there's a guy on our fall/winter leauge that i started calling trainwreck due to his approach/finish. 4 normal steps, pretty much no slide, release ball, flail arms, fall off balance, crouch, then make a praying like motion. after about 1/2 a season, i told his team mate, 'wow, bob looks like a trainwreck when he's bowling', i thought the guy was gonna pee his pants he laughed so hard, after that, it was 'trainwreck bob is up'

I forgot about another one i know. This my friend he actually very accurate and average about 220. Though when you see him bowls kind of resemble a grollia. He slouchs kind of decends his approach slouchs down and about 3rd step starts his back swings open his shoulder up and fourth step when he relases the ball he just unwinds on it. He has tons of revs and ton of hand on the ball. Though sluoching like has caused him to have bad back issues.

I occasionally subbed on a social league of Fri Nite. There are 2 women that have unusual approaches.

The first rolls the slowest ball of any adult I have seen. Her ball has been clocked under 6 mph at the pin deck. The ball takes forever to hit the pins. It is so slow that I often thought it would bounce back, once it hit. But, what is odd, is that she holds her final slide position on one foot all the time the ball is rolling. She looks like the figure of Mercury, one foot down, one back, arm out in statuette form.

The second one is a hefty girl who grabs her ball, immediately runs down the approach, and flings her ball. She quickly turns and walks back to the front of the approach. She has never seen her ball hit the pins. She can tell by the sound if she needs a second ball.

I've seen plenty of females like the second you describe, Dennis. Until they turn around though, they don't know if they need a second shot or not. They tend to loft the ball and throw the ball with the backside of the hand facing forward and up.

That reminds me of volunteering as junior for bumper leagues just writting score down. Some of those kids just throw it so slowly it would know down a pin it just roll slow and stop right in front of the pin without knocking it down. Finally the sweeper would come down. I think if i remember right lowest score was around 40 or less.

There is a guy who bowls on my Wednesday night league. He starts about 4 feet in front of the second row of dots. He takes about 6 steps, has about 6 revs on the ball. He take forever on the approach too. He waits for 3 lanes on either side of him, walks to the second row of dots, slides his foot twice to get to where he is going then stands there for about 20 seconds. Then he starts his approach which takes about another 5 seconds. We call him the human rain delay.

I saw another guy actually bowl backwards. I started another thread concerning him though. It's really trippy.

Saw this guy the other day bowling with one leg. I was pretty amazed that he was able to hop down to the foul line and actually bowled pretty decent. I just don't know if I could do that, much respect for him being able to do so!

So he hops up to the foul line, stands there and swings the ball?

Hey, there are people in wheelchairs who can throw good shots.

The great thing about bowling is that anyone who can roll the ball down the lane can play. How many other sports have players ranging in age from 5 to 105?

Baseball, the Yankees recently drafted a 103 year old for their first pick in the MLB draft a week or two ago. Ok, it wasn't a real pick, its was something to honor Negro League players that were never given the chance to play in MLB.