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Well done Jarrod. I bet you can't get the smile off Dad's face with plastic surgery!

Welcome back. Well, you won't have to contend with heads that rattle and pin decks that make the ball go airborne anymore. Hell, after Rushcutter, everywhere is going to seem easy! :) Enjoy your return!

Maybe I was trawling. Sure got a bite...

You're welcome and good on you for kicking off a good thread. Remember that the pursuit of excellence is admirable, so long as you watch out for the nasty mental illness of perfectionism! Why not improve your average by 10 pins? Make an extra spare each game! :-P Cheers, Jason

I like to win Peter, but I love to throw the ball well, to be in control. It's the extrinsic goal of winning versus the intrinsic goal of performing well. Intrinsic goals are scientifically proven to be longer lasting in their positive effects on the psyche, BTW. I'm always happy if I walked...

Oh, wow. I get so off topic when I'm tired. Sorry about that. Biggsy, I say record excellence wherever you can. And of course, note your mistakes as opportunities to improve. But always view scores through the lens of what you shot them on. I've never bowled 300 on tough lanes, but they've all...

I no longer like this post. A much better version is below. [emoji4]

Fay was pretty much an aunty to so many of us as juniors. Always keeping an eye out for the kids. Just as Roy was furniture at Enfield Bowl, so Fay was at the STBA offices in Regents Park or any event at the old Blacktown Bowl. I will never forget Fay turning up to my 21st birthday party with a...

Oh, wow. Having been lost in renovation-land, I had no idea. I only "knew" Jim as one of the finest contributors to this forum. He was a disciplined thinker with a no-nonsense attitude and a very cheeky sense of humour. Even though we'd never spoken, let alone met, I regarded him as my friend...

Valid comments Mr Wenban and good question on the ball, Mr O'Meara. The Crux, Venator, Raging Bull, Reax 2, Yeti and Guru cores all have similar engineering in that when you drill pin-up, you increase differential in these balls substantially. Pin up will actually make these balls react earlier...

Not only will it make up for your chicken wing, it'll make you 4" taller, lose weight and grow your hair back! But be careful. This ball is SO powerful, overuse will strip the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro! Anyway, I reckon they just ripped off, I mean were...

These are some of the many variables, but it's difficult to imagine how to make the comparison more fair. Using different layouts on different balls would definitely be apples vs oranges. The Radical guys have been rigorous in their methodology and diligent in their execution. I called the Reax2...

Here's a new take on ball comparison videos. I'm definitely not set up to do this level of preview work! In fact, almost nobody is! What if you had Throbot demonstrate your ball? And what if you got Throbot to throw competitor's products to compare? Well, you'd have to be pretty confident in...

Tish! That's French!

First night in the new house. Still waiting on carpet. Lots of furniture still in the garage, old house to be emptied and cleaned and yep, nowhere near unpacked. [emoji4] Funnily enough, one of those boxes is full of bowling shirts. (I just told my wife she couldn't have a French bowling world...

And people wonder why I hate shoes! (One dud fit and you've lost the margin from the next 2 pairs in return freight and frigging around!) I've written to Dexter before. Complete waste of effort - they didn't even respond and I gave up after 3 attempts on behalf of the customer. Rob's advice is...

Glenn Allison has been robbed. Turning down the sanctioning of his series made sense to many people at the time, but when viewed in the light of the wanton destruction of bowling's integrity by players, proprietors, "governing" bodies, ball and pin manufacturers that has come since, his is more...

Hahaha! That's happened to me. After slogging through about 6 calendars of bowling events to help Dwayne with a date for Pit Stop, we came upon this great free weekend in the start of September. It was perfect. We were just about to make a celebratory coffee when Eileen matter-of-factly said...

Hey Frawls... Who cut your hair..? (Cheech and Chong fans will know it...)

The second layout is for players with stronger roll. It revs up later and is more continuous downlane. For example, the 4x4x2 layout he talks about, I refer to as the "Hook and die" layout... for me, that is. If I'm drilling for someone in a with a low rev release, then this layout is great...

Optimistically imagine that this week, I WILL throw it well, despite bowling about 3 games a week (in a cold storage facility) at present. Go home a bit disappointed, repeat... I once typed out my pre-shot routine for a friend. Here it is from 2011... Here’s a précis of my pre-shot routine...

Torrid Elite and Times Up Solid are sold! Only The Look left, which is funny, as it's the one I'm having the most difficulty letting go of! (I do have a thing for orange though!)

Not at all Geoff. You were on the money and it was a very good thing. It needed it very much. And I'm sure it's not the only one.

Topology and surface condition are the biggest factors in bowling. Len Nicholson taught about 400 of us this in PBA School in 1992. With the demise of regular re-levelling through resurfacing of timber lanes, all sorts of things get out of whack over time. I bowled at Tuggeranong recently, where...

Chris Barnes Select is sold. Thank you! (And thanks for the super plug, Dale!)