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!