Post Your Athletic Achievements

[Corrie]

Bowling takes body awareness, strength of sorts, coordination, repetition through physical movement, a high level of coordination, and includes pressure situations. Throw a ball too heavy for your strength level and you will see. Also learn to curl the ball, not that easily repeatable. I have to say I think it's a sport. Not everyone can become a pro bowler. It takes a lot of practice.

There's an engineer on the Howard Stern show who has bowled for probably 30+ years. He's been in a league for 20+ and is really quite good for an amateur bowler. He got a chance to compete in the PBA. He thought he'd be able to rank in the top 50 or 75 but he ended up 2nd last out of over 300 bowlers. He was totally outclassed and couldn't even compete with the worst professional bowler.

[StrongLiftMyBalls]

I don't like this. The actual difference is simply a matter of physical involvement. Games have little, sports have a lot. You must be able to demonstrate athleticism in a sport (defined as: strength, speed, power, kinesthetic awareness, and endurance). Not being able to demonstrate all of those traits means you're playing a game.

Thats what I said:
Another difference between sport and game is that the former is based on physical energy and the later is based on mental strength.

[Callador]

There's an engineer on the Howard Stern show who has bowled for probably 30+ years. He's been in a league for 20+ and is really quite good for an amateur bowler. He got a chance to compete in the PBA. He thought he'd be able to rank in the top 50 or 75 but he ended up 2nd last out of over 300 bowlers. He was totally outclassed and couldn't even compete with the worst professional bowler.

Very true. The thing is, there are amateur bowlers that have gotten a 300 game at their local lane, but they practice there all the time. It takes a lot of skill to bowl high averages when you are competing on a circuit. The oil type, displacement, etc makes you have to change up how the ball is thrown.

[Corrie]

Very true. The thing is, there are amateur bowlers that have gotten a 300 game at their local lane, but they practice there all the time. It takes a lot of skill to bowl high averages when you are competing on a circuit. The oil type, displacement, etc makes you have to change up how the ball is thrown.

Yeah this particular guy has bowled a game one strike short of perfect, so he's definitely a good bowler. It was consistency he didn't have. That and bowling 8+ hours a day for a week straight is more stressful on your body than you'd imagine.

[Josiah Moye]

This reminds me I need to get a punching bag, and get to the batting cages. I'm sure I could crush shit in the batting cages nowdays-- once I got my swing back anyway. Will report back to this thread when I determine that.