Custom 5 pin bowling ball?

[RedRooster]

Anyone know of a good site that sells custom 5 pin bowling balls?
Joining a league this winter, and want something to really show off my dominance on the lanes with.

 

[RichUK]

Pure dominance.

 

[AMCRambler]

Aren't you supposed to knock down all 10? You're not dominating if you only get 5.

 

[RedRooster]

Pure dominance.

Hahaha! That would actually make me look less fruity though with all the empty long island iced tea glasses next to me.

I did not realize US doesn't have 5 pin bowling. This is a very niche thread, I would think. Sorry.

 

[lxskllr]

LoL!

It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-pin_bowling

MD has duck pin bowling left in a few alleys, but that uses small balls/pins, and 10 pins.

 

[911paramedic]

I had to google it:

Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played only in Canada, where most bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous. He cut five tenpins down to about 75% of their size, and used hand-sized hard rubber balls, thus inventing the original version of five-pin bowling.

sniped!

 

[fatpat268]

Was canada so poor that they couldn't afford the other 5 pins?

 

[lxskllr]

Was canada so poor that they couldn't afford the other 5 pins?

Projectiles for their tank :^D

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Was canada so poor that they couldn't afford the other 5 pins?

yup. and canadians were giant pussies at the time.^_^

 

[gorcorps]

I had to google it too.

So 5 metric pins = 10 imperial pins? That's a pretty easy conversion... I think I can remember that one.

 

[dank69]

Why do we continue to allow Canada to be a country?!

 

[RedRooster]

Why do we continue to allow Canada to be a country?!

Because...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Canadian_Inventions :sneaky:

 

[Numenorean]

I had to google it:




sniped!

This is wrong. I am in America and I can go down to the local go-kart/mini-golf place and play 5-pin bowling. It really sucks.

 

[AMCRambler]

Because...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Canadian_Inventions :sneaky:

Alright, they did invent the wonderbra. That alone is worth putting up with their 5 pin bowling threads and Dennifloss.

 

[dank69]

Because...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Canadian_Inventions :sneaky:

According to that link the fourth best thing to come out of Canada of all time is five pin bowling.

 

[RedRooster]

According to that link the fourth best thing to come out of Canada of all time is five pin bowling.

Yuh!! You should try it!

 

[dank69]

Yuh!! You should try it!

I did try it. And I knocked down the other pins, too.

 

[alkemyst]

5 pin bowling for dudes who do the 1/8 mile.