Video Project :Bowling

Script

Introduction

Junghoon – Today we are going to learn about bowling. Before we paly bowling, let’s introduce ourselves one by one, and tell the people about our first impression.

Juyeon – Hi everyone. My name is Juyeon, majoring in Chemical Engineering. I haven’t learned bowling before, so I am so pleased to have chance learning it and playing it with new friends. Taking this opportunity, I want to make a new hobby of playing bowling.

Junghoon – Hi my name is Junghoon Lee, majoring in SME. I usually play bowling with my friends, but all the time my ability was poor. So I’m not really confident at this game. I hope to learn many things about bowling, for today’s video project.

Junhee – Hello everyone, my name is Junhee and I’m majoring in Electrical Engineering. I’ve played bowling several times, but all the time playing bowling, I was quite drunk, so this is my first time playing bowling without alcohol. So I am quite excited. Thank you.

Minho – Hello everyone, my name is Minho Jung, and I’m majoring in Chemistry. Actually I am not good at bowling, so I hope to learn bowling through this project. And I hope you enjoy this video, and after watching this video, you will be a bowling holic. Thank you.

Junhee – We’re gonna go to a bowling center, which is really close to our University, and the name is Kakao.

Everyone –So, let’s go!!!

Main

Junhee

Bowling is a sport which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards targets, called pins. Bowling is originated from ancient Egypt or Roman Empire, so it has quite long history. There are two main types of bowling, one is pin bowling, which is usually played indoors, the other is target bowling, which is usually played outdoors. Today we are gonna learn pin bowling.

The name of this bowling center is kakao, and you should pay 3000 won per game, but since we are SKKU students, there is 500 won discount and you should rent a special pair of shoes and it is 1500 won, and after 9pm, they turn on all the lights and turns a whole center like a dancing club and we can order some beer.

In order to play bowling, you have to wear special kind of shoes. Bowling shoes makes your foot slide smoothly when throwing the ball. You never can play bowling without bowling shoes, because if you wear street shoes, it will gonna cause a lot of strain on you shoulder and your knee, and this will increase a risk of injury. We can buy or rent shoes, but since we don’t have enough money, so we are gonna rent the shoes.

Again, we can rent or buy the balls, but since we don’t have enough money, we gonna rent balls Advantage of buying ball is personalization, and making it easy to spin. But we are gonna rent some balls, and we should choose among these balls. Choosing balls with proper weight is really important for your performance and your risk of injury.

Juyeon

To play bowling well, it is important to learn appropriate steps and swings.

First of all, there are several steps in bowling. Most of all, people mostly use 4steps and 5steps. In bowling, steps play a key role as a run-up, in the sense, 5steps put force on one more step more than 4steps. Because the procedure is sophisticated and takes a lot of concentration, we’ll gonna start with 4steps.

4steps literally mean 4 feet steps, and each step has different style stride, and form of feet. First of all, the stance, preparation posture. Make feet gathered like number eleven and bend your knees slightly. It is good to bend down your upper body, as well.

The first step starts with your right foot. Before we go further, there is something we should consider. The order of the foot step is different between left-handed and right-handed people, and right-handed people start with their right foot as the first step. We’ll start with the right step, so if you are left-handed you can take it first with the left side. Toward with comfortable stride, not so big or not so small. The important thing you should be aware is that all steps including the first one, you have to put weight forward.

The second one is similar to the first one. Stretch the left foot moderately same as right. When combining with swing, the second step will be the most strained stage because of the weight of the ball. For this reason it is important to maintain your balance of the body.

The third step is taken when the ball reaches the highest point, and also it is a prior stage to the final step which can make run-up. Stretch your right foot with a similar stride as the second one.

And the last step, the forth step is much more similar to sliding rather than taking a step. With a 1.5times of ordinary stride, slide the left leg putting the weight. At the same time the right foot is sliding toward inside of the left leg. At this moment, landing should be taken at the same time, so it is important to make your balance.

Junghoon

Then I will show you how to grip a bowling ball. First, put in your thumb in this hole and put middle finger in the left side and ring finger in the right side. It’s like this. This is how to grip a bowling ball.

Then, Let’s apply Swing motion to these 4 steps. There is each swing motion for each step. Before the first step begins, there is preparation action which is called ‘Address’. ‘Address is carried out in ‘stance location’. Grip a ball with right hand and hold your elbow at your right side of waist. Make the angle of your arm 90 degree. Then, make your right palm face the sky and support your right hand with your left hand.

Now It is First step. First swing motion of First step is ‘Push away’. ‘Push away’ is pushing out a ball while stepping on right foot. At the summit of orbit, leave your left hand from your right hand.

Second swing is ‘Down Swing’. As soon as you leave your left hand from your right hand, down swing begins. Take a next step along with down swing of your right hand, and naturally stretch your left hand to the left side

Next third swing is ‘Back Swing’. Relax your right shoulder and swing back to the height of your shoulder using movement of pendulum. Take a next step along the back swing.

Fourth swing is ‘Forward Swing’. Accelerate your ball forward until rolling a ball. At this moment, slide with your left foot with bending your left knee and stretch your right foot behind your left foot.

Next motion is ‘release’ without any further step. At the bottom of swing, take your thumb out of bowling ball and roll a ball. When you do ‘release’, lower your posture and bend your knees.

Minho

I will let you know some rules of bowling

The rules of bowling are so easy.

You just roll the ball without crossing the foul line with the black color of the lane, and knock down the pins.

One person will hit ten frames per game, and in a frame, one person can roll a ball twice unless he or she hits a strike.

However, exceptionally in the tenth frame, you can rolls two more times if you hit a Strike, and one more time if you hit a Spare.

Then, what does strike and spare mean here?

Strike means that you knock down ten pins in the first trial of each fame, and Spare means that you do not knock down all pins in the first trial and knock down all the other pins in the second trial.

These are the basic rules of bowling, and next, I’ll show you how to calculate the score.

In fact, the score is calculated by the computer, but it will be better to know how to calculate it by yourself, so I will explain it briefly.

Basically, one point per one pin. However, the Spare and Strike are slightly different in scoring. In the case of Spare, the number of pins fall down in the first trial of the next frame is added to the point, and in the case of Strike, the sum of the number of pins that fall down in the first trial and second trial is added to the point.

If so, how many points do you get if you hit a spare in the first frame and eight pins in the first attempt on the second frame?

Yes, it is 18 points.

You can calculate the score easily in this way.

Then now before we go to the actual game, let me tell you about some manners of bowling.

There is a section in the bowling alley where you step on it until you roll the ball. This is called the approach.

Be sure to wear bowling shoes when you go up to the approach, and if the person next to you is on the approach to roll the ball, you have to roll the ball after he rolls the ball.

Also, if you go up to the approach and stay for too long, people in next lane cannot play. So you have to roll the ball quickly and go down from the approach.

These are the basic etiquette you should know to play bowling, and now I will show you the real game.

End

Minho

Today we’ve learned how to play bowling and we have lots of fun.

Juyeon

You guys can also come here and enjoy play bowling.

Everyone

Bye Bye~!!

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