With the coming New Year we here at Positive Access Point would like to wish you all a safe and prosperous New Year. While many of us don’t do this we have to ask what your New Year resolutions in bowling are. I have a list of mine and [...]
Being that it is the holidays’ were going to be visited by three ghosts of Bowling. The ghost of Bowling History……..Bowling has a long and rich history, and today it is one of the most popular sports in the world. A British anthropologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, discovered in the 1930′s [...]
One of the highlights of the USBC convention each year is seeing the presentation on Re-Creation USA, the group that entertains hospitalized veterans and others on behalf of the Bowlers for Veterans charity. It’s something I was only dimly aware of before seeing the amazing presentation for the first time in [...]
Belmonte a 5 time PBA champion won his first 3 PBA titles at the 2011 PBA World Series of Bowling from Las Vegas and again he has a chance to tie last year’s run at 3 more titles. His 5th title came [...]
I designed this pattern in 2011 as an effort to make the Webber International University practices more challenging. I always wanted practices to be more difficult than anything the players would experience in competition and I also wanted them challenged mentally as well.
Greetings and Salutations! Welcome to this week’s edition of Striking Spotlight! This edition we will look at giving back. How can one give back to the sport in our local area? I can think of a couple of ways… You can always go down to your local center and ask [...]
To be one of the top bowlers in the world, you have to keep up with trends. One of the latest trends in my local area has been seemingly drier lanes on typical house shots. I say seemingly drier lanes due to the fact that my newer equipment that I [...]
Greetings and Salutations! Welcome to this week’s edition of Striking Spotlight. Wow there has been a lot going on here at Striking Spotlight and hope you all are doing well. To start off I would like to announce the birth of our new son Masen Connor Hirsch Born 10/12/12 6.2lbs [...]
PBA registration can cost in excess of six figures. We ask a few companies why they decided not to register
Bowling is probably one of the toughest sports in the world, and yes, it IS a sport. You throw a 16lb ball (yes, I am one of the few that still throws “man weight”) down a lane that has an invisible oil pattern, and trying to hit a target that [...]
Continuing on with the PBA Experience, this week I will discuss the Earl Anthony Oil Pattern. The Earl Anthony Oil pattern, like most PBA patterns offers an extremely tough ratio of 2.3 to 1. This pattern is not only difficult because of the ratio, but also because of how the [...]
We take a look at D.Y.D.S and Joe Slowinski, Make sure to listen to the Podcast on above180.com .
Greetings and Salutations! Welcome to this week’s edition of Striking Spotlight. This week we are going to celebrate the life of Tony Reyes. All of us in the bowling industry lost a great man today; According to preliminary reports, Reyes was involved in a single car incident and while inspecting the damage was [...]
Greetings and Salutations! Welcome to this week’s edition of Striking Spotlight. This week we are going to talk about the state of Bowling. So over the past year we have seen “Save Bowling”, Pre-recorded Professional Bowling telecasts and now facebook is being flooded with the Stop House Shots page and [...]
The sport of bowling can do good things and the Wounded Warrior Program is one, did you know that the President thinks our warriors should have their own healthcare not provided by the government
This past Sunday I attended a Ball Demo hosted by Ebonite International. Ebonite International has taken in a lot of companies under their umbrella recently, and had all of their brands on display to try out. The Ebonite International family consists of Ebonite, Hammer, Columbia 300, and Track. Each brand [...]
With the stoppage of the World Team Challenge tournaments, team bowling tournaments have basically become extinct. Now I am not talking about the USBC Nationals, but there are very few scratch, team bowling tournaments now a days. Team Challenge was great and I always bowled them when they were in [...]
Let’s take a look at the decline in league play and ask why.
Greetings and Salutation Bowling Friends. Welcome back to this week’s Striking Spotlight blog. With the PBA season just under a month and a half away their looks like there will be a few bowlers representing different companies this coming year. This past week seemed like a trade deadline in MLB [...]
In the almost 54 year history of the PBA Tour, there have been well over 1500 PBA national tournaments. Each telecast has a distinct memory that will stand out in everyone’s memories. So in the 54 years of the PBA and over 1500 telecasts I ask you, what was the [...]
Some fun and interesting facts about bowling
Practice is much more than the 10-15 min that you get before the start of your league session. From the 120 to the 220 average bowler, we all can still learn something new; from understanding the technology of new bowling balls, ball motion to even getting that first ball and [...]
I will start off by telling you this is the hardest condition I have bowled on to date. The U.S. Open Pattern I bowled on was 42 feet in length. In addition to being a longer pattern it is a 1 to 1 ratio oil pattern. A typical house pattern [...]
Well most of you read my 1st article, the Top 10 Bowlers Hurt by Resin, well here is part 2… The Top 10 that benefited by Resin. Buckle up, I am sure this will start some major discussions. 10)- Butch Soper- Now Soper didn’t have a hall of fame career [...]
With the recent completion of the Olympics a grassroots quest has begun to make bowling an Olympic sport. While I am in complete agreement with bowling being recognized as a truly competitive sport on the world stage, there are problems. The main problem in Seoul was that there were no Pro’s allowed at the time. In the last few Olympics there has been a change as to the levels of a game that truly need the profession level to show the true athletics of the game (i.e. basketball, etc.)
Top 10 Bowlers Hurt By Reactive Resin By Mike Valanzano The great sport of bowling has gone thru many, many changes over the years. From pin boys, to the automatic pinsetter. Lacquer lanes, to wood lanes, to synthetic lanes. Rubber balls with 2 holes, to 3 holes with plastic, to [...]
August 11th 2012 was National Bowling Day and Positive Access Point was invited to an event in Kingman, Arizona at Cerbat Lanes. National bowling day was sponsored by gobowling.com, USBC, BPAA and local centers around the country. A coupon was available online for a free game of bowling on that [...]
Greetings and Salutations Bowling fans! This week we are going to dive right back into the Vin Gerard vs. Jason Belmonte challenge. I can admit when I am wrong and I really thought this would spark some talk & buzz about the SPORT that we love. after seeing Vin & [...]
In the next few articles to come I will be revisiting an article I started in May and continue to discuss my summer PBA Experience League, specifically the Carmen Salvino pattern this week. To see my previous article on my PBA Experience League please visit here. My PBA Experience League [...]
Dave Soutar was born on March 7, 1940 and was a professional bowler on the PBA Tour. He won 18 times on the regular PBA Tour, and seven more times on the Senior PBA Tour. Soutar has been on tour for over 50+ years and with his wife Judy, also a hall of [...]
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