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jrock4

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bowling "practice" games
« on: May 04, 2010, 03:42:06 PM »
anybody got any "games" they like to use while practicing....for example; me, my buddy and my brother will play low ball....where the low score wins: object of the game is obviously to get the least amount of pins, without throwing gutters or missing any pins----if a gutter is thrown on the first ball, its a strike...if a gutter is thrown on the second ball OR you miss all the pins on the second ball...its a spare---Best score possible is 20...by clipping the 10 and 7 in every frame...helps us work on our spare game---any other practice games out there to use??????
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 12:07:41 AM »
sounds like sandbagging practice...........
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 05:54:53 AM »
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sounds like sandbagging practice...........


Why on earth would you say that?  Most people's corner pin percentage isn't anywhere near what they think it is.  Plus a sandbagger tends to throw a washout instead of a double to keep his average where he wants it, not pick off a single pin don't you think that would be a little too obvious?
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 07:41:41 AM »
I've done low game the same way you mentioned from time to time thanks to my coach when i was bowling in highschool, we would do that in practice and its a great drill.

I also take out plastic and urethane and practice with it a lot, forces you to be more accurate as those balls don't tend to give you the area on a house shot that reactives do.

I also like just working one area of the lane for 5 frames, then move, just play all over the lane and work on getting to the pocket, scores are irrelevant in practice.
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 09:25:11 AM »
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sounds like sandbagging practice...........


No, it's called spare shooting practice

Lowball is the only "game" I've ever played during practice
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Dan Belcher

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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 09:59:01 AM »
I do shoot corner pins on my first ball in practice quite frequently, but I never actually play lowball.  I don't want to just pick the 10 pin clean off the rack. I miss the 6-10 by taking out the 10 pin and leaving the 6 pin standing often enough already. I don't need to practice doing it more often.
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2010, 10:12:25 AM »
Scotch doubles, Bowler A goes first, Bowler B picks up his spares. If bowler A gets a strike, bowler B is now first ball and bowler A picks up B''s spares. There are also tournaments like this, but we used it as spare practice in High School. If you have multiple teams you can rotate partners.

Gets really fun if you can string a bunch of strikes together only to see who fails first ^_^
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2010, 10:57:14 AM »
sounds like golf bowling.

which is a fun game
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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2010, 12:34:45 PM »
This game I learned about six years ago from a Rolf Gauger article in Bowling This Month.
This game is so good I had to write it down to remember it.It's called The Swedish Bowling Game.
It helps your overall scoring to improve.

  Using a regular 10 frame bowling score sheet(draw one up if you have to) and play
a game,scoring your frames as follows:
 
 Pocket and strike=2 points

 Pocket and spare=1 point

 Strike or spare out of pocket=0 points

 Pocket and miss spare =minus 1 point

 Out of pocket and miss spare=minus 2 points

 Miss a single pin spare=minus 3 points
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completebowler

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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2010, 01:29:12 PM »
Take your benchmark ball and bowl one game off each arrow using different speed, release, etc to get the ball to the pocket.

Learned this from Brian Voss. He does it every practice session.

You will learn much about the strengths and weakness of your game.
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jrock4

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Re: bowling "practice" games
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2010, 12:14:39 AM »
thanks Joe...hope ur studying...ur gonna need it! LOL
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