Bo Burton's tip: Making the 7-10 split

[jwm239]

...hmm...and the headpin was missing from the setup by the cameraman and equipment.

[spellbound44]

He couldn't have pulled it over. If you watch his pull is delayed, after it started moving to the right. If the string was as taught as it could possibly be when it was hit, then once the pin moved it would have given the string slack, preventing him from being able to get any kind of pull on it. His pull was also way too late.

[Pokeman499]

Does anyone else see that Mozza is putting his pinkey and ring finger in the ball?

[htc6600]

@Pokeman499 I use just my thumb and middle finger to kill the shot. I especially use that combo for 10 pin spares.

[brgvt97]

I showed somebody I know a tape of Roth converting the 7-10 split. About 6 months later I showed him this tip segment. He said, "Oh, so that's how Roth made the 7-10 that one time. There was a guy with a fishing line yanking the pin over to the other side." He actually believes that a fishing line was used in Roth's conversion. I'm not kidding.

[FLIGHTCOMPANY]

Throw as hard as you can then throw a bottle of beer at the other pin

[666ryan666]

what a bunch of fuckin homos!!!! nice conversion though. "let me see that arm" god dam gays!!!! just kidding i have nothing against the gay folk, just dont do that arm thing again. that shit was gay as fuck....gay gay gay lol

[MrJohnyboy69]

@666ryan666 you know, your so much of a fag did anyone need to read that? was there any point in commenting that? no!! you stupid fuck, go masterbate to some old fag guy named gary..

[ConnorwithaO]

I think he actually did hit the 10 pin before the guy pulled on it!

[AaronEads09]

@ConnorwithaO if there was string tied to the 7 wouldnt the other pins and ball from the first shot hit the string and took the 7 with them...just saying unless they tied it when that happened but in real time thats unlikely...

[kace842]

Pause it at 1:20 and you can see the light bouncing off the fishing line :) right next to the 10 pin.

[martsteve75]

if pin counts are critical go for the one pin......no shit. Thanks for that.

[misanthrope8]

My son converted that the other day. He's 17.

[jwm239]

...get 'invisible' fishing line; now that

gives new meaning to the "hook" in

bowling.

[nascarfan1444]

notice at 1:02 he put his pinky and ring finger in the ball the make it hook less

[Turtle3000GT]

Wow, no shit, he would have made it anyhow!!

[20alphabet]

Creepy-eyed mazza. Cheating, spaghetti-bending garlic eater.

Naw, just kidding! (But he DOES have creepy eyes!).

[Bowlinglessons]

I thought he would have actually made that...but whatever

[joypadb]

Hard Straight and hope... These are tips for the bedroom also

[vpxdemon]

I've picked it up twice. The first time the pin never hit the pit at all. I throw roughly 30mph at the 10 pin, and the ball clipped the left side of the 10. If then bounced off the sideboard, hit my ball, and took out the 7.

The other time I picked it up, I nailed the 10 straight on and it bounded in the back corner. It then came out, hit the gate in mid-air, rolled back and took out the 7.

[fruitaleman]

HAHAHA that was funny xD he has a sense of humor.

[ChaserBiaatch]

hahaha thats funny the last 7-10 pick up wit the fishing line HAHAHA great prank

[586KING]

haha inoo john mazzas son ive been over his house and seen john many times

[razman93]

haha, me too. when we went golfing

[BowlerScott]

I spoke to a guy that I currently work with about this topic. He was working at that house on the day of this event and told me what happened. I was skeptical when he told me this, but upon further research and inspection, I found this to be true. Plus, you can look at the video and see that the pin didn't hit any such plank.

[BowlerScott]

When he made that 7-10, there was a sheet of plexiglass in the pit protecting a camera that was recording from an angle behind the pins. That is why he managed to pick it up by hitting the 7 in such a funky spot.

[Bowler4Ever]

Actually, not true. On AMF machines, there's a plank to guide the ball into a door that goes to the return track. The pin hit the plank and bounced to the 10 pin.

[mean0machine0]

oh who gives a shit. he converted it and thats that

[bacharles]

Amen.

[tazo0489]

thats a *** fluke and his bowing to the crowd like he is some bolwing god!!! my cousin got it and it clipped the side and came aross like it should be done!

[BowlerScott]

That isn't the way the 7-10 "should be done." I guarantee that didn't happen. Maybe it was the 6-7 split or the 4-10, but not the 7-10. The 7-10 is made ONLY by smacking one pin out of the pit into the other. Search for more 7-10 conversions on youtube. Every one is made similar to the way John made it here. And of course it's a fluke-it's the 7-10 split... John Mazza was a really good bowler and to belittle his accomplishments is simply a sign of your own envy of him.

[Poundcakebowler]

Scott, he really did convert it on TV. I watched this telecast live and I couldn't believe it. His way that he picked it up is the same way I did.

Also the first way I ever did was the Roth way. Watch his conversion, that first one was done on a brunswick machine like his and my second was on an AMF like Mazza's

[BowlerScott]

Dude, you need to know the context of my comment before you reply to it... Read the comment to which I replied, and you'll clearly see what I meant.

[BowlerScott]

I'm not a retard... I wish people could back up their statements with facts before they irrationally get in the faces of other people. Whatever. You think what you want, I was just stating an interesting fact. I'm tired of fighting with ignorant people about things like this.

[LeothePatrioticLion]

BowlerScott, I salute you!

[SkaterStick]

It looked like he would have made the 7-10 even if his friend didnt help him.

[SkaterStick]

It looked like he would have made the 7-10 even if his friend didnt help him.

[BowlerScott]

His friend pulled the 7 pin out of the pit into the 10 pin. He didn't just pull the 10 pin down with the line.

[brian1969a]

I swear, Bo's tips in the last few years of the telecast were next to worthless. Totally understandable, though. I mean, how many times can you keep going through the same stuff, over and over again.

As for the 7-10, I agree...if you need it to win, throw hard at one of 'em and hope. If you don't need it, don't give up the count and just shoot the one pin.

(For the record, I've made it twice...both times in the first frame, and I wasn't going for it...just pure luck)

[pbateson]

When I bowled with very broken back and the 7 pin rolled to empty 10 pin. Then 10 pin rolled to empty 7 pin. I was practicing last summer after I got back from HK.

[sommerssmith]

I think John was playing hookey on that tip. We all know about his conversion, but when he made it it was only in the second frame. If you feel yourself in that situation, just go for the one pin to practice your spare conversion. Maybe then you will improve your spare making.

[vanni9283]

And he lost that match too! lol!!!