19 October 2009 - PBAX

Tonight was the first night I have bowled on my PBA Experience league.  (I missed the 1st 2 weeks due to our little road trip.)  We were bowling on the Cheetah pattern tonight, and I did surprisingly well.  The line on the Cheetah pattern is to play outside of the 5 board, but I moved inside with my target being the 2nd arrow, and the ball didn't get any further right than the 5 board.  I think the main thing that helped me was slowing down my approach, and getting some loft on the ball.  I rolled a 262, 172 and a 197 for a 631 series.  During the 1st game, I had real good carry.  But the 2nd game, I started out with 2 splits, and ended up with 4 open frames.  I think I did ok to get a 172.  The 3rd game, I was back in the pocket, but my carry was non-existant.  I ended up rolling a 197 with no doubles.  My pin fall can be viewed at http://www.bowlspot.com/share/T1hbQ9dCsums2323.

I was standing on board 30, approach towards the 1 pin and rolling the ball over the 2nd arrow.  Concentrated on keeping my approach slow (late timing) and getting the ball (WD) out on the lane.

PBA Experience Fliers

The PBA Experience fliers describing the different lane conditions don't seem to be available on bowl.com anymore.  Does anybody know of a different source for the fliers?  I know that you can see a graphic of the lane conditions on pba.com, but the fliers give suggestions on how to attack the lanes.

PBA Experience League starting soon

Our PBA Experience league is going to start around the beginning of October (don't have the exact date yet).  Can't wait.  It will be interesting due to the fact that I have gone down in ball weight, and will only have 2 balls at my disposal.  The 2 balls I will have at my disposal is a Columbia White Dot and a Brunswick Swamp Monster.

300 games

I didn't have my 1st sanctioned 300 until 2008.  I ended up having 3 during the 2008 calendar year, and had my 1st one for 2009 a week and a half ago.  I put a lot a revs on the ball, and my ball speed maxes out at 16 mph, so I bowl with pretty weak equipment.

My first 300 was in March 2008 towards the end of the 2007-2008 season at Dick Weber Lanes in Florissant Mo.  The ball I used was a sanded White Dot.  I was rolling my ball over the 2nd arrow with my ball going out to about the 3 board.

 

My next one came in October of 2008.  I was rolling pretty much the same line, but I was using a Roto Grenade.  The game was bowled at the Stars and Strikes bowling alley on Scott AFB.

My next 300 came on the Viper patter on the PBA Experience league at Scott AFB.  I was rolling a Gyro over the 1st arrow out to about the 2 board.

 

And my most recent 300 was rolled on the 1st game of the 1st night of bowling on our Friday night league at Dick Weber lanes in Florissant Mo.  The lanes were hooking a lot from the get-go, so I pulled out my least hooking ball.  My USMC Vis-A-Ball.  I was rolling the ball over the 3rd arrow out to about the 5 board.

It is interesting that all of my 300's have been rolled with a different ball.  I have recently switched from 16 lb balls to 14 lb balls.  I guess only time will tell if I will roll in more 300s (with lighter equipment).

Summer PBA Experience 10 game tournament

We will be bowling our 10 game tournament this coming Tuesday (10 games across 10 lanes using a 10 week schedule). On each pair of lanes, one lane will be the Scorpion pattern and the other lane will be the Cheetah pattern.