The SCNBA has partnered with Storm Products, Inc. with the Two for $100 Ball Special. Nikkei leagues have the opportunity to purchase new model bowling balls of their choice and raffle them off at their sweepers. The deadline to participate is October 1.
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THE MOST AMAZING BOWLING STORY EVER
In a bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.
When Bill Fong approaches the lane, 15-pound bowling ball in hand, he tries not to breathe. He tries not to think about not breathing. He wants his body to perform a series of complex movements that his muscles themselves have memorized. In short, he wants to become a robot.
Fong, 48 years old, 6 feet tall with broad shoulders, pulls the ball into his chest and does a quick shimmy with his hips. He swings the ball first backward, then forward, his arm a pendulum of kinetic energy, as he takes five measured steps toward the foul line. He releases the ball, and it glides across the oiled wooden planks like it’s floating, hydroplaning, spinning counterclockwise along a trajectory that seems to be taking it straight for the right-hand gutter. But as the ball nears the edge of the lane, it veers back toward the center, as if guided by remote control. The hook carries the ball back just in time. In a heartbeat, what was a wide, sneering mouth of pins is now—nothing.
He comes back to the table where his teammates are seated—they always sit and bowl in the same order—and they congratulate him the same way they have thousands of times over the last decade. But Fong looks displeased. His strike wasn’t good enough.
A LOOK BACK AT THE 2014 WINNERS
Download the Winners Newsletter. The SCNBA paid out $9,130 in total prize fund for six tournaments.
Open Doubles – $1,160 Total Prize Fund
Open Roll-Off – $1,640 Total Prize Fund
Tournament of Champions – $640 Total Prize Fund
Singles Tournament – $2,010 Total Prize Fund
Nikkei Vegas Championships – $2,450 Total Prize Fund
Holiday Doubles – $1,230 Total Prize Fund
NISEI WEEK LETS THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
JANUARY 27, 2015
By J.K. YAMAMOTO, Rafu Staff Writer
As part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Nisei Week Japanese Festival, the Nisei Week Foundation held its first bowling tournament on Jan. 18 at the X Lanes in Little Tokyo with more than 200 people attending.
Co-chaired by Lauren Kinkade-Wong (2001 Nisei Week Queen) and Silvia Yoshimizu-Yee (2001 First Princess), the tournament was part of a series of Nisei Week events planned this year.
Girls Junior winner Torri Yoshida (Courtesy Nisei Week Bowling Tournament Committee)
Proceeds from the tournament — more than $12,000 — will go to the Nisei Week Foundation and to an annual scholarship awarded by the Japanese American Women’s Giving Circle, a subcommittee of the foundation, to a young woman who has demonstrated a commitment to philanthropy and service for the Japanese American community.
101 WAYS TO KILL A ZOMBIE — JAPANESE AMERICAN STYLE
(With contributions by Grant Sunoo, Gary Mayeda, Danny Molina, Jeff Shu-Ho Lane, Glen Kitayama, Emi Gusukuma, Mark Yoshida, Daren Mooko, Jenni Kuida, Maiya Kuida-Osumi, traci ishigo, and Ryan Yokota)
In 1996, “101 Ways to Tell If You’re Japanese American” hit these Rafu pages and took off. Now, here’s another Japanese American list with a zombie twist. Yes, it’s graphic, morbid, even a sukoshi scary. Although not as frightening as America’s rising poverty rates, voter suppression laws, and unrestrained police killings of unarmed people of color. That stuff is real.
If you’re Nikkei and find yourself in a post-apocalyptic society filled with zombie walkers or even in a 21st-century declining world power, don’t panic. Common Japanese American household items will also be your friend. Who knew daikon could be so deadly?
But to live beyond day-to-day survival, we’ll need to channel our Issei elders and their fighting spirit. Together, let’s build as we fight. Let’s connect with neighbors, live simply, work sustainably, and share resources. Zombies hate that.
Let’s redefine success by how well we serve the common good. Martin Luther King Jr. was on to something when he talked about creating a “beloved community.” If we do these things, the zombies of this world won’t have a chance. Gambare!
Continue reading 101 WAYS TO KILL A ZOMBIE — JAPANESE AMERICAN STYLE
LEAGUE OFFICER APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
Once a year, the SCNBA hosts a nice luncheon to discuss the future and purpose of the association and to give thanks or any help to the League Representatives for their hard work in continuing their Nikkei league status.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Marie Callender’s
15466 S. Western Ave.
Gardena, CA 90249
All SCNBA Nikkei league officers are invited. Please RSVP by June 1 to info@scnba.com. Thank you!
February 15, 2020
Marie Callender’s, Gardena
February 9, 2019
Marie Callender’s, Gardena
February 10, 2018
Marie Callender’s, Gardena
February 11, 2017
Marie Callender’s, Gardena
Jackson Aoki & Joyce Crocker, Anaheim Nisei (Linbrook Bowl)
February 6, 2016
Thank you to those that came to the luncheon. We appreciate your time and definitely your feedback on having more senior events. We will discuss those ideas at our next board meeting and see if we can make them happen. Marie Callender’s, Gardena
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February 15, 2015
The Loft, Torrance
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HOLIDAY BOWL
Not Bowling Alone: How the Holiday Bowl in Crenshaw Became an Integrated Leisure Space
By Ryan Reft | August 22, 2013 | LINK
In May 2000, the New York Times reported the upcoming demolition of the Crenshaw District’s Holiday Bowl. Built by Japanese American investors in 1958, just as Crenshaw and neighboring Leimart Park were reemerging as one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods, the bowling alley served as an integrated leisure space where African, Mexican, and Asian Americans could interact. “It’s like a United Nations in there,” longtime employee Jacqueline Sowell told writer Don Terry. ”Our employees are Hispanic, white, black, Japanese, Thai, Filipino. I’ve served grits to as many Japanese customers as I do black. We’ve learned from each other and given to each other. It’s much more than just a bowling alley. It’s a community resource.” Continue reading HOLIDAY BOWL
READY TO ROLL AGAIN
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By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS, Rafu Sports Editor
More than 20 years after the pins fell for the last time, the sights and sounds of bowling have returned to Little Tokyo.
After a trial run that began May 17, X Lanes held a grand opening on June 6 to formally introduce their 24-lane, 50,000-square-foot bowling, arcade and entertainment center. It is located on the third floor of the Little Tokyo Galleria, occupying the same space as the former Little Tokyo Bowl, which began operating when the shopping mall opened as Yaohan Plaza in 1985.
With a reported development cost of around $6 million, the investors and operators of X Lanes hope it will provide a sorely-needed boost to the Little Tokyo Galleria, which has struggled to gain firm footing as far as attracting a steady flow of customers.