Post by The Hustler on Jan 15, 2002 21:39:53 GMT -5
Let me go back a number of years ago, I was a teen age hot shot action bowler, the best in my neighborhood, I threw a real strong powerful ball and had a great looking classic 5 step approach. The only problem was, I was so good I couldn’t get any real action after awhile.
This one summer I went on vacation with my parents to this resort owned by Mickey Rooney, to my surprise as I was walking around the grounds my second day there I couldn’t believe my eyes, right in the back area was a fairly brand new 30 lane bowling center that was part of the resort complex. The only problem was I didn’t have my ball or shoes with me and had a slightly sprained ankle from playing basketball the day before, it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.
I went into the alleys and saw a pot game going on down by the end lanes, eight rich looking kids bowling for $10 bucks a man across 4 lanes. They were bad; I mean 140 to 150 shooters. I had the feeling that if I asked to join in they wouldn’t let me, plus I didn’t even know if I could bowl. What I did next was classic, now that I think back on it. I went to the desk and rented house shoes, got one lane next to them, picked up a conventional house ball and bowled with a one step approach for the first time in my life because of my sore ankle.
I over heard them talking about how most of them would be there all week, and would meet there at the lanes every day. Once I heard this I had this feeling of excitement come over my whole body, I had already gotten my coordination down using this one step approach, I must of looked like a horror show but found my accuracy to be extraordinary, this was easy, maybe not to run of a lot of strikes, but picking up spares and being in or around the pocket was real easy. I had to start dumping right away just to look bad. They must of thought I was some type of freak bowling that way.
After their pot game broke up, I went over and started shooting the nuts with them, I did get invited to bowl with them the next day. It was my first ever hustle and I loved it, it was way over the top. I could of probably won every single game, but I didn’t, that was the beauty of it, I beat them for about 5 or 6 hundred over the next 4 days and they weren’t even aware of who won what. The same thing happened the following year, same guys, same end result. This opened my eyes and became an obsession with me; I love to hustle people, but be so good at it that they don’t even know what came down.
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This one summer I went on vacation with my parents to this resort owned by Mickey Rooney, to my surprise as I was walking around the grounds my second day there I couldn’t believe my eyes, right in the back area was a fairly brand new 30 lane bowling center that was part of the resort complex. The only problem was I didn’t have my ball or shoes with me and had a slightly sprained ankle from playing basketball the day before, it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.
I went into the alleys and saw a pot game going on down by the end lanes, eight rich looking kids bowling for $10 bucks a man across 4 lanes. They were bad; I mean 140 to 150 shooters. I had the feeling that if I asked to join in they wouldn’t let me, plus I didn’t even know if I could bowl. What I did next was classic, now that I think back on it. I went to the desk and rented house shoes, got one lane next to them, picked up a conventional house ball and bowled with a one step approach for the first time in my life because of my sore ankle.
I over heard them talking about how most of them would be there all week, and would meet there at the lanes every day. Once I heard this I had this feeling of excitement come over my whole body, I had already gotten my coordination down using this one step approach, I must of looked like a horror show but found my accuracy to be extraordinary, this was easy, maybe not to run of a lot of strikes, but picking up spares and being in or around the pocket was real easy. I had to start dumping right away just to look bad. They must of thought I was some type of freak bowling that way.
After their pot game broke up, I went over and started shooting the nuts with them, I did get invited to bowl with them the next day. It was my first ever hustle and I loved it, it was way over the top. I could of probably won every single game, but I didn’t, that was the beauty of it, I beat them for about 5 or 6 hundred over the next 4 days and they weren’t even aware of who won what. The same thing happened the following year, same guys, same end result. This opened my eyes and became an obsession with me; I love to hustle people, but be so good at it that they don’t even know what came down.
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