Coming from a past duckpin bowler, I found tenpin MUCH harder. Having to read the oil pattern and such... in duckpin you kinda just throw the ball down at the pins.
There is no science to this game like there is in 10 Pin bowling. I mean 10 pin bowling isn't the most popular or fastest growing sport by any means but compared to duckpin 10 pin runs laps around duckpin bowling. There is so much more to 10 pin bowling. Yeah the scores are higher but its not like everyone bowls 300 every game. Equipment, Lane oil patterns, and ball motions are the reason 10 pin bowling is more popular.
@KenJones300 are you joking? everything you mentioned absolutely applies in duckpin bowling as well. do you think people just throw a ball at the pins?
@penguinshamrock That´s great! I can assure you that Argentina is more beautiful than most people imagine in the U.S. If you ever come down here, please let me know.
One way to save it is to do what Steve Renaud does in Candlepin. He hosts a youtube show called Candlepin for Kids, and it's in its seventh season. Maybe something like that in Duckpin would help?
I bowl in many different houses, and the most important thing I have noticed about successful houses is the personality of the staff. If the staff is fun, vibrant, and personable, the house is succssful. But there's a house in Edmonton here that's going under just strictly because of the rude staff. People go bowling to have fun, and if they get yelled at or ordered around, they won't go back. If you're selling fun, it's your job to see that the customers have fun, plain and simple.
i am a 10pin bowler in a leauge. and sometimes i'll have some fun and go duck pin bowling. i live in gaithersburg MD and i only know of one duckpin lane )':
Very interesting film. Having been raised in California, and lured back into tenpin bowling only 2 weeks ago after over 10 years away, I would dearly love the opportunity and challenge of duckpin bowling. Yet where on the West Coast could one partake of it? Judging from the automatic-pinsetter setup, it wouldn't be easy to convert a few tenpin lanes into duckpin ones for those that'd like to try it...or would it be easy to convert?
the problem with exporting it out of the immediate area seemed to be marketing. people were just "used to" 10pin bowling, and the lanes didn't seem to see enough traffic. many lanes in the MD area are 10pin and duckpin, but a conversion would be hard only because no one is making the pinsetting equipment anymore. You'd have to wait for an old lane to shut down, and buy out their equipment and then move it over. Then you've got to market it...
@sjaffe Hey sjaffe, it´s Nick from Argentina. I really liked your documentary. I just wanted to tell you that here in Argentina duckpin bowling is VERY popular. Don´t know really why nor how, but it´s true. There are more duckpin bowling houses that regular 10-pin one, actually. And not only in Buenos Aires city but also in the rest of the country. I am a duckpin bowler myself, and I have been playing since I was 13 o so. I am 26 now.
@nicoterradas hey Nick! Thank you so much for your comment. This is great news, I had no idea. I already wanted to visiti Argentina and now I know I have to-- and with a camera!
@sjaffe I am going to the U.S. next August to do a PhD in Pol Sci (with a Fulbright Scholarship). I would really like to continue playing duckpin bowling over there. I didn´t know it was a dying sport...
@sjaffe SJAFFE, I don´t know yet since the admission process is still on... but most certainly in the North-Eastern part of the country... probably at the Univ. of Chicago, Syracuse, or Notre Dame. I´ve read that the most "duckpin-bowling-friendly" area is all through the Atlantic coast, speacially to the North... is that right?
Interesting film. I have always wanted to try duckpin and candlepin, but sadly, we don't have that opportunity here in Chicago. Perhaps a group of investors can build a few lanes in other parts of the US to promote the sport?
The US Tennis Assoc. says tennis is the fastest growing sport, the bull riders say bull riding is the fastest growing sport in america, The lacrosse people say lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in america.
If you take a look at the number of lane closures around this country (and the declines in league membership) you can tell that bowling is unfortunately not the "fastest growing sport in america." If it was, new houses would be popping up left and right.
I don't think the dead would ruler change would do that much to help. Duckpin is my favorite game and it saddens me seeing it die. If I could own any business it would be a duckpin bowling alley. I think owners of alleys need to go to schools and set up after school bowling for kids. Once the kids like it they will bring there parents and friends and hopefully continue bowling into adulthood. I think the game is a mystery for those who haven't done it.
I live in the Washington/Baltimore area, where duckpins really thrived until the late 90's. Duckpins will always suffer a perception problem with adults more than kids. If duckpins got the same kind of financial support that tenpins got when those 3 Microsoft guys bought the PBA, then it has a chance.
Let duckpins be shown played in the next "Twilight" movie or Disney Channel show and/or pay someone to lobby the IOC to include ducks in the 2012 Summer Olympics. That would goose attendance.
I do not think that lower scoring should be used as an excuse as to why Duckpin bowling is dying. Candlepin bowling has much lower scores and although has shrunk also but not at the rate Duckpin has. Maybe a rule change that allows you to keep the deadwood like in Candlepins would help, hell what do you have to lose , try it. I've bowled them both before Candlepin and Duckpin, while it is fun, I don't know why it is dying but scores can't be it because of what I said earlier.
If I may, there's a different mentality between Canadians and Americans. With our consumer-driven, more-is-better, macho, we-are-No.1 mentality, Americans (especially babyboomers raised on the "Flintstones" and the "Honeymooners") will generally look at duckpins as a kids' game, mainly because of the size and weight of the duckpin balls (as though size and strength are real indicators of manhood). And the money made by said babyboomers will always follow their perceptions.
I bowl every single week at Woodlawn Lanes in West Haven, CT. I grew up in Stratford and bowled at the Barnum Ave lanes as a kid. Duckpin bowling is one of the greatest sports and everyone viewing this should play granted you have a lane near you!
Great video!! I'm from Pittsburgh and we bowl rubberband duckpins. Unfortantly, our game is also dying in Pittsburgh. But in Montreal, there is a huge following and even 2 different pro tours with tv viewing.
My name is Adam and i've never been Candlepin,5 pin nor duckpin bowling before :) i'm a 210+ avg bowler in big pins :)
FFHpoison 9 months ago
Coming from a past duckpin bowler, I found tenpin MUCH harder. Having to read the oil pattern and such... in duckpin you kinda just throw the ball down at the pins.
Brutekiller147 10 months ago
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I always go to the place at 0:30
penguinshamrock 1 year ago
I always go to the place at 0:30
penguinshamrock 1 year ago
There is no science to this game like there is in 10 Pin bowling. I mean 10 pin bowling isn't the most popular or fastest growing sport by any means but compared to duckpin 10 pin runs laps around duckpin bowling. There is so much more to 10 pin bowling. Yeah the scores are higher but its not like everyone bowls 300 every game. Equipment, Lane oil patterns, and ball motions are the reason 10 pin bowling is more popular.
KenJones300 1 year ago
@KenJones300 are you joking? everything you mentioned absolutely applies in duckpin bowling as well. do you think people just throw a ball at the pins?
sjaffe 1 year ago
I love that place I go there all the time!!!
penguinshamrock 1 year ago
@penguinshamrock That´s great! I can assure you that Argentina is more beautiful than most people imagine in the U.S. If you ever come down here, please let me know.
nicoterradas 1 year ago
@nicoterradas um okay
penguinshamrock 1 year ago
One way to save it is to do what Steve Renaud does in Candlepin. He hosts a youtube show called Candlepin for Kids, and it's in its seventh season. Maybe something like that in Duckpin would help?
paladin313 2 years ago
I bowl in many different houses, and the most important thing I have noticed about successful houses is the personality of the staff. If the staff is fun, vibrant, and personable, the house is succssful. But there's a house in Edmonton here that's going under just strictly because of the rude staff. People go bowling to have fun, and if they get yelled at or ordered around, they won't go back. If you're selling fun, it's your job to see that the customers have fun, plain and simple.
5pinTy 2 years ago
Our house has 42 lanes and 10 of them are duckpin so it's fun to bowl both in the same day.
starsandbarsDixie 2 years ago
for some reason I would enjoy duckpin but unfortunately i live in the west so its mostly ten pin bowling
Retrobowler 2 years ago
i am a 10pin bowler in a leauge. and sometimes i'll have some fun and go duck pin bowling. i live in gaithersburg MD and i only know of one duckpin lane )':
hoverman15 2 years ago
lol mr.dick peasant!!!
MrBowler17888 2 years ago
I'm in a duckpin league!!
Brutekiller147 2 years ago
Very interesting film. Having been raised in California, and lured back into tenpin bowling only 2 weeks ago after over 10 years away, I would dearly love the opportunity and challenge of duckpin bowling. Yet where on the West Coast could one partake of it? Judging from the automatic-pinsetter setup, it wouldn't be easy to convert a few tenpin lanes into duckpin ones for those that'd like to try it...or would it be easy to convert?
jayjarnold 2 years ago
the problem with exporting it out of the immediate area seemed to be marketing. people were just "used to" 10pin bowling, and the lanes didn't seem to see enough traffic. many lanes in the MD area are 10pin and duckpin, but a conversion would be hard only because no one is making the pinsetting equipment anymore. You'd have to wait for an old lane to shut down, and buy out their equipment and then move it over. Then you've got to market it...
sjaffe 2 years ago
@sjaffe Hey sjaffe, it´s Nick from Argentina. I really liked your documentary. I just wanted to tell you that here in Argentina duckpin bowling is VERY popular. Don´t know really why nor how, but it´s true. There are more duckpin bowling houses that regular 10-pin one, actually. And not only in Buenos Aires city but also in the rest of the country. I am a duckpin bowler myself, and I have been playing since I was 13 o so. I am 26 now.
nicoterradas 1 year ago
@nicoterradas hey Nick! Thank you so much for your comment. This is great news, I had no idea. I already wanted to visiti Argentina and now I know I have to-- and with a camera!
sjaffe 1 year ago
@sjaffe I am going to the U.S. next August to do a PhD in Pol Sci (with a Fulbright Scholarship). I would really like to continue playing duckpin bowling over there. I didn´t know it was a dying sport...
nicoterradas 1 year ago
@nicoterradas where will you be in the US?
sjaffe 1 year ago
@sjaffe SJAFFE, I don´t know yet since the admission process is still on... but most certainly in the North-Eastern part of the country... probably at the Univ. of Chicago, Syracuse, or Notre Dame. I´ve read that the most "duckpin-bowling-friendly" area is all through the Atlantic coast, speacially to the North... is that right?
nicoterradas 1 year ago
@sjaffe
You'd think the game'd probably take off in Canada, since the most common form of bowling here is 5-pin, which uses the same size ball as Duckpins.
...Yet I've never seen it.
UdallIn72 1 year ago
Interesting film. I have always wanted to try duckpin and candlepin, but sadly, we don't have that opportunity here in Chicago. Perhaps a group of investors can build a few lanes in other parts of the US to promote the sport?
I don't know what the solution would be.
Spudskie 3 years ago
Same here in another part of the world - Asia
inspirebowl 3 years ago
there are many lanes in the phillipines apparently!
sjaffe 2 years ago
The man at 1:27 is wrong, 10 pin bowling is the fastest growing sport in America. Just a little fast fact there (:
xXpancakeploxXx 3 years ago
The US Tennis Assoc. says tennis is the fastest growing sport, the bull riders say bull riding is the fastest growing sport in america, The lacrosse people say lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in america.
If you take a look at the number of lane closures around this country (and the declines in league membership) you can tell that bowling is unfortunately not the "fastest growing sport in america." If it was, new houses would be popping up left and right.
sjaffe 2 years ago
Great job on the film! I've always been interested in learning more about this sport. Sadly, it sounds like it is a rapidly dying game.
cplhunter 3 years ago
I love duckpin bowling I'm in a league in Martinsburg, WV and my team won first place 2 years ago and we collected 900 a person on a 4 man team.
tross33420 3 years ago
holy shit is it pikeside? i bowl there on tuesday nights
Shenaniguys08 2 years ago
It would sure be great to have duckpin here!
5pinTy 3 years ago
I don't think the dead would ruler change would do that much to help. Duckpin is my favorite game and it saddens me seeing it die. If I could own any business it would be a duckpin bowling alley. I think owners of alleys need to go to schools and set up after school bowling for kids. Once the kids like it they will bring there parents and friends and hopefully continue bowling into adulthood. I think the game is a mystery for those who haven't done it.
cjb761 3 years ago
I live in the Washington/Baltimore area, where duckpins really thrived until the late 90's. Duckpins will always suffer a perception problem with adults more than kids. If duckpins got the same kind of financial support that tenpins got when those 3 Microsoft guys bought the PBA, then it has a chance.
Let duckpins be shown played in the next "Twilight" movie or Disney Channel show and/or pay someone to lobby the IOC to include ducks in the 2012 Summer Olympics. That would goose attendance.
geekforlife003 3 years ago
I do not think that lower scoring should be used as an excuse as to why Duckpin bowling is dying. Candlepin bowling has much lower scores and although has shrunk also but not at the rate Duckpin has. Maybe a rule change that allows you to keep the deadwood like in Candlepins would help, hell what do you have to lose , try it. I've bowled them both before Candlepin and Duckpin, while it is fun, I don't know why it is dying but scores can't be it because of what I said earlier.
BIGGREENLEAF1 3 years ago
If I may, there's a different mentality between Canadians and Americans. With our consumer-driven, more-is-better, macho, we-are-No.1 mentality, Americans (especially babyboomers raised on the "Flintstones" and the "Honeymooners") will generally look at duckpins as a kids' game, mainly because of the size and weight of the duckpin balls (as though size and strength are real indicators of manhood). And the money made by said babyboomers will always follow their perceptions.
geekforlife003 3 years ago
I bowl every single week at Woodlawn Lanes in West Haven, CT. I grew up in Stratford and bowled at the Barnum Ave lanes as a kid. Duckpin bowling is one of the greatest sports and everyone viewing this should play granted you have a lane near you!
shikacaca 3 years ago
Great video!! I'm from Pittsburgh and we bowl rubberband duckpins. Unfortantly, our game is also dying in Pittsburgh. But in Montreal, there is a huge following and even 2 different pro tours with tv viewing.
rkarl26 3 years ago
id love to help support this game i love bowling but i live nowhere near any duckpin lanes i would love to try some day
amrepmike33 4 years ago 2