Next time...

Well, those of you who had been watching the official web site already know that this time we didn't have a great Desperado.

Pacorro had 198 and I had 188 (not sure). But for one second (another) I thought that.... I started with a four bagger but then left a 4-7-10 and channel-9. Just to be sure that I won't had aby chances in the last frames. Well, actually I had one, but a solid 9 killed it.

Well, shit happens, but the big one was Paco's 154, this old story for our dear commentator (on the Spanish blog). The only thing I regreat is not having a video. We were so many lanes far one from the other, but this +116 in three games playing over the left gutter was impressive.

Having 1285 when only 55 players, out of 382, had 1300 or better is not bad at all.

My best score as 1150, but even it sucks, I was in 216th position. The oil patter was difficult. On my last entry I had no way of having a clean game. Well, actually I started each of the last 4 games with two open frames.

I didn't bowl good. I picked up so may spares, pero left too many open frames. I had to bowl inside, but my release was not good at all. I can't play as inside as others do.

My timing and tempo was Better that in Qatar, but I had so many problems with my hook, It may sounds stupid, but it's true. Last Saturday I bowled in Diversia (Madrid) and, with dry lanes, I had +70 with 160 in my last game.

Two adys ago I bowled my league and the score was +114 in 4 games. But when I come to a place with real pins where it's not enought a poor relase for having a 30-boards hook, I suck. A lot. I developed my game for having a "weak" release, and when I am forced to bowl deep inside with oil on the lanes, I can't repeat my shoots.


I do some good games, sometimes, but after that, 4 bad frames follow. And whe you need 1300, three bad frames and a 170 is a game over. Actually, it's a tricky issue for me and I thonk about it quite often. The are two mail options: more practice and more gammes bowling deep inside and just bowl using the 5th arrow at home or, what i am doing currently: poor release, less revs and more lenght. Less power, but more pins.

It's true that both things are compatible, but it's more useful for a house pattern having less revs and second-hand bowling balls. I don't know, I guess I should work harder. I do better on dry lanes, pero when I need real power, like over here, I have 1150 and thank you.

Patience is the key. We need working harder. There is an abyss between the professionals that are leading this tournament and the European Tour, but this abyss was of only 100 pins in Doha and of 150 here in Helsinki. Just 100 pins in six games against the best players in Europe is not that much, is it?

Some fun things fur finnishing:

- Oli Pakonen, the lane-man in Tali, was the first out of the finals.

- Kimmo Lethonen, the one who choose the patterns, finished second with 1405

- Mikko Pietila, having a 300 and a 265 on the last two games.. didn't make the finals! Unbeliavable but true, 1294 for hi

- There were 382 players and almost 100 bowled the Desesperado

- The official hotel was 32 euros far from the Bowling center

- Food in Tali is quite good

- Amedeo Spada, Italian, was +140 in four games but scored 117 in the last one and won't bowl tomorrow.

- This Finnish guy in my pair spared the 7-10 soooo slowly

- Pirrita Kantola needed a strong finish for going ahead. Ended with 5 strikes but let 3 pins on the last ball and missed the cut by one pin

- I beat PBA's Robert Spigner by 2 pins :P

- I find a way for not having pain in my fingers, but I won't tell you about it

- Nina Flack won't bowl tomorrow. She was close, but couldn't do it.

- Pacorro has his record os entries in a Tournament: only 2!!

- The cut over here was only 1311. In Madrid, en el Circuito de la AECB, was 1346 and the had three 300 games.

- The spelled properly our names. Always.

- They use 2 Authority-22 for dressing the 36 lanes

- The cheaper bowling ball in the pro shop's offers was 190 euros

The final will start at 08.00, but we won't be there at this time. The only problem is that wireless conection is not working in the Bowling Center and the public laptop is not working properly so, perhaps we won't post till night.


We want to thank all the support message we got these days and I apologyze to our critics. Next time we'll do better. Because there will be a next time. So many times. We will bowl abroad as many times as possible.

Later this month Juan Pablo Alonso and Cirilo Álvarez will join Pacorro in Dublin (Ireland). And in our schedule we have marked Barcelona, Poland, Paris, IStambul, San Marino, Vienna etc. The year is so long.

If anybody wann join us you know where to find us. Even for just telling the same old story