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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: agroves on November 26, 2003, 08:36:03 AM

Title: Drinking and bowling
Post by: agroves on November 26, 2003, 08:36:03 AM: I was just sitting here wondering how many of you drink when you bowl. We have this stereotype has overweight drunks. I won't lie, I drink quite a bit on my Friday night mixed league. I don't drink on my other more serious league. It is peterson points and is the most competitive league in town. I should be averaging 10 pins higher on Friday but I find myself enjoying myself more than bowling well. I can throw a good game if we need to win a game, but otherwise I just have fun. I am not sandbagging I am still over deuce at 205 but I am higher on Tuesday and the shot is tougher.

So do you drink and does it affect your bowling?? I relax if I have one or two but anymore than that I lack the necessary concentration to score consistently. Thoughts??

Andrew
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: cosmo on November 27, 2003, 06:51:34 AM: I usually drink a few beers while bowling league. Since the leagues I bowl in are 5-man teams, there's alot of time between frames to kill, so drinking beer is only natural. Of course on my Fri night league, I do have a few more than on Mon night. For tourney's, I usually don't drink - or I cut back, depends on the time and place. But if someone's buying, I NEVER refuse!

Oh ya - I'm not overweight and I'm not a drunk.

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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: RackTheRipper on November 27, 2003, 11:18:00 AM: Me and the guys on my mens league team go in the back and snort crystalized lane stripper solution.
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: DON DRAPER on November 27, 2003, 08:42:01 PM: i don't drink when i bowl-----i have a 30 mile drive back home.
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: scotts33 on November 27, 2003, 09:10:57 PM: Mostly water but will have a few after. Have to patronize the place you bowl after all.

When I ran a center, I hated the water drinkers.

Scott
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Jeffrevs on November 27, 2003, 09:11:04 PM: I've found that it really doesn't make that much difference...however, the 2 or 3 is probably best, ....just enough to relax you.....meaning, 1 per game, maybe even less.......
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Rev_O on November 27, 2003, 11:39:14 PM: i bowled the second highest series of my life (846) so drunk, the last game, i saw 14 arrows. Had a couple of my 19 300 games like that to. Now, i'm just an occasional drinker, maybe a beer or 2 while i bowl, but usually diet pepsi.
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Game In a BoxLC on November 27, 2003, 11:58:32 PM: in response to bones post. Sometimes overthinking is bad. for me i tend to press too much when i bowl, and if i have a beer it loosens me up and keeps me so i don't overanalyze or start thinking myself out of shots. I'm not stupid and keep drinking until i can't see, and i rarely if ever drink. But when i do this is the result i get. I tend to think too much about carry down or this or that or what i did wrong on the last shot and how i got away with it. When i put a beer down i relax and just make shots and my natural game comes out more and i tend to bowl better.

just my experience with it.
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: LuvThatWhiteDot on November 28, 2003, 08:31:53 AM: I'm a water drinker till I'm done bowling (sorry Scotts)

I'll have a Blue Light while I'm waiting for the rest of the league to finish so they can turn in their recaps.

Oh the joy of being secretary!
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: mumzie on November 28, 2003, 12:15:03 PM: Only once (many, many years ago) have I ever consumed an alcoholic beverage while bowling. It was a single beer.

Now - way back when, I had absolutely no reservations about maximum consumption AFTER the match.

Now, I just don't drink much. We're coming into my heavy drinking season - a couple of whiskey laced egg nogs per holiday season is just about my limit.

However, I LOVE bowling against the drinking teams. Especially in the scratch leagues. We have one guy in the league that NOBODY likes - and by the end of the night he might have consumed 8-10 beers. He sometimes starts out well, but NEVER finishes with a decent game.

Edited on 11/28/2003 1:12 PM
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Badger856 on November 28, 2003, 12:37:30 PM: I usually enjoy a beer a game, just to keep the aiming fluid at the right level. I get out of the house and enjoy bowling and beer and find that it doesn't effect me one bit on the lanes, three beers a game might. Bowling is not serious enough that I would rather not have a few then to have a couple. But I don't drink much for the reason of driving home, not for bowling, and I carry a decent average and have shot some Honor scores while having a couple in me.
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: bigfoot on November 28, 2003, 02:37:28 PM: I'll have 2 or 3 during a league session. For some reason I tend to get all stressed out in a tight game and a couple of beers seems to help out. I know alcohol has negative impact on the physical aspect of the game. But, for me, this seems to be more than offset by being more relaxed etc... After all, the beer must not hurt me too much -- my game 2 and game 3 averages are both about 15 pins higher than my game 1 average
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Porkchop on December 16, 2003, 12:09:49 PM: Water or iced tea for me when in competition.
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: 9andaWiggle on December 16, 2003, 12:13:17 PM: Occasionally will drink during league... but not falling down drunk...
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: michelle on December 16, 2003, 01:23:42 PM: Since the house won't add Tito's to the selection of Vodka, it is Dr. Pepper for me...I can't really even remember the last time I was consuming alcohol while bowling.
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: bigdave300 on December 16, 2003, 02:52:18 PM: well,i drink in all my leagues
but you have to know how much you can
drink,and still bowl good,
tue-222ave
wed 229 ave
thur 231 ave
fri 227 ave

i drink 3 to 4
tall killians

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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: LuvThatWhiteDot on December 16, 2003, 02:55:27 PM: One Labatt Blue Light halfway through the third game (if I drink before then my thumb swells).

I drink ice water the rest of the time.
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Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: 10pin2002 on December 16, 2003, 04:25:51 PM: There's one team in our mens' league that gets about 3 cases before every session. It's all gone by the end of bowling. That's 72 beers.

Needless to say, after the second game starts it gets a little loud.
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Just once I'd like to show up at a place with the lanes FLOODED 45 feet down and flat. That way I can watch these crankers struggle to find the pocket and leave splits while I come straight off the corner and do nothing but make 4 pins and 10 pins all night.
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: tisker on December 16, 2003, 10:40:33 PM: quote:
Many yrs ago, I performed an experiment on my team mates. I gave them all a tranquilizer 45 min before we bowled in league. A week later I gave them all 5 mg of dexadrine(a strong stimulant--street name--Speed).
They were amazed at how it affected them and the way they bowled. Needless to say, the experiment ended after the 2 wks and they decided it was better to deal with nerves or feeling sluggish from a hard days work and bowl without any artificial help.

Bones,
I hope you reported these findings to The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. I'm sure they're just dying to include something with bowling in it .
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Edited on 12/16/2003 11:39 PM
Title: Re: Drinking and bowling
Post by: Strider on December 17, 2003, 12:01:51 AM: quote:
There's one team in our mens' league that gets about 3 cases before every session. It's all gone by the end of bowling. That's 72 beers.

Needless to say, after the second game starts it gets a little loud.

Wow. Based on a 5 man team, that's over a 12 pack each, during a 2.5 hour period. 4 beers per game, a little less than 1 every other frame. It's also about $30 each just for the beer. Same guys probably complain if linage goes up $0.50.
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