251 Wasn't Good Enough

Forget 251...our little semi pro bowled a 291 Saturday in Roswell during competition! And yes, she got her first place YELLOW ribbon. :) No boring blue or red for my baby...only yellow!! I'm still stunned at how well she did; I only wish she could've hit 300! She was a bowling machine! The ramp is incredible! Dave is awesome! It's yellow, purple and blue for the three girl bowlers, and it makes things so much easier! It's heavier so it doesn't move when the ball hits the bottom, and that makes a world of difference. For those of you who have never been around ramp bowling...it's not easy. There's an art to mastering it and my husband is working on his ramp bowling PhD. He's determined to figure it out. Aligning the ramp, position of the bowlers body, and their hand position all makes it challenging. Brooke sometimes gets a right curve put on her ball, and so Mike will adjust the ramp for that and then she'll throw a left turn at him. And bowlers using a ball with holes poses a new set of challenges. The holes can throw the ball this way or that way. Brooke (and most of the other bowlers who have their own balls) use a 12 pound ball with no holes. She typically bowls around 6 mph, but on bowls faster than that she has a better shot of knocking down more pins. I learned Saturday (from the ramp master himself) that you don't want to hit the pins dead on. That causes a split, which is almost impossible for our bowlers to hit. He explained to me exactly where the ball needs to hit for maximum pins to fall. OK. I trust him. I just acted as photogragher,cheerleader and germ-control. The yellow Tweety Bird ball even got wiped down with GermX. Nothing is safe when I'm around. We had a really nice day, and I'm so thankful she was able to go and spend time around her friends. We go to the state bowling games in Las Cruces the week prior to Thanksgiving. That's a fun trip!!!