Today many people choose bowling as a way of spending their free time. But they don’t realize that in fact bowling games is a sport which the name of which certainly comes from the English to bowl.
The winner in bowling sport is an athlete who will bring down the smallest number of balls when all the pins are located at the end of a smooth track without collars. According to bowling rules, there are two shots in each frame. The diameter of a bowling ball is 68.5 inches and weighs about seven pounds. The height of the pins is 38 centimeters. Track has a length of 18.2 meters and a width of 1.66 meters. Bowls are a triangle at the end of the track. Classic bowling has the ten-or nine-pins.
If you like bowling games play bowling 5. Nearest to pin a player has the first number, and sometimes it is called the “front”. Stroke, shot down all ten pins is called strike. If the athlete hits the bowling pyramid for two shots (the frame), then this situation is fixed as spares. If a player first roll knocks down the central pins, leaving the corner, then think you have a split. By implementing a split for the next roll of spares, the athlete gets extra points.
Open frame is a situation when, after two shots left there stand one or more pins. Strike brings ten points plus the points, depending on the number of pins knocked down in the next two throws. Thus, two strikes in one frame will give admission points for pins knocked down in the next two frames (two throws, then a flame, for each strike). Spares also brings ten points plus points for pins knocked down in the first roll of the next frame. In an open frame sunglasses are credited only for pins knocked down. If the first shot ten frames – the strike, the player is entitled to have two shots, and if in the tenth frame spin – on a roll when the tenth frame is an open end of the game begins.
Bowling is motly popular in the United States. However, fans of bowling today can be found in more than 110 countries. International Bowling Federation FIQ (Federation Internationale des Quilleurs), founded in 1952, promotes the development of bowling, develops and maintains a level playing field and promotes the Olympic Movement in bowling.
