What is "Back Alley"?

Features

Advantages

Bowling Variations

Uses

Health Benefits

Revenue Generation

Leagues and Software

Tidbits

"Back Alley" Leagues

Bowling leagues are a great way to get a bunch of people together to have fun and interact with each other. When you get right down to it, even in competitive leagues, people join up because of other people. A "Back Alley" league is no different. With this in mind, a "Back Alley" lane is an ideal solution for groups who want to organize a fun and exciting competition among its members.

There are all kinds of leagues because there are all kinds of groups.

  • Senior Leagues
  • Wheelchair Leagues
  • School Leagues
  • Day Care Leagues
  • Neighborhood Leagues
  • Office Leagues
  • Firemen Leagues
  • YMCA/YWCA Leagues

With a "Back Alley" league, you're free from the effort and expense of heading to the local bowling alley to pay the "per game" price. you can set your own fee to participate, just like leagues at the bowling alley, in which part of the fee can go to the prize fund, while a small portion of the weekly dues can go toward the monthly rental of the Back Alley unit.
  • limited to your own members
  • no high fees to pay to play at the alley
  • no duckpin alleys around
  • set your own prize fund
  • set your own rules for length of games (5 or 6 frames if you don't want 10), and set duration (2 games vs. 3)
  • schedule matches when convenient for your members, without having to worry about open and close times of the local alley, nor having to worry if there are lanes available.
back alley has a set of sample league bylaws to work from, and a set of rules (ndbc) create your own federation because it's portable, you can transport and set up the back alley unit anywhere that has space for it, which could even include some good-sized basements! BACK ALLEY LEAGUES ARE MUCH MORE THAN JUST a group of people BOWLING ON A LANE CUTTING EDGE SOFTWARE back alley gives you free access to one of the leading league secretarial applications on the market, and it's the only application that is web-enabled, meaning you can simply log onto the application from any internet browser, update your league, and publish it online -- and it's all automatic -- you don't need to know anything at all about web hosting, website development, or uploading to the web -- the application DOES IT ALL! (WITH MONTHLY RENTAL, THEY GET LOGIN CREDENTIALS FOR FREE USE OF SOFTWARE) From a business standpoint, a short phrase next to a Day Care listing/advertisement stating, "We now have real Duckpin Bowling" could lure parents to inquiring about the details of a Child Care provider.

Senior Care
There are No Age Limits on Fun

Senior citizens are a natural fit for the BACK ALLEY product. Benefits for this age group of players include:

  • Promotes hand-eye coordination, and steadies balance
  • Muscle tone building through repetition of rolling a ball
  • Provides a focus
  • Allows seniors to re-live past glories, and explore new variations of games (Skittles, for example, has many different, fun versions)
  • Low impact physically. With "small ball bowling", the smaller ball is much easier to handle than a conventional tenpin ball, and thus less jarring on the body. And, with BACK ALLEY, the 'slide' is not a part of the equation and therefore the chance of falling is much less of an issue
  • Relieves stress

Business Promotions"
Announce your 'Brand' to the Public with an Eye-Catching and Inviting Display

UNIQUE, ALLURING, MAGNETIC, ENGAGING: All these adjectives describe the BACK ALLEY unit, which are key factors in attracting customers to your brand. Why are these ingredients important advertisers for your business?

  • Unique: Something new and different gets a person's attention
  • Alluring: People see it and come to it
  • Magnetic: The fascination of seeing a game in action, played by others is entertaining
  • Engaging: There is a temptation to get in on the fun -- attendees soon want to give it a try

School Programs

Bowling as a Physical Education function -- In the 1960s, many high schools in the Washington area featured duckpin bowling as part of the "Phys Ed" curriculum. And back in 1997, a Colorado district featured duckpin bowling in its school educational awareness program.

Party Rentals

Rent a Lane parties are a "natural" for birthday celebrations. Birthdays are one of the dependent sources of revenue for bowling centers

Fire Houses

24-hour shifts can get pretty boring between calls. A bowling lane at the fire house can be a great diversion for our brave figefighters.

Amusement Businesses, Theme Parks, Arcades, and Carnivals

A Skittles lane is the perfect addition to a carnival. The difficulty level for rolling a strike or spare is deceptive, and a viable temptation for customers to give a try.