BowlingSenior

This is from last season's senior league; I didn't try filming many of the games there because there were too many people in the league that didn't want to be filmed. This was one team that had no objections however. My camera battery wasn't up to filming all three games, but it did last for the first game, which is presented here. Fortunately, that is the one game my team managed to win, as we lost the second and third games. :-( Yes, we are wearing team T-shirts with "00" on the back, so it is easy to know when my teammates or I are bowling.

This week we're bowling against the highest average team in the league; and I'm afraid we didn't do too well! In fact, we lost all 3 games.

Our opponents wee missing a bowler this week. We won all three games.

I forgot to bring an extra battery for my camera today,so there's only about 14minutes of the games shown. I note that our team won al three games, however.

Here's a compilation of each time I threw the Johnny Petraglia signature bowling ball from BVL by Brunswick in the Fall No-Tap league. (I think that I threw a different ball a couple of times in this compilation.) For those who don;t know, in "No Tap" bowling, if you knock down 9 pins with the first ball, it counts as a strike.

This was the final week of the league; it was sweepstakes day where all bowlers were playing for individual prizes. Our team actually played for the league championship on week 12, but I couldn't show any of that because the second place team objected to being filmed. We did win the league however, finishing with a record of 23 wins vs. 13 losses. That was the first trophy I've won in quite a few years. (Hooray!) I didn't bowl all that well for sweepers, and won none of the individual prizes. What we have here is the complete first game, and highlights from the second and third games. You will observe our opponent's anchor man is one of the few people who actually acknowledges the existence of the camera. Unfortunately, he is a little close to it and tends to be out of focus.

I tried a couple of different angles for filming this day, and ended up cutting the heads off of some of the bowlers before I settled on a more traditional camera position. This week, we started off slow and lost the first game, but hen our anchor man came on strong in the second game and our "back u[" bowler in the third game and we won two against the one loss.. We now stand at 22 wins and 11 losses, three games in front of the second place team, whom we play for the league championship next week. We'll need to win one game! Of course, we've managed to lose all three games before, so I'll have my fingers crossed.

This week we faced a really strong team, but fortunately for us, they were plagued by splits this week and we managed to win all three games from them. Now, with two weeks of the league left, our team has a lead in the standings, with 20 wins and 10 losses. The second place team is three games back, with 17 wins. I must say that I'm starting to think we can take first place in the league!

We all bowled fairly poorly this week, plus our opponents bowled quite well; so we ended up winning the first game and losing the next two. Despite this, we managed to remain in first place, with a total record of 17 wins and 10 losses. We're one game ahead of the second place team. There's still 3 weeks to go in the league, so we can't rest on our laurels yet!

This week we won all three games (no thanks to me in the 3rd game), which resolved the 3-way tie from last week and we are now in first place with a record of 16 wins to 8 losses. There are still plenty of weeks left though! This week, I changed my "strike" ball from the old "Rebel Yell" I had been using to a new Black Venom, a ball made by Motiv. When I bowl regular 10-pin bowling, I use the Motiv Venom Shock, which works well for me. Nowadays, it's Motiv all the way! Although I do use the Widow Spare for most of my second ball spare attempts., especially for any spares on the right side (the 3-6-9 and 10 pins).

We managed to win all 3 of our games on this day, giving us a total for the season of 13 wins and 8 losses, so we are in a 3-way tie for first place right now.

Some of you might recognize a couple of our opponents as being members of our old nemesis team who always seem to win against us. It seems they remain in that category, as we lost all three games to them this week. As for our league standing, we dropped from first place to a tie for 3rd/4th and now stand at 10 wins and 8 losses. The league has 7 weeks to go; although we won't bowl on the 4th or the 11th of July.

The is my first video of the summer no-tap league for this season. I must apologize for the strange angle at which I shot this. There are steps immediately behind the lanes we were bowling on and I couldn't block them with my tripod. I'm bowling in the lead off position with a new team, one which I hope will be good enough to win the rather short season. This is week three of the league and there are only 10 weeks left. So far, we are in first place. In this video, we lost the first game,but we won the next two. We won two games and lost one the first week and we won all 3 games the second week, giving us a 7-2 total for the league thus far.

While my teammates bowled fairly well, I bowled terribly. It seems I can't make a spare and so we ended up losing at least two games. Oh well, there's always next week... Subscribe to my videos to receive updates when a new video is uploaded.

I tried a different ball on this occasion, and kept pulling it to the left, resulting in some terrible games. Also, our anchor man kept getting some nasty splits. We ended up losing all three games. Oh well, that's the way it goes some days!

Here we are again, managing to win only one game - all three games are shown.

Usually, I'm the oldest person on my bowling team; but this season I'm bowling with a couple of guys who are older than I am! This is the second of three games we bowled this day, and the only game we managed to win (by one point!) As you can see, this is a regular bowling league, not a no-tap league.

Here's our team bowling unopposed in a "No-tap" league back in July, 2021. In "no tap" bowling, if you knock down nine of the ten pins with your first ball thrown in a frame, it counts as a strike - as if you had managed to knock down all ten pins. I'm afraid that the quality of this video isn't very good, what with some jerkiness of movements and the camera would quit working at odd times; but it is still some fun bowling! to watch.

The winter edition of my favorite league. I'm bowling with a new team and our opponents are all new to the league. I think we won two of the three games. (Apologies for the first upload of this file -it wasn't done correctly and 2/3rds of the content was missing.)

This was a regular league from over a year ago. Our team was missing a bowler and the other team was having some terrible luck, especially their anchor man, who kept leaving splits. You will note the Covid restrictions in place; Only every other pair of lanes was in use and most people were wearing masks, even though it wasn't required when actually bowling.

Here's a game from the latest no-tap league. The team I'm bowling with is different from last season's league, but you might recognize our opponents as their team has the same members as previously. (One of their bowlers is missing today.) Just as happened in the previous video, our opponents bowled very well and our team, not so well. Oh, well...

While I was making a video on my lanes, another bowler, two lanes over, left an 8 - 10 split. You can see how he handled it.

Here's another video of my team bowling "no tap". "No tap" is the same as 10-pin bowling, except that if you knock down 9 pins on the first ball of the frame, it counts as a strike As you can see, there were more "natural" strikes than "no tap" strikes in this game; so it did not make a huge difference to the scores. This video shows the final 5 frames of the game. I'm sad to say that our team lost. 😥

"No Tap" bowling is the same as regular 10-pin bowling, except that if you manage to knock down nine pins on your first ball, it counts the same as a strike. This is a good format for seniors, who often can't bowl as well as they did when they were younger and, sadly, aren't likely to improve with age. My team bowled in a no tap league back in November; and this is one game from the schedule. We were bowling unopposed. Our games were 193, 230 and 232. That was enough to give us the high team game (with handicap), as none of us are great bowlers and our team handicap was about 190 pins..