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Juggernaut

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Bowling “over your head”
« on: March 13, 2018, 04:01:42 PM »
 Ever go somewhere bowling and for no apparent reason bowl well above your average, and FAR more than you really ever expected, or had the right, to?


 There was a large group of bowlers from here (Plano, Tx) going to the Southwest tournament in Wichita, Kansas. One of the bowlers got hurt and couldn’t go, so I volunteered to fill in for them.

 I’ve never been there, didn’t know what to expect, took only three balls + a spare ball, and went totally bonkers, averaging a fraction over 240 for nine games.

 We bowled doubles and singles back-to-back, and while my 57yr old self was getting tired, the lanes were burning in, and I struggled in the last game of singles, only shooting a 188 that game.

 Off a 210 avg, this is what I shot:

245+279+269 for 793 in doubles
211+254+188 for 653 in singles
225+245+246 for 716 in team

 That’s a 2162 scratch, then add in the 72 pins handicap, and it’s a 2234 all events!
(Yes, I got handicap. It is 80% from 220. I got 8 pins a game.)

 Not intended as a figjam, because I certainly am not that caliber of bowler anymore, and I really can’t explain what exactly happened. I hardly ever missed my mark, very seldom got tapped at all, carried the house (for no apparent reason), and made every single spare except the two splits I had in the low game of singles.

 I don’t know whether to be shocked, pleased, embarrassed, or amazed.

(edit: I also opened in the 279 game. In the first frame, I got a 6-3, then struck out. I threw it too hard, and left the 2-4-8-10, picking off the 2-4-8)
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2018, 04:16:56 PM »
It can happen, it's all part of bowling. The opposite has been happening to me lately. I've felt like I've thrown the ball really well and had nothing to show for it over the past month.

I've only been bowling a Monday night fun league with my wife and had my average sitting at 229. Last 4 weeks I've shot 650s, 688, 636, and 638 to lower my average and nothing has been different except for not stringing strikes together.

Hell I bowled a 6 game tournament Saturday night on Kegel's Taj Mahal pattern and couldn't carry in a different state either. First five games I had a whopping +5 to show for feeling like I threw it great for 4 1/2 of the 5 games
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2018, 04:37:07 PM »
We will be going the very last weekend of the tourney and i know the scores are pretty high this year. BTW good bowling. We also are coming from Dallas area. The very first year i bowled, i went with a squad, almost the full house squad and ended up leading the entire squad with 2228 scr AE. Finished 5th AE and 6th Hdcp AE, 15th dbls. It was a great year. Now every year since has been a different story but i do remember being in the zone like you described.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2018, 05:13:34 PM »
It happens.

That particular house if you match up well you can go bonkers and just carry everything.

Around 5 years ago I bowled a summer league in that house. I averaged 240+, well over my personal best, and had 5 honor scores during the 10 week session.

But since then I haven't come close to that bowling tournaments there.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2018, 05:27:32 PM »
Yea, it was sort of dumbfounding to be honest. I was, once upon a time, a very good, very accurate bowler, but let’s face it, at 57 and bowling only three games a week, I ain’t “that guy” anymore.

 I remember how, but the body generally just doesn’t respond the way it does when you’re really sharp. Then this happens.

 I wasn’t even planning on going, then somebody got hurt. I haven’t bowled in a tournament in quite a few years, so had NO expectations of doing anything, and in fact, hoped I could even, maybe, make average.

 I shot a 780 in doubles at state a LONG time ago, but haven’t had an outburst like this in around 30 years now. Had a tournament on short oil back in the 1980’s that I tore up playing the first arrow with a pink hammer, lol.

 It is/was just totally unexpected and out of the blue.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2018, 06:29:09 PM »
Great bowling.

It's fun when it happens.  Appreciate it. 

Staying relaxed and rolling the ball well breeds higher scores, which in turn, makes it easier to stay relaxed and so on...
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2018, 08:37:15 PM »
Why ask why?

Congrats, Darreyl!
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2018, 08:51:13 PM »
Quote from: Juggernaut on March 13, 2018, 04:01:42 PM
Ever go somewhere bowling and for no apparent reason bowl well above your average, and FAR more than you really ever expected, or had the right, to?


 There was a large group of bowlers from here (Plano, Tx) going to the Southwest tournament in Wichita, Kansas. One of the bowlers got hurt and couldn’t go, so I volunteered to fill in for them.

 I’ve never been there, didn’t know what to expect, took only three balls + a spare ball, and went totally bonkers, averaging a fraction over 240 for nine games.

 We bowled doubles and singles back-to-back, and while my 57yr old self was getting tired, the lanes were burning in, and I struggled in the last game of singles, only shooting a 188 that game.

 Off a 210 avg, this is what I shot:

245+279+269 for 793 in doubles
211+254+188 for 653 in singles
225+245+246 for 716 in team

 That’s a 2162 scratch, then add in the 72 pins handicap, and it’s a 2234 all events!
(Yes, I got handicap. It is 80% from 220. I got 8 pins a game.)

 Not intended as a figjam, because I certainly am not that caliber of bowler anymore, and I really can’t explain what exactly happened. I hardly ever missed my mark, very seldom got tapped at all, carried the house (for no apparent reason), and made every single spare except the two splits I had in the low game of singles.

 I don’t know whether to be shocked, pleased, embarrassed, or amazed.

Gratz man!  Chasing that feeling when you have so much miss room (not that you needed it) you feel like you are throwing your ball in the ocean is a powerful drug.  Great job.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2018, 09:51:47 PM »
When you get in a comfort zone and match up to the pattern those things can happen. 
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2018, 12:01:51 PM »
Quote from: Pinbuster on March 13, 2018, 05:13:34 PM
It happens.

That particular house if you match up well you can go bonkers and just carry everything.

Around 5 years ago I bowled a summer league in that house. I averaged 240+, well over my personal best, and had 5 honor scores during the 10 week session.

But since then I haven't come close to that bowling tournaments there.

Yes it does! I feel ya! Back in 2012 or 2013 I joined a summer league for fun. Only 16 weeks, but man the ball I used just happen to match up to the pattern in that house that summer. I shot frequent 279's and shot 280 twice that summer!! Ended up with an average around 218, which is NOT how I normally bowl!

And yes, this is the same average that USBC Nationals personnel used to re-rate me with, last year when I went to Nationals!!
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2018, 11:41:31 AM »
That house has been frustrating for me over the years.  It looks so simple that it doesn't seem possible that a decent bowler can't knock the socks off them.  This year, I hit a doubles/singles pair that I couldn't find what the pins needed that day. 

Juggernaut, glad you had fun in our fair city.  Tournament grew again this year as another weekend was added and almost filled.  It's a high scoring event that people seem to enjoy.  Feels much better to be on your end than mine.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2018, 01:17:08 PM »
Just looked at the updated scores, they are astronmical so far this year. 2 people go 2300+ scratch and someone has 2366 AE hdcp. 1630+ for hdcp dbls.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2018, 05:11:07 PM »
Quote from: Bowl_Freak on March 15, 2018, 01:17:08 PM
Just looked at the updated scores, they are astronmical so far this year. 2 people go 2300+ scratch and someone has 2366 AE hdcp. 1630+ for hdcp dbls.

 When you get there, you will see why.

 Once I found the shot, it never changed much at all, at least for me, until the last game of singles. Our shot held up really well.

 And, if you have the right ball in your hand, the carry is exceptional. At one point, I had 18 in a row.

 The shot is NOT wide open, but it isn’t super hard either, as long as you’ve got the discipline to throw the ball consistently and don’t try to do anything “fancy” with it.

 Like I said, I’m not all that sharp anymore. I shot 2162 myself, and I had two open frames in that low singles game that cost me well over 60 pins, and several shots that I threw that could’ve been better if I had been sharp that cost me probably another 50.

 The scores are there to be had, but you still gotta go get them.
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Re: Bowling “over your head”
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2018, 03:52:59 AM »
Rich lanes. In fairport harbor, Ohio. Suburb of Cleveland on the east side.

It’s an 8 lane bowling all with walls directly to the left of lane 1 and right of lane 8. I would always shoot the lights out when we bowled there for youth traveling league.

Also Ernst lanes in Chardon, Ohio. Two older centers I’d also seem to shoot very well at
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