The kids resumed back into their junior leagues this week. Rachel now bowls after school on Friday afternoons. She bowls in a doubles team and plays with the junior coach's grand-daughter. Monique resumed back into the same teen league she done last year on Saturday mornings. But her team has a new player as Rachel dropped out of that league at the end of last season.
Monique plans on entering more tournaments this year. The TQI juniors is still going and now they will have more centres involved each month. The first match will be played in late February. Also a new tournament has been introduced. Not sure on the full details but I do know it happens every two months down the Gold Coast or Northern NSW. All I know there will be playoffs before each match day. At this stage I haven't decided if she should try out this new one but I did tell her junior coach that the TQI is our top priority if the other tournament happens to fall on the same day of play. And if lucky Monique might get back to the KEN MILLS KUP to compete in on weekend in September.
Tonight I had my bowling league as normal. We played against the team who was just above us but unfortunately they won most of the points. We only won the second game but the other two games it was a close call. Overall we only lost by one pin. Both myself and my team partner bowled only two games over average. The highest I bowled tonight was a 170 game. But the best part of my night was winning the fortnightly raffle.
After three weeks of play, my team is currently in 8th position (out of 12 teams). I know it is way too early into the season to chat about team and individual placings but our standing sheet each week gives us the updates. Currently our team is in third position overall for a high game scratch. It must of been when we bowled a good game in the first week. Individually I am currently 2nd for high game scratch. That was last week when I bowled a 164. I can't remember what the highest game for first placing was but I don't think I have beaten that score as yet. My team mate is currently first for high series with HCP which she happened to do it in the second week.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
Welcome back!
This weekend will be my third week back to play on Sunday night. For the past two weeks we only won one game each week. Two out of my three games were over average. Strangely through my average increased by three pins.
Last week it was too hard to complete with last year's winning team. This weekend we will be playing against a new team member who joined last week. She bowls with one of the bowlers who has been there for afew years now. He bowled with another female but she dropped out of the league at the end of last season.
After checking our standing sheet last week, it seems a new team has so far hit the top of the ladder while my team is more down the snake's mouth. Oh well...it is only very early in our new season so anything would change by the end of this season.
On Tuesday we went out social bowling with one of my friends who is a league bowler. We bowled at an AMF centre but only one child of mine has bowled there before. After four games we pretty well had enough but it was alot of fun to do something with the kids.
Next week the girls will resume back to their junior leagues. My eldest daughter will continue bowling in the same league on Saturday mornings but the second child decided she wanted to go back to Friday afternoons league.
Last week it was too hard to complete with last year's winning team. This weekend we will be playing against a new team member who joined last week. She bowls with one of the bowlers who has been there for afew years now. He bowled with another female but she dropped out of the league at the end of last season.
After checking our standing sheet last week, it seems a new team has so far hit the top of the ladder while my team is more down the snake's mouth. Oh well...it is only very early in our new season so anything would change by the end of this season.
On Tuesday we went out social bowling with one of my friends who is a league bowler. We bowled at an AMF centre but only one child of mine has bowled there before. After four games we pretty well had enough but it was alot of fun to do something with the kids.
Next week the girls will resume back to their junior leagues. My eldest daughter will continue bowling in the same league on Saturday mornings but the second child decided she wanted to go back to Friday afternoons league.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
League 2
Frank's league resumed back for a new season last night (which is known as Black Friday). He joined the same team who he bowled with last year. It isn't very often I go along to watch but I went last night with my crochet to watch and speak to a couple of bowlers I know.
I did speak to one of the professional bowlers (well..... he does have a 200 plus average and he is employed as a coach for junior leagues) about the sunshine method of cleaning the polyurethane bowling balls. He told me he has heard of it but would not recommend this method done to any bowling balls as in time the balls will go out of shape. He said the best method to clean any bowling ball is with warm water and dishwashing liquid which I believe is the correct way of cleaning one. I don't own a ball so I don't bother cleaning the house ball I used from the centre.
I did forget to add, apparently after the sunshine method, Frank did put the ball into the downstairs bar refridge for a week so the ball would regain back to its standard shaping. I don't know where he got his sources from about the sunshine and refridge method. I tried goggling it and there seems to be no information about this unusual cleaning method. So all the readers who bowl, don't go and try it! If you own a bowling ball, just stick to the dishwashing method to clean the oil off the ball.
I did speak to one of the professional bowlers (well..... he does have a 200 plus average and he is employed as a coach for junior leagues) about the sunshine method of cleaning the polyurethane bowling balls. He told me he has heard of it but would not recommend this method done to any bowling balls as in time the balls will go out of shape. He said the best method to clean any bowling ball is with warm water and dishwashing liquid which I believe is the correct way of cleaning one. I don't own a ball so I don't bother cleaning the house ball I used from the centre.
I did forget to add, apparently after the sunshine method, Frank did put the ball into the downstairs bar refridge for a week so the ball would regain back to its standard shaping. I don't know where he got his sources from about the sunshine and refridge method. I tried goggling it and there seems to be no information about this unusual cleaning method. So all the readers who bowl, don't go and try it! If you own a bowling ball, just stick to the dishwashing method to clean the oil off the ball.
Monday, 9 January 2012
Leagues resuming
YEAH! My bowling league for Sunday night is now back for this year. After a six week break we resumed playing in our friendly competition last night. It was nice to be back and catch up with afew players I haven't seen since the breaking party in late Novemeber.
We lost two teams and a long time player but we gained two new teams last night. I didn't get to introduce myself to these new players but I guess when my team completes with them we will get to know these guys abit better. From what I heard, two of the new ones bowled 200 games last night. So I guess for our regular male players it will be an interesting competition for them to compete with.
I guess it might of been abit too early for some league bowlers to return back to league playing as yet because they didn't show up last night. I know two members are away on holidays still and another player is sick but I don't know the other players reasons were. Maybe they haven't realized what week of the New Year it is yet?
I don't know how our team's first night went because when I tried to check the standing sheet online today, it seems our league's name has gone walkabout from the centre's results online. It will be interesting to see how long before our bowling committee members find out this incident.
As most league bowlers who own their own equipment know they are required to clean their balls time to time, otherwise your game consistency won't be the same. I used to own a 11lb bowling ball until I had a nerve injury happened to my wrist, caused by a relative's cat years ago. I had to drop the weight of my bowl since. Right now I am just using a 10lb house ball from the centre but I think it is about time I go and buy my own again as the rest of the family here owns their own equipment.
Have you ever heard of cleaning a polyurethane bowling ball from sunshine? I don't know where my spouse got this information from but he has tried cleaning his ball in this method after NYD. I couldn't believe my eyes to see oil simply be removed from his ball onto his towel. Like the standard method of laying the ball down on a towel, etc, etc just you use sunshine to clean the ball instead of water. For readers and followers who are reading this, DO NOT and I MUST REPEAT DO NOT CLEAN A PLASTIC MADE BALL IN THIS METHOD. As far as I know the sunshine method can be only done with polyurethane balls only because the make of this ball is made with a different compound then standard plastic balls (the ones you see aa house balls at any centre and they roll more straight down the lane).
But I wouldn't recommend on doing this sunshine method weekly to them either. To my understanding that powerful sun does enough damage to our skin, just imagine what it would do to a bowling ball instead?
Because it was my first time of hearing and seeing of a cleaning sunshine method to a polyurethane ball, I asked some guys (well they are more likely the ones who own a polyurethane bowling ball) around the league last night and there is only two guys who have heard of this method done. Have you?
My spouse resumes his league on this Friday night. If I go along to watch him I will ask around if any of this league guys who own a polyurethane ball, heard of the sunshine method??
To all league bowlers, good luck and high scoring this year!
We lost two teams and a long time player but we gained two new teams last night. I didn't get to introduce myself to these new players but I guess when my team completes with them we will get to know these guys abit better. From what I heard, two of the new ones bowled 200 games last night. So I guess for our regular male players it will be an interesting competition for them to compete with.
I guess it might of been abit too early for some league bowlers to return back to league playing as yet because they didn't show up last night. I know two members are away on holidays still and another player is sick but I don't know the other players reasons were. Maybe they haven't realized what week of the New Year it is yet?
I don't know how our team's first night went because when I tried to check the standing sheet online today, it seems our league's name has gone walkabout from the centre's results online. It will be interesting to see how long before our bowling committee members find out this incident.
As most league bowlers who own their own equipment know they are required to clean their balls time to time, otherwise your game consistency won't be the same. I used to own a 11lb bowling ball until I had a nerve injury happened to my wrist, caused by a relative's cat years ago. I had to drop the weight of my bowl since. Right now I am just using a 10lb house ball from the centre but I think it is about time I go and buy my own again as the rest of the family here owns their own equipment.
Have you ever heard of cleaning a polyurethane bowling ball from sunshine? I don't know where my spouse got this information from but he has tried cleaning his ball in this method after NYD. I couldn't believe my eyes to see oil simply be removed from his ball onto his towel. Like the standard method of laying the ball down on a towel, etc, etc just you use sunshine to clean the ball instead of water. For readers and followers who are reading this, DO NOT and I MUST REPEAT DO NOT CLEAN A PLASTIC MADE BALL IN THIS METHOD. As far as I know the sunshine method can be only done with polyurethane balls only because the make of this ball is made with a different compound then standard plastic balls (the ones you see aa house balls at any centre and they roll more straight down the lane).
But I wouldn't recommend on doing this sunshine method weekly to them either. To my understanding that powerful sun does enough damage to our skin, just imagine what it would do to a bowling ball instead?
Because it was my first time of hearing and seeing of a cleaning sunshine method to a polyurethane ball, I asked some guys (well they are more likely the ones who own a polyurethane bowling ball) around the league last night and there is only two guys who have heard of this method done. Have you?
My spouse resumes his league on this Friday night. If I go along to watch him I will ask around if any of this league guys who own a polyurethane ball, heard of the sunshine method??
To all league bowlers, good luck and high scoring this year!
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