Bowling Checklist
Bowling Rubric
5: You consistently bowl correctly. You consistently knock over pins. You demonstrate fluency and are mechanically efficient from beginning of skill to end.
4: You consistently bowl correctly. You consistently knock over pins. You usually demonstrate fluency and efficiency from beginning of skill to end.
3: You usually bowl correctly. You usually knock over pins. You sometimes demonstrate fluency and efficiency.
2: You sometimes bowl correctly. You sometimes knock over pins. You rarely demonstrate fluency.
1: You rarely bowl correctly. You rarely knock over pins. You rarely demonstrate fluency.
Bowling is a great sport that has a long and full history. Today, bowling is one of the most popular sports in the world and is the most participated recreational sport played in the United States.
Bowling can be traced back as far as 3200 BC. A crude form of the game was believed to have existed when a collection of objects was discovered within an Egyptian boy’s grave sometime during the 1930′s by Sir Flinders Petrie.
Abraham Lincoln was the first prominent American to spend time at the bowling lanes.
Chicago and New York were the first cities that bowling started in America.
Years ago, women and children were not allowed in bowling centers. Today’s bowling centers encourage family participation. ☺
The youngest person to bowl a perfect game (300) was 10 years old!
Strike – knock over all ten pins with first ball
Spare – knock over all ten pins with two balls
Split – when you leave two or more pins not next to each other
Headpin – the pin at the front of the pack
Double – two strikes in a row
Turkey – three strikes in a row
Four Bagger – four strikes in a row
Washout – like a split, but the headpin is still standing
Bucket – when four pins are left standing in a diamond shape
Sleeper – when one pin conceals another pin
Messenger – a pin that shoots across and takes out the final pin
Pin Deck – the area where the pins are set
Sweep – the bar that clears out the pins
Table – the machine that sets and picks up pins
Deadwood – pins that have been knocked down on the lane
The Stooges – leaving only the 5, 7, and 10 pin standing
Ball circumference is 27 inches.
Maximum ball weight is 16 lbs.
There can be up to 5 holes drilled into a ball for gripping.
The pin weight is between 3lb. 6oz. and 3lb. 10 oz.
The height of a pin is 15 inches.
Each pin is 12 inches from its neighbor.
The length of a lane is 60 feet to the head pin.
A proper strike comes in contact with 4 pins.
The lane surface is level within 40/1000th of an inch.
A perfect game is 300 … 12 strikes in a row.
The lane width is 41 inches excluding the gutters.
A 292 is the rarest score to get.
1800 pounds/sq. in. is the impact when a ball hits the lane.