Warm up?

[dqnjuan]

How much do you guys warm up before bowling normally?


My first game is always the worst and I think it has a lot to do with settling down and not being warmed up enough. ex: last weekend 134 195 212, 1st game is always a bit hurting.

I usually only get to throw 2-4 frames before starting.

[2KDriver]

How much do you guys warm up before bowling normally?


My first game is always the worst and I think it has a lot to do with settling down and not being warmed up enough. ex: last weekend 134 195 212, 1st game is always a bit hurting.

I usually only get to throw 2-4 frames before starting.

Our League is scheduled @ 8:45 with 15 min warm-up period. League play usually starts @ 9:00 so I can get in 4-5 frames depending on who's paying attention vs who's BSing. After 27 weeks, my 2nd game has been lowest score 12 times!:confused:

[BubbaRay]

The leagues I bowl in only give 8 min.s of pracic. I can usually get in 5 or six shots. But I am still alittle stiff when the game starts for the first 3 frames. AFter that all is loose and I am ok. One thing you shoulkd try doing before practice is making sure you go through those stretching excersisies. These will get you loose faster.

[uberamd]

We get 15 minutes, sometimes the person who says 'stop practicing we are starting' gets lazy and we get 20 minutes. Many times the other team doesn't practice a lot so I can get 5-10 'frames' in before we need to reset to start.

[GOOSE]

I usually get to the center i bowl at 45 min. early and ask for a lane to practice on,away from the lanes we're using that night of course.I throw a few warm up shots,throw some at the 10 and 7 pins,and mostly watch my ball reaction.I do some stretching before practice and before league just to stay loose and relaxed.

[Rowdy]

I go early and warm up on the "Buffer pair" of lanes. The pair that are kept empty between the league bowlers and the open people. I roll three games and take my time getting loose. The house likes it because they make some money off the lanes and I let 'em know if the open bowlers are likely to cause a problem with the league bowlers. Then we run 'em off. Or just throw them out. Whichever we feel like doing that night.

[xGatez]

we get 15min on wednesday night league
10 on saturday night

The bad thing is that wednesday is three man teams and saturday is 4 man. Plus on wednesday night most of those guys have been bowling the same place with the same ball so long none of them really throw more than two shots since they have been playing the same line their whole life.

[dqnjuan]

I cant believe I didnt think about stretching!! Every sport Ive ever been associated with from highschool, college, to now, Ive always stretched....ugh maybe I have forgotton everything I learned in school lol.


Def going to try stretching next time and throwing a few more practice shots.

[pipes]

The leagues I bowl in only give 8 min.s of pracic. I can usually get in 5 or six shots. But I am still alittle stiff when the game starts for the first 3 frames. AFter that all is loose and I am ok. One thing you shoulkd try doing before practice is making sure you go through those stretching excersisies. These will get you loose faster.


I am about the same Bubba . I makesure I take my Ibuprophen about 45 minutes befor I start . Seems to really help me losen up faster . I can tell it when I forget to take them forsure .

[hammer25]

We usually get 12 minutes. It is never enough though. It amounts to maybe 4 or 5 balls. That means I usually do not have a good feel for my ball until sometimes the beer frame!

[madaba]

We only get 5 minutes, but most of us will stay up there and throw some extra shots before we start scoring

[Rowdy]

I cant believe I didnt think about stretching!! Every sport Ive ever been associated with from highschool, college, to now, Ive always stretched....ugh maybe I have forgotton everything I learned in school lol.


Def going to try stretching next time and throwing a few more practice shots.

If you short on time ,try this fast warm up: Swing the ball all the way through the swing. Start off slow and low,then get a little higher with each backswing. Really get the ball up there on the backswing after your arm gets loose. Don't stop the ball and reset,just keep swinging back and forth. Then put the ball on your shoulder and do some squats,all the way down. Hold the last one for a minute or two. All of this takes me five minutes,tops.

[TenPinSniper]

Since none of the leagues I bowl in have a rule against bowling on your I'll bowl a game or two on my pair to warm up... the leagues I have bowled with a rule, I just get a lane at the other end of the house. I could bowl on someone elses pair, but why burn them a nice spot. Everybody has the same opportunity to bowl on the pair for warm up. Why screw up someone leses lanes.... allot of times I try something in practice that may not work in league.... trying playing the outside part of the lane. Sometimes you find something that works.

[Rowdy]

You just try to roll some practice games around here on your league pair after they've been oiled. You won't be participating in your league that night.

[Crossup]

You guys are lucky, all the houses in my town only give 5 minutes to warm up. with 5 man teams, i'm lucky to get in 4-5 tosses. At first it was really affecting me but i have got used to it. The house is only 16 lanes and our league takes up all the lanes, they won't let us roll on the lanes once they are oiled for that night either. So i don't have a chance to practice before league starts. Its weird how some houses get 5 and other get 15 minutes though. I just thought it was standard to only get 5 minutes but i'm relatively new to bowling.

[ashley1_scott]

You American's get it easy, 15 minutes practice.
In the U.K in all of our leagues you get 5 minutes
practice no-matter how many people are in the team.
4 people per team still only get 5 minutes.
If im lucky i get 2 balls per lane, do warm-up before the
practice starts.

[idlehourlegend]

You American's get it easy, 15 minutes practice.
In the U.K in all of our leagues you get 5 minutes
practice no-matter how many people are in the team.
4 people per team still only get 5 minutes.
If im lucky i get 2 balls per lane, do warm-up before the
practice starts.

In all of my leagues we only get 7 minutes of practice no matter whether its 4 man or 5 man its still 7 minutes, just have to go fast and get on the lane with the least amount of people to get the most shots in and as warmed up as possible.

[pba6285]

If everyone would just take 1 shot, no reracks to a full rack. you would get a bunch more practice.

[idlehourlegend]

If everyone would just take 1 shot, no reracks to a full rack. you would get a bunch more practice.

Exactly, thats what we do, just makes it a lot faster, its only warm ups no need to shoot spares, if you want to do it on your first ball.

[Rowdy]

If everyone would just take 1 shot, no reracks to a full rack. you would get a bunch more practice.

You would,but good luck getting those guys to shoot at your leftovers.

Their feeling is,"I'm paying for a full rack, the guy ahead of me threw at a full rack and he's no better than I am. So gimme my full rack to shoot at."

[Thepainscoming]

rowdy, thats why for stuff like that, usually if u step on the foul line after the rack comes down, it will re-set it. doing that could help save time and keep the full rack for everyone?

[thegoldenchild]

I agree that shooting only 1 shot might speed up the line but whether you shoot 1 shot now and 1 later, or 2 shots at the same time, you're still going to be throwing the same amount shots. However, ignoring the 1 lane etiquette would allow more warm-up shots but I don't think everyone would go for that.

[Rowdy]

rowdy, thats why for stuff like that, usually if u step on the foul line after the rack comes down, it will re-set it. doing that could help save time and keep the full rack for everyone?

Step on the foul line??? You really do that??? I could see you trying that around here. What I can't see is where you would be bowling that night after you tripped the foul light and dragged lane oil back on the approach. Knowing these guys the way I do,you would have one hell of a problem on your hands.

[Thepainscoming]

rowdy, theres no oil until 6 inches from the foul line.

[Rowdy]

rowdy, theres no oil until 6 inches from the foul line.

No,but there is crud from the lane machine right there. You honestly think it's acceptable to trip the foul light when you throw? I'll bet the guy at the top of his backswing two lanes over is not amused. I know I wouldn't be.

[Curacao_Dejavu]

In case I don't get the full rack , I just throw the ball, and imagine where the headpin is supposed to be.
In other instances it's practice time for the 7 or 10 pin.

Leopold

[Thepainscoming]

No,but there is crud from the lane machine right there. You honestly think it's acceptable to trip the foul light when you throw? I'll bet the guy at the top of his backswing two lanes over is not amused. I know I wouldn't be.

well its used a lot in youth tournies so if u dont like it thats fine, its not illegal so i wouldn't care what you thought about it

[Rowdy]

In case I don't get the full rack , I just throw the ball, and imagine where the headpin is supposed to be.
In other instances it's practice time for the 7 or 10 pin.

Leopold

Nice to know someone still has their bowling manners.:)

Thank You.

[idlehourlegend]

In case I don't get the full rack , I just throw the ball, and imagine where the headpin is supposed to be.
In other instances it's practice time for the 7 or 10 pin.

Leopold

Same thing I do, and the way good bowlers with good manners do it, not hard to know where the pocket is and where a good flush strike ends up. Unless its the 7 pin then usually if I am comfy with my strike shot I shoot for it.

[Flessan]

No,but there is crud from the lane machine right there. You honestly think it's acceptable to trip the foul light when you throw?

You need a new Customer Service Rep.. I clean up to where the oil is SUPPOSED to be. As for triggering the foul sensor to re-set the rack, I've never seen that before, doesn't work that way at any house I've been to.

With the removal of the 1-lane courtesy for warm-up, I'd highly discourage it, unless each lane has it's own individual ball-return. I've seen alot of things go wrong when people on the same pair get the ball into the return at the same time.

[Paul1979]

Firstly we get 10 mins practice for our 5 man league.


Before I will normally stretch my shoulders up and then to the back as well as swing the ball in my hand.

Then we get practice. We have no pins at all, just get up there, throw your shot, walk off the lane.

We dont worry about etiquette during practice, if there is someone next to you just dont trip on their foot lol.

Ive seen the guys trip the fowl line at tournaments too, but only at the side in the gutter though.

Practicing on a pair before the league starts sounds like a big no no to me.

[Rowdy]

Practicing on a pair before the league starts sounds like a big no no to me.

This is a major no-no after the nights pattern is laid down. Before? Go for it.