I’m here to Photograph my buddy Corban’s wedding. Which is a double good thing. 1. I’m able to see the wedding which allot of his friends were not able to do, due to logistics. 2. Portfolio piece for future Photography work. Although I have done Video Work for a wedding in the past.

This is just a taste of an update and pictures will soon follow…

Update: Halftime score UT:6 vs Tech:22

Our offense has finally showed up. The defense played awesome the first half even with giving up 22pts, but our offense totally screwed the defense by always having them on the field. Look for a classic 2nd half.

Update: DAMN!!! UT:33 vs Tech: 39

I said it was going to be a classic, but it wasn’t supposed to end like that…Awwww!!!! What was the safety doing on that last play…You’re the safety and didn’t even support the cornerback.

How it started

I began bowling with a backspin on the ball when I had all fingers in the ball, but I really didn’t like it. The ball seemed to go slow and it didn’t look cool…LOL…if that really matters, but it did to me. So to fix this I figured that if I take my thumb out of the ball I could put a curve on the ball that was rather cool, effective, and results in great pin action. If you know anything about bowling, pin action is the answer to strikes, and using a curve in your technique is a great way to achieve this. However, it’s easier said than done and believe me it took a long time to get that curve to where it is now. I had to start with a lighter ball to get the feel of the proper release, and then later I was able to raise the weight to cause more damage on the pins giving more chances for a strike or spare.

Using this style makes bowling either more fun or very frustrating and it’s always due to the amount of wax on the lane. This can cause your ball to curve too much or not enough at all. And that problem is even more magnified by using a house ball (bowling alley’s ball) that you really have no idea what it’s going to do. Which led me to buying my own ball. If you have you’re own ball it gives you a greater advantage due to the custom fitting, your specific weight, your style of ball, and with all of these things it will increase your confidence. More confidence equates into making stronger more precise throws in clutch situations. My first ball is the Venom created by Hammer. There are numerous brands and quite a few styles. I’ll have to tell you about the specifics of balls in another blog. My spare ball is a White Dot by Columbia. Spare ball meaning the ball to use to pick up spares and not my spare ball incase my other ball is not working good that night. But I’m sure you knew that.

The Venom is a ball with allot of back end bite, meaning that as it spins down the wax it will keep going straight until it gets down the lane and then right when you think it will keep going straight it makes a violent turn in the direction of your spin and just attacks the pins causing an explosion of pins in all directions. I’ve yet to beat my highest score with this new ball, but the new ball and it’s new trajectory have to be dialed in correctly first. I’ve bowled a 202 with it, but that doesn’t beat my most recent high score of 232 in Las Vegas. I’m trying to remember my other high score which I believe was xxx at Strikez in Plano, but I can’t remember, however I have a print out at my girl’s house and I will clarify.

I will keep some updates of my coming games to keep track of my growth in the game. I’m already the champ as far as the Jackson Cup goes. I’ve been the defending champ for over a year now, but there hasn’t been a title match in a long time. Maybe it’s time to have one. Stay tuned for those new scores.