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| All we can bowl for $10 |
We'll be practicing at AMF Pinole Valley Lanes at 11:00 AM on Sunday. This will be the first time in awhile that all of us have gotten together to work on skills. Please put together a list of things you'd like to work on. I'm sure there will be a fair amount of overlapping between us. (Did I hear someone say "10-pin?") Since this is a bowling buffet with all we can bowl for $10, we might as well exploit it for all we can.
At 1:00, which may be right around the time we finish, ESPN will be broadcasting the PBA Super Clash between Jason Belmonte and Sean Rash. They're bowling a head-to-head three game series with a $2,000.00 prize for each game and $10,000.00 for the winner of the series. You can read the details about the match here. I'll stick around to watch it if anyone else feels like it.
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Sharon and I arrived a little before Pinole Valley Lanes opened at 11:00 AM. The Coach arrived a few minutes later. We definitley got our money's worth out of AMF's all you can bowl for $10 Super Bowl Sunday special.
ReplyDeleteThe lanes we started on had some mechanical/software problems so we had to move to a pair that had been dressed with the PBA's "Bear" pattern. This is one of the new patterns unveiled for last year's PBA Summer Swing and regarded by some to be the toughest of the PBA patterns to play. Here's a link to one of my posts last summer about the Badger, Bear, and Wolf patterns.
http://blockheadsbowling.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-three-new-pba-oil-patterns.html
We bowled three games on the Bear pattern and it was definitely a struggle. Swinging the ball outside the 10th board almost guaranteed a count of 3 or less. When we put the ball out there, it wasn't coming back. We adjusted by shooting straight down the 10th board and we had a lot more success hitting the pocket after that.
Some lanes with the regular house oil pattern opened up as we finished our third game on the Bear. We shited lanes again and as one would expect, our scores shot up substantially on the house pattern. We devoted a couple of games to shooting just at the 10-pin and we did pretty well. The Coach took off a little early so he could catch the beginning of the Super Bowl. Sharon and I shot two more regular games (one in which she scored 219) before finally packing it in at about 3:40.