Pat’s New High Score

Looks like my wife is catching-up to me. Scored 194 on 9/11/2009 at Planet Bowling, CC Thader, Murcia. Moreso if you add the 8 pin handicap normally given to bowler’s of the female gender. Time to practice, I guess.

Bowling Ball Strike Path

Here is a little diagram I put together (using Google Sketch-up) whilst trying to understand the path that a bowling ball should take in an ideal strike shot. The path shown is the right-hand (pins 1-3) pocket at the much vaunted 6º optimum entry angle.I lined-up the shot to hit the head-pin (pin 1) pretty [...]

Bowling in Murcia

So we went on our first scouting mission to locate some more bowling alleys in and around Murcia, the other day and unfortunately we couldn’t locate any of the three listings that we got out of the online yellow pages (paginas amarillas). Two were supposed to be in Murcia provincial capital and one in Mula, [...]

New Bowling High Scores

Well I guess the coaching must be doing something. Either that, or maybe I was helped by my new reactive ball (13lb Columbia 300 Full Swing Full Tilt). I managed a high score of 218 on Saturday (26/9/2009) with a score sheet of |X|X|X|9/|X|X|61|81|X|XXX|. Too bad I had 2 open frames, but at least they [...]

Tenpin Bowling High Scores

Maybe not much to brag about for those that have been bowling for a while … … but for my personal documentation, I thought I would post my wife and my bowling high scores, both achieved recently on the 5th Aug, 2009, with plastic (polyester) spare balls. I managed 195 and my wife Pat managed [...]