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"You think of women being the nicer gender and so open and inclusive, and it's, she discovered already just by joining this men's bowling league that it was men who are more welcoming."
"Despite the shortened 2020 season, Kyle Troop managed to collect not one, not two, but three PBA tour titles."
"He reigned as the PBA's king of bowling for over a decade."
"You've been watching the PBA on FS1. Andrew Anderson is your 2021 PBA Strike Derby champion. Way to go, Andrew."
"Alright, I'm going for it. Bowling league, here I come."
"Five in a row for Simonson. What a beautiful shot. Look at the rotation."
"He's only 18 years old, a senior in high school, but today Spencer Robarge is in the hunt to become the youngest player to ever win a Guaranteed Rate PBA Tour event."
"You saw the PBA Junior National Championship this year, won by this guy."
"There's some nice pieces and there's bowling but there you go."
"What a comeback if you look at the first five flames split stairs swing open sprint he converts the three four six seven and then it's the last quarter out he was 45 down after five frames."
"For the first time in his career, he's a PBA Tour champion."
"The bowling is the greatest sport that has ever been invented."
"Coming up February 4th Super Bowl Sunday the State Farm cp3 PBA celebrity Invitational with Chris Paul and James Harden tio and Mookie Betts."
"I want to be one of the greatest that has ever played the game." - Norm Duke
"One year ago this man made history on the lanes: Jason Belmonte became the only player ever to win 11 major titles."
"First time on the PBA tour hits here in 16 years."
"A perfect 300 does not happen often, it's insane."
"Splitsville: where bowling meets gourmet dining."
"I believe that's your new high score as well 192 for Carl with the turkey in the 10th Frame."
"Carl's going for a turkey guys on this 10th Frame... Can Carl finish off with that? Yes he can, a turkey for Carl!"
"I bowled my best game I've ever bowled, 160."
"Through these doors pass the world's finest bowlers."
"Urethane balls... moderate to low hook potential but they're more of like a tournament bowling ball."
"Reactive bowling balls... come in a wide range of prices and a wide range of hook potentials."
"The next big innovation in bowling came in the 90s with reactive resin."
"This is Brunswick's newest most affordable resin ball and this is my personal recommendation for beginners."
"I've always wanted to hit the lanes with my friends."
"Bowling is great just from a purely practical standpoint, because you get to take the other person in while they're bowling."
"He made slow bowling fashionable again; he made it cool."
"Making history once again, the 2024 PBA US Open starts now."
"A confrontation with bowling's greatest test."
"Perfect round, I'm just counting that as meaning a star frame."
"A line-up of bowling heavyweights, the names every fan wants to see up on the marquee."
"This is the World Series of Bowling's Main Event, the closing number. You better believe it."
"Struck last time on the right lane and now all three to force a roll-off."
"I know a lot of people wouldn't really like to go up bowling right now with that 10 pin stood on the left lane."
"The beauty of the game is not only physically hitting ten pins but I just love the psychological highs and lows."
"Outside part of the lane is slicker than an otter's pocket."
"I really like those kind of balls on the fresh maybe shorter patterns medium patterns not so much long right just because they might roll a little bit too early and too smooth."
"Just with the difference in Mass bias placement you can really see the difference in the flare of the ball."
"Just changing the first number by about 35 40 points you can really see the reaction difference."
"Make sure you go to your Pro Shop you discuss with them what you want what you want to see out of your ball because it does make a difference."
"Knock those pins down, get a strike. Oh!"
"If you can spin the ball or you can swing the ball, you'll take wickets."
"Jason Belmonte, making a comment about the shot clock: 'They reset it for him here. He's one of the greats of all time, bowling fans, you're welcome! This is going to be a fun night.'"
"She was gonna watch how the lanes broke down and how the transitioned and see how she can get ahead rather than be behind."
"She made the ball change at the right moment through the last seven to continue that streak starting out matching up a three."
"What better time to start bowling really well on tour."
"Danielle McEwan: a strike fest in match play, averaging 230, putting up big numbers."
"That's what speed and power will do for you. The harder you can throw it at that ten pin, that's the way you make it."
"The world's best bowlers all battling for a major title."
"A win here for tackett, he would become the tenth to win multiple toc crowns, it will be his third career major."
"Welcome back to the channel! Now, over the last couple of years, my absolute favorite video to shoot was my end of year top five bowling balls of the Year video. It's a way to look back and really take a look at what my favorite balls are."
"The Clone would be top 10 maybe top five how good it rolls here, but at South Point, it was way too quick down Lane."
"Ever wonder about those unsung heroes of the bowling alleys, the pin setters?"
"Well, we're talking about bowling straight, this one hitting a man fixing a pipe couldn't be plumper than that."
"Fitness and fast bowling go hand in hand. You look at them, they're stronger, they're fitter, they bowl longer spells."
"Superb bowling here from the left."
"If you want to bowl leg spin, it's going to be tough but never give."
"The biggest thing for a spinner, it's not actually bowling, it's the mindset. Like, I'm going to get whacked. Just backing yourself really, especially under pressure. That's a massive thing too."
"Once the ball's left your hand it's out of your control what happens next, you know all you can do is just keep bowling good balls asking questions."
"There's definitely this brand new life you're gonna attract."
"I can't believe somebody would have told me when I was 13 years old starting to fall in love with bowling that one day I would plug in a bunch of computers and broadcast bowling tournaments and people would listen to me talk."
"Shannon O'Keefe is the epitome of athleticism of what a woman bowler is all about and how putting all the pieces together not only your physical game but your mental game makes you a champion."
"Kelly Kulick from Union New Jersey has aunt Hannah Brooklyn strike from Brooklyn with love."
"I say it all the time, there is no bad break in bowling, there's a reason everything happens."
"One bowler tonight will walk away with a piece of women's bowling history, big prize money, and a major championship."
"Bowling is fun. You just get to go bowling with your kids."
"I got five strikes in a row. That was insane."
"but the end it was Liz Johnson who proved to the world that women's bowling is back better than ever"
"Every shot has been to the right of the headpin."
"She's very involved in world bowling."
"Brian Voss fires a 265 to Walter Ray Williams Jr.'s 257."
"You can't win that tournament by being lucky. If you bowl the best that week, you're most likely gonna be on the show and have a chance to win."
"Turbo Tech is right lane left lane same result all 10 back for Liz Johnson."
"Once we got into match play this week, I kind of decided to camp out a little to the right, not really give the three pin away too much."
"Two strikes in the 10th frame, Chris Barnes is the winner."
"Michael Hagen Jr. claims his first major."
"Nolan Nash closes with a strike, it's not the game he wanted to bowl but he does walk away with the pbaa player of the year award."
"Nolan Nash starts the way we've seen him start so many times, with a powerful strike."
"PJ dokalis just needs to stay behind the foul line, keep the ball in the center of the lane, and he will be on to the final showdown."
"You'll focus on the string so much that you forget to bowl."
"They definitely are very close and I was not a Believer I was not into string pins but these are way closer to something that we could definitely use in tournament play."
"He's getting in the pocket but his Ball's not quite as flush as Chris Barnes meaning that it's not catching enough of the 1-3 pocket as solid as Chris Barnes is right now his ball that ball there is a little bit late getting to the to the pocket a little bit late coming up."
"His presence is huge when he's bowling, he walks around like he's 6-3 and sometimes that can get in your opponent's head."
"Spares are crucial... it's a thing that added pins to your game."
"We've just pulled up to the bowling alley... It's quite busy in the parking lot, what's that all about?"
"I'm not in the mood to bowl right now. I can't imagine nobody was in the mood to bowl or to."
"This is definitely a walker. You don't want to hit this hard, you just want to walk it to the pocket."
"Jeff Thompson's bowling was one of the greatest spectacles in cricket, unless, of course, you were the batsman."
"I wish there was a better system for steering your bowling ball or just aiming it."
"You ever done that? I think they had that at my hometown. They have it at every bowling alley, I feel like."
"We Sports bowling alley shotty, it's nostalgia central, but picture it empty, no mates cheering you on. The alley's all quiet."
"It's not just the bowling it's everything it's everything that encompasses it and everything that can you can possibly think of that would help you take your journey to the next level."
"The question isn't if Bowlers want to get quicker the question is how."
"I think it's great I mean with it only being one day I mean on a Sunday people who do have full-time jobs can come out and compete and um bowl and get kind of a a taste of the professional tournament"
"The beauty of team bowling, Portland rallies, they are your second seed for the PBA Elite League playoffs."
"Troop, the defending champ made almost half a million dollars bowling last year. Is that insane?"
"that's what an anchor bowler was supposed to do"
"It's hard to imagine even bowling in some kind of a statewide thing, let alone being on national television trying to hold up your friends team bowling format."
"That's a really good shot High flush nine pin urethane ball just gets rolling and it doesn't deflect."
"Three in a row, that's a really good shot."
"The shirt, the emblem, it doesn't say 'anti-two-handed bowling shirt.' It says 'No crutch arms necessary,' meaning I am a one-handed player."
"When you bowl Norm Duke on TV, you better pack a lunch because he's gonna give you all you want."
"He actually went 10 back on a fill with that ball so he had some confidence on this Lane."
"Dan Healy I believe and uh Ryan Zagar will bolzak grime."
"There's a lot of strikes going on right now."
"The R1 combo begins with a big forward slide and I cannot understate how helpful this is."
"When you go up and throw a 7-10 there's really nothing you can do. You just regroup."
"Legit legit and I'll tell you this, the future of the sport of bowling has never looked brighter."
"...the future of the sport of bowling has never looked brighter."
"Patrick Allen certainly has good memories from here at lightning strikes bowling center of trustful."
"And back into the breach we go, Dave Lamont, Mike Flanagan, insidebowling.com live coverage of the 2023 Southland Bowling League Championship."
"It's been a great season, certainly for Shannon O'Keefe."
"In bowling it's a lot about luck too, so when you get breaks, you've got to take them."
"It's not that somebody's bowling bad, it's just a matter of who can get the carry early enough and consistently enough."
"Awesome bowling today for Tyler, just great bowling."
"He bowls out of Clermont Bowling Center."
"One thing you're going to see out of both of these teams because of the great coaching, the solid foundation of all 10 of these bowlers is absolutely fantastic."
"Everybody gets really caught up into 'I didn't strike.' Oh, I didn't strike. It's okay that you didn't strike. I would take ten clean frames over, you know, a five bagger."
"By far one of the best women Bowlers ever"
"Success is garnered by your appearance in bowling Majors"
"...any mark right here and your Shannon O'Keefe she's got the Queen's tiara Dave strike for history..."
"Let me know down in the comments below kind of what your rev rate is, what urethane balls you're using, and whether or not you enjoy them."
"Just one more strike for a 300 game."
"Oh my gosh! 10 pin almost did it!"
"I'll tell you what the last two frames for B Monte were incredible solid nine and then a pocket 710 and he's going to win he's going to B for the title he'll take the 10 pin only that's going to be enough."
"Charlie takes his time at the seven pin."
"Brandon got to have it, must spare to go on. Oh, look out! Oh no!"
"It's the Brunswick World Tournament of Champions and what a display of bowling this week!"
"Television's most popular bowling show: Bowling Stars."
"Parker bone finds himself down by quite a bit against rick steelsmith."
"Powerful strike pins flying back and forth those are the three pound 10 ounce brunswick pro pins but they look like like little toothpicks when parker throws the ball right."
"Up first strike for the strikers and now the talented Marshall Kent."
"This is protein bowling next from Vegas live on FS1."
"...and she ran the stepladder man messenger just misses the 10-4 loaf oh so he'll have to settle for a spare."
"There's a lot of ways to miss the two four five eight. Here's the best way to make it: put the ball on the 2 and the 5, let the ball drive through, get the 8, the two will get before."
"The winner of this match will Bowl against Diana zavialova in the semi-final."
"He left the solid tenpin on a triple."
"Congratulations to Stephanie, amazing bowling today."
"Last of the perfect 300 games on live television."
"When you're talking about the complexity of navigating through two different oil patterns...who better to talk about than norm Duke."
"If you don't like this, you don't like bowling."
"I don't think I've ever seen anyone create as much area on the lane as this guy."
"We might have a 300 game today because as always on the cheetah pattern, we have high scores."
"The two things that are changing on a constant basis is the oil and the cover stock."
"Strike in the ninth, and Parker Bone will advance."
"The solid nine: modern bowling with the equipment we have today. The reactive urethane bowling balls hit the pins so hard."
"A lot of bowling fans of all ages, because it's just a reflection of how bowling is enjoyed in this part of the Midwest."
"Sometimes when you bowl a 300 game, it's all that emotion."
"Key frame, ninth frame is every bit as important as a 10."
"He definitely does have a chance in fact if he strikes out in the ninth and tenth he could actually take the lead by four pins."
"You see that Loft at the end but it made the ball skid just enough that it held pocket."
"The environment however is dramatically different you'll be bowling in a club-like setting with music and pins that glow in the dark ranging in color from lime green to hot pink while you might even have a disco ball spinning from above it's the same game with a whole new spin."
"Our winner on Top Star Bowling this week: Don Carter."
"Barnes got a 9 pin lead thanks to Belmonte answers right behind it."
"He willed that one into the pocket only to cave the bucket late for that crucial double to give him a glimmer of hope."
"Chris Barnes knows that it's still anybody's match if he can strike out in the tenth frame."
"Made it very very popular bowlers on the tour used it all through the 70s."
"Mike Durbin, he's been bowling forever."
"Doesn't matter what ball you throw, you just gotta get 'em to knock 'em down. Key to the game."
"If you're a bowler, you understand how huge the ninth frame is."
"The leader, Bill Hardwick, now crosses 100 pins over Dick Weber."
"It means that I'm part of history. This building brought the PBA League here, and it started to celebrate team bowling again. And now, we're celebrating women's bowling here tonight, so the history just keeps getting deeper and deeper, and I'm happy to be a part of it."
"I knew the ball reaction was going to be great and I just had to make good shots."
"Hit the pocket, make my spares, fill some frames."
"Your game, your style, your revs, your speed, your axis tilt, your rotation, that all dictates."
"You don't want a ball that flares a lot, trust me."
"Your speed, revs, rotation, tilt, um, lane conditions, if you bowl on lanes that hook a lot, there's a lot of oil out there, if it's high friction, low friction, a lot of different factors."
"If you're looking for a benchmark ball, this is going to be the one."
"You're so calm when you're bowling."
"65,000 on top, the biggest in professional bowling."
"She is by far the greatest women bowler in the world right now."
"What a historic moment. The first time a two-handed bowler has ever won an event out here on tour."
"If you were to ask the players today, 'Dude, the best bowler on tour is,' they would say that man right there."
"He will force to make a ball change because of the slug inside his thumb hole apparently disintegrated."
"I'm sorry Caillou, these are special shoes made for bowling on the wooden alleys."
"They've kind of turned into what Roto Grip was, you know? Because storm was always the 'we got to put out stuff for the masses.'"
"'Not only is this a great place, this hotel and casino Angel of the Winds, but this Bowling Center, the pin carry here is insane.'"
"'It's always a good thing when your bowling ball listens to you.'"
"We're actually able to kind of seal that bowling ball so that it can't absorb that oil, and because it can't absorb the oil, it rolls just like urethane."
"You'll remove the material from the Black Bottle completely off the bowling ball, and the DNA will go back to you just like it was when it was brand new."
"If you know somebody that's really good at bowling and they get a strike on the first try, they have a clear pathway to Heaven."
"Jasprit Bumra can beat you with Pace, accuracy, swing, seam, bounce, thinking, wobble ball, slower ones, Yorkers, unique action, an 80 mph offs spin – almost everything that a fast bowler could use, he has and has perfected it."
"He really does nothing with it at all till he gets to the last step and then it's all wrists, fingers, and just a gigantic hand makes that ball turn so much."
"He ended up ordering two new bowling balls and is donating them along with two 1-hour bowling parties for 10 bowlers."
"Bowling fast is an art and you have to respect that."
"That's beautiful bowling by Ishant Sharma."
"That's a famous in-swinging yorker from a Pakistani bowler doing the trick, tipping in at the last moment."
"Now, if you ask anybody, 'Give me something that's happened in bowling,' or 'What do you think of memorable moments?' Boom, 'Who do you think you are? I am.'"
"Walking back to the bench after you bowl or bowling in general. I don't like it because I feel like I look like an idiot the entire time. Where do you look? Do you watch the ball while walking backward or turn around and walk back without watching? Such an awkward experience."
"...to sit on a show and it's a 300 game for a tour title to beat Liz Johnson, I mean you can't script that."
"12 five-player teams featuring the world's best bowlers are here with one goal in mind: winning the Elias Cup."
"It's been a while. Jampa Housekey goes for a third career title, first since the PWBA Women's All-Star Rockford Illinois back in 2014."
"She's got a lot of roll on her bowling ball. Really reads transition from front to back so smooth and gives the ball much much energy as it hits the pocket or average to get to the show through 22 games."
"Jacob Buttruff's style: unique. We all agree that. But there's no denying his success rate. And it's working."
"You saw the look on Norm Duke's face. Priceless reaction. Vika, Major Mika Koivuniemi, gave Norm the win. That was something. Going to top seed here today in Vegas at the Gold Coast."
"Welcome to the first event of the 2022 Guaranty Rate World Series of Bowling."
"The most iconic doubles duo in PBA history."
"With one of the strongest strike balls on tour, he's going to be a force to be reckoned with."