Hi All,
Having grown up with bowling and then taking a long break before starting again had got me thinking about all of the great bowlers I have had the pleasure of watching while growing up. So to paint the picture, I was born in 1966, I was two weeks old before my dad saw me for the first time as he was bowling in an invitational tournament in the U.S. I spent nearly every weekend in a centre somewhere on the east coast of Australia up until 1986. I started bowling at the age of about 8 and stopped at around 20.
During league last week I was asked if I remembered a few juniors around my age, that being just shy of 45. To be honest not really, not through ignorance, but due to the fact that it was not until my last two years of juniors that they really started to have any kind of singles tournaments for juniors and then there were only a couple of them. So for me I remember those that I bowled with each week at Warrawong bowl. Those then juniors still bowling include Shawn Cummings. From Sydney we bowled with the likes Jason Doust and Andrew Frawley. There were a lot of very talented juniors a few years ahead of me that hit the seniors like Shane Woods. All up some really top level bowlers.
There was nothing after juniors but Open Seniors. At 18 you were feed to the lion’s on the seniors seen. Very over whelming to face off against the likes of Steve Lovell, Brian Bridges and many many more names.
Which now leads me to the point of this thread, for those of us in our 30’s, 40’s and 50’s who did you want to bowl like?
What bowler had the biggest impact or influence on your games development?
Who did you look at an think WOW, that’s a sweat shot?
For me I use to love watching Gary Kee bowl. Text book perfect delivery. I loved the speed of Terry Wenban’s shot. On the U.S tour my favourite bowler back then was Marshall Holman.
In my mind I was a combination of all three. In reality, nothing like either of them.
John Velo
Having grown up with bowling and then taking a long break before starting again had got me thinking about all of the great bowlers I have had the pleasure of watching while growing up. So to paint the picture, I was born in 1966, I was two weeks old before my dad saw me for the first time as he was bowling in an invitational tournament in the U.S. I spent nearly every weekend in a centre somewhere on the east coast of Australia up until 1986. I started bowling at the age of about 8 and stopped at around 20.
During league last week I was asked if I remembered a few juniors around my age, that being just shy of 45. To be honest not really, not through ignorance, but due to the fact that it was not until my last two years of juniors that they really started to have any kind of singles tournaments for juniors and then there were only a couple of them. So for me I remember those that I bowled with each week at Warrawong bowl. Those then juniors still bowling include Shawn Cummings. From Sydney we bowled with the likes Jason Doust and Andrew Frawley. There were a lot of very talented juniors a few years ahead of me that hit the seniors like Shane Woods. All up some really top level bowlers.
There was nothing after juniors but Open Seniors. At 18 you were feed to the lion’s on the seniors seen. Very over whelming to face off against the likes of Steve Lovell, Brian Bridges and many many more names.
Which now leads me to the point of this thread, for those of us in our 30’s, 40’s and 50’s who did you want to bowl like?
What bowler had the biggest impact or influence on your games development?
Who did you look at an think WOW, that’s a sweat shot?
For me I use to love watching Gary Kee bowl. Text book perfect delivery. I loved the speed of Terry Wenban’s shot. On the U.S tour my favourite bowler back then was Marshall Holman.
In my mind I was a combination of all three. In reality, nothing like either of them.
John Velo
