Yes, me too, although I know the regular bowling season just ended, and the Men's & Ladies Pro Series championships are completed. So this might be a slow time of the year.

Perhaps you could expand this forum to cover duckpins as well as they're similar in many ways? There aren't (to the best of my knowledge) any duckpin forums.

I follow Urbie's you tube videos, especially the duckpin ones. Maybe you could convince him to do some illustrating technique?

As you managed to get a tour around Epco, perhaps you could ask them for some sample balls to try and review for both candle and ducks?

How about a Q and A section?

I could certainly come up with more ideas but I think this is a decent start.

@meikou - thanks for the insight. If this were "Everything bowling" that might actually work. I'm trying hard for the candlepin community, and maybe someday it could expand, but I don't think now is the time. Granted, I have a good friend that I play cards with and he's a great ten pin bowler. He's thrown nine perfect games, six at sanctioned events. I have a hard time just following the candlepin world from weekend to weekend, taking on something else, at this point is not in the cards.

@Mac - thanks for calling me out and trying to embarrass me in the forum. :)

Couple of things - I appreciate the push, and you're right I should, and can do better. You also don't know my situation, so sometimes time just isn't in the cards. I wish everything was like September to December when I had more time. Work is taking up so much time right now, that I'm working at until 2 AM some nights. Yes, I'm complaining. But, I also know I'm not doing my best either.

You have a right to complain. I just may have handled it differently than calling me out - but there again, I totally deserve it.

It is what it is, and I can only say I want to do better for everyone, you included. I had this formula that I THOUGHT was going to work, and it just plain wasn't right. I'm still learning may way on this as well. It's not like I'm I've given up, or I'm a total PRO at this and am just being lazy or saying who cares. I'm 100% vested in this site, and this game. I want to help, not hinder it.

I have a ton of ideas I want to implement including revamping the site to be more functional. Slowly but surely I SHOULD be able to start kicking ass and taking names again. It's just going to take some work and some old fashion grit and determination.

As far as Voy goes - I'm not Voy, I'm never going to be Voy. As much as there are a sect of people that HATE Voy, it's not my job to fight it - just outlast it. I'm not going anywhere. The site isn't going anywhere. I want this to be the one place to go, and I'm going to work at it, but it's going to take time. Making posts because Voy was down wasn't the answer (that I felt in my heart). People knew the forum was there - I made the decision not to post all over the place about the forum, and maybe that's my loss. Maybe that was a poor decision. I've accepted that people aren't coming here in droves, but eventually, maybe the will. Since the site opened, I'm at almost 1,000,000 hits. I'm not perfect, but I'm doing something right.

You're an avid follower and I truly appreciate and understand what that entails. I just need work on my end of the bargain. I will work out my issues. I worked out my piss poor bowling from last season to this season. I can work this out too.

So please, give me a break here and there, and I'll try to straighten things out.

I understand not wanting to bite off more than you can chew and include ducks but the other suggestions I made would still be useful for players of both games.