I bowl in a PBAX League at a local house, and have a very good time averaging 180 in it LOL. I enjoy the challenge and I enjoy learning to be a better bowler.

 

  One night I am waiting for a group of friends to finish Their Last game in the Mens Handicap League  a guy I know  calls me stupid for wanting the challenge, calls me an idiot for wanting to bowl in league where my average won't be 220+. According to him their is very little difference between PBA Patterns and THS. I asked if he wanted to back his mouth and he avoided the question kept at ripping me, I just walked away, their is no arguing with stupid.

 

IMO this is one issue with League bowling, Whenever some one wants to get better their is some one else who is putting them down, calling it stupid, why would you wanna get better at what you do? I don't know cause some take pride in doing something and doing it well? Seriously,

 

 You would expect more from a grown adult...or maybe not.

 

Thanks for any comments, and thanks for listening I have needed to vent that.

Get used to it. The world is full of them...

 

 

Its the same reason why some people work hard to improve their status in life, and why others are satisfied with a warm couch and a cold beer.

The is a direct quote from a exempt pro, and three time  winner  It's about the state of bowling.

Maybe you have seen it before.

 

The easiest way i can put this is .From Tiger Woods to #300 in the world. Putt them all on the driving range. Give them a list of shots to hit. Left to right. right to left. low . hi. flop. doesnt matter. They all look the same, and hit the same shot. They were taught CORRECTLY. Now. Take WRW Jr to the 100th ranked bowler and put them all on a lane. Give them a list of shots to throw. End over end up 5, big tilt with a lot of curve from 5th arrow to the gutter. back up ball. whatever. Once you get past #20 on that list of bowlers, shit starts to go hay wire. Me included. If you cannot swing it correctly there simply are things you cannot do in this sport. We simply teach and preach the wrong things in our sport to the wrong people. You. The consumer. Just because I got new irons and a new driver doesnt mean im going to break par or be a scratch golfer, why is it when people get a new wristbrace and a ball they expect to avg 200 or higher when they have not fully grasped the notion that they are undereducacted on what it takes to truly become a GOOD bowler. not even a great one....

 

 

 

 

he sounds like a wuss that has no balls and is ignorant. I have averaged at least low 200's for a few years and tried just the summer PBAX league and ended up averaging 160. I should have done at least a little better but I gave it a try and will do it again. The only reason I"m not in it right now is because my stupid house moved it from a 7pm 3 man league to a 930 Tuesday night doubles league so no way I would do that. I'm very glad I didn't because I was told it disolved very shortly. But if they could get at least a 3 man game with 4 games to a better night I should be in as long as I can make it.

Years ago I was told I was wasting my money when I was playing low ball...... house mouse are everywhere

Where im from we have a few "scratch" guys who take it a step farther. They claim to want tough conditions at most every local tournament in the area. If anybody averages over 210 for a tournament they claim the lanes were walled up. We have several regional tournaments most months, and the Lanesharks tour which use Kegel and Pba patterns, but these "scratch" bowlers wont support regionals and Lanesharks. Reason being, at the local level they are the big fish in the pond, but taken to the regional level they cant compete. But, they are the first ones to complain at the local level about poor turnouts for tournaments.

 

Im old school, ill bowl you in the parking lot if thats what we agree on. I dont bowl for the money, its because i love the game and i constantly strive to get better. My point is, its not just house mouses that have this mentality of not wanting to get better, its scratch bowers too. Its gotten to where money is the most important thing in bowling now days.