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.

Stay tuned.

We were eating at Rocket Burger or something like that, and we were luckily seated at a front table right by the window. As we were eating I noticed a bit of disturbance outside and allot of people looking in awe in a certain direction. Me and my girlfriend are eating and I happened to have my video camera sitting on the table. I looked out the window looked at her, and I guess by the look on my face she was like…Go out there! So I grabbed the camera and start filming. This is what I got:

I had never seen anything like this before on video or in person, but after it happened and I was telling some friends about it I google’d it and came across Improv Everywhere. These guys have all types of missions that they’ve done and the main group is in New York, but the one I witnessed was by another group in LA the GeruilLA. I may have to start a Dallas group if there’s not one already. Oh and G4TV was out there filming which I noticed them before the whole thing went down. Either way watch the video and enjoy.