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Title: Shooting 290
Post by: Pinbuster on January 02, 2006, 10:28:01 PM: Does anyone else have a knack for shooting 290 with the back 11?

I have shot more than my share of regular honor scores but I seem to throw a lot more back 11 290 than other bowlers I know.

Last night I threw another one for my 11th 290 plaque.

What attributes would cause this?
Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Goof1073 on January 03, 2006, 06:59:47 AM: Starting league a frame too early!

Don't think there is any one thing that causes it...just happens.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: shipper50 on January 03, 2006, 07:21:33 AM: I have had 4 290's with no 300's yet. I have left the 5-4-8-2 on mine. I hope I don't get to 11 like you

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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: SrKegler on January 03, 2006, 07:23:24 AM: I've done it quite a few times myself. Great answer above!!

I think all the pressure is off after the first shot doesn't carry. After that we just relax and let the ball roll. It's just not the same as having the front 7-8-9 and trying for the perfecto.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: WSUstroker on January 03, 2006, 08:36:50 AM: I'm not sure how many 290s I've had, but I do know I have a few back eleven 279s. They happen, but I'm there is a 300 waiting around the corner for you.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: KDawg77 on January 03, 2006, 08:43:56 AM: Only one I have started with a ringing seven.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Dysturbed on January 03, 2006, 11:14:43 AM: I never had a back 11 290 but Ive had about 10 back 11 279. The first frame of the first game has always been my nemesis. I throw good in practice then I come out and throw a washout or split in the first. Lately I have only been throwing a couple practice shots and it seems to be helping out.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Dysturbed on January 03, 2006, 11:52:42 AM: Man that must of sucked Sweetfeet. Ive seen a guy foul before going for the 3 but not like that.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Let It Bleed on January 03, 2006, 01:35:19 PM: Ah, the 290. I currently have 5 sanctioned 290's, with never surpassing the front 9 in sanctioned play. I have had a tendency to finish out games rather strong this season. Although no 290's (yet!), I have had the back 10 for a 279, and have had the back 9 twice for 270, along with the front 9 twice!
I really don't think it's caused by anything except making an adjustment late, making better shots, and on occasion, catching a lucky break. My first 290 last season, I made an awful shot my first frame...pushing it out and nearly leaving the bucket (the 5-8 stood), before punching out. Later that year, after a bad 10th frame the previous game, I made a big move to start the final game, left a solid 4, then sheet.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: ksucat on January 03, 2006, 05:16:36 PM: Take your Geritol a little earlier. It must take an extra frame for it to kick in at your size.

Dang, you throw too many strikes. Your closet full of those awards must be full by now.
Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: BrianCRX90 on January 03, 2006, 10:51:01 PM: I shot a 290 in '01 before I shot a 299 then 300 last year. The 290 was the first game and where I usually don't have my highest game it was a lousy and lucky game. I remember going high in the first frame and picked up the spare then from there I made a 5 board adjustment but it didn't matter cause cause half the shots were missed targets and got brooklyns or nose shots. But it turned to be an honor score and was exciting for me at the time and still got my plaque on the wall and is in the USBC record books.

I'm still looking to shoot 279 in sanctioned competition and then the all mighty hardest score of them all to get, the 280!

Edited on 1/3/2006 11:40 PM
Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: BrianCRX90 on January 03, 2006, 10:56:18 PM: on a side note I heard someone at my house in league got a 290...the painful way if you know what I mean.
I couldn't imagine how it would feel to have front 11 and then have distaster on your last ball.
Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Astroman on January 03, 2006, 11:30:26 PM: I've shot 290 3 times, 279 with the last 11 a couple, and a bunch of last 10 or front 10 games. I agree though, after the first frame, it doesn't matter.

On a side note, I think the last 11 279 plaques are kinda funny but mean. Its like they want to rub it in your face you missed. "MISS-last 11; just rub it in my face a little more!"
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Pinbuster on January 04, 2006, 06:17:45 AM: While I will admit the pressure in the tenth is not near what it is when you have the first 9 (This is why I chuckle at someone who said they almost shot 300 when they shoot 259 with 2 non-strikes earlier in the game) I donâ€™t really think that is the answer. I have had plenty of honor scores so I donâ€™t think I take the gas too badly.

I believe it has a lot to do about always trying your hardest and not relaxing too much.

Iâ€™ve seen far too many bowlers not get the first strike and go â€œOh wellâ€ and then dork off the rest of the game. In other words they waste an opportunity to shoot 290.

Iâ€™ve always been an overachiever for my physical abilities. I donâ€™t take shots off. My average is generally as high as or higher than players with equal ability but I simply donâ€™t take nights, games, or even frames off.

My golf game is much the same. I donâ€™t hit the ball as well as my handicap would indicate and my short game isnâ€™t much. But I manage the game I have well and seldom waste shots or take penalty strokes.
Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: Strider on January 04, 2006, 12:16:32 PM: I don't have any recently, but I did have 4 or 5 290's over roughly a two year span. The last one was kind of unusual. I had nothing the first two games. Severe over/under anywhere left of the normal scoring area. Figured a big move couldn't hurt me any worse. Moved way right out to the gutter. Threw the first one through the face, got lucky to only leave a 3-6-10, made a small change and flushed the back 11.
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: scotts33 on January 04, 2006, 01:04:29 PM: quote:
I hear that the new USBC 11 in a row plaques are better looking than the old ABC ones.

Eye of the beholder, I guess. I don't think they look as good as the ABC plaques....look cheaper to me.

FWIW...if USBC went to 700 series beer coasters....what do you think they will do to the other awards?
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Title: Re: Shooting 290
Post by: pwrstrokr on January 04, 2006, 06:33:14 PM: I've 1 a year for the past 5 years after a 20 year layoff,
on 12/15/05 I shot 300/768 in league on 12/18/05 in the local area Masters Tournament qualifying I shot a 290 in the sixth game of qualifying, in this case our pair had to wait approximately 5 minutes to move right 2 pairs due to slow bowling of the foursome in front of us.
For me after a wait such as this, I lose my comfort zone of timing and muscle memory that I may have had and its takes a frame or two to get dialed in again.