Bowling and granny rolls

[Yong_Lee_Fampee]

I would like to know a rule about bowling,

I went bowling with some friends the other day. I do not own a ball and used the balls that were available there. One frame I knocked down 9 pins. So, I took a light ball, and very slowly tossed said ball down the alley earning the spare. I did not put my fingers in the holes (I see the sexual connotations coming so please spare me), and yes, I did pull somewhat of a spread leg granny roll, I did not run to the pins, just walked up and let the slow roll begin.

My friends laughed and called it a foul. If (I wish) lived in the Big Lebowski universe, would Walter (John Goodman) pull a piece on me and call me Smokey?

[Manduck]

“Mark a zero, dude!”

Actually, I don’t know

[Sublight]

Walt may pull a piece on you anyway (his buddies didn’t die face-down in the mud in 'nam so people could granny roll, after all), but I’m not sure what ‘legal’ basis he’d have. For a skilled bowler, I’d imagine the standard form gives more control than granny rolling. Standard certainly gives more power, so I don’t think granny rolling could be banned for giving an unfair advantage. Strictly IMHO, but as long as you stay behind the foul line, it should count.

I’d still laugh at you, though.

[Sublight]

WAIT!!!

After checking the What’s the answer? page at bowl.com, I found this item:

Changing Delivery

22. May a bowler switch their delivery after the start of the season due to injury?

Yes. However, according to WIBC/ABC Rule 118d, the bowler is required to obtain permission from the league board of directors. If the bowler is later able to return to the normal delivery, permission would again have to be obtained from the board. No combination of scores bowled both right and left-handed can be used in computing an average. Therefore, two separate averages would have to be maintained. According to Rule 118b, a bowler who switches without permission subjects those games to forfeiture.

(NOTE: Switching delivery can only be approved by the board of directors for injury or disability purposes.)

23. If a bowler uses their opposite hand to make a delivery during a game, what happens?

In accordance with ABC/WIBC/YABA Rule 118b, right-handed bowlers must always bowl right-handed and left-handed bowlers must always bowl left-handed when establishing an average. If an individual uses their opposite hand in making a delivery during a game without permission from the league board of directors, a league officer or the league board would then have the following options within the timelines as stated in ABC/WIBC Rule 119.

Declare the individual’s game forfeited: The bowler would receive zero for the game. (Note: Scores bowled by the other team members not in violation stand as bowled.)

Declare the team game forfeited: The team would receive zero for the game. (Note: The individual in violation would receive zero, however, scores bowled by the other team members count towards their individual averages and league awards unless the league rules state otherwise.)

While granny rolling isn’t specifically mentioned, you used both hands instead of your usual one-hand delivery, so technically, if you didn’t get your friends’ permission beforehand, your total score should have been zero.

You got off easy, dude.

[Cheesesteak]

Any friends who would score you a zero on that are just being asses. It is true that your delivery must at least stay with the same hand during a game (or match) for league purposes. This is to prevent people switching hands to make a 7 or 10 spare easier on themselves, and other things, I’m sure.

In a friendly game, puhleeze!

[Sublight]

True, I was just hyperbolizing since the OP already mentioned guns being drawn.

In most friendly games I’ve bowled in, granny rolling would certainly get you laughed at, but it would still be scored.