How to Pick Up the Big Four (4-7-6-10) Split – Conversion Tips

Here is a question that is asked quite a bit. What is the best way to convert the 4-7-6-10 split, also known as the Big Four? Well I can only say luck has a lot to do with it or you need to be very acurate as to how the ball hits the pins.

I have personally picked it up once and they way I did it is by throwing my spare ball straight and hard at the 6-10. I hit the 6 on the front left, which deflected into the 10 with some force which made the 6 hit the sidewall then the back curtain, then back onto the deck where it ended up in the middle of the 4-7, when it hit the 7 first then the 4 fell forward.

I was totally shocked, I can now check that off my list of bowling accomplishments.

Here are some videos of the 4-7-6-10 being converted.

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Wes Mallot vs Michael Wilbon

After more than a month of friendly taunting and debate, ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption co-host Michael Wilbon accepted the challenge that 2009 PBA Bowler of the Year Wes Malott offered on March 4.

Wilbon traveled south to the Kegel Training Facility in Lake Wales, Fla., where he competed against Malott in a single-game, 10-frame match on Thursday. A casual bowler, Wilbon totaled an impressive 199. With Malott giving him a 57-pin handicap advantage entering the match, the PTI host surprised the crowd, Malott and even himself, defeating the PBA’s top kegler 256-248.

Wilbon said with a smile, “I now expect to go home and kick Tony Reali’s butt, Kornheiser’s butt, weekend hackers, I expect to kill them.”

Malott added: “We’ll see what Tony (Kornheiser) has to say. If he wants to come out, he’s more than welcome. Something like this is always good and as long as we have fun with it, it makes the season that much better.”

The Malott-Wilbon challenge will be aired as part of the five-week PBA King of Bowling Powered by AMP Energy series, Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET, April 22-May 20, on ESPN. The event took place April 8-10.

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Picked up the 7-10 Split

HI gang, just wanted to point out that I picked up the 7-10 split the other night in league. Now I have done this 3 times before but this time it was special so to speak. I actually had to pick it up to win my overall total against my opponent. Now I wasn’t really trying but hoping for a clean shot off the hand into the 10 pin and a lucky bounce out of the back. And sure enough the shot had a good speed and was headed right were I was aiming and hit the ten in the left middle portion of the pin where it hit the side-back and bounced out of the pit onto the middle of the deck when the pin rolled into the 7. Nice ya?

Let me know how many of you have picked up this 7-10 split.

 

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Just bowled a 216 Triplicate

The other night in my scratch league up here in Huntsville, AL I bowled a rare triplicate 216. This award score dosen’t happen to often. When I checked our cities award wall I noticed that only one other person has bowled a triplicate this year. So I am pleased to have this award on my list of achievements.

Now the cool thing about this score was that I didn’t realize I had a shot at it until my very last ball. In the 10th I struck first and then left a (strange for me) 2-4-5-7-8. After turning in bewildrment that I left that I looked at the score and realized that I had a 214 if I missed. So purposly took a shot at the 5 pin hoping to only hit that while the 5 hit the 8, and sure enought that’s what happened. I let out a yell and everyone was confused on why I did that.

Let me know in teh comments below if you have shot a triplicate.

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Bowling Games Being Blogged Today June 23, 2008

Wii bowling a strike with Washington seniors

Seniors at a retirement community in the suburbs of Washington have joined the video game craze, rolling spares and strikes every Tuesday on the virtual lanes of the Wii gaming console. An AFPTV report.

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PBA Bowling Mobile Video Game

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