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rockerbowler18

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During Bowling...
« on: October 18, 2008, 04:26:48 PM »
Do you listen to your MP3 player? If so, do you leave it on the whole time, just when you're bowling bad, only while you're sitting and not while you're up?

What music do you listen to (specific songs/bands)?

Finally, how do you choose this music? Is it your favorite bands, do you choose based on tempo, something that will get your adrenaline pumping, something that keeps your mind off of things, something to keep you calm?

Personally - I like something that can get my adrenaline pumping without being just noise. Something that allows me to think without taking my mind off of bowling. Example: Way Away, Fighting, Lights and Sounds, by Yellowcard...Any Rise Against songs...Avenged Sevenfold

(Just trying to get an idea of maybe some new songs for my IPod.)
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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2008, 07:02:21 AM »
I've seen bowlers with these on during bowling. If you're bowling with a team, you can call me old fashioned but it seems pretty damned rude as well as insulting to your teammates to do that. Even if they're not your best friends, they are your teammates. There is a certain sense of obligation or is that old fashioned also?

If you're by yourself or in singles leagues, that's something else, of course.
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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2008, 07:43:03 AM »
The only time I listened to my MP3 player at bowling was before I started bowling or if I'm having a bad night I'll listen to a few songs to get me going in between games. Here's a few of the songs that gets my adrenaline pumping for bowling

Indestructible- Disturbed
Hell Yeah- Rev Theory
Not Listening- Papa Roach
Sacrifice- Trik Turner
Momentum- Toby Mac
Big Thang Poppin'- T.I.
Talkin' Ain't Walkin'- Lil Wyte
Comatose- Skillet

I do also see bowlers in my league that has it on almost the entire time bowling and out of respect for my team, I don't like to do that. Sometimes, I'll listen to songs on the way to the bowling alley and glue that song or two in my mind for the night.

Mike James

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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2008, 08:03:45 AM »
I wouldn't bowl in a league like that....sounds like too many hacks

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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2008, 08:50:35 AM »
One of my teammates on Mondays occasionally brings his MP3 player, mainly when he needs to tune out the extraneous noise from kids that scream in the walkway while we bowl during our league (as some parents don't care at this center how much we pay to bowl). Myself, I would be much like Charlest and consider it rude to my teammates to have one on so I've learned to channel outside noise out.

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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2008, 11:46:09 AM »
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Indestructible- Disturbed

Big Thang Poppin'- T.I.



Two songs I listen to on my way to the bowling alley every week.  Some other choices too.

There are two women on my friday league that do that.  Doesn't bother me.  Doesn't seem to bother anyone else either.
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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2008, 11:51:04 AM »
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I've seen bowlers with these on during bowling. If you're bowling with a team, you can call me old fashioned but it seems pretty damned rude as well as insulting to your teammates to do that.
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It is very rude.  I don't know what else to say..
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Re: During Bowling...
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2008, 12:02:59 PM »
Only one guy on our team, who's a sub, listens to his MP3 or ipod.  He's the son of one of the regulars & has somewhat of a mental handicap & is only 21.  It's okay by us that he does it & he doesn't listen to it the whole night.  The rest of us joke around & talk bowling if we see somebody doing something in their game that's wrong or unusual for that person & they're struggling.

I'll listen to Metallica or Iron Maiden on the way to bowling.  Usually the trooper by Maiden or Battery by Metallica.
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