Ten pin bowling

I've been bowling in Korea a handful of times and always really enjoyed it. I went this Saturday night because we wanted a break from Hongdae and Seoul, both real money sinks. The previous time before Saturday I got a five bagger, which is five strikes in a row. It was total and utter fluke, I really don't know how I did it.

This time though we were next to a group of Koreans that were taking it pretty seriously, they had custom balls, custom shoes and wrist braces. After a while of just throwing the ball down the middle and getting boring mediocre scores I decided to imitate the Koreans. For anyone that doesn't know most people that are good at bowling spin the ball, or curl it to be more precise. This gives you better odds at getting a strike and most importantly looks great. After a game of practising I really started to get into it, I'd learnt how to spin at previous visits but this was the first time I was using it seriously.

To cut a long story short I actually managed to get a strike and a plus 100 score. While that's nothing to be amazed at it's a good start to my spinning career. One day when I go back to England and go to some lame social gathering at the shambolic places we allow to be called bowling alleys I'll amaze everyone with my spin. That's the only reason I'm going to go every week, just to show off at Hollywood Bowling.

Next on my list of sports to master is screen golf and billiards. I'm already pretty good at darts (real darts not the electric crap). I'll be pretty happy if I can get up to average on all these Korean style bar games. The real problem is that we always seem to take a few cans of beer in with us which is never going to help us improve anything past average. However that's a price I'm well prepared to pay.