I went to my local house yesterday to do some summer practicing, and I saw a crazy display. A boy next to me, about 16 or so, threw a helacious backup ball. Now, I've seen some women throw a backup, but this was a balls to the wall-hard as he can throw backup. It worked pretty good, he was averaging like 160+ with it and it hit pretty hard. I was just surprised cause I've never seen a man or boy throw a backup that often. Anyone else see this often or is it not that rare?
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I use to bowl with a kid in high school on our team that was right handed, stood in front of the right gutter and hand a HELLACIOUS full blow inside out with his body and the ball had the hook of Jason Couch being thrown by a left hander.  This kid averaged about 185 with it, till his elbow started to go

Last I knew of him he was about a 175 bowling the correct way but you could see right at the line his body tries to turn but he forces it the other way, which is just a muscled release and hooks like mad with no speed.  Sad, he could have been good if he threw it the right way to begin with.  He had awesome accuracy for being 16 years old.
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I can hit 10 pins!!!  But I usually forget the rest of the rack

If you can master it, go for it.  Less play on the left side, generally.  And with todays equipment and lane conditions favoring the "dumpers", you wouldn't have to rev it up enough to rip your elbow in half.

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One Sick Puppy!

Bowled in a tourney one year where a guy was a righty who could throw a traditional hook on the right, or a hell of a backup ball on the left.

At the time he believed the leftside was friendlier.  That day he threw in a tourney, 300- 806 righty throwing his backup ball.

As tournaments have gone to either FTL= Flood the lefty, or a hard transition(which blends out more quickly on the right) I saw him bowl more and more on the right.  In fact I don't know when I saw him last throw the backup ball on the left.

REgards,

Luckylefty

A tourney I went to, I saw a guy doing it who you would never suspect LOL. It was this big tall black kid, must have been 6 foot tall, picked up right side spares with a back up ball. I am actually fooling around with it to pick up 10 pins and such, especially on a dry shot.
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16 years and still going strong! 16 years old that is! The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS!

I will really screw with ur head I play with a guy who is left handed and throw's a back up ball and averages 180.

Hey Minimum Bob,

I believe the bowler you're thinking about is Tom SoBeck(bowled pot against him for yrs).  He's a righty that's about deuce from the right side but the house he bowls at Serra Bowl in Colma, CA. is SO walled up on the leftside, he bowls backup there and even beats the other wrongsiders there.  Every lefty with 2 revs has shot a 300 in this house, it's unreal.  A very good scratch bowler who organizes tournaments there has to purposely mess the left side up just so the righties have a chance.  This is also the house that the PBA made a stop at about 4-5 years ago(during CBS) and even then the top 5 had 4 lefties and J. Hromek fudging it a ton to compete.  Sobeck's a good bowler but we're even on most shots until it comes to this house....

Rick

Hey Minimum,

On the THS he is.  He is much better throwing the back-up but it's mainly the house, Serra Bowl.  It's so ditched on the left it's not funny.  There's actually a group of lefties that just sit around and wait for action to come in so they can have an advantage.  They won't go anywhere else to bowl, I call them spiders...

Rick