More Bowling

By now, I presumed that everybody is aware what bowling is. If not, let me go through with the basics of this game. Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a flat surface called a lane to knock down objects called bowling pins. The least the throw it takes to knock the balls down, the bigger the score. The player with the highest total score wins. 

The game may sound as simple as that, but it takes some strategies and techniques in order to knock down as many bowling pins as you can. However, on this page we will talk about the bowling pins. You can check other articles on this site for the strategies and techniques if you want to learn more. 

As mentioned earlier, bowling pins are the targets in a bowling game. You may wonder where the bowling pin’s shape originated. That is an unlikely question, since most of us saw the pin as it was today. If you take a closer look of a bowling pin, you’ll notice that it resembles the Kegel, an ancient war club during the dark ages of Germany. Kegel is also the name of the sport that was the forerunners of present day bowling. 

Most bowling pins are made of Rock Maple wood, constructed by gluing blocks together to form roughly the shape of a bowling pin. After the wooden blocks are bound together by glue and shaped by the lathe, the product is then coated with plastic material and finally treated with chemicals to produce the glossy finish. There had been attempts in the past to make plastic versions of bowling pins, but never succeeded. 

As we all know, there are various ways to play bowling, but only those indoor types of bowling employ the use of pins and lanes. To enumerate, these are the ten-pin, nine-pin, five-pin, duckpin and candlepin bowling. All the pins used are roughly of the same shape, a flower vase-like shape with a rounded head, except for candlepin bowling which has, as the name implies candle shaped pins. 

The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is the one responsible for controlling bowling pins specification. There are strict requirements placed upon every bowling pin to ensure a standard bowling pin in all bowling games.