throwing rocks

Last week I rolled a 155. My first game is always my best. After that I rolled a 121 or something. 

Yesterday I took G to a place and I started strong but faded. I think I got a 125.

bowling

rolled on shabbos, got 147 and 126

Boujee Bowling

I had free passes to this yuppie bowling place nearby so Grant and I went. Leather couches, small number of lanes, a real restaurant attached. Not your classic dive bowling alley.

I rolled a 113, 138, 109.

Got a few strikes, left a lot of single pins open. I didn't like the lane. It felt like the ball drifted off line easily. Or maybe that's just human error.

In my best game, I had a strike, spare, spare, strike in frames 5-8...and then after the strike, there was a lane malfunction that took 10 minutes to get repaired. Left two open frames after that. Totally ruined my flow.

I think I'll stick with my normal alley in the future.

Last Bowling of Summer

Today I rolled a 147 and then a 135.

The second game was frustrating as I opened with two strikes and then in third and fourth frame I had 9 on my first rolls...but failed to convert either spare. I only got two spares the rest of the way and squandered a great start and chance to not only break my personal record of 162, but I had a chance to break 200. If I had converted all my spares following the two opening strikes, I would have finished with 190. Add in a third strike and I'd be over 200.

Here are my bowling scores that I know of:
162, 122 and less than 122 - July 2012
137 - August 2015
147 - August 2016
133, 145, 145, 130 - June 2019
160* - July 2019
147, 135 - August 2019

I'm fairly consistent to hit one game in the 130s and one game in the 140s.

No-Tap Bowling

I had never heard of no-tap bowling until I played a game of it. It's not actually a different way to play, just a way to inflate scores. It made sense when I read that it's a way for kids to compete with grown-ups on the same playing field. (The explanation was that since we're supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters, the extra pin was like the help from a Big Brother or Big Sister.)

We played nine-pin no-tap which means if you got 9 pins on your first shot, it counts as a strike. 9 pins on your second shot does not count as a spare. 

So here's my score from last night:

My previous high score was 162, so 173 would be something to get excited about... if it weren't for the fake scoring.

You can tell I got 3 fake strikes in the 2nd, 5th, and 9th frames. I got two real strikes in the 7th and 10th frames.

So how much did those inflate my scores? For simplicity, I will assume that I would have converted the spare attempts. (I was 4 for 4 on converting spares with 3 or less pins.)

These rules added an artificial value of the 2nd shot following a fake strike.

So that's 3 pins in the 3rd frame, 3 pins in the 6th frame, and 7 pins in the 10th. That's 13 extra pins.
So my 173 should have at most been a 160 under normal scoring. Of course if I had missed one of the spare opportunities, say the first, that would have deducted another 8 pins from my score. So it's a 160 with an asterisk.

I figure, it's not really fair to assume I would have missed a shot that I didn't get to take. But still, it's not a given that I rolled 160.

July 11: 160*

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It was cosmic bowling and if the orange pin was your headpin and you got a strike or spare, you won a prize. The first time it came up was in the 4th. I had just rolled three consecutive closed frames, so of course I left it open when the prize was available. It was a split, even though it's not circled. I got another chance in the 7th and got my first legit strike. I got to choose from various items, sunglasses, deck of cards, but selected a pizza cutter.

We started a second game but I stunk. In the 4th frame, they told us we only had 5 more minutes. So I picked up a light ball and did the hook attempt and got a strike. That was cool. So I did it again, just as perfectly, and left a split with multiple pins on both sides. So that's why I don't do that.

Bowling Scores

Today I played two games with the boys. I rolled a 133 and then a 145.

Edit: And then on June 2 I rolled a 145 followed by a 130.

Previous scores (found via the family blog):
162, 122 and less than 122 - July 2012
147 - August 2016
137 - August 2015

Mark Fever

We started Sunday at Red Rocks. We hiked an epic 1.4. Slayed it.

And then we went to the Coors brewery tour. A fine thing to do, but one I probably don't need to do again.

After that it was off to Park Burger where I fulfilled the 2011 burger bet. And then this evening we went bowling. Mark won the first game with a 122. I won the second game with a 122. And then I won the third game with a 162, including a turkey.