Recent content by bon316

The one thing bowling has that no other sport has is that everyne can be included, no skill level to start - anyone can get a strike, no embarrassing outfits to wear, and no one misses out - there isn't a disability that cant be catered for. I would reckon a collage style approach depicting...

I dont know what they are planning to pay for this worker but Jim - here is something out of the box. Maybe it would make more sense to split the pay up 8 ways into sponsorship packages for uni students in each state and territory. The job could be the project. I am sure that work performance...

Maybe the conditions could be renamed to reflect the skill levels needed to bowl on the condition. For example Easy street could be classified as a beginners condition, and sports conditions classified as an experienced/good players condtion. Then something in the middle as a development type of...

Hmm. Most sports I know can be played either hand, or foot. Soccer, AFL, pool/snooker, cricket, lawn bowls, golf, tennis, etc. In fact being able to play with either hand or foot is desirable in most other sports.

nev - that was a commercial for ice hockey, saying that bowling would be so much more exciting if it were more like hockey. There was also a snooker one

That really sucks. Maybe an appplication should be made for a cultural heritage order to be placed on the building. 30 years is a long time.

Nobody has ever said it out loud before but the bowling boom of the 90s stopped when smoking was banned in the centres. An example - Mirrabooka Bowl was the first I know of to go non-smoking and whole leagues left to go to another centre. The centre closed its doors after about 6 months. I think...

why not buy a couple of second hand balls to experiment with before u buy a new one. Theres a second hand forum on this site

am happy to drag my old dick weber powerball out and I still go ok with it. Just a little statement way out of the box - if you want to improve your game - go and play lawn bowls -pretty much cost free (cept for your beers and smokes) - your not using 15/16 lb balls - swing is the same -...

Hi Jim Thanks for your feedback on this. I was merely trying to say that the proshops today are being punished for the greed of the proshop operators in the past. It was while our dollar was low that we discovered it was much much cheaper to buy online. Now that the dollar is high, it is...

Re - the online dilemma for pro shops. It's unfortunate but proshops today are paying for the sins of yesterday. Similiar to the Gerry Harvey fiasco, if you were to ask people they would tell you that they were ripped off in the past. An example, I saved nearly $300 on a Storm Wrath (including...

Hi Terry Its nice to see a couple of people actually agree with me about this. I reckon though that the true strength of this proposal is in its simplicity - just 2 balls for league and 3 for tournaments. I would actually suggest not announcing the pattern. That was one of the things I loved...

The solution really isnt all that complicated or expensive. Just restrict bowlers to 2 bowling balls for a league (house shot) and 3 bowling balls for a tournament (sports conditions). Brings it back to a more even playing field, ie individual skills will become more important then the ability...

I reckon I can get more power out of my shot if I try to bowl a helicopter shot

Money comes into it but I dont think its the only thing to blame. Its the other issues that people have that probably need to be addressed. This is the issue that stops me from playing. There are a small number of bowlers who play so slowly that everyone else has to wait for up to 20...