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Strikes and Spares

Strikes and Spares

6,3 /10 (16 Votes)
1934 EN 8 min

Overview

This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the ball down the alley. He then performs several trick shots.

Release date

20/10/1934

Votes

16

Popularity

0.4

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

8 min

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-27

⭐ 6

Did you know that ten pin bowling shoes have one rubber sole and one leather one? Well that’s just one of the plethora of explanatory comments we learn from Pete Smith in this idiots guide to the intricacies of the bowling alley. Thanks to the assistance of local expert Andy Varipapa, we learn a little of the technique involved in keeping the ball out of the gutter as it hurtles along towards the pins, too. Realising, thankfully, that this might make for quite a boringly repetitious feature, we now see one poor hapless fellow who couldn’t hit a barn door with a shovel have a go before the acco…

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