Zulmazran Zulkifli successfully defended his title at the 32nd Canon Malaysian International Open today. It was a closely fought battle against a most worthy opponent…Surasak Manuwang of Thailand who earlier had to put up a tough fight against Hong Kong’s Wu Siu Hong in the semi finals.

Zulmazran had earlier disposed off Malaysian youngster Kang Bo Long in the semi finals. He was speechless at his win. All he could say was “I am so happy!”

In the Women’s division, professional bowler Carolyn Ballard from USA had a narrow win over Geraldine Ng of Singapore.

Going into the quarter finals, it looked like the pro bowlers were going to dominate the lanes. Together with Carolyn were Missy Bellinder and Wendy Macpherson of USA and Malaysia’s first pro bowler Shalin Zulkifli.

However, only Carolyn survived to proceed to the semi finals when she defeated another Singaporean Bernice Lim.

For full results, please go to the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress link at the top right column of this page or to the link to ABC to Bowling Facebook page for more photos and videos.

Happy bowling

Jonathan

 A team of 11 bowlers from India have been in Malaysia for the past 2 months to train under Malaysian National Chief Coach Holloway Cheah. Their efforts paid off handsomely today.

20-yrs old Mayank A. Patel scored his first career perfect game which was also the first 300 game of the on going tournament that will run from March 13-21.

He told us later that his heart was pounding really fast but he was able to remember the advice of his coach …’to take a deep breath’. This calmed him down a bit and he was able to execute the final strike to nail his first 300 game.

Asked how he felt after achieving his first perfect game, he said he didn’t have time to feel anything as he was immediately swarmed by his team mates and well wishers!

More overseas bowlers are expected to arrive over the next few days. Among them will be pro bowlers from different parts of the world including the US and Europe.

For full updates, please follow the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress link found at the top right hand corner of this page.

For candid shots of participants and spectators, follow the ABC Facebook link. (Actually currently facing problems uploading pics and videos there since Facebook upgraded their format! So may take a while for uploads…sorry)

Happy bowling

Jonathan

It has come to my attention for a while now, that hundreds of your comments have been filtered as spam. There must be a malfunction of my spam application. I’m not even able to see any of these comments!

I am sorry about that. I personally do not believe they are all spam. As of now, you’ll notice the spam widget at the bottom left of the page has been temporarily removed.

I hope you will co-operate with me to confine your comments to relevant topics. This way everyone will be able to enjoy an open discussion which should benefit all.

Thanks

Jonathan

 A bowler from England who got a set of my ebooks last year was in town a few months ago. He’s actually a former Malaysian who now resides in the UK.

We met up and the conversation of course reverted around the subject of tenpin bowling. Robert Aw has been passionate about bowling for the past 15 years or so. It was an injury to his left leg while playing badminton that made him turn to bowling…a less strenuous sport, according to him

Robert practises 5 days a week and takes part in weekend tournaments, Leagues and County matches. In 2006 he won the Middlesex County Championships, and the Scottish Doubles in 2008. Robert’s current average is around 210-215. He hopes to improve on that.

Whenever his game suffers, Robert will go back to reading up stuff from his library of bowling books. He says my ‘ABC’ books on bowling have given him a lot of extra knowledge he had never known before.

“I’ve been notching up a very good average lately that I’ve even shocked myself. The tips I got from your books have eliminated my drifting problems. I’ve improved on my revs and got more side roll on my bowling balls. In Malaysia here with you today, you’ve just taught me about the dominant eye and foot placement. I’ll certainly practice these tips when I go back home to UK.

In a recent email to us, Robert said he shot his 5th 300 series last Dec and he’s elated about it. I hope to hear more good news from him in the future.

If you wish to get your hands on a good solid and proven system, you should check out my Special Offers page. It might just be what you’re looking for.

Enjoy your bowling and I’ll be seeing you at the Malaysian Open Championships next week.

Jonathan