The young man who holds the state record series for men in the state set that record when he was 15----858. Games of 300-300-258.
Anyway,at the time he was working at the bowling alley where I bowl and was throwing 5-6 games a day of practice. Then youth tournaments every weekend in traveling team format,or other tournaments. Tehn after doing this he was in a youth league on Sunday night. So we're looking at him throwing 50 or more games per week.
His style is 16-18 mph with at least 300 rpm,and that's a conservative guess. Plus he's not that big physically. He's only 5'6 and 140 or 150 at the most.
In the early part of this past winter's schedule----which was a repeat of the previous year---he developed pain in his right arm and had to lay off for 2 months under a doc's advice.
After watching him I have to hazard a guess that it's too much practice with too many revs. If he keeps that up,my guess is that by the time he's in his late 20's he'll have nothing left in that arm. He spent all of this past season bowling with one of those forearm velcro devices for tendinitis,and that's at 16 years of age now.
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Chris
Lane#1--nothing else hits like 'em.