{"id":1545265,"date":"2026-04-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oXMyvpsWNUtJGfdzHYWn9h"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:00:00","slug":"i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried to become a pro bowler but I skipped one important step: learning how to bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><em>AI is coming to take my job, so I&#8217;d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I&#8217;m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week&#8217;s job: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3127230\/PBA_Pro_Bowling_2026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PBA Pro Bowling 2026<\/em><\/a><em>, a bowling sim about bowling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a new bowler on the amateur circuit, my first day isn&#8217;t going well. I&#8217;m trying to learn how to hook the ball\u2014to roll it in a curving pattern so it hits the pins at an angle\u2014and it turns out there&#8217;s quite a lot to it. You even have to consider the oil patterns on the alley and how they affect the ball. I didn&#8217;t know there <em>was <\/em>oil in bowling, let alone <em>patterns <\/em>of it.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I respect PBA Pro Bowling 2026&#8217;s surprisingly deep physics simulation\u2014I&#8217;m a little impatient. I&#8217;ve rolled the ball like five times and have yet to make a strike. All I want to do is fling a ball and hit pins and hear that glorious clattering sound, one of the best sounds in all of sports.<\/p>\n<p>What if I just, I don&#8217;t know\u2026 roll the ball straight? No hooking it, just aim down the middle. Has anyone in bowling history ever even tried it? Probably not! I try it and make a strike. I try it again and make another strike. Frowning a bit, I roll the ball in a completely straight line again. <em>Third strike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also throwing it as hard as I can, which seems to help: the more the pins get bonked around by physics, the more other pins they&#8217;ll knock down. It&#8217;s working, so I decide to stick with it. I&#8217;ll be the bowler who just rolls the ball straight. I&#8217;m going to disrupt bowling.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately feel my legend growing. My brash newcomer who doesn&#8217;t play by the rules, and who I named Bo W. Lurr because I&#8217;m a really good writer, is routinely throwing strikes and then celebrating as if routinely throwing strikes isn&#8217;t exactly what he&#8217;s supposed to be doing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"looped-video\"><video class=\"lazyload-in-view lazyloading\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Tr4WWGcAz9DjmwVKE2hLBk\/bowling1.mp4\" autoplay loop muted playsinline src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Tr4WWGcAz9DjmwVKE2hLBk\/bowling1.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I try to imagine acting like that at my real job, where every time I finished writing something I made my editors watch me do the stanky leg. I don&#8217;t think it would fly.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a weakness to my throw fast and straight technique? Admittedly, yes. As anyone who has ever been bowling or watched bowling or possesses a rudimentary grasp of knocking things over, if you roll the ball straight down the middle and hit the pins head-on, you&#8217;ll be highly vulnerable to splits. There&#8217;s the dreaded 7-10 split but plenty of other nightmares such as\u2014hold on, I&#8217;m quickly Googling\u2014the &#8220;Greek Church,&#8221; the &#8220;Big Four,&#8221; and other combinations where you have a couple pins on both sides of the lane with a big gap down the middle. <\/p>\n<p>But still, my method is working: I win my inaugural game with five strikes and a score of 191. And only one nasty split.<\/p>\n<div class=\"looped-video\"><video class=\"lazyload-in-view lazyloading\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iFhKVkh8M8jjuvEyq7VVdD\/bowling2.mp4\" autoplay loop muted playsinline src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/iFhKVkh8M8jjuvEyq7VVdD\/bowling2.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I begin working my way through local bowling events with my straight line style. There&#8217;s a league night, which sounds fun except I&#8217;m not even allowed to come up with my own league name (we&#8217;re playing against the Roll Models, a high level pun.) There&#8217;s also candlepin bowling and duckpin bowling, but they involve little tiny balls so the physics of the collisions aren&#8217;t particularly satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>As I rack up experience and defeat opponents I&#8217;m given money to spend in the pro shop. I buy a shirt that has a straight line on it. See what I&#8217;m doing there? I&#8217;m building my brand.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1640px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.22%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rwrJz3zqzY5uBi8bQFqsuR\" name=\"bowl1\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"922\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Just wait until I can afford matching pants. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: FarSight Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I even develop an advanced version of my straight line approach I call\u2014hold onto your hats for this one\u2014<em>the diagonal line<\/em>. Since hitting the pins head on comes with a risk of splits, I start hitting them from an angle. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not hooking the ball, I&#8217;m just rolling from the far corner of the lane and aiming for just off-center. And it&#8217;s working! I&#8217;m racking up more and more strikes and my cavorting after each becomes, impossibly, even more obnoxious.<\/p>\n<div class=\"looped-video\"><video class=\"lazyload-in-view lazyloading\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KSMjcoAsfR5nwhqBJ7WTdn\/bowling3.mp4\" autoplay loop muted playsinline src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KSMjcoAsfR5nwhqBJ7WTdn\/bowling3.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>You think that&#8217;s bad? There&#8217;s an air guitar celebration I refuse to show you because even though Bo W. Lurr has no dignity, I do.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to admit: helping my career take off is the fact that these generic amateur bowlers are pretty terrible at bowling. I&#8217;m not complaining because soon I&#8217;ve trounced enough no-names that two huge things happen. <\/p>\n<p>First, I can afford to buy sunglasses from the bowling store, which ratchets up my obnoxiousness to heights I didn&#8217;t think was possible. Second, and almost as importantly, I can now compete for the regional qualifiers, putting me one tier away from bowling against actual bowlers in bowling.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1582px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.26%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"qnS9CzvCQsih8QbAfdn4nS\" name=\"bowl2\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"890\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">The look is complete. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: FarSight Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lot of bowling follows. Special events. Bracket tournaments. Literal <em>dozens <\/em>of dollars earned that makes it possible for me to buy one new pair of pants. And at the moment I need it most, I bowl my all-time high of 236 with 9 strikes against a fake guy named Larry Ronseik who looks like a generic version of me. I&#8217;ve done it. I&#8217;ve won the central region qualifier. I&#8217;ve made it to the Pro Tour.<\/p>\n<p>First stop: a head-to-head match against a simulation of an actual pro bowler, Andrew Anderson. I&#8217;m suddenly worried my straight line bowling technique has just been an illusion and this guy is gonna mop the oily lanes with my stupid magenta beard. But I put Anderson down easily, scoring 235 to his\u2026 123.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1580px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:58.10%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5eJedyRTCTB6zcr8TjgznS\" name=\"bowl3\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1580\" height=\"918\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Who do you think you are? I am! <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: FarSight Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hate to admit it, but I can&#8217;t enjoy the victory because that doesn&#8217;t seem right. I&#8217;ve bowled 123 in real life, as a real person who isn&#8217;t good at bowling. A pro bowler with a 123? I have a quick dip into the game settings and my suspicions are confirmed. I&#8217;ve been bowling on &#8220;Rookie&#8221; difficulty this whole time. My groundbreaking bowling technique of never hooking the ball may, just may, be a huge crock of shit.<\/p>\n<p>I turn up the difficulty to &#8220;Pro,&#8221; take a deep, dismayed breath, and face-off against Anderson again. I get absolutely wrecked. I can only manage three strikes, I wind up in a nasty spare situation with a 1-4-5-7 split, and manage to miss <em>all <\/em>of the damn pins\u2014one of my <em>three <\/em>open frames in the game. It&#8217;s brutal and humbling.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1740px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.26%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"qMNQUeDZ7L2ityMvH26zrS\" name=\"bowl6\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1740\" height=\"979\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Bowled over. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: FarSight Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just out of curiosity, I redo the qualifying bracket just to see if I even <em>remotely <\/em>deserve to be a pro bowler. My first time through I came in first in every round. This time, under pro conditions, I place sixth overall\u2014which honestly isn&#8217;t terrible in a tournament of 32 pretend bowlers. Still, you need to place third to qualify, and I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s back to the duckpins for Bo W. Lurr.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"performance-evaluation\">Performance evaluation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"card card--standard card--rows-2 card--align-inline\">\n<div class=\"card-image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%\" class=\"card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-4.jpg\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card__title\">Would I like to be a pro bowler IRL?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"card__description-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"card__description\">\n<p>I met a pro bowler while I was temping. He was also temping. I think it&#8217;s probably a tough, not great-paying gig for 95% of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card card--standard card--rows-2 card--align-inline\">\n<div class=\"card-image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%\" class=\"card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-5.jpg\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card__title\">Would I make a good pro bowler IRL?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"card__description-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"card__description\">\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t even be bothered to learn how to hook the ball in a game, so I doubt I&#8217;d have any shot of mastering it for real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card card--standard card--rows-3 card--align-inline\">\n<div class=\"card-image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%\" class=\"card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl-6.jpg\" alt=\"Pro Bowlers bowling in a bowling alley\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card__title\">Is PBA Pro Bowling good?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"card__description-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"card__description\">\n<p>Yeah, it really is! If you&#8217;re into bowling, you should try it, and even for someone like me, who doesn&#8217;t<em> <\/em>usually go for bowling games, I dig it. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3127230\/PBA_Pro_Bowling_2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here it is on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sports\/i-tried-to-become-a-pro-bowler-but-i-skipped-one-important-step-learning-how-to-bowl\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is coming to take my job, so I&#8217;d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I&#8217;m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week&#8217;s job: PBA Pro Bowling 2026, a bowling sim about bowling. As a new bowler on the amateur circuit, my first day isn&#8217;t going well. I&#8217;m trying to learn how to hook the ball\u2014to roll it in a curving pattern so it hits the pins at an angle\u2014and it turns out there&#8217;s quite a lot to it. You even have to consider the oil patterns on the alley and how they affect the ball. 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