5 Pin Bowling 1980's Incomplete and not PBA

[@wifferstess2824]

I used to have this on tape. This was Week 2 from CBC's Championship 5 Pin Bowling series in 1987. The commentators were Ernie Afaganis and Al Hunter. If you're wondering about Andre Morissette's unusual style of spinning the ball, it's because he also played duckpins in Quebec too.

[@tsctuberoussclerosiscanada4915]

What an amazing contrast in bowling styles!

[@matthewhounsome9175]

the good old Quebec Duckpin style throw

[@fue_emma]

Saludos desde León, Guanajuato, México

[@ryanlepore3058]

Now the free-fall in this video is the true game! "Thumbs up!"

[@mottbone]

Free fall! The only form of bowling that should be deemed legal in *any* form of bowling competition. So many times, I've seen false strikes, spares, etc where pins were felled by string only contact and still credited. Good to see free fall competition at work here.

[@elizabethdyck8729]

Can i play a five game bowling game

[@tommybolen4749]

I hope 5-pinbowling becomes a world's game someday

[@johnpenny5638]

Very interesting. Come to England and play skittles. You'd love it.

[@williampryor4306]

I believe this bowling alley is Roxy lanes in Winnipeg, MB.

[@timbaltz3324]

Plantation Bowlarama in Toronto not sure if it's still around or not. I had the Final round taped it was from 1987. A man named Blair Pizzey won it with a clutch double in the 10th over Dale Strutt from Oshawa Ontario. Great finish!

[@chuckschafer942]

NEVER SAW A DELIVERY LIKE THAT

[@johnseal56]

Also, I just learned that one could only use their own ball in 1990. These elite bowlers are having to use alley balls.

[@Reaghan08-zr7li]

Really?!!?

[@wii2schmoove876]

As a regular 10-pin bowler I'm greatly confused with this scoring system. Please explain

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

SpringleBab Bumberdick The headpin is worth 5 points. The two pins adjacent to the headpin are worth 3 points apiece. Finally the two corner pins are worth 2 points apiece. Since a full rack of pins is worth 15 points, a perfect game is 450.

[@johnseal56]

And wasn't this match played when you had to get one of the corner pins to make the frame count?

[@jbrains]

@@johnseal56 No, it's not that old.

[@peterinyallie1]

good video

[@lauramasters6795]

I love 5 pin bowling

[@elizabethdyck8729]

I would like to bowl 5 pin game

[@vicksterz]

Those balls returns looks a bit weird, was it a D.D centre? Yes, I think that freefall was the way to go, I have seen several freefall 10 pin Brunswick and AMF machines, it looks so simple, don't know why they didnt make 5 pin versions, one place had the 5 pin Brunswick machines, they loaded the 2s first, then the 3s then the headpin loaded, sure looked complicated for that paticular machine.

[@jbrains]

+Victoria Paul Same ball returns we had at the house I grew up bowling in. I had no idea they were unusual. :)

[@vicksterz]

jbrains762 The only reason I said unusual, cos one place I used to bowl at, they had the underground version, and they always had the 'balls trapped under' and had an employee go and unjam all the balls,lol

[@jbrains]

Victoria Paul Aha! You meant the above-ground ball returns. I thought you meant the wrap-around ball racks, which look very 1970s to me. Above-ground ball returns almost always work better; I wish we had them at my local house. I've seen a ball roll off them maybe once a year. Many fewer problems.

[@johnseal56]

I've seen a few of these, and the pins sound more "plinky", a bit more resonant. Because they're wood?

[@QAA17111]

Pinsetter is Double Diamond? Or A50/A51? Or Strickland?

[@pinchasr]

Double Diamond A2 pinsetter. With the lanes, there is a extra board on the lane to accommodate the size of the pinsetter. As a bowler I originally started on these lanes, and equipment at Capri Sports Bowl in Lethbridge Alberta.

[@browner420]

Sean Strickland?😅

[@drummachine434]

Why does the guy in blue role the ball spinning backwards? He makes it look very hard.

[@drewtheballer7167]

Because he played duckpin, a very popular game in Québec where the pins are half the size and there's ten of them...that's the spin you have to put on the ball to get strikes in that game

[@weevie833]

Quebec Quilles bowling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHfagJmpbrqofdEsi=1H1qkZdfVLMP1gtT

[@christopherangel6690]

Are these Double Diamond machines or Brunswicks?

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Brunswick never made 5 Pin Pinsetters, just 10 Pin Pinsetters like the A2, GSX & Stringpin. This must be Double Diamond.

[@johnseal56]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 Brunswick did make a fivepin pinsetter, and two models at that, the A50 and A51. I can't answer as to who made these machines, though.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@johnseal56. Interesting, I’ll see what those pinsetters looks like when I search on Google.

[@johnseal56]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 There's not much, just some rear photos that were long reorganized on Bowltech, their source. You might could ask over there for some good ones, though. I seem to recall rubber chutes and a turret, maybe even a pinwheel with turnpan, but I may be misremembering and confusing it with AMF's candlepinspotter.

[@tsctuberoussclerosiscanada4915]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 I bowled on Brunswick 5 pin machines in Red Deer Alberta Canada in the 1960s.

[@johnvillano9809]

Do they oil the lanes in 5 pin???

[@Reaghan08-zr7li]

Yes

[@Reaghan08-zr7li]

Why wouldn't thay...

[@magicalwizard99]

@@Reaghan08-zr7li to my knowledge they dont oil lanes for duckpin or candlepin

[@nonyobussiness3440]

@@magicalwizard99 they do not

[@peterinyallie1]

I wonder who is Pat Pinko? hear that name a lot.

[@w5pinbowler]

+Pete “Mr 450” inyallie From what I understand, he is the first to convert the "aces" split on television and must have done it on the show, Geno Ziebarth is the other guy to do it.

[@peterinyallie1]

+William Morrison ah yeah would love to see that video

[@L00PdeL00P]

HAHAHAHAH 5