299!

[Jayhawk Jake]

One pin from perfection!  I'm both happy and incredibly angry.  It's a weird emotion



:D >:(

[Steve M]

Haha! That hurts.  I bowled a 299 back in 1975. 

[skoker]

I bowled a 64 last week...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fm7QPA9zY

[Jayhawk Jake]

I bowled a 247 six years ago, and since then I had been trying to break 250.  I bowled a 247 about 8 times before beating it, a 248 about 4 months ago.  Then 3 weeks ago I finally broke the wall with a 278, 2 weeks ago I bowled a 269, and today I bowled the 299.  Seems like breaking that wall made a huge difference

[Webb]

Pretty nice.

[RaptorF22]

Highest I've ever got is 114.  :-/
I blame it on the funny shoes!

[Jayhawk Jake]

[quote]Highest I've ever got is 114.

[BigTruck]

Awesome game!  My highest ever was a 280-something while bowling on my high school team. 

[hyperpep111]

Whats a 299?

[alrot]

Whats a 299?

apparently its and almost perfect score of a bowling game (should be 300) Jake score only strikes until the end and took a photo of the score screen monitor ..please correct if I'm wrong I ask my self the same question early

[Apex]

Far out!  Congrats.  Well, almost perfect ain't bad.

11th grade, phys ed, they would take us bowling once a week, pretty cool.  I guess I was about a 120 or so, despite being in the middle of 4 years of weight lifting and could press & curl 100 pounds 10 times, I was still skinny and didn't have strong bowling arms.  They didn't really teach us how to bowl either, that would have helped.  But it's relaxing. 

[beaky]

You bowlers might appreciate this short film, made by my ex-girlfriend back in '81 at the local bowling alley. Watch for the guy with the "bowling excuses" T-shirt...

[BigTruck]

These guys weren't giving you tips were they? 

[Jayhawk Jake]

Whats a 299?

Bowling has 10 frames.  If you knock down all 10 pins on the first throw of a frame, you get a strike.  If not, you get a chance to pick up the remaining pins.  A perfect game is where you hit a strike every time for a total of 12 strikes (the 10th frame has 3 shots: the first shot, which if a strike earns you two because a strike is worth 10 pins plus the next two balls).  I had 11 strikes in a row, and on the last shot of the game I left one pin standing, which totals 299.  A perfect game is 300

[Jayhawk Jake]

[quote]Far out!