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ecc0_9879

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pissed off
« on: October 15, 2009, 01:16:31 PM »
first game 197 secid game 247 last game 166 5 taps 8 and 9 pins. to start out I have the most challenging conditions possible. I am bowlingon wood lanes theT are stripped once a week and they havntbeen screened in 6 years then we have a leaky roof and finally they are oiled with a century 100 machine old pad machine with flat pattern sent down the lanes 35 feet times 2 so liuttle to no back end and no recovery area and dodging puddles. to make thing wost I am a right handed cranker about 475 rpm used to average 220-225 and now down to 184 house high average just knowing I am a better bowler and cant score.

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ecc0_9879

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Re: pissed off
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 09:25:51 PM »
storm u cometomy bowling ally and see if you can adjust
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ecc0_9879

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Re: pissed off
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 09:28:57 PM »
trust me on a regular ally i cover all the boards and score well this house is absolutly the toughest house in the area that I have found I would love to challenge any body to come to this house and shoot there wverGE
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 09:45:46 PM »
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trust me on a regular ally i cover all the boards and score well this house is absolutly the toughest house in the area that I have found I would love to challenge any body to come to this house and shoot there wverGE


You're bowling againist other bowlers on the same conditions so therefore everything is equal. If the house is so terrible, everyone's average would suffer.

Keep on searching for something that will work for that house. You will become a much better bowler when you try to adjust rather than complain.
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2009, 09:48:20 PM »
I really hope you don't take this post the wrong way:

I mean really, what good does it get you to be so angry bout something? You are high average in the league at 184, that's great. High average is high average no matter the scoring pace. Would you rather go shoot 760 and not be high in the league that night or shoot 620 and know you beat everyone? When things get weird or flaky, then make the best shots you can. I bowl in the toughest league in Cincinnati and I know what you are talking about, I come across a lot of the same things. But really what good does it do you to get pissed off when it sounds like a good night with 610. Yeah you may have gave away pins the last game with bad carry and a bad game but was the night a total waste? You had 610 in a house that high average is at 184, that sounds pretty good to me! Just wanting to give some perspective, no harm intended
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2009, 09:57:24 PM »
(This was certified year in and year out by USBC and BPAA up until it closed in 2008.)


Been there done that. The house was 60 years old with used lanes when it opened. It had 5 gallon buckets hanging every where. Water would get on the lanes and the equipment. I''ve seen on many occasions with too much rain league be cancelled because the ball would have a rooster tail going down the lane.

The lanes had been flipped and resurfaced so many times it was missing dots and arrows. The gutters were metal, and nails were starting to come through the lanes. Your ball would look like it had tank tracks going around it in a matter of weeks.

There were half inch gaps on some of the lanes where they should meet the gutters. You never knew what the shot would be day to day. Plus the last time they resurfaced the lanes and the approaches they left most of the dust everywhere and never mopped or anything for the approaches. So for a long time you had a problem with too much slide.

The place was 5 mins from home, with the next closest being about 40min in any direction. I swore that when a new one opened closer I would leave, and did.

Averaged just over 200 my last year (around 2000-01) and never went back until just before it closed. It was demolished.

I had averaged just over 200 my last year.

Why waste your time and develope bad habits if you don''t have too.

This was certified year in and year out by USBC and BPAA up until it closed in 2008.
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Kid Jete

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Re: pissed off
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2009, 10:05:05 PM »
Judging by your spelling and punctuation, or lack thereof, I think figuring out how to score at this house is the least of your problems.  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your posting from an iPhone or something.
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2009, 10:06:57 PM »
Kidlost...the 5 gallon buckets when it rains sounds familiar.  Do you live in CT ??
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kidlost2000

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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2009, 10:43:06 PM »
Central AR. Year round buckets hanging from the ceiling. You couldn't see them because of the tiles. When they change one out or it falls due to the weight then you would have a better idea . 50+ of them bad boys. Towards the end it was so bad they had employees on the roof with shop vacs, water pumps and giant squeeges trying to get the water off the building.

I'm glad its gone.
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2009, 01:19:36 AM »
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I'd be pissed to if I was a fully grown adult spelling like a 2nd grader!
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+1

Also I never new you needed to cover all the boards to put up big numbers, Their are these two guys I heard of named Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Norm Duke they bowl on the PBA Tour and they win alot without hooking the ball.
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2009, 01:44:44 AM »
I'm not above crying a bit myself.  But this is beyond self pity.  

A center I was struggling in for years.....Walter Ray Williams Jr shows up on his way back from Reno on a late Sat. night...uses a played out unoiled end lane #32.  Puts up one game with no practice 279, and leaves the center.  

For every condition there are those that find the condition just fine.  If you are struggling and you can pin point it to a certain game or reason (because some are not as obvious as yours), then you can work on it and try different solutions.  

Plus I seriously doubt that your house shot is a flat pattern and that you are used to averaging 220.  Mainly because 220+ guys NEVER cry over conditions.  

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Re: pissed off
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2009, 04:42:27 AM »
"Mainly because 220+ guys NEVER cry over conditions."

I thought they cried the most??? lol

I'm scared when my average gets high. I like to shoot 630-650 and feel great, not think man I barely shot my average. lol Maybe its because I only bowl one night a week.

You have to look at everything as a challenge. Some you win, some you lose. Hopefully you get better from both.(sometimes it's easier said then done, I didn't always think that way)
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2009, 08:14:51 AM »
That is where the they where posted and by the way i am the highest average in the house and it is an hour to the next closest house. One posative note is handicap tourneys really fall right up my alley.

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Re: pissed off
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2009, 09:07:17 AM »
I understand your frustration but posting ANYTHING here will just get you ripped to shreads.
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Re: pissed off
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2009, 11:04:21 PM »
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That is where the they where posted and by the way i am the highest average in the house and it is an hour to the next closest house. One posative note is handicap tourneys really fall right up my alley.

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So you are Bagger as well?
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