I have so much respect for you guys keeping candlepin history alive by using a track of the original candlepin bowling telecast opening theme song that Don Gillis hosted. I always love watching Don Gillis and his colorful commentary and this in my eyes really pays respect to him and the sport and the sports players! This is awesome and I absolutely love it!

@AlleyChat

5 жыл бұрын

Dalton Dick thanks for your kind appreciation!

@joebly5641

Жыл бұрын

Had no idea this was even a sport until yesterday and I can’t get enough. Still haven’t figured the scoring out completely but what a interesting sport/game. Looks far harder then regular bowling. I got shit faced and bowled 211 and I gotta be around a 100 average normally I suck. I see no chance of me doing that well with this skinny pin flippity flappity shots. What a sweet find this was

@greggouillart751

Жыл бұрын

@@joebly5641Welcome to what we consider regular bowling! Scoring still has strikes and spares (marked with triangles in the corner), but you can also get ten (X) on the third ball - like hitting a free throw, it could make the difference. I still am little good, but I always enjoy it, and hope you get to one day. 🙂

@starskunk

2 ай бұрын

​@@joebly5641 Scoring is fairly simple - think standard 10-pin bowling scoring, except there's a third ball for each box. A strike (two triangles in the corners, all pins down on the first ball) still gets you 10 plus your next two balls, a spare (one triangle in the corner, all pins down on the second ball) gets you 10 plus your next ball, a 10-box (marked by an X, meaning that it took all 3 balls to get all 10 pins down) gets 10 but no bonus.

God, that remix of the Channel 5 WCVB Candlepin Bowling theme, brings back memories man. Haven't even started watching the actual bowling yet and I had to like the video just for that.

Thank you Frank and Kyle!!!

You guys are doing God’s work...this is an excellent product and I can’t thank you enough for putting this out there!

what a great format. Awesome job and thanks to Frank and Kyle..Hope you guys put out more content.... Great bowling and congrats to the champs...

Thanks to everyone who works behind the scenes to make this possible. Kudos to Academy Lanes.. but Lucky Strike didnt go without a fight that's for sure.

Anyone else get here by having the 1988 true value championship come up in their feed?

@God-w-

Жыл бұрын

yeah i didnt even know this was still a sport

@therealbradmo

Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly how I got here.

@johnbarrington2526

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Ohhh, that intro song... memories man ..

@mikeaceto2025

4 жыл бұрын

Best memories is watching one the greatest bowlers ever Tom Olszta he was great

Just started bowling in a league up at French king in Erving. These guys make it look so easy. I'm happy if I bowl north of 90 lol

It is tremendous to see such high quality candlepin bowling on the interwebs. However, aesthetically speaking, it would have been awesome to have some new pins for the viewing audience. I know for those of us who spent their time with Don Gillis, appreciate the sharp look of the red ringed candlepin gleaming as the ball rocketed in the pocket. Perhaps, this is something for championship organizers to think about for thousands viewing from their iPhones and laptops.

I have also heard that Hall of Fame story regarding Dave Richards.

Everytime Packard throws I think the ball is going to bounce up and through the ceiling

What’s the format for the entire tournament? How are the wins and losses (ex. 66-22) figured?

@manofdef

5 жыл бұрын

In the round robin each team bowls eleven three string matches with eight points awarded per match (two points per string and an additional two for the winner of the match). Teams would split the two points in the event of a tied string. In the playoffs matches are determined by total pinfall.

31:55 "Got hit by a truck on 495" "Yeah...almost got taken out..period"

ok... ive wanted the wcvb version as a ringtone... where can we find an isolated copy of this riff?

@AlleyChat

5 жыл бұрын

Are you saying I did a good job with it ?

@afuzzycreature8387

5 жыл бұрын

@@AlleyChat I mean, good, bad, who cares... its nostalgia for me... never bowled much but watched the show growing up every saturday after the cartooons. I say that, I think its a good riff. If its yours then you may want to upload it as a separate youtube vid... up to you. As far as I know nobody has ever found the original source for the channel 5 version. I miss "home" a lot... just a different culture in suburban Boston/New England. Candlepin is certainly one of those things.

@AlleyChat

5 жыл бұрын

@@afuzzycreature8387 soundcloud.com/frankdeluca/channel-5-theme

Mike Morin sounds a little different when he talks than what he sounded like 14 years ago.

I watch all the old shows I had no idea that Jim Putney pass I watch that show a few times Paul Steve I New good friends Garry Jim didn't know to well I was from the cape but hard to beleave he is gone and a few others I miss the good old days lots of fun and a lot of challang you never no who's going to the end we bowl our best but some times it's not just anouff I like you talking about the guys we bowled against that we miss and grew up with and push each other Don santiago

Why isn't the lane flat, it looks like the end of lane is lower than the rest of the lane, making the ball bounce?

@AlleyChat

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean by the pins? There is a slight difference in height between the lane and pindeck. This is to try to prevent rolling pins from coming back onto the lane, where they would have to be removed.

Candlepins for Cash

How can the ball come off the tips of your fingers if there are no holes???

@natrixxvision6997

3 жыл бұрын

@@skellsskells I guess

@dustylawson

3 жыл бұрын

think of larger scale skee ball

@natrixxvision6997

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustylawson Well I was always terrible at ski ball. But yeah, I can kinda see it.

why don't they curve the ball?

@yabbaguy

4 жыл бұрын

I only play casually, but the current belief is that a hooked ball is too unreliable in candlepin. The ball's too small and trying to apply rotation to it is finicky and unreliable. There's also no oil on the lanes to "grab" the ball like in tenpin. The most reliable shot is a cross-lane shot so that you're still attacking the pins at an angle.

@jenkinsljenkinssquire9137

4 жыл бұрын

@@yabbaguy I see. Point noted. I've played a few times and the side rotation can get away from you. I just thought with them playing more and enough practice they could master that

@yabbaguy

4 жыл бұрын

@@jenkinsljenkinssquire9137 For all we know, maybe candlepin hasn't had its Belmonte who radically changes the notion of how to deal the ball down the lane. (Not literally two-handed, mind you. THAT would end poorly for sure. :P )

@JMRSplatt

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah there's no oil on the lane.. Curving is really fun.. but it's incredibly difficult

@JMRSplatt

4 жыл бұрын

@@yabbaguy I would go with Tommy Olszta being the best we've seen. Modern competition doesn't push high levels of play without the large TV purses. edit: misspelled Tommy's name, ty for the correction

This sport is so confusing. How does the scoring work ?

@LilRandOnTop

4 жыл бұрын

So. As you can see, unlike 10-pin bowling. You got 3 chances. If you get all the pins down on the 3rd roll it's called a derby and it's worth 10. Everything else is the same as 10-pin bowling

@manofdef

4 жыл бұрын

Americans don’t refer to a ten box as a derby. Perhaps that’s Canadian in origin?

@legozelda2090

4 жыл бұрын

The X means ten pins down in three balls. In the US, referred to as a ten box. A strike has a triangle in two corners; a spare a triangle in one.

@starskunk

4 жыл бұрын

Scoring works mainly the same as in the 10-pin bowling most people know, except for the fact you have three balls instead of two in each box. Knock all the pins down in one ball (strike, denoted by two triangles in the corners of the box), you get 10 plus your first 2 balls in the next box. Knock all the pins down in 2 balls (spare, denoted by one triangle in the corner of the box), you get 10 plus your first ball in the next box. Get them all down in three (a ten, denoted by an X), you just get the 10 with no bonus.

No skill. Just a bunch of guys throwing a little ball hoping for the best.

@AlleyChat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Can’t wait til you throw the worlds first perfect game! Let us know when you do!

@ccg1171

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlleyChat I did.

@Mallen5.5.17.Q

Жыл бұрын

come try it you fool

@Mallen5.5.17.Q

Жыл бұрын

@@ccg1171 ouch zing that hurt so original. Didn't understand the level of idiot I was dealing with

@ccg1171

Жыл бұрын

@Michael Allen who's the idiot? You tell people it's not worth getting into it with me but you still do it knucklehead. Keep responding and show who the moron is dummy.