Ok change of plans for me. No leagues, no tournaments, no practice, I'm just going to sell all my equipment and take up a less frustrating sport like cricket. Anyone know how to play that anyways? NO I'm just kidding, I don't even think I'm going to do that many tournaments, and try to use that money more usefully, like maybe getting a coach. When I need 70 pins of handicap to have a 520 series, something is really wrong.

Almost had me Cal. From your posts, it seems you need help. So, get it.

This year my summer league is a 4 person JR/ADULT league setup 2 adults and 2 jrs. The first year I joined this league with my daughter, it was to get her into bowling and for me to work on throwing straight at my spares. This year my normal fall league will be changing houses to my summer league house. So I will be more focused on finding a consitent line to the pocket.

This will be the 3rd house in 4 years for the fall league. First house was a nice wood lane surface. Second house was a so-so house with very worn/high friction wood surface. My summer league house is a top of the line house with very well maintained synthetic (sp?) lanes.

Summer League starts May 6th and I hope to get some videos of myself and daughter on here for some criticism.

Cal... 15 lb balls in your future? ;-) j/k my friend!

I've found a few girls my age to pair up with myself and friends for the 2-person mixed team league this summer, so I'm happy about that. Looking forward to starting on June 1st.

My teammates from fall league invited me to bowl in a three-person scratch league this summer. It'll be a different experience from last summer, when I bowled in a have-a-ball league without prize money.

I'll have to commit to bowling twice a week all summer, since I'll be working to score during league rather than improving my mechanics. I had a good time with these guys in fall league, though, so it should be a lot of fun to bowl in a scratch league with them.

again, i'm still in 'spring leagues', but one i'm in is a 'dutch deal', where one throws the first ball, and the other makes the spare, i'm doing it with my 17 year old son, and doing it to help my spare shooting/have fun.

well, this past tuesday, we had a night! now, remember, this IS a fun thing, but there is still some competition. we shot a 511 3 game series! 158, 195, 158. most series are around 430 or so for the 'league' as it's a fun league, but boy, we just really had our poop together for the second game, we only had 1 open [kid missed a 10 pin].

not much more fun can be had than bowling with your kid, and scoring well while doing it!

I've only did Scotch Doubles as pot games, and plan on trying to do a few Scotch Doubles tournaments at the local Bowl America this summer.

Alrighty, so the adult/youth "Marvel Heroes" League kicked off yesterday. We look to be starting off pretty good. Granted the handicap I calculated we should take two out of three. So the 1st game the kiddo shoots a 116 followed by my 184. The 2nd game he missed a lot more spares shooting a 99 followed by my 193. The lanes were burnt up making me wonder why they don't put some fresh oil down for these adult/youth leagues lol. I found that playing a 10 board out to about 6-8 at the breakpoint was working the best. Plus I had to throw it a bit faster to keep it from rolling too early. Fortunately I was getting some nice consistent revs with my Battle. The Cell just wanted to go nuts, and the Saturn just wasn't finishing for me. So here's to the start of another season!

My summer league is shaping up nicely. If the four bowlers on the sign-up board without a team (including myself) make a team, there will be 14 teams. Two teams have been posted with apparent vacancies...I've already mentioned that one of those teams actually doesn't have a vacancy (the lane guy's daughter will be bowling on his team). The other I'm not sure of, and the vacancy may actually have to be filled by a female, as there are 3 males on that team. I'm a bit vague about the team composition rule for the league...I was told that every team needs at least one female, but one of the full teams on the board has no female, so we'll see.

League starts in three weeks...can't wait!

Just got the news that our PBA shot league, which starts May 15th will have 20 teams. That is awesome, Should be a good time.
In the mean time, following a two week layoff, I am bowling in an over average tournament this week to at least keep my mechanics in tune.
I started last night with a 233,210, 223 for 666(yikes!) and 93 pins over average. I stayed clean the whole night except one frame in the second game when I chopped a 7 pin out of a 4-7 leave. I am going to see if I can top that tonight.