Author Topic: Can't we all just face it! (Read 1175 times)

SirAshley · « **on:** May 15, 2005, 02:56:07 PM »

It is a hard fact to face. Bowling, through technology, has gotten easier. Higher scores, higher averages, the game has changed. I know this first hand because up until six months ago, I was away from the game for 6 years. I got away from the game due to a car accident and well it just took me awhile to get back to it. Trust me, this game has gotten easier, from the house shot, to the ball technology. This right here though is the hardest fact to face.. I HAVE MORE FUN BOWLING BETTER!!! There...!!! I said it... Everyone around here seems to be complaining at how the scores have risen and how more people are bowling better. Well, I'll be the first to say, I enjoy it. I like bowling better, and if some punk kid shoots well next to me throwing with 2 fingers so be it. I'm tired of hearing about the integrity of the sport. Back to reality folks, bowling never had integrity to begin with. If it did, it would be on the network stations while the masters would be on ESPN2. I realize this may come off as harsh and I may get flamed but whatever, I just needed to vent. I've come to realize when the shot is too easy, everyone complains "the shots to easy", when it's to hard, everyone complains "the shots to hard, or they don't maintain the lanes". I say, stop complaining, about all of it. Just shut up, and bowl...LOL...and please..please.. try to enjoy it!
--------------------

They say that 1 in 3 people in this world are ugly. So look to your left and look to your right, if neither one of those people are ugly... Guess who is!!!

SprayNpray · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2005, 11:25:19 PM »

This topic is right on. Yes there is value to having tournament experience and taking your game to the level where you can have success on a variety of conditions. Yes there is such thing as a house hack (I know first hand!). But I have also challenged myself to improve, and would not shy away from the challenge of a tournament, sport league, etc.

I submit that most of us would have never stuck around long enough to become anything more than a house hack unless we had had some early success on easy conditions because it just wouldn't have been as enjoyable to learn the game. Easy conditions do have their place in this game for that reason.
--------------------
Predicting my next opponent runs into a BUZZSAW!

Member- FOS

LUCK is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

9andaWiggle · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2005, 12:31:40 PM »

quote:
I submit that most of us would have never stuck around long enough to become anything more than a house hack unless we had had some early success on easy conditions because it just wouldn't have been as enjoyable to learn the game.

I disagree. Growing up in a house that only had one 700 shot in it's 45 year existence, and never a 300 (290 and 754 were high), and which to my knowledge, nobody ever averaged 200 for a season (high 190's I think was best), I never failed to enjoy the game on those conditions. Nobody else seemed to mind either - except the crybabies who would come over for the county tourney once a year. They quickly found that without their beloved wall, 500 was all the better they could shoot - the carpet was soaked from all the tears they spurted. I swear I've never seen so many "Good" 200+ avg. bowlers shoot so bad and cry so loud as this bunch!

Anyway, back to topic. The tougher conditions made it more fun in my mind, because it was tougher to shoot good. Nothing was given to you, and when you beat your high score/series, you knew you bowled well and earned it. People congratulated you for a job well done, and it was fun. It kept you determined to do better and to get better. Today you could shoot 300 and nobody will care. Shoot 800, and maybe you'll get a "nice set". More than likely you'll get the whole league whispering behind your back "Take away the wall and that hook-in-a-box and he's nothing - he just got lucky".

Bowling, as it is now, is just a game (on the league level). It isn't fun to know you missed your mark by 10 boards and still get a strike out of it because the oil held it inside, or the dry boards brought it back. There's no integrity, no self-satisfaction in a job well done there - because deep down inside you know you didn't deserve what you got.

--------------------
9~

dizzyfugu · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2005, 12:47:01 PM »

Primarily, I go with Bob Hanson: equipment has made large steps forward, and if your ball matches up with the lane condition you can almost make automatic high games, like remote-controlled. But, nevertheless, you must be able to read the lane, choose the right equipment as the lane and oil changes, adapt your release, speed or line. If you are not able to do so, even the best ball will not help.

Although I must admit that many profit-oriented houses tend to put an easy oil pattern on the lanes to keep league players content... sad thing, especially when the egos soar by walled shots (I guess they even do not recognize this...) and not by proper execution. By luck I have two sport-oriented houses nearby, and my average there is 30 pins lower than in the easy house. Nevertheless I like playing sports turf more, because you have to be accurate and after the day is done, I know what I made right or wrong. The pattren didn't cover my mistakes.

It's the "dark side of the force": tempting us with easy oil and gadgets like ever-stickier coverstocks, wrist-supports, etc. ...

It is good to make high games - no question. But one should have the size to admit that it comes from easy conditions, not real skill.

But5, after all, bowling SHOULD be fun

--------------------

DizzyFugu --- Reporting from Germany

Team "X" league website: http://homepage.mac.com/timlinked/

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream..." - Edgar Allen Poe

Author Topic: Can't we all just face it! (Read 1175 times)

SirAshley

Can't we all just face it!

SprayNpray

Re: Can't we all just face it!

9andaWiggle

Re: Can't we all just face it!

dizzyfugu

Re: Can't we all just face it!