#7 Chris Sacchetti vs #8 Jim Ayotte Winner takes home $1,200 and is the Pro Series Playoffs Champion. Brought to you by Candlepin for Kids. For more on the Pro Series, go to www.candlepinproseries.com.
Holy crap this is fun to watch! I love the crazy ways you can ricochet off of the fallen pins. Makes it a very cool sport! I wish there was a candlepin bowling alley around me so I could try it out.
@@IWantToBelieve1 That's what we kids called Tenpins, when we moved from Mass to NC. Glad I moved back to Mass. There are two candlepin establishments, within 3 miles of me.
I grew up with both parents being kingpin (or 10-pin) bowlers in their respective lane leagues for years. I hadn't heard of candlepin bowling since I moved to Maine and then attempted it myself in New Brunswick last year. I really enjoyed it, but it is extremely difficult.
Rolling rocks at a particular object Feather bowling has its own bowling lane That lane is treated like curling The ball stays in the end For each layer And they both aim for the center
This comes across to me as a cross between regular 10-pin bowling and skeeball. I think this is more of an Everyman sport than traditional bowling. You don't have to invest $$$ in a high performance ball and it's not as physically demanding as lugging a 14-16 lb ball.
I've bowled both. Ten pin is far easier. With candlepin or duckpin, you generally need to buy three balls even for weekend bowlers, and they're $75 each.. A good average in duckpin is anything above 110. Nothing like throwing a 2-8 chop right off the headpin for two pins on the first ball, and throwing two more right through the hole for a 2 box..
imlee888 The place this was filmed at has been torn down and is a doctors office lol. In New England we have to try and find places that have big ball bowling. Everything is candle pin. Ps joe rogen sent me here lol
Yes, it was. Murph could have had a show of his own once Don retired. And the annual championship could have been dubbed "The Don Gillis Memorial". (He is missed!) BMP
I'm new to watching these videos, so forgive me but why do they all throw the ball so hard? Can you not achieve the same results without throwing it all crazy?
MassEffectFan113 the throw it so hard to maximize the action they get from the pins. you want the pins to be flying around. its impossible to strike otherwise.
why is there so much hate on this sport. it is bowling but more of a challenge. how can u hate something that you've never tried. unfortunately i dont live near a center with this but i would love to travel to play it or if one will come to my town.
@@botsareeverywhere ik for sure this is not more of a challenge. People dont even use hook in this shit. And oil patterns dont mean anything. So it is not harder
@@skppy1225 just bc noones bowled a 300 doesn't mean its harder. I'm not talking about score. Throwing a 15 pound ball over hundreds of different changing oil patterns is way harder than throwing a rubber ball down a lane at pins... The concept of real bowling is way harder
No. A thin coat of Butcher's wax to protect the lane is what was traditional. Some places put a very thin even coat of oil just to protect the lane. Supposedly synthetic candepin lanes need nothing at all. The ball doesn't hook to any real degree, so a pattern of oil wouldn't do anything in candlepins anyway. The whole game is speed, straight-line accuracy and angles.
Sometimes the dead wood can be very unpredictable. You it might help you, it might just send the ball straight off in the wrong direction and give you nothing
So uh, can we make this a national thing? I love bowling but i'm not good and this version of it is foreign to me but really peaks my interest. We don't have any candlepin lanes near me.
When I was a kid, I did some candlepin bowling in my hometown of Glace Bay, NS! From 1986 to 1993, the former ATV (now CTV Maritimes) televised candlepin bowling every Saturday afternoon for a few years, which was sponsored by a cigarette brand (Number 7 1986-1988, Mark 10 1988-1990, Belvedere 1990-1993), yet TV commercials for cigarette brands have already been outlawed before I was even born!
The "King of the Palace" guys are "interesting", though I thought some of the names they gave some of the leaves and shots were a bit weird; at least I've never heard of them. I lived in RI all my life, but watched the old Channel 5 show since I was a 10-year-old kid, and I've never heard some of those names. The only negative I have about Dan Murphy (excellent bowler, great commentator, but): his use of the word "channel" in place of "gutter". A "channel ball" just makes no sense to me.
I'm noticing now that a number of new tenpin bowling alleys in Eastern Massachusetts have just been opening recently. Including a new number of Kings in Lynnfield & Burlington, and a Wamesit Lanes in Tewksbury. Another new Kings will be opening right near the New England Aquarium in 2017 too. A couple of casinos in Everett & Revere that are opening will also have tenpin lanes in one of them. If tenpins continues to grow in Massachusetts, in time candlepins may no longer become the dominant sport in the state. But usually those in New England who chooses to bowl candlepins, or duckpins and refuses to bowl tenpins is because they think they can't physically manage to pick up & hold a tenpin ball because it's too heavy for them and they might injure themselves with it. The small balls are safer and much lighter. But unfortunately, it is likely that candlepins will never spread across the United States. Because it's a too hard game, with the lack of a 300 perfect game like in tenpins. The pins are too small to make strikes like in tenpins. Plus the candlepin balls are too hard to control. Bowlers outside New England that generally uses tenpins may never have any fun with the game.
Candlepin Bowling is here to stay in Nova Scotia as they don't have 5 and 10 Pin Bowling facilities outside military bases. 5 Pin Bowling is here to stay in Canada as well.
No, we don't have candlepin bowling, HB. First time I've ever witnessed this. What an unlucky guy. He didn't get hit by lightning later in the day, did he? Or a piano drop on his head? Eaten by a whale?
Just saying one word: Jim Ayotte throws way too hard, which always have been fascinated me regarding this sport: Deflection anyone? Jim throws so hard that the ball just bounces away, doing nothing or going straight through the deck with very bizarre leaves. What if they actually threw the ball way slower and let it deflect and the deflection doing the work in the pin deck? They would be so much more precise and I do think they would benefit from it. Unfortunate I have never got the chance to try this out, and I don't know if I ever will.
+MC BluePotato Yes - about 41 inches across, 60 ft from foul line to head pin. What would be a 'pin deck' in tenpins is a 'pin plaet' in candlepins and is slightly lower than the rest of the lane.
Bounce the ball off the lane near the release (typically off the foul line, I believe), landing beyond the lob line. Because it makes contact with the lane surface on the approach side of the lob line, it's not an illegal shot.
Dear Sir in the White "In & Out" t-shirt @ 3:30, You're an adult. Wear adult sized shorts. Absolutely inappropriate. Sincerely, Everyone on the internet.
+DurTeeDan It's not as easy as it looks, actually. Speed means nothing without accuracy. You have more chance that you'll just blow out a few pins instead of deflecting into the other pins.
Candlepin Bowling is the most difficult Bowling type you'll ever play, even more so than 5 Pin Bowling which is only available in Canada. In other words, you can get scores in the 160 to 240 range in 5 Pin Bowling, and even a possibility of a "Clean Game" or a game where a Bowler gets a spare and/or strike in every frame easily, but struggle to get over 100 in Candlepin. In fact, when I play 5 Pin Bowling in Newfoundland, I usually have a 160 average (par score is 150, and highest score possible is 450), but if I play Candlepin, I'm lucky to get over 90 which is under the par score of 100.
John Barrett candlepin is definately not harder then 5, get real lol, they dont even clear the pins in candlepin after each shot, giving better leverage on knocking down more pins with it
It wouldn't do anything! Some people do put some spin on the ball! But in this game about an accurate ball,and knowing how to play redwood angles! There's never been a perfect game!!
The balls are way lighter, many have spin on their ball, but it barely hooks, because its down the lane in a split second, and doesn't have time to catch the spin on the lane
I want to like this: the announcers are decent, and any tournament in which the likes of Jeff Surrette and John Zappi compete's for real. But the camera work is TERRIBLE, and compares very unfavorably to the good work and angles the King of the Palace videos have. I also hate that huge and jarring www.CP4K.com logo in the lower corner. I get seasick watching the camera bobbing back and forth, and got only about ten minutes in.
Everyone who likes candle pin, oh well, you do you, but still it will never EVER be real bowling. It’s an arcade game, and that’s all it should ever be
Charlie Eichholz just looks lame cuz it's different. You're comparing it to the "normal" bowling you know but you can't. It's totally different and awesome in its own way
Double j go bowl a tournament even a short 8 or 9 game tournament lol the strength and endurance it takes to throw a 15lb ball that many games is a lot now when you get to pros you’re talking 50 games in a week and you can’t cheat splits with dead wood
Jake Fugi hahaha ten pin is easy I've seen many perfect games in ten pin hardly any in candlepin and all you have to do is hit the head pin in ten right spot and get a strike in ten pin
