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General Category => Bowling Videos => Topic started by: Lillen on March 18, 2013, 06:36:14 AM
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What are Swedish Bowling Leagues? How are they different than bowling leagues in most countries? Watch this video and find out! What do you think about this type of format?
Here is a link to last years Team Championship that was held in Bowling Arena Jönköping at the WTBA Athen pattern
http://www.bowlstream.tv/index/30?eventid=2225
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It is neat. Similar somewhat to travel leagues. Not sure that it would ever catch on here.
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Very interesting. I'd love to give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
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I like it, maybe I will move to Sweden and bowl there.
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I too like the format! Hope it catches on here in Florida.
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I like the format as well. Larger teams getting more people involved.
That said, don't know if it would ever catch on here....hard to hold a "league night" with multiple teams bowling this format. This would be more like a once a month, twice a month type of a thing where you could hold it with only a few number of actual teams. Might be a way to develop rivalries between local houses in an area. Each hosue has it's own "team" and they bowl the other "houses" teams. Could do it on Saturday afternoon maybe where each house bowls a home/home series against the other houses in the area and all the houses pitch-in for a large trophy for the winning team, displayed at the lanes. And the "area" could be a city or even larger depending on the # of houses in a local area.
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I like the format, and would love to be able to participate in something like this. I don't see it replacing leagues as we know them though. If they only have two bowlers on a pair, any house that can fill 4 or 5 member teams is going to choose the status quo. It would be great as a Saturday or Sunday afternoon event.
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My friend moved to Sweden last year and is bowling on a team. They have different levels of leagues, just like here, but it seems to be much more prestigious to be able to bowl on certain teams. They also tend to bowl on more sport patterns. Each house usually has their standard shot but it can change from time to time as well. Even their "house shots" tend to be pretty tough. Also, all of the scoring at the bowling alleys is linked to the same system so you can log in on the internet and see the scores of who is bowling at anytime.. even if someone is just practicing. When I visited him a couple months ago , I went to watch him bowl. The Swedish culture is very different.. In normal life it is looked down upon to really stand out or be different than everyone else.. This kind of shows through in the bowling in that , when I was there, it seemed that all the bowlers had almost the same exact style.. Like they have all been coached from the same coach since they started bowling or all learned how to bowl by reading the same book. That being said, they are very very animated when they bowl.. screaming, chanting, and singing team songs to try to get their team pumped up and win. As far as the stand by players, if someone doesn't bowl well in one of the matches, they get pulled and substituted with a different bowler..
The bowling alley I saw had 7 lanes I think..My friend said most alleys have been transformed from something else.. The one I went to used to be an indoor swimming pool. With all of the places starting out as something else, that means that you get some very unusual circumstances.. like a wall right to the left or right of the end lanes.. or support poles in between the lanes on the approach
As shown in the video, changing before the matches and showering after a sport is very common over there.. I know they get together before bowling to change and give pep talks and it is a pretty big deal.. because my friend didn't arrive in time to go to the pre-meeting and he said they would probably say something to him about it.. They also think he is weird for coming to bowling in his bowling clothes instead of changing with the team before hand.
FYI .. everything is expensive in Sweden, but equipment is really expensive.. My friend paid what amounted to about $300 US for a Lucid.. and he got a deal because he knows the guy that runs the pro shops.. He said it is about $400-500 US for a new bowling ball there.
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It appears from the vid that lanes would not be an issue. If each city had a team, or if each bowling center had a team, then that one team would either be a home team or road team depending on the schedule. The bowling center would only need lanes for those two teams to bowl each other.
It would be very doable as a travel team aspect. If every center had one team, then make a schedule and the teams could bowl every week, or every two weeks, or maybe every three weeks depending on the number of teams and the popularity.
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Looks sweet.
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I was expecting blonde haired blue eyed babes bowling... Just kidding. Looks like a pretty cool format. Wonder if it could take off here...
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FYI .. everything is expensive in Sweden, but equipment is really expensive.. My friend paid what amounted to about $300 US for a Lucid.. and he got a deal because he knows the guy that runs the pro shops.. He said it is about $400-500 US for a new bowling ball there.
If you consider the weight and shipping costs (by boat) , customs fees and VAT/Tax then of course it's more expensive here in Sweden.
The top of the range balls cost about $430 , we don't pay any extra for drilling , ViseIt , GripLoc or basic thumbslug and finger inserts. That's included in the price.