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Do we need additional categories?

mrbowling300 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:06:42 GMT

Under the bowling discussion section, we have 6 categories. Is there any others that you want to see, or thing that we need? I'm always open to ideas to keep this a great place and give you what you want.

Please let me know, as I'm always open to new ideas.

Keith

Forum: General bowling discussion

Happy Birthday wishes go out to.....

mrbowling300 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:34:23 GMT

willproat14 (Will)

Hope you have a great day, Will! Happy Birthday, and may you get your 300 game soon!

Keith

Forum: General bowling discussion

Did Earl Anthony ever throw Urethane?

ForceIII — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:51:23 GMT

I know this may sound like an odd question, but as late as 1983-1984 I watched him use rubber. In the 1970's I watched him use a Magnum 6 Orange polyester, and in the Mal Acosta in 1983 match he was using a Magnum 10 soft rubber.

I never saw him roll a Magnum 12 Urethane 1984, or the Thunderbolt 1986 etc... However in the 1990's, I saw him throw reactive Zone's on the senior tour. He must have left Ebonite.

Forum: General bowling discussion

Force III Star Trak Video/Mal Acosta vs Earl Anthony

ForceIII — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:47:09 GMT

Thanks for posting this! The Force III and Force 10 were the two Star Trak's that made it to television!

Thanks again!

Forum: General bowling discussion

My video tribute to women's bowling

GothStar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:47:34 GMT

This is a montage a put together in salute to some of the best female bowlers out there. I compiled this mainly from the 2008 Queens and 2008 U.S. Open along with some other footage. The song I used is "Destroy Everything You Touch" by Ladytron. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgHya2isf0

Forum: Bowling Shows and Memories

2006 USBC Masters

alchemyswordball — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:16:31 GMT

hi everyone. does anyone happen to have the show from the 2005 USBC Masters? it was the tournament that Norm Duke led which had a pretty exciting final. i'm just wondering because the 05-06 seasons was one of my favorites.

Forum: Bowling Shows and Memories

Spare targeting systems

NewYorkDave — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:27:16 GMT

I'm still messing around with different methods of lining up for spares. I started out with the ol' "3-6-9" method of lining up off the strike line, which worked fine for left-side spares but not so great for right-side spares (I'm a righty). Then I tried lining up off the headpin and 4th arrow but found that the steep angle magnified any errors, especially for the 10-pin. Plus, the ball return gets in the way.

What I'm doing lately is to base my moves off the 3 pin and the 3rd arrow (15th board). For example, relative to where I line up for the 3-pin, I'll move 12 boards to the right to shoot the 7-pin, or six boards to the left for the 10-pin. This seems to work pretty well. I'm thinking of using the 3rd arrow system for right-side spares and the 4th arrow system for left side spares.

So, how do you like to target your spares?

Forum: General bowling discussion

"High Roller" the Bob Perry Story

hailmaizeandblue — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:33:05 GMT

for most on the board who read the Bob perry thread..this movie was talked about on there..

Bob was a top bowler in the 60's and 70's at a young age who ran into a few unfortuante situations in life that led to his demise from bowling..

drugs, the mob, and accidents paralyzed his career for quite a bit of time..

he sought out help and became sober in 1992 after 10+ years of being drugged up and living homeless..

I recently bought this movie about his story and have watched it almost everyday since then..

in 1997 he went out to acheive one of bowlings great and semmingly unknown accomplishments..

after years of not bowling competitively..Bob Perry, now known as Bob Purzycki (his real name)..because Bob Perry was the evil former-bring of himself went out to win the 1997 Super Bowl High Roller tournament in Vegas for 100,000 dollars..

this movie is a true testimonial of how one can overcome great odd and battles his own demons..

when i figure out how to tranfer the DVD to my computer, i will upload it (hopefully) part by part on YouTube so you can all enjoy it..

as Arnie Goldman put it, on this board..
"Bob Perry is a rich man,
in ways that most will never understand."

that is very true, and after seeing his story, it is a prompt reminder that money won't always be there in good or bad times, you must overcome things by the power of your own being, and that is what can make you a richer person

Forum: Bowling Shows and Memories

Parker Bohn III

mikeyevs — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:39:25 GMT

Parker Bohn will be at my center monday the 13th for an exibition hopefully i will have some video for you guys..if anyone interested in RI mass Areas He will be at

Amf Cranston Lanes
1450 Elmwood Ave
Cranston, Ri from 3-6pm on Monday Oct 13th

Forum: Players

You'll never guess who I had the pleasure of meeting Friday night

irishpogi — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:02:26 GMT

This past Friday night my friend and I took a ride to Carolier Lanes in North Brunswick, NJ. I managed to meet PBA Hall of Famer Teata Semiz. Still throws it great for a 74 year old!

Forum: Players

Track marks

MattB — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:28:29 GMT

I had my ball resurfaced recently, and it's already got track marks on it after about 15 games. I clean it using Brunswick's ball cleaner after every time out, but there are still marks left. Why are these appearing so quickly after a resurface? The center I bowl at doesn't flood the lanes with oil or anything.

Forum: General bowling discussion

question? how to clean a bowling ball

jordan_3344 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:54:37 GMT

hey guys how have you been. sry i havnt been on in a long time but im back. so ive had one of my bowling balls for a while now and the track has like dirt lines or oil lines all the way around it. how would i clean this off without ruining it. thnx

Forum: General bowling discussion

How to Upload High-Quality YouTube Videos

mrbowling300 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:18:32 GMT

How to Upload High-Quality YouTube Videos
ARTICLE DATE: 09.24.08
By Jan Ozer
Buzz up!
on Yahoo!

Few people can resist uploading videos to YouTube, whether as a simple way to share their work with friends or to launch a production upon the unsuspecting world. The traditional downside, however, has been video quality that ranged from fair to, frankly, poor.

However, YouTube recently launched a new option that encodes some videos to both standard and high-quality parameters. The difference between standard and high-quality video is striking. Not all uploaded videos get encoded into the high-quality format, but if you follow a few simple rules, it's likely that YouTube will produce yours in both formats. I say likely because YouTube is a bit of a black box, and no one knows for sure what goes on behind the curtain. Here's what worked for me, however, and it should work for you, too.

Figure 1. Standard quality on the left, high quality on the right.

First, let's examine the difference between the standard and high quality. When producing videos at standard quality, YouTube encodes at 320-by-240 resolution and a data rate of about 330 Kbps, with mono audio at 64 Kbps. At the new higher quality, YouTube produces 480-by-360-resolution videos with a data rate of 630 Kbps, and mono audio at 96 Kbps. I uploaded files at 29.97 frames per second on my tests, and YouTube produced both files at that rate. No matter whether YouTube encodes at standard or high quality, the site displays the video at 480-by-360 resolution, which means that it stretches the lower-resolution video to 480-by-360 during display, while the higher-quality file plays at native resolution.

To entice YouTube into rendering your video at the higher quality, you have to upload video at a resolution of 480-by-360 or higher. While maintaining the 10-minute duration limit for most uploaded videos, YouTube has increased the maximum allowable file size from 100MB to 1GB, so it's pretty easy to upload the higher-resolution video without blowing the file size limit.

If you're savvy with video-encoding controls, you should encode at 480-by-360 at 30 fps using the H.264 codec if available, or Windows Media or MPEG-4 if it's not. To remain under the 1GB limit for a 10-minute file, you can encode at up to about 13 Mbps. But at the 480-by-320 resolution, you can safely encode at about 6 Mbps, still produce excellent quality, and cut your upload time in half. Oh, and produce your mono audio at the higher-quality 96-Kbps setting.

If you're uncomfortable setting your own parameters, see if your editing tool has an iPod preset that produces 640-by-480 resolution, like the iPod preset from Premiere Elements 7.0, shown in Figure 2. Though the default data rate of 1 Mbps was probably fine, I went in and manually boosted it to 6 Mbps for maximum quality.

Figure 2. If you're uncomfortable setting your own encoding parameters, find a 640-by-480 iPod preset and use that, bumping up the data rate to a max of about 6 Mbps.

Obviously, if the iPod preset encodes at 320-by-240, as most do, it won't trigger the high quality encode on YouTube, which raises another point: Most editing programs that offer one-button upload to YouTube upload a 320-by-240 resolution file encoded at standard quality. If you want to access the new high quality, you'll probably have to encode and upload by hand.

To view the high-quality videos, you can of course click the Watch in high quality link that appears underneath the video window. Or you can customize your playback parameters in YouTube to display the high-quality stream, whenever one is available, by clicking the Video Playback Quality option on your Account page, which displays the screen shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Set YouTube to display high-quality video whenever it's available.

Happy watching!

Forum: Bowling Shows and Memories

Slide sock

NewYorkDave — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:16:39 GMT

Ever tried one? I think I'm addicted to mine. I use it even when I don't need to. If I take it off, I feel like I'm sticking even when I'm not. Now if only I could stop fouling ;)

Forum: Equipment and Lanes

Looking for Video of 1980 Canadian Open

UDot — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:37:30 GMT

Does anyone have this show?

TELEVISED FINALS

Pos.	Name, City/State	Total	Amount

1	Kevin Gillette, Florence, Ky.	248 (1 game)	$11,000
2	Mike Aulby, Indianapolis, Ind.	707 (3 games)	6,000
3	Paul Moser, Somerset, Mass.	182 (1 game)	5,000
4	Ralph Hartmann, New Hyde Park, N.Y.	460 (2 games)	4,000
5	Arnie Goldman, Chicago, Ill.	220 (1 game)	3,500

Forum: Bowling Video Exchange