Shout out to Don Dove. One of the best to ever do it. For those new to duckpin, you should know he now holds the record for most tournament victories in duckpin history.
I'm just starting to get into tournament bowling and doing sanction leagues/ fun leagues to stay sharp. I'm a 124 average at the moment and improved my average by 21 pins over one year so far.
I just found it yesterday, and I'm obsessed now. I did a search today for duckpin bowling alleys and it turns out they only exist in 11 states, mostly in New England. What a shame! This looks like a blast!
I grew up in Rhode Island. I bowled at lanes in Smithfield that are gone now. I also bowled here with my friends. I've been lucky to bowl ten-pin, duckpin, and candle-pin. I found duck-pin the most challenging. I wish the sport would grow.
I grew up duckpin in Stratford, CT. During the 90s. That place was amazing! Vivid memories. Upstairs and downstairs with about 15 lanes on each floor. And around the parameter they had arcade games/claw machines, etc. VERY OLD SCHOOL VIBE!! From what I heard the owner died and the son never reopened it. The building is still there. Hopefully it gets reopened one day and not demolished! 🤞
I'm 73 and when I was 12-13 I was what was called a "pinboy". We setting the balls . Obviously before automation. There was pedal we stepped on that made the spikes come up from the floor and with pins in hand you set them on the spikes. There was a passage between the two lanes so all the pinboys had 2 lanes to take care of. This game would be good for families wirh kids as the balls are way smaller.
@@brentvance3958 Here in the Philippines, majority of Duckpin Bowling Centers still had Pinboys while some had Sherman Pinsetters. Although all of them don’t have the Pindeck spike mechanism, so you’ll expect off spot pins.
i manage duckpin alleys and the club does not want to go automatic so we have pin kids i was a pin setter myself as well when i was 12 years old now 21
Ricashbringer There has never been a sanctioned perfect game. Plenty of people will claim they know someone who has. I’ve had plenty of amateur claim to do it themselves not understanding they are immediately exposing themselves to me as a liar. All that said, 12 strikes in row in duckpin bowling maybe the most difficult thing ever conceived by human beings.
i dont know him personally but at the duckpin alleys i manage there is a plaque with a guys name on it that says he bowled a 300 game its on a wall up stairs in the bar never met him i think he passed away but i believe it we also still have actual pin setters at my lanes.
I bowled candlpin back in the 1960s and '70s at Pafford's Bowling alley, (now Town Hall Lanes) in Falmouth, Ma. I bowled Duckpin back in the '60s when I traveled off Cape, but stayed in New England of course. I remember when I served in the army back in the late 1960s and mentioned candle pin bowling to someone who had never been to New England and they would look at me like I was some kind of a nut! Duckpin is a nice little game somewhere between candlepin and ten pin bowling.
I was a master bowler in the 5 pin association. The hard belly duckpin would be fun to play. I have played the soft belly duckpin in Quebec , Lots of fun.
I wish there was more duckpin bowling. Standard duckpin bowling is the closest cousin to our 5 pin game. 3 balls per frame, same balls, similar difficulty. Although there has been (very few) perfect games in 5 pin, and none in duckpin, it does indicate that it's more difficult to get strikes in duckpin, but it's also much easier to spare splits.
Want more Duckpin Bowling ? Come to the Philippines, a tropical asian country was perfect for Duckpin Bowling. Well due to the Tropical Heat, many Lanes are not fresh but still playable. Plus most of Duckpin Centers are Pinboys.
If I ever take a trip to the Philippines, I'll definitely try out the duckpin houses out there. I'm in Rhode Island, USA so we have 6 duckpin alleys still around. I'm not half bad but still improving.
Zoomer30 They are younger guys. We always put more on the ball, mature, and grow from it. Donnie doesn’t throw the ball like that anymore. There’s no fire. Slowing your ball down keeps pins out of the pit so your pin action stays on the deck and work for you.
When I lived up in Maryland I used to bowl duckpin the only bad thing about living in Enterprise Alabama, is there is no DP lanes l love the pin action which ten pin has little of my high was 170 in the ducks and 210 in the ten pin bowling I bowled at Marlo bowling alley in Md, it is so sad to see them go to ten pin
I heard about this when I was a kid. There is this type and rubber duckoin where the pins have a band of rubber around the fat part. The game got its name from the way the pins fly "like a spooked flock of ducks"
I'm a scratch normal bowler. I tried duckpin once and it is a whole different world. You can't really try to hook it because it is inconsistent. Have to throw bullets and aim just off center and hope for the best.
John Williams These two are bad representations of what duckpin has to offer as a whole. Dig deeper next time before labeling something. They’re young guys. That should tell you all you need to know about why they’re trying to force their way to victory. Donnie’s very first ball tells you everything you need to know. He was so tense he was a foot off the headpin to the tense side (2 pin). Duckpin maybe the most difficult iteration of bowling ever conceived but yeah, Ok, boomer.
I've tried all the forms of bowling. I bowled 5 pin mostly, but I also bowled tenpin, standard duckpin, Quebec rubberband duckpin, candlepin. I find standard duckpin to be most comparable to 5 pin. Love it!
I watched "Duckpins for Dollars" every Saturday morning in the late 60's early 70's out of the Baltimore area on TV as a kid growing up, followed up by Roller Derby!!!
As candlepin bowler, you would have an easier time. I went candling bowling for the first time in years. After getting a spare, I chopped out JUST THE HEAD pin. At least in duckpin, you will typically get 2 (the 1 and 5) or 3 (either the 8 or 9 pin in addition to the 1 and 5)
Duckpin bowling is a lot harder than Ten pin bowling. That is why you get 3 balls per frame instead of 2. Plus there has never been a 300 game in duckpin bowling that I am aware of. Do some research on why duckpin is harder than Ten pin. Very interesting.
There's still 5 Pin Bowling in Canada and 9 Pin Bowling in Texas and Germany. As well as another variation of Duckpin Bowling called "Rubber Duckpin Bowling" which only played in the French Canadian areas.
This just looks like a miniature version of regular bowling. I dont understand why they throw nothing but a straight ball. Why not put some curve on the ball and you should be able to make better shots.
Duckpin is a lot harder than 10 pin if you try to throw a big hook u will either throw it in the gutter or leave something weird. Avg in duckpin is about 90 vs 10 pin which is 140
As a duckpin bowler, nothing takes the wind out of my sails and rapes my hope for the future of humanity and by extension, my beloved sport, than the comment section of this video. HOW DARE YOU!? I SHOULD BE IN THE BOWLING ALLEY RIGHT NOW WORKING ON MY APPROACH. INSTEAD I AM HERE. PREACHING TO YOU 10 PIN ELITISTS. DUCKPIN BOWLING IS DYING! Please help by support the few alleys still open. I’m done the Greta joke now and I’m being serious. I bowl at AMF Southwest in Linthicum, MD. Come hang out. Bowl a couple games. Join a league! It’s like gambling but you get to exercise and play on a team!
I have bowled 4 different types of bowling in my lifetime and I can absolutely I assure you that duckpins which is what I grew up on in Massachusetts in the 70's- 2000's (candlepin 86'-94')is hands down the most fun out of any bowling game( and yes with the exception of candlepins(180) I bowled over 200 in all other bowling games including Canadian rubber ring duckpins.)Tenpin bowling is the most boring thing to play and watch. Hi impact solid plastic Duckpins fly from side to side with more action than any other bowling game and are a blast to bowl or watch. Tenpins just go clunk strike and with the exception of professionals whom strike most all the time, League tenpin bowlers are some of the worst spare shooters I've ever seen whereas duckpin/candlepin bowlers are far more accurate spare shooters as higher averages are completely dependent upon spares and not strikes!!
@@MrJerryscool because then maybe you could move out of your parents' house? Then again, saying there is no skill to duckpin bowling shows why you are too stupid to hold down a job.
If only someone can invent a new duckpin pinsetter and opening up a manufacture plant or warehouse to develop more of those. That pinsetter should be strictly free fall instead of the StringPin crap from Brunswick
