old daughter.
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Gazoo

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2009, 02:11:27 PM »
Bowling in a tournament with a BAC of 2.0 and not falling down or picking up the 8-10 split in said tournament without falling down. They say drinking affects decision making which must be true because I can't decide.
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OddBalls

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2009, 02:18:17 PM »
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My greatest bowling accomplishment is that my son and I bowl 2 leagues together, and enjoy it thoroughly. Even through his teenage years when we didn't agree on much we could always go bowl and patch up any differences.

All the 300 games and the 800 series pale in comparison.




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That's really cool..

Being the father of three, I alway thought ONE of my two boys would join a league with me. But, it was my daughter who stepped up and wanted to bowl! Although I think being a Vegas league had a lot to do with it..


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i_throw_strikes

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2009, 02:23:41 PM »
coaching high school girls team that had never won more than one match point in the 3 or 4 years earlier to a team that just missed bowling i simi state and having a girl make it to state although she only finished 24 but still from a 145 avg to a 189 in one season that meant more to me then anything else i've done on the lanes
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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2009, 02:45:56 PM »
Georgia State Bowling Association Champion 2004.
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al_g

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Re: Your greatest bowling accomplishment?
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2009, 03:01:06 PM »
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I have a 200+ average with both hands.


That's impressive to me. I tried to bowl left handed for a season when my right hand was out of commission due to various surgeries. I averaged 110 as a lefty. I'm so right side dominate it's pathetic.


My number one accomplishment by far:
Finishing first in average and setting a scroing record in my first collegiate tournament(236 avg. for 8 games) after having to take 15 months off from bowling due to 3 hand surgeries and a tendon graft in my right(bowling) hand. Our team also finished 3rd out of 47 teams in the tournament. Of course the record was broken the next year since it was set at the beginning of the reactive resin era.

Due to the surgeries I had to change everything about my game. I was a cranker(425-450 rpms, estimated) with 90 degrees of axis rotation before the surgeries. Having no wrist strength after the surgeries, I had to wear a wrist brace and was really a no-baller the first few years after the surgeries. The Traber brothers had MUCH more ball than me! I did have about 2 months of practice in before the tournament but only averaged 180's and barely made the cut to make the college team that year. There was no indication I was going to bowl good at all. I was just happy I could bowl again. To be high average and set a short lived record made it that much more special to me.

Obscure accomplishment I take pride in:
Since my surgery, in tournaments that have a finals format(stepladder, 8 or 12 game round robin finals, etc) I have always finished/placed at the spot I qualified at or improved my position. I've never finished lower than what I qualified at. For example if I qualified 4th out of 8, after the 8 game round robin finals I always finished 4th or above, never 5th or below. That's been true for 15-20 finals appearances in the last 15 years.
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