Bowling
Working ball
A hook ball that is very effective through power
Six-pin Bowling
A kids version of bowling, usually bought at a toy store
Creeper
A very slow ball
American blind bowling association
ABBA
American bowling Congress
ABC
American junior bowling Congress
ABJC
Kegler
Another name for bowler
Pendulum swing
Approach swing
Reveres hook
Ball breaks to the right hand bowler
Brooklyn
Ball hitting time the left of the headpin for right handed bowlers
Hook
Ball travels straight down the lane for distance
Scratcher bowler
Bowler with no handicap
Lane Pin Bowling ball scoresheet
Bowling materials / equipment
Cocked-Hat Bowling
Brought to US from Germany. Now there is only one place to play this in the US
Duck-pin Bowling
Commonly found in mid Atlantic and southern New England United States and eastern Canada, is a variation of ten-pin bowling involving small, squat pins,sometimes with rubber at their widest points
Bolle
Danish
Wii sports Bowling
Developed for the Wii entertainment system
Bridge
Distance between finger holes on a ball
Span
Distance between thumb and fingers holes on the ball
1-2 kg / 2-4p 12.7 cm
Duck-pin ball measurements
3 pounds
Duck-pin ball weight
9 13/32 inches tall x 4 1/8 inches wide
Duck-pin bowling pin measurements
Sir Flinders Petrie
English egyptologist
Ten-pin bowling
Evolved from nine-pin bowling in the 19th Century
Ula Maika
Game of Polynesians
Foul
Going beyond foul line
3 feet 6 inches wide 60 feet long
Lane / alley dimension
39
Lane is composed of ____ boards parallel to each other
approach
Method of building up momentum for delivery of the ball by taking a step forward in coordination with the delivery
Boccie
Old Europe bowling
Feather Bowling
Originated in Belgium (Belgian trough Bowling )
Anchor
Person in last position of the team
Triangle
Pins are arranged in ___ form
Five-pin bowling
Played in Canada
Nine-pin bowling
Played in Europe
Candlepin bowling
Played in eastern Canada and New England; variation of Ten-pin bowling
No-tap bowling
Played with the standard ten-pin setup. Scoring is the Same ng but rolling a nine in your first ball results in a strike
Dead ball
Poorly rolled ball that deflects off course
Crossover
Same as Brooklyn
Flat ball
Same as dead ball
Bolla
Saxon
3-6-9 Bowling
Special form of ten-pin bowling where the 3rd 6th and 9th frame already have strikes in them
Dr. Malcolm Rogers
Studied game by Polynesians
Baker system Bowling
Team sport, have 5 players that bowl in one game
2 feet 3 inches
Ten-pin bowling ball circumference
16 pounds
Ten-pin bowling ball weight
15 inches high 4f6 inches wide
Ten-pin bowling pins measurements
Pitch
The angle which fingers bored in the ball
Step and slide Four-step approach Three-step approach
Three basic approaches
Loft
Throwing the ball too far out lane
Choke
To fail under pressure
Delivery
To swing arms in coordination with the approach used by bowler
Low-ball Bowling
Uses standard ten-pin setup, but the objective is to bowl the lowest score by seven or ten pins
Women's international bowling Congress
WIBC
Young American bowling Alliance
YABA