En estos momentos, Simón Pedro Rodríguez, Jesús Dacorte y Pacorro están en Inglaterra participando en el Ebonite English Open. Vamos, el British Open de Bowling.
Llegaron ayer por la noche y han jugado la primera serie de la mañana, con suerte desigual. El más destacado ha sido Jesús, que tras un arranque flojo (160), logró dos partidas por encima de 260 para acabar con 1289. En la última tiró 194, pero si hubiese enganchado un 240 estaría peleando por entrar.
Pacorro empezó aceptablemente (195-230), pero luego no logró mantener la línea.
Y Simón tuvo un incio estupendo (213-223), pero un 147 le hizo rezagarse y finalizó con 1116.
Se rengancharán a lo largo del día pero, se metan o no, ésto les servirá de entrenamiento estupendo para el reto gordo del mes: el Open de Qatar.
Sí sí, lo 3 partirán el lunes por la mañana para Doha desde Londres. Y un servidor se unirá a ellos a allí para disputar el torneo, valedero para el circuito europeo y que contará la presencia de jugadores de altísimo nivel.
Iré cargado con ordenador y cámaras, así que, si hay suerte, podremos blogear y colgar material calentito desde Doha.
Toda la suerte que se nos desee, es poca.
ACTUALIZACIÓN
Pacorro abre con 248 su renganche y Simón con 207. Empieza bien la cosa.
ACTUALIZACIÓN 15.40
Enorme Pacorro!! 248-242-207-237. Está con 134 arriba, tercero de su serie y si sube un poco más, está dentro.
Putadón de Simon, que estaba muy bien con 207-219-202, pero que se ha cascado un terrible 128 que le mata en la cuarta. Qué mierda.
sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2008
Poniéndonos al día parte I: la escuela
Bueno, parece que las semanas de la locura tocan a su fin, así que empezamos a ponernos un poco al día y a recuperar el ritmo.
El miércoles colgamos en la sección de ARTÍCULOS de la Escuela de LosRascadores.com nuevos escritos.
El primero, muy completo, hace un análisis bastante exhaustivo de las diferentes bolas de bowling que existen y han existido.
En el segundo, traducido por Juan Pablo Alonso, se retoman nocio básicas y fundamentales del mental game.
A lo largo del fin de semana incorporaremos algunos otros que, como el de las bolas, llevan meses en el cajón esperando a un poco de tiempo libre.
El miércoles colgamos en la sección de ARTÍCULOS de la Escuela de LosRascadores.com nuevos escritos.
El primero, muy completo, hace un análisis bastante exhaustivo de las diferentes bolas de bowling que existen y han existido.
En el segundo, traducido por Juan Pablo Alonso, se retoman nocio básicas y fundamentales del mental game.
A lo largo del fin de semana incorporaremos algunos otros que, como el de las bolas, llevan meses en el cajón esperando a un poco de tiempo libre.
martes, 2 de diciembre de 2008
Vaguada's impressions
As I did promise some days ago, here I post a few word abot the oil pattern of the Vaguada Tournament.
I did play yesterday and my score was 1239 (1269 including handicap): is it going to be enough for making the cut? I hope so, but I'm not pretty sure.
Currently I am 9th, and only Erwin beats me scracth. What does it mean? Easy: the players with high scores are players with handicap, ant that means, once again, that the lane condiction is not easy.
Given that, my impressions were the opposite. I found the lane pretty easy. It was not a House pattern, not at all, but I had no problems for finding the pocket.
Despite past experiences in this bowling center, even the line is similar, we can find more opcions. Perhaps I missed some oil inside, but definitely it has more that last year and that help the ball to go down the lane before hooking. At least for the first 4 games. After that, it gets some complicated.
Myself, following Pablo Barriopedro's wise advice, wen to the bowling center with many different balls and ready to use them. And I did! In the 4th game I scored around 220 using... 4 different balls!
I started with my Cherry Vibe, switched to a Track Equation (second hand and polished) and tried my Kinetic. But I finished the game with a Ebonite SR300. Ironically I "only" scored 209 and 199, but with thousand of strikes!
I bowled inside, with power on my wrist and searching for a breakpint not so outside. I was able to score over 200, yes, but leaving a solid 8-10 and a solid 5-7 on the same pair...
Waht is clear to mea is that outside is not a good place. You must keep 6 games so accurate, so is not the way.
Any doubt or comment?
I did play yesterday and my score was 1239 (1269 including handicap): is it going to be enough for making the cut? I hope so, but I'm not pretty sure.
Currently I am 9th, and only Erwin beats me scracth. What does it mean? Easy: the players with high scores are players with handicap, ant that means, once again, that the lane condiction is not easy.
Given that, my impressions were the opposite. I found the lane pretty easy. It was not a House pattern, not at all, but I had no problems for finding the pocket.
Despite past experiences in this bowling center, even the line is similar, we can find more opcions. Perhaps I missed some oil inside, but definitely it has more that last year and that help the ball to go down the lane before hooking. At least for the first 4 games. After that, it gets some complicated.
Myself, following Pablo Barriopedro's wise advice, wen to the bowling center with many different balls and ready to use them. And I did! In the 4th game I scored around 220 using... 4 different balls!
I started with my Cherry Vibe, switched to a Track Equation (second hand and polished) and tried my Kinetic. But I finished the game with a Ebonite SR300. Ironically I "only" scored 209 and 199, but with thousand of strikes!
I bowled inside, with power on my wrist and searching for a breakpint not so outside. I was able to score over 200, yes, but leaving a solid 8-10 and a solid 5-7 on the same pair...
Waht is clear to mea is that outside is not a good place. You must keep 6 games so accurate, so is not the way.
Any doubt or comment?
European Championships. Spain: game over
Yesterday started in the German city of Duisburg (and more precisley at Achim Grabowski's bowling center) the European Individual Championship 2008.
And, as we knew, Catalonia, but not Spain, is participating.
Raúl Galvez and Sandra Torrents (curiosly, both have represented Spain early this year) have already started, but without good scores.
Raul's average is 195 (19º), while Sandra, with 183.5 is in position 24º after the first block.
So far from Dutch Marieke de Jong, 224 average, and the other 9 players bowling over 200. And more even from Jean-Marc Lebon, who leads male division with 233 of average.
By the way, Grabowsky is currently 9th (206 average), and Sami Konstery, from Finlad has shot 299!
¿Is it a surprise that Spain is not bowling in Germany? No, of course it is not. After losing the appeal to the FIQ and to the Tas, the Spanish Federation has no more place to appeal to.
Well. Wat wait, actually the had one more! The problem is that... the have lose over there as well.
Here you can read the sentence both in French and English/Spanish
Not the sport not the civil justice has worked for the Feb. It seem pretty evident that the solution to this impass is not coming from the international way. Catalonia is gonna keep sending players to international events, so Spanish directives has just 2 options: accept it and send the national team anyway or not to send players anymore.
What would you do? I am not afraid to say that I have no idea. It doesen't seem realistic that on the shor run Spain and Catalonia will compete agains each other on a European or World Champsionship.
Election on the Spanish Federation (we are in a Olympic year) are close. José Luis Boto presence (actually, his lack of presence) is a big obstacle for de development of bowling in our country. Will he win again? Rumors sat so, and it's very sad.
The electoral process is so complicated that makes impossible for bowling lovers to put things in order. "Tyranny" rules and inefficiency follows.
Bowling has no many people with the will to work hard and free for it. Elections are undergoing. We can't do a lot, but we can do something.
And, as we knew, Catalonia, but not Spain, is participating.
Raúl Galvez and Sandra Torrents (curiosly, both have represented Spain early this year) have already started, but without good scores.
Raul's average is 195 (19º), while Sandra, with 183.5 is in position 24º after the first block.
So far from Dutch Marieke de Jong, 224 average, and the other 9 players bowling over 200. And more even from Jean-Marc Lebon, who leads male division with 233 of average.
By the way, Grabowsky is currently 9th (206 average), and Sami Konstery, from Finlad has shot 299!
¿Is it a surprise that Spain is not bowling in Germany? No, of course it is not. After losing the appeal to the FIQ and to the Tas, the Spanish Federation has no more place to appeal to.
Well. Wat wait, actually the had one more! The problem is that... the have lose over there as well.
Here you can read the sentence both in French and English/Spanish
Not the sport not the civil justice has worked for the Feb. It seem pretty evident that the solution to this impass is not coming from the international way. Catalonia is gonna keep sending players to international events, so Spanish directives has just 2 options: accept it and send the national team anyway or not to send players anymore.
What would you do? I am not afraid to say that I have no idea. It doesen't seem realistic that on the shor run Spain and Catalonia will compete agains each other on a European or World Champsionship.
Election on the Spanish Federation (we are in a Olympic year) are close. José Luis Boto presence (actually, his lack of presence) is a big obstacle for de development of bowling in our country. Will he win again? Rumors sat so, and it's very sad.
The electoral process is so complicated that makes impossible for bowling lovers to put things in order. "Tyranny" rules and inefficiency follows.
Bowling has no many people with the will to work hard and free for it. Elections are undergoing. We can't do a lot, but we can do something.
Los Rascadores Phantasy League
Next week, finally, the new season of the PBA will start, and for celebrating it, nothing better that playing on the PBA Phantasy League.
What's that you ask? Well, it's like the Liga Fantástica de Marca, but on bowling.
Los Rascadores have creadted our own open league and everyone ins welcomed. How does it work? It's pretty easy actually. All you need is click on this link
Once in the new page you must sign up. They will ask you for an email address, a password and a nickname Once filled, you click on sing in and here we go.
When you finish this process you will just need to join a league, and this one in RASCADORES. Be careful, the name is Rascadores no Los Rascadores.
The PBA takes care of everything, so just need to pick up a team. You mst change the 4 players (on of group A, 2 of group B and one more of group C)
When you are done, just click on Save Team and good luck!
Each player can be selected just 8 times in the whole season so you must take care and don't waste your resources. Pick up your players considering shape, the tournament itself, formats and, especially, oil patters. You can choose new players untill the first round starts every week.
All the information you need is avaiable online at pba.com
Everybody can play and join the league at any moment. The League will finish at the end of the season, but as you can get points every week, the soon you join, the better for your options.
As we want to give an incentivo to the game, Los Rascadores will award the best 3 teams after the last tournament.
Good to everyone and if you have any doubt, you already know where to find us.
What's that you ask? Well, it's like the Liga Fantástica de Marca, but on bowling.
Los Rascadores have creadted our own open league and everyone ins welcomed. How does it work? It's pretty easy actually. All you need is click on this link
Once in the new page you must sign up. They will ask you for an email address, a password and a nickname Once filled, you click on sing in and here we go.
When you finish this process you will just need to join a league, and this one in RASCADORES. Be careful, the name is Rascadores no Los Rascadores.
The PBA takes care of everything, so just need to pick up a team. You mst change the 4 players (on of group A, 2 of group B and one more of group C)
When you are done, just click on Save Team and good luck!
Each player can be selected just 8 times in the whole season so you must take care and don't waste your resources. Pick up your players considering shape, the tournament itself, formats and, especially, oil patters. You can choose new players untill the first round starts every week.
All the information you need is avaiable online at pba.com
Everybody can play and join the league at any moment. The League will finish at the end of the season, but as you can get points every week, the soon you join, the better for your options.
As we want to give an incentivo to the game, Los Rascadores will award the best 3 teams after the last tournament.
Good to everyone and if you have any doubt, you already know where to find us.
New rules: God bless Abralon!
Early this month, the World Tenpin Bowlinf Federation (WTBF) Presidiu met in Barcelona.
There, beside other points that will be important on the long run, some critical rules for daily bowling were sanctioned. Well, actually they will be santcionable next January the firs.
All the details, regarding surfaces, slow bowling, smoking and oil patterns, and in English, can be found at TalkTenpin.
Moreover, the venue for the next World Championship (both in male and female division) were approbed. The boys will play in Munich, Germany (11-22 August 2010). and the girld in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Check all the info here.
There, beside other points that will be important on the long run, some critical rules for daily bowling were sanctioned. Well, actually they will be santcionable next January the firs.
All the details, regarding surfaces, slow bowling, smoking and oil patterns, and in English, can be found at TalkTenpin.
Moreover, the venue for the next World Championship (both in male and female division) were approbed. The boys will play in Munich, Germany (11-22 August 2010). and the girld in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Check all the info here.
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