Post by: Fatboy8 on May 22, 2004, 06:59:54 PM
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Post by: oracle3410 on May 23, 2004, 10:00:31 PM
he stands basically at the left gutter, about a foot from the line, holding the ball about chin height.
starts his backswing, steps with his right foot, behind his left foot, jumps up in the air slightly, swings his left foot out a bit, and lays it down about 3 or 4 boards from the channel and watches it come back. it's really. interesting.
Post by: Photoc on May 24, 2004, 08:43:23 AM
Last I knew of him he was about a 175 bowling the correct way but you could see right at the line his body tries to turn but he forces it the other way, which is just a muscled release and hooks like mad with no speed. Sad, he could have been good if he threw it the right way to begin with. He had awesome accuracy for being 16 years old.
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I can hit 10 pins!!! But I usually forget the rest of the rack
Post by: Ernie McCracken on May 24, 2004, 09:00:23 AM
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Evolutionary. Revolutionary.
Post by: 9andaWiggle on May 24, 2004, 01:49:14 PM
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One Sick Puppy!
Post by: TJFreaky24 on May 24, 2004, 02:03:11 PM
Post by: LuckyLefty on May 24, 2004, 03:09:44 PM
At the time he believed the leftside was friendlier. That day he threw in a tourney, 300- 806 righty throwing his backup ball.
As tournaments have gone to either FTL= Flood the lefty, or a hard transition(which blends out more quickly on the right) I saw him bowl more and more on the right. In fact I don't know when I saw him last throw the backup ball on the left.
REgards,
Luckylefty
Post by: minimum bob on May 24, 2004, 03:49:39 PM
Regards,
MinBob
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on May 24, 2004, 04:09:28 PM
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16 years and still going strong! 16 years old that is!
The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior PrincessAnd why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS!
Post by: minimum bob on May 24, 2004, 04:53:33 PM
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Post by: RPM MAX on May 24, 2004, 04:59:32 PM
Post by: MSC2471 on May 24, 2004, 11:51:55 PM
Matt
Post by: tenpinspro on May 25, 2004, 12:11:44 AM
I believe the bowler you're thinking about is Tom SoBeck(bowled pot against him for yrs). He's a righty that's about deuce from the right side but the house he bowls at Serra Bowl in Colma, CA. is SO walled up on the leftside, he bowls backup there and even beats the other wrongsiders there. Every lefty with 2 revs has shot a 300 in this house, it's unreal. A very good scratch bowler who organizes tournaments there has to purposely mess the left side up just so the righties have a chance. This is also the house that the PBA made a stop at about 4-5 years ago(during CBS) and even then the top 5 had 4 lefties and J. Hromek fudging it a ton to compete. Sobeck's a good bowler but we're even on most shots until it comes to this house....
Rick
Post by: minimum bob on May 25, 2004, 03:58:38 PM
You're right, it's Sobeck. I saw him try to throw from the right side at another tournament and it was UGLY. You can't be serious that he's 200+ from the right...?!
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Post by: tenpinspro on May 25, 2004, 04:47:03 PM
On the THS he is. He is much better throwing the back-up but it's mainly the house, Serra Bowl. It's so ditched on the left it's not funny. There's actually a group of lefties that just sit around and wait for action to come in so they can have an advantage. They won't go anywhere else to bowl, I call them spiders...
Rick