Shoot at a ten pin today, I hit the 10 pin very hard (ball speed was 32mph) the pin goes into the pit, comes out onto the deck, bounces over the rack sweep, and dives head first into the under ground ball return.


What unusual odities have you witnessed while bowling?

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Rev-O

In '76 I witnessed an incredible headpin leave. One of the best bowlers I have ever seen through a shot that smacked the pocket so perfectly (for those days) that a strike was expected by everyone. The one hit the two and the two hit the 7... the three squarely hit the six which hit the 10 in perfect succession. The ball hit the 5 and 9 and the 5 took out 8 all perfectly. Every went into the pit....EXCEPT... the head pin that stood up spinning after hitting the two... and ended up spinning and standing near the 8pin. The head pin never attempted to fall... just stood there spinning on the desk while everything else was blown away.

The second most incredible event I saw was on a perfectly square pocket hit I saw a 7,8,10 left in 1979. I was in a pot game match against this guy and he needed to make it to win... and HE DID. I could not believe it.

The third was my son... after 7 games of qualifying with 1 game to go he was the cut in a junior event. I told him that I was tired of bring him to these events if he was going to play around. In the 10th frame of the last game he needed to mark and left a 7 10 split. He told he was going to make it... and HE DID. The next day for 8 more games he averaged over 260 to be #1 qualifier then in the step ladder for the title he shot 279 with a stone 9.

The fourth was my son again who was bowling for his first title match in a junior scratch event... in the 8th frame his ENTIRE CALLOUS ripped off his thumb after throwing a strike. Blood was EVERYWHERE... he came back to me to help him. We could not stop the blood. We ask the tournament offical if we could have 5 minutes and his opponent granted the time (which was nice). After 5 minutes the bleeding would not stop. I asked for a new bottle of super glue... and super glued his callous skin back on. In one minute my son went to the lane and needed three strikes to lock his opponenet out. He was playing 27 to 10 lofting the gutter slightly. He got up and stuck out... the emotion in the place was crazy. NO ONE IN THE PLACE COULD BELIEVE IT.. I whispered to him, "You are my hero"... is was AMAZING
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I've smacked a 7 pin hard enough that it deflected out of the pit, bounced across the deck and shattered the deck-light bulb.  I also decapitated a pin back in college - it was set up in the 7-pin position without a head.  Of course, I've seen all manner of ball return ramp jams, pins kicked back to the arrows.

21 years in bowling and 4 years working in bowling centers provides opportunities to witness a lot of strange stuff.
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