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Post by chrisang on Aug 24, 2008 22:36:48 GMT -5
I would like to see a big tournament to have all the great small ball bowlers compete in a duckpin, rubber band, candlepin ,and 5 pin to determine the King or Queen of small ball bowling. That would be great as Canada has some really good rubber band, 5 Pin and candlepin bowlers.
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Post by urbie on Aug 26, 2008 18:59:33 GMT -5
I would like to see a big tournament to have all the great small ball bowlers compete in a duckpin, rubber band, candlepin ,and 5 pin to determine the King or Queen of small ball bowling. That would be great as Canada has some really good rubber band, 5 Pin and candlepin bowlers. Interesting idea. I'm not sure how much crossover there is, but I do know of at least one pro candlepin bowler who bowls some DPBA tournaments, and one big-time duckpin guy who dabbles in candlepins with some success. I'd be up for it! Urb |
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Post by chrisang on Aug 26, 2008 22:12:54 GMT -5
i would too be up for it, Ive bowled all four games, my favorite of course DUCKS!!! Rubber band is a good game. They use alot of oil on their lanes in Canada so the ball skids alot and most of the Canadian rubber band bowlers use the backhand delivery. Go to youtube and do a search by duckpins with the s on the end and there are some good Canadian clips of their duckpin tv show. I do like candlepin also, i have to roll a little slower ball since its only 2lbs7oz
but i can score decent. 5 pin is totally a different game altogether, its fun but really challenging
and i think the pins are set farther apart.
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Post by urbie on Aug 27, 2008 6:22:27 GMT -5
i would too be up for it, Ive bowled all four games, my favorite of course DUCKS!!! Rubber band is a good game. They use alot of oil on their lanes in Canada so the ball skids alot and most of the Canadian rubber band bowlers use the backhand delivery. Go to youtube and do a search by duckpins with the s on the end and there are some good Canadian clips of their duckpin tv show. I do like candlepin also, i have to roll a little slower ball since its only 2lbs7oz but i can score decent. 5 pin is totally a different game altogether, its fun but really challenging and i think the pins are set farther apart. Actually, just to follow up, back in the day, there used to be a lot of tournaments involving more than one type of bowling. According to Florence Greenleaf's "The Game of Candlepin Bowling," there were a many candlepin/t*npin tournaments -- you'd bowl so many games of one type, then a certain number of t*npin. Another interesting factoid is that ducks and candlepins once had a combined association, the National Duck and Candlepin Congress (NDCC). Who knew? Urb |
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Post by chrisang on Aug 27, 2008 22:46:55 GMT -5
thats a great book I have it in my collection. I would love to find some memorabilia from that early congress that pre-dates the NDBC. BTW i like the t*pin! i totally agree! Im an ex-t*npin
bowler with 2 300's 2 299's 1 804 series gave it up because it was no longer challenging.
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Post by urbie on Aug 28, 2008 5:54:10 GMT -5
thats a great book I have it in my collection. I would love to find some memorabilia from that early congress that pre-dates the NDBC. BTW i like the t*pin! i totally agree! Im an ex-t*npin bowler with 2 300's 2 299's 1 804 series gave it up because it was no longer challenging. Heh... ya, these days t*npin bowling is all about equipment and lane conditions. I used to be a low-200s bowler (good enough to bowl scratch tournaments and get my b*tt kicked  ). Then, I went to business school and didn't have time to bowl leagues for about three years. When I was just finishing school in 2006, I had time for a summer league. The house had switched from wood to synthetic lanes but had not changed the oil pattern, and it had become phenomenally easy -- a lefty kid who had no idea how to bowl (but had a good natural delivery) threw an 845. That is not a typo -- 845!So there I was, not having bowled in three years, and after a few weeks back bowling weekly, I threw a 740. That was using a $10 urethane ball that I got from the used-ball area in the pro shop -- it had been plugged and redrilled several times, and resurfaced so much that the logos were all gone. Came back to New England shortly after that, and got back into candlepins. Felt good to be back in the game I grew up with. I've been trying some ducks lately, and am intrigued -- see my posts about the DPBA, etc. I know of at least one guy who goes up to Massachusetts to compete in a few candlepin events -- it used to be a lot more common to bowl both games, but there are still a few people who do it today. One of my candlepin buddies also bowls t*npins with some success. It can be done. How many other Rhode Islanders are there around here? Urb |
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Post by Robert Moran on Sept 18, 2023 3:09:50 GMT -5
Has there ever been a perfect game (300) bowled in duckpin??
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). Then, I went to business school and didn't have time to bowl leagues for about three years. When I was just finishing school in 2006, I had time for a summer league. The house had switched from wood to synthetic lanes but had not changed the oil pattern, and it had become phenomenally easy -- a lefty kid who had no idea how to bowl (but had a good natural delivery) threw an 845. That is not a typo -- 845!