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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: MSC2471 on March 11, 2004, 07:44:22 AM
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Just curious to know about everyone's first memories regarding bowling and what made them continue on. For me it was my parents who bowled every night of the week in a local bowling center- so that became an instant babysitter when I was a child. I first started to pick up a ball when I was 3, and my father insisted that I was right handed because everyone else in our family was (my older brother included). After 2 tries at throwing it right handed he let me try left handed and voila...I've been a wrongsider every since. Started up in my first youth league when I was 6 (had to convince the house owner that was ok, because Bantams were usually supposed to be at least 8) and I started up in travelling leagues when I was 9.
What made me continue on? The socialization, the chance to meet a new group of people, the love of the sport, the desire to learn more about equipment, different lane conditions, different hand positions, spare shooting- and the challenge bowling gives me.
Matt
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You've never had a 300 in 29 years? Or is that just this year? I hope it's your whole life because then I won't feel bad about never having a hole in one in the 20 years I have been golfing. Worst part is I have been a scratch golfer since I was 16. Even if it just this year can we pretend? haha.
I first got into bowling when I was about 6 always watching my dad league bowl. Never really got serious about it until about 2 months ago though.
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STORM! DEXTER! CAN'T GO WRONG! THIS IS MY TOURNAMENT!
http://maddox.xmission.com/
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Both my parents bowled before I was even born, so when I was 4 my parents put me in my first bumper league. After that, I got into bowling regular youth leagues, at age 11 I shot a 276 with my plastic blue Falcon, and from then on my only goal was to be the best bowler in my family. It's really close between my dad and me now, I got him in average by 10 pins, but I bowl at a cake house at school and my dad bowls in a pretty competitive league. Also, going to tournaments and meeting new people really kept me going. I've met lots of cool people from this and I see no reason to stop.
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Dan Chambers
Winona State University Bowling
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Kidjete: You read the profile correctly: I'm 33 and have been bowling since I was 4, competitively since I was 6, but no 300's in my life. Even when I was a college bowler (averaging 215 and bowling at least 30-35 games a week) I didn't throw a 300 game. I've always been one of those bowlers that can throw 5-7 strikes a game, but never really string them together...I cover most of my spare leaves though, and that helps boost my average.
My best friend in bowling though 6 months older than me, has thrown 10 300's in his lifetime...and during my college days had a month span where he threw 4 300's. Someday I will shoot perfection, but I feel that an 800 series is closer to being accomplished within the next year or so for me.
Matt
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Matt, I think I am the exact opposite of you. I can string a full game of strikes, but putting together 3 very solid games to make an 8 just seems so far away from me right now. I can have a good first game, a mediocre 2nd game, and a very good 3rd game, but I can never seem to be consistent and carry well for 3 games.
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Dan Chambers
Winona State University Bowling
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My parents met bowling. I was almost born in a bowling alley. I was raised in one. I didn't have a choice.
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The first time I ever played bowling was on my 18th birthday... So for was a love at first sight thing... (My girlfriend was the one with the idea, I think she's a bit jealous now... )
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Gendou Ikari... Bowl to Win!!!
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A friend of mine needed someone to fill a team in his league 6 years ago. He asked me, I said ok. I began bowling just for fun, didnt really know much about the sport. I started the season with a 94 average and was a 124 by seasons end. Plus my team won the league championship. After that, I just wanted to learn more. Now here I am, a bowling junkie!!
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"I am the most consistent bowler in my house....
I consistently SUCK!!"
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My Family bowled and it was a great way to get out and do things as a kid on saturdays. i have bowled since i was 8 in junior leagues till i was 18. Didn't start bowling again till i was 20 then i bug got me and i have been hooked ever since. I bowl to get better every week and every year. 4 years ago i started in my first real competitive league i had a 180 average and thinking i suck. Now i captain my own team and average 210. Of course this only keeps me going till golf season starts.
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Oil is served Best with fingers!
Why does the 8 Pin laugh at me!
Sheppy
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My wife bowled on a mixed doubles team on Fridays for two years. I sat and watched all night an said I need in on this action! So this year we put our own mixed team in on Friday nights, and that's where Fatboysbowling stuggles began!!LOL! Getting better though, advice here, our pro at the alley, and practice-practice-practice- is getting my average up a pin or two a week, just hate to see it end, only seven weeks left!!!
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GUTTER DUN!!!
Bear with me, I'm the highest shootin' lowest shooter, spare missin', lane strugglin' beginner I've ever met!!
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My parents bowled all the time when I was a child. Mom was from Baltimore, which is a pretty decent bowling city - Danny Wiseman country. I went bowling from time to time as a child, but no leagues or anything.
I started bowling with intent in college. Having no friends or acquaintances at the universtiy for me to hang around with, I went bowling with another guy from the marching band. Before the end of the semester, I was bowling several times a week. I was on the college team 4 times, All-Campus champion twice. ACUI Singles Champion, Doubles Champion, Team Champion all in the same year. All of this with a well worn Columbia 300 Black U-Dot and Black Knight.
I joined my first league after I graduated and despite having to quit the game for a few years, I joined the PBA in December 2003. I have never posted a sanctioned 800 or 300 (299/796 is about as close as I've come); credit those goals for keeping me going in the game. Not to mention I'd like to make match play and eventually win a PBA event.
Gotta have a goal.
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Nut
If horse racing is the sport of kings, then surely bowling is a very good sport as well.
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I started bowling at age 9, because I thought it looked like fun when I went with my Mom to her ladies' league. I asked her if she'd let me bowl, and I started on a youth league.
When I joined my first adult league (4 person team mixed league) I met Mr. White Dot He was bowling with his parents, and I was bowling with one of my brothers. Turns out my mother in law and my father worked together for 14 years and I never knew Mr. White Dot before then.
I got married at the age of 22, and had a four-year layoff from bowling because we were initially broke newlyweds and we both worked lots of hours. A friend of his at work who bowled had a teammate that broke her arm, and I took that teammate's place, and I've been back ever since.
I still plan to retire if I ever shoot 700, too 
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White Dot 
I don't get hot flashes. It's just my inner child playing with matches.
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/FBL/mkting.html
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Went with my church group when I was about 8 years old, I was so proud that I was the only one to get a spare! My father took me again when I was about 13, then we started watching the Championship Bowling shows after church on Sundays. Started in AJBC at age 16, and have only missed a couple years since. -- JohnP
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A friend of mine that I went to school with bowled, and me and him hung out at the bowling alley a few times, and I really just got hooked, and here I am a year later bowling like theres no tommorow. And I continue with it because it is one thing I have found that really held my interest. I dont think I will ever stop bowling, maybe I wont bowl competitively forever but I will keep bowling!
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is!
The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS! I'd rather blow it over with my storm, and 21mph ball speed on dry shots.
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i remember starting bowling seriously in a league when i was 12, i used a house ball and shoes for the first couple of months and averaged 130 but i wanted more so i got an old track ball and dexter shoes and averaged 160 by the end of the year and by the next i was at 180 and last year i bowled a 796 series left a ten pin second shot in the 10th to mis the 800 i have bowled probably about 50 279 games, i always leave 1 10 pin somewhere last night i bowled a 269, 2 ten pins that game and i had 4 ten pins and the rest strikes in the first game, but i do average 215 i just dont have any rings or 290 games
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black cherry bomb and golden nugget combo equals 230 average
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Between both parents, they bowled 7 nights a week. The center they frequented was owned by a member of our church and he got me going on the end pairs while the parents bowled. I was 3 or so when I got going. I've been hooked ever since. If and when I have a kid, they'll be out there at an early age too.
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Evolutionary. Revolutionary.