so im giving up bowling for a summer. i've been bowling non-stop for 3 years, consistently about 3 times a week, and just reached my limit. it'll be a nice thing to suddenly find $80+/wk in expenses back in my pocket, and then I think I'll come back and WANT to bowl instead of kind of dread it.

anyone who bowls regularly go through this before? i feel like i've plateaued with my scores on both house and sport shots and can't seem to attain the honor scores or averages i want and of which i am capable.

basically, i'll be wrapping up my pba league tonight, wrapping up two house leagues on thursdays and fridays in april, and then go to states and nationals in two successive weeks and be done with bowling after the first week of may. i think what did it for me was missing a local tourney due to sickness and kind of being glad i did.

i always wondered why some of the better bowlers would take off summers...now i know. it's a grind

Back in my younger days(I'm 49 now), when I was still playing softball every summer, I usually gave up bowling in the summer. If I didn't, I felt burned out early in the fall season.

The last 2 years I've only bowled one night a week, due to work changes and then ultimately no work. It was a big adjustment at first. I wasn't any where near sharp for tournaments, missed cashing in 5 regionals, and finally backed away from the tournament scene.

In December, a friend backed me in a tournament at Blue Ball, and I did well enough (10th out of 87), that it got my competitive juices flowing again. Since then, I've broken a house record with an 865, and won a scratch tournament this past weekend in Danville. While I'm looking forward to hitting a few tournaments this year, I'm really aiming for next year when I turn 50 and can start taking the old guys' money!

I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes a break can do you good.

pacino wrote:so im giving up bowling for a summer. i've been bowling non-stop for 3 years, consistently about 3 times a week, and just reached my limit. it'll be a nice thing to suddenly find $80+/wk in expenses back in my pocket, and then I think I'll come back and WANT to bowl instead of kind of dread it.

anyone who bowls regularly go through this before? i feel like i've plateaued with my scores on both house and sport shots and can't seem to attain the honor scores or averages i want and of which i am capable.

basically, i'll be wrapping up my pba league tonight, wrapping up two house leagues on thursdays and fridays in april, and then go to states and nationals in two successive weeks and be done with bowling after the first week of may. i think what did it for me was missing a local tourney due to sickness and kind of being glad i did.

i always wondered why some of the better bowlers would take off summers...now i know. it's a grind

I did the same thing several years ago. I was bowling 2 leagues and often subbing on 1 or 2 others. It just gets to be too much. I hated taking summers off because the payouts were usually pretty good for 12 weeks of bowling. But eventually you have to take a break. Just don't take too long off or you will end up like me. I haven't bowled in a league in two years. I kind of miss it but I don't miss having to drag myself out at 9PM on a Tuesday. I am thinking of subbing a couple times before the end of the year if possible and maybe getting back into it next year.

So before I go to states and nationals in the next month I decided to buy two new bowling balls. Global 900 Mission and Brunswick Slapstick. Then I will not bowl for 3.5 months until I sign up for a major league and a PBA league. GO ME

Slapstick? Really? That's a ball? Haven't heard of that one yet. And I thought Ebonite made the Mission?

PBA scorpion championship today has two South Koreans, Yung-Jin Gu and Jun-Yung Kim, in the fray. It's the first time a Korean has made the TV finals. Kim is the #1 seed. Pretty cool stuff overall, as there's also a Canadian and Australian (jason belmonte) on the broadcast.


bill o'neil is also on it...he's from southampton

what's your point? i like bowling and am going back and forth between the two

I feel like this was a rare opportunity to use that graem so I pounced

pacino wrote:... i like bowling ...

Gu started as the fifth seed and then ended up winning! pretty big accomplishment

I take it that it was step-ladder style.

yep

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

pacino wrote:... i like bowling ...

Nice shoes!

pacino wrote:what's your point? i like bowling and am going back and forth between the two

Seriously, even though I'm a PBA member, I was watching the Eagles and DVR'ing bowling and watched it tonight.

Do you realize that today's bowling telecast was actually taped a month and a half ago?

CLIFF LEE once bowled a 400 game.

they play 12 frames in Arkansas.

Stripes wrote:

pacino wrote:what's your point? i like bowling and am going back and forth between the two

Seriously, even though I'm a PBA member, I was watching the Eagles and DVR'ing bowling and watched it tonight.

Do you realize that today's bowling telecast was actually taped a month and a half ago?

i do. so what, i've avoided the results. i am not a football fan #1. baseball/basketball are on top. plus, it's not tough to go between two, and even three, telecasts. if it is tough for you, that's bad.

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