I've seen a 6, 7-10 split picked up, but never a 7-10. Anyone else?
shareBack in the 70's I saw Mark Roth convert a 7-10 split on a televised PBA show. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPllVnruRAc
seen it w/ a womans ball a guy was bowling though and it seemed like he knew what he was doing cause he hit about 4 or 5 of them out of 10
shareI've picked up the 6,7,10 a few times. Not THAT hard for a rightie.
I've never seen a 7,10 picked up. My Dad did in league play (patch and the next week's standings sheet that he'd saved to prove it), but he didn't see it. He said all he was going for was the 10, knew he had it and turned around to walk back, still POed that he had it at all. A crazy caroom off the back kicked it back into the 7. I've almost done it. If I get it, I try to hit the 7 off the wall and across. The times it's made it out of the gutter it never quite gets all the way across. One of these days......lol
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
I picked one up before, but it was purely a lucky bounce. I bowl righty, threw the ball from the left side of the alley, aiming for the left side of the right pin. When it hit the pin it shot it to the right hard, causing it to ricochet off of the wall and straight back to the left across the alley, taking out the other pin. Never was able to do it again.
shareYea I did it easy , lobbed it down the thing hit the other thing on the side of the thing whoppop smashed it easy ! I'm great at that rolling game
shareI converted one once, but it was just dumb luck. Anytime someone picks up the 7/10, luck is involved.
I am the videogame word made flesh.
Just last year I saw a guy coaching underprivileged youth pick up a 7-10 at a charity event. All of a sudden the kids lost interest in bowling regular games and asked to have 7-10s set up to try to duplicate the coach's feat. None did.
shareI bowled in a league several years back and picked one up, even though I was a pretty mediocre bowler (165 average).
They gave me a patch to commemorate the shot, but alas I had no bowling jacket to put it on ;o)
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
I am a pretty good bowler, I bowl in 4 leagues a week and carry a 232 avg. But to this day I have never picked up that godforsaken split. I saw a stat online that said there have actually been more 300 games thrown then 7/10 split pickups in history. That is pretty telling on the difficulty of the shot. I myself have 3 300's games and no split.
shareI worked at a bowling center years ago... no one really cared about 300 games... sure people cheered, but people were more excited to get 800 series than a 300 game. Hitting 300 is doable, but being consistently good for all three games is another thing
I agree completely, I still haven't hit the elusive 800 series yet. My high series is 791.
shareFour leagues a week and averaging 232 - you're living the life.
shareI picked it up once in practice after a league match (was about 210 avg at the time, peaked at about 215). I didn't even realize it at first, because of the dozens if not hundreds of times missing it before. Right about when I realized it, the couple non-league bowlers nearby apparently realized it too, so had some "wow"s. I really wish I had done it in league - they only give a pin for it, but it would have been awesome to get and especially among a bunch of 220-230+ avg bowlers who probably hadn't ever picked it up.
Definitely felt awesome! Too bad it wasn't caught on video or anything.
Never picked it up by itself but was demonstrating different ball covers to a guy , took out a plastic, and told him it should go straight at the 10 pin and not hook. Well it did and picked the 10 off clean, then it kicked off something in the back and got the 7, so got a 7-10 out of a full rack! As far the side thread- I got 15 300's and 6 800's, and yes the 800's were more satisfying.
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