Candlepin Bowling

[thetrailboss]

Ms. Trailboss and I went Candlepin Bowling this afternoon. It had been at least ten years since I have been Candlepin Bowling and I had forgotten how challenging it is! Lots of fun. How much of you do it or have done it lately? Any good lanes nearby? I really enjoyed the different strategy, three balls, and the deadwood!

 

[Zand]

I bowl every Wednesday in a league and 1 or 2 other times a week. My all time high string is a 132 and I threw a 124 last night. My league average this year was LOUSY with an 84, I usually get high 90s or low 100s.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Until this very moment. I have never heard of candlepin bowling.

 

[ckofer]

Until this very moment. I have never heard of candlepin bowling.

So I guess you never watched Candlepins for Cash with Bob Gamere?

Check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling

 

[riverc0il]

long live candlepin bowling. a rich south eastern new england tradition. i have only noticed ten pin up here

 

[thetrailboss]

There used to be a Candlepin Bowling alley under Green Mtn Books in Lyndonville. It was open during the last few years, but I don't think that it has been able to make it. It was a cool lane because and above the lanes was painted the Willougby Gap at Sunset. Vintage too. It was really cool!

 

[Marc]

long live candlepin bowling. a rich south eastern new england tradition. i have only noticed ten pin up here

Amen, brotha.


I love candlepin, but I don't go enough. I enjoy it much more than 10 pin...

 

[riverc0il]

TB, that alley is still there and kicking! i had thought it was a ten pin lane, glad i was incorrect! i will have to stop by for a string or two with the GF sometime.

 

[nelsapbm]

We'll have to check out the candlepin in Lyndonville next time we're over there...grew up in the area and never went! We always went to the big ball alley in StJ.

 

[tree_skier]

We have a candlepin alley in wilmington

 

[kickstand]

my family had their own league for years when I was a kid. I first set foot on an alley when I was 2. I bowled in leagues at the Wal-Lex in Waltham before it closed. I did that until junior high, stopped, then picked it back up late in high school. Got to be too much in college. I was going to join the family league after college, but it ended up folding.

I haven't bowled in a few years, but I keep telling my wife I want to go. I was decent when I stopped (103 avg, 127 high single, ~360 high triple). I think I could pick it back up easily, but I don't think I could join a league. There are some lanes down the street from us in Wakefield. There's also the Woburn Bowladrome, the Wilmington lanes. Not sure where the are more on the North Shore. I know tons of guys who are in Wednesday, Friday or Sunday night leagues in the area.

what I like about it is it's not the beer sport that many people think it is. I don't know of a single alley that has a bar attached or allows coolers. Sure, people go out after, but I don't know anyone who bowls drunk. I think that's more common in 10-pin leagues and alleys.

 

[Marc]

my family had their own league for years when I was a kid. I first set foot on an alley when I was 2. I bowled in leagues at the Wal-Lex in Waltham before it closed. I did that until junior high, stopped, then picked it back up late in high school. Got to be too much in college. I was going to join the family league after college, but it ended up folding.

I haven't bowled in a few years, but I keep telling my wife I want to go. I was decent when I stopped (103 avg, 127 high single, ~360 high triple). I think I could pick it back up easily, but I don't think I could join a league. There are some lanes down the street from us in Wakefield. There's also the Woburn Bowladrome, the Wilmington lanes. Not sure where the are more on the North Shore. I know tons of guys who are in Wednesday, Friday or Sunday night leagues in the area.

what I like about it is it's not the beer sport that many people think it is. I don't know of a single alley that has a bar attached or allows coolers. Sure, people go out after, but I don't know anyone who bowls drunk. I think that's more common in 10-pin leagues and alleys.

It's that way for candlepin because you drank while you bowled no one would roll above a 40.

 

[kickstand]

It's that way for candlepin because you drank while you bowled no one would roll above a 40.

I know. It's not an easy game. I don't understand why people who bowl 10-pin think candlepin isn't really bowling. They should try it some time.

 

[thetrailboss]

I find it to be tougher. Much tougher and more entertaining!

 

[SilentCal]

I bowl ten-pin now (203 average, 290 high, 712 series high)and used to bowl candlepin as a kid. I tried candlepin not to long ago and almost threw my arm out. Ten pin is easy. Hit a spot 40 feet down the lane, with enough fingers and strikes are easy. Candlepin requires a little more thinking. Even more rare than Candlepin is Duckpins. Anyone ever bowl those?

 

[riverc0il]

growing up in haverhill (MA), the local boy's club had two lanes in the basement. you needed to have a group though, since you needed someone at the back of the alley to manually set the pins by hand.

 

[bvibert]

I think I've played Duck pin, but I can't remember what the difference is anymore. Its been several years since I've seen anything but 10 pin around here..

 

[Marc]

Duck pins are smaller versions of ten pins, and the ball you use is similar to candlepin.


Downed pins are cleared between balls, but there are three rolls per frame.

 

[thetrailboss]

THAT'S It.



We're going to have to have an AZ Candlepin Bowling Challenge.

 

[skibum1321]

I used to go Duckpin bowling in RI. We never had Candlepin - just Duckpin. I never realized there was a difference, though. So I guess I've never been Candlepin bowling then.