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Ragnar

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Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« on: August 10, 2004, 10:39:47 PM »
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try not to get stuck next to a guy that bowls real funky, touching his ball to the lane stretched out like a pelican, before he takes off from a bent over position and being a gigantic distraction. lol I'm serious, that guy, God bless him, was the biggest distraction, next to strippers, that I've ever seen in a bowling alley!


There was, back in the day, a pro who was on TV fairly often who bowled this way. Bent completely over at the waist in his "set-up" and started in that position. But I can't remember his name - does anyone?
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2004, 01:45:10 PM »
not sure who it is/was, but I may be bowling with a guy this season who has THE most unorthodox backswing ever! Right handed, ...he has a 5 step approach and on 2, the ball goes.......................wait or it..............sideways! YES< parallel to the floor, then back down and thru!

Unreal.........makes me dizzy!
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2004, 01:47:54 PM »
Jeff, that almost sounds like Greg Thomas, a national pro from Idaho.  He learned to bowl in an older center with above ground returns and that's how he learned to not hit the return in his swing.  His swing would make a chicken envious.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2004, 01:47:55 PM »
Mark Roth maybe........ but then again I'm not sure of anything and I forget what he looks like when he throws the ball.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2004, 01:48:53 PM »
Not Roth - the guy I'm thinking of was out of the game by Roth's time.  Where's Peri? He would know.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2004, 01:49:44 PM »
Wish I had a camera.  This guy would have made RonC cry.  Even if he was good, he would run in the hole on a PBA tournament due to shot clock violations.  Took him a good 30-45 seconds to get off the approach.

1st he would like up, had the ball waist high.  He would then bend sideways and lower the ball directly to the lane.  After a few seconds he would just heave the ball.  Of course we had to go thru this ritual twice a frame.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2004, 01:54:11 PM »
Bob, (and others), the guy I'm thinking of made shows in the early 60's.  If I remember right he was rail thin and sort of Native American looking, though I'm sure he wasn't NA.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2004, 03:55:44 PM »
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Jeff, that almost sounds like Greg Thomas, a national pro from Idaho.  He learned to bowl in an older center with above ground returns and that's how he learned to not hit the return in his swing.  His swing would make a chicken envious.
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That's great....this guy, when asked, says it's to help clear his waist....then on the way back thru, it's already being shifted left a little...I don't buy it, but it works for him!
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2004, 04:01:38 PM »
I don’t remember for sure which, Welu or Bluth, had a peek-a-boo style were they bent over and seemed to sight their target over the ball.

Another unusual style of the 80’s (at least I thought it was) was Bob Handley.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2004, 04:07:13 PM »
Theres a kid I bowl with in league, his approach makes him look like a duck.
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Re: Kendog and others - who remembers this guy?
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2004, 11:54:04 PM »
OK, top this one.  I bowled in the pro-am at the senior tour stop at Clarksville, Tennessee this spring.  On the pair of lanes to our left there was a right handed guy that walked up on the approach, then turned around so his back was toward the pins.  He took a two or three step "approach" backward, releasing the ball in what we would consider his backswing (although it was swinging toward the pins).  He did it so the ball broke like a lefty's.  After he got set, he never looked at the lane or pins until after the ball was released.  The first time he did this, I thought he was showing a trick shot, but he did it for all three games.  --  JohnP

Added on edit:  I should have mentioned that this guy held his hand backwards, so that with his backwards swing the thumb led the fingers in his release.

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