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Special Note

Happy Big Fat Tuesday

Today is Big Fat Tuesday! It seems we have a big fat everyday of the week recently. But, today it is official. You must get ready for the fast begins tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. And that preparation requires us to eat, consume or do everything in excess before tomorrow when we fast! Much of the world calls this pancake day. And it has nothing to do with IHOP or Dennys, even though IHOP does a great charity event each year. That event is on February 28^th this year – check it out: http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/pancake-day-details.html

Tips

Bowling vs Pilates – really??

We came across a great blog in this website’s archive. Great tips on saving money while you bowl posted by coach 3G. It seems too that he maybe hadn’t come across the great savings here at bowling.com. But even with our savings this hobby is hard on the pocketbook if you want to do it every night! And we all do so this advise is sound. Enjoy:

Bowling Balls

Plastic Balls Alive and Well

Why buy a plastic bowling ball? Being able to have any tool in your arsenal is the mark of a good bowler. A handyman has every tool available to him in his truck, why not you? The nice thing about a plastic bowling ball is that they are still really cheap and can be very effective in the right circumstance. This will hopefully equate to more marks and higher bowling scores and an even higher average.

Special Note

Valentine’s Day for the Furious!

The day before Valentine’s Day, we hope everyone is excited and happy for the day. This would be nice. It is not the case for some of us. So names like “Singles Awareness Day” surface and its understandable. However this exhibit in Croatia takes the Valentine’s cake! It is reported on by the Associated Press by Darko Bandik. It is a great comment on all those who have loved and lost – and ended it with a bang!

Bowling Event

Bowling For Kids – CP3 Foundation

Bowling had another proud moment on Super Bowl Sunday. On Sunday the bowling lanes at LA’s Lucky Strike Live were the setting for the forth annual Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational presented by Sheets Brand. It is a fundraiser for Chris’ CP3 Foundation for children. He has been able to persuade many of his friends to join in the fun. Some of them boast a good bowling score and others claim not having been on the lanes since 4th grade! It really is a fun prospect when you combine professional athletes from different sports with our PBA athletes. It made for a great show.

Bowlingball

The White Elephant

From the very beginning, bowling and food have been enduring links. There’s something about eating a juicy, American hotdog in the clatter and rumble of the lanes as the pins come tumbling down. Bowling isn’t the same without your essential French fries, dog, and a beer. So, it should come as no surprise that modern bowling was born in a restaurant. Our 10-pin bowling is in fact the brainchild of Joe Thum, a restaurateur who many named the father of bowling. Thum created America’s first bowling association, The American Bowling Congress, on Sept. 9, 1895, in order to share his love of this now incredibly popular family sport.

Bowling Skills Video Tips

Sports Illustrated Kids Gives Tips From the Pros

Special thanks to Sports Illustrated Kids for posting this on their fun SIKids page. Great to see that they are using a pro to teach the kids a good approach, swing and ball selection. Show this to your kids before going bowling all together next time. They might take the advise better from a pro anyway. Sorry Mom and Dad – no matter how great your game!

Bowling Ball Bags

Bring Out Your Balls In Style!

You finally have your arsenal. The final piece has been added and it is you are headed out to dominate. How many trips do you take to the car to pack up? It feels like you are really taking everything AND the kitchen sink. That’s why serious bowlers need serious bowling ball bags. This one addition to your game will end needless trips back and forth to the car. You can bring ring what you need conveniently on one trip. Bowling ball bags allow you to carry multiple balls which in turn gives you the convenience of leverage, not to mention selection and options on the lane.

Tips

Knowing Your Scoring

While most bowling lanes these days can keep score automatically, knowing how to properly score a game of bowling will likely come in handy at some point or another. Many regulars to bowling know the scoring already, but there are plenty of others who rely entirely on the automated systems that score one of America’s favorite activities. Now just imagine if you find yourself at a bowling alley that doesn’t use automated scoring, without anyone in a group that knows how to keep score?

Understanding the bonuses from strikes and spares is usually where things get tricky. To put things simply, a spare gives a player a one-ball bonus, in which the next ball rolled will count toward both the frame with the spare, as well as the current frame.

With a strike, it’s a two-ball bonus, meaning the next two balls (even if rolled over two frames), will be counted toward the frame with a strike.

One thing that makes this easier to understand is to know that when a strike and a spare happen in consecutive frames, no matter which of the two comes first, the result of the first frame will always be a score of 20. For example, if a spare is followed up with a strike, that means all 10 pins of the ball following the spare were cleared, adding those 10 extra pins to spare frame. If a strike comes first, to follow that up with a spare would have taken the two rolls that count toward the strike frame, again totaling 10 pins.

Much of it can be learned more in-depth by looking over a bowling scorecard and figuring out how a specific score got to be where it was.

Helpwithbowling.com has more on bowling scoring. Read the details here: http://helpwithbowling.com/how-to-keep-score-in-bowling.php