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TWOHAND834

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Bowling - Dying Industry??
« on: May 04, 2008, 11:25:46 PM »
This is interesting.  It claims that bowling is a dying industry unless the manufacturers can "hip it up again".  Supposedly, in 10 years, you won't see much of them around unless you live in a BIG city.  What a shame.




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Re: Bowling - Dying Industry??
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2008, 07:20:40 PM »
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None. I still wouldn't go to my local house during the week after school because its pointless. Rubber might be the best solution for the shot because plastic hooks too much.


you're skirting the issue.

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When there is a good opportunity to practice or bowl a tournament I take advantage of them, I don't stay home to play video games. Its just a hobby, like anything else. Don't single out video games for the purposes of this topic.


I wasn't, but there are poeple, (kids and adults) who will stay at home or go to a video arcade, just to play a video game, when there are plenty of physical activities (games and sports) in which they could participate.

It's a fact of life. Saying it isn't so is just not facing reality.

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Re: Bowling - Dying Industry??
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2008, 07:28:12 PM »
Phillip Marlowe has hit the nail on the head. Almost every point he has made is exactly the problem with bowling. I've tried to make this point a million times on this site and most don't seem to realize bowling's problem is the competition with other entertainment businesses. Plus there is all the school and outside activities kids are into now, that they weren't, around 25 years ago. Parents are on the run continually. This in turn creates problems getting people to commit to long league schedules. Proprietors have resorted to super soft conditions to try and increase interest in league bowling and drink sales. That has made some bowlers and the USBC call for tougher lane conditions, which I believe would turn some bowlers away. It's a vicious circle. I can't say what the answer is exactly. League bowling is going to shrink, at what point it stops reamins to be seen.
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Re: Bowling - Dying Industry??
« Reply #18 on: May 05, 2008, 08:22:00 PM »
Tony C, notice I said look at it like any other hobby. There are also people who will study for a test rather than go out and do some physical activity, does that mean we should stop studying to go bowl. All I simply said was don't single out video games for the purposes of this discussion. Your starting to sound like Jack Thompson. And I also didn't skirt the issue. He asked how much more bowling would you do if you didn't have video games to play, and I said none. I wouldn't go during the week because its worthless, and I don't skip bowling or practicing to play video games.


Just don't single out video games as the reason people don't go out. Its stereotypical and offensive to a gamer such as myself. Who also happens to have been bowling for most of his life.
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