The top four nominees for the pba.com fan poll of best PBA bowling trick shots. Vote for your favorite at pba.com by March 20, 2015 at 8 p.m. ET and watch for the results during the PBA ESPN telecasts beginning March 29.
Featuring Norm Duke, Chris Barnes, Osku Palermaa and Andy Varipapa.
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I like Oskus shot the best. Norm Duke said that it was the strongest shot he had ever seen plus it hit dead flush in the pocket. Then he did a rock star celebration!
The owner of the lanes where he lofted the call over the office chair must have been thrilled lol
Makes no difference if they are synthetic. Brunswick dropped a ball a million times on a synthetic lane and no damage. Wood would be another story. Still I prefer wood lanes.
VinylToVideo do you have a link to the story where Brunswick dropped a million balls on a synthetic lane? I keep trying to tell people that lofting the ball does not really damage synthetic lanes
@VinylToVideo a million times? I would bet it would be major damage
@Ben Franklin This was told to me by Frank Miroballi.
@Ben Franklin no it wouldnt
Over the chair shot
Crowd: Wow!!!! Amazing!!!
Bowling Alley Owner: WTF!!!!!!!!
@Mikecromatic M
I thought the arrows represent a lob line?
Me in the crowd: GOOD GOING GUY!
Seems to me that you dont know nothing about the bowling lane
@RRJOfficial thats trick shot competition
@74KU i’m just impressed by the fact anybody could hit the ceiling with a 14 pound ball 🤣
Chris Barnes’ the flying eagle was my favorite. Unbelievable!!
I saw Varipapa at a newly expanded Palladium Bowl in Seattle back in the 1950s. He was amazing.
No you didn’t that would make you a hundred years old
If he saw him, let’s say, in 1955 and was 10 years of age, he is now aprox 66 and if he saw him when he was 20, he would be 76. I say that is possible.
Andy Varipapa was, and always will be, the greatest bowling trick shot artist of all time. He didn’t have just one insane trick, had an entire repertoire of trick shots.
Ned Day wasn’t bad either.
1:09 that backwards bend thing was more impressive then the shot itself
@Stone Weitkemper you have no idea what you’re even talking about
@Jake Snussbuster well i assumed that the description of it was describing backup bowling but I see that he is talking about the celebration
I can go flat on my back with my feet pretty much level with my hips (probably damaging my knees in the process) but I can’t get up as fast as he could.
Cap
@YueMei stop talking
Andy did a similar shot to Barnes’s back in day. And Andy’s shot that they showed here had a touch of Norm’s shot with the slow roller but just done with his foot instead. Ambidextrous Andy then shows off how good he was with both hands. By the way, later in his life, his health would not let him use his right arm. So he started playing the rest of his life with his left arm. He was still averaging in the high 180s. Impressive! Watch some of the old trick shot videos he did. I’m gonna have to go with Andy on this one.
https://youtu.be/fzjPcVZRCxA
Honestly as impressive as it looks I think the flying Eagle would be the easiest for me to pull off. I could possibly pull off the over the chair shot depending on how far down the lane it is but the other two I’d have no shot at.
So that chair is sitting around 22-23’ downlane, and with the height of the chair; you’d have to land the ball 35’ or so to have a shot. Oh, and you have to strike. Good luck! Lol
@Michael Marsico Like he said, “the easiest for him to pull off”
@Veezy the bot thanks captain obvious, I’m capable of reading.
Andy what a legend.
That over the chair shot was BADASS
These guys are so good, how do we know they’re not in their own groundhog day?
They’re no Roy Munson
All amazing. Norm Duke’s though had so much that had to go right. The slow ball had to stay in the middle. He had to throw a backup ball around the first ball. And that ball had to clear the pins away just right for the slow ball to have just enough pins that it could knock them over moving so slow. The sheer amount of power Palerma needed to clear that chair and rev the ball enough to get it back to the pocket was unreal, though.
The last guy looked so happy it feels wholesome
It was before celebrating was invented so all you could do was have a really big smile.
Yeah, well he’s probably dead now. 😔
Media in those days almost always had a wholesome quality
You know a sport has reached its peak when the best trick shot is 40 years old
Do you think that clip was from the 80s?
😂
@DataLog it’s literally a sport
@DataLog really really late, but how isn’t bowling a sport?
_”Obviously, you’re not a golfer.”_
When I was a kid I remember seeing a guy on TV who picked up 7-10s using a ball in each hand and bouncing them off each other in mid lane, and he could repeat it too.
I didn’t realize how amazing the ‘over the chair’ shot was until I saw it from the side and realized how far he had to throw that ball!!!!
Last one definitely deserves the #1 trick shot of all time.
I’ve known of Andy Varipara for forty years. He has more tricks than the whole PBA constituency and membership put together. Andy was and still is the best.
Osku is a beast. The strength needed for that shot very few possess.