Pete Weber - Bowling Style and Personal Information

Bowling Style and Personal Information

• His style is a power stroker, which combines the high backswing and rev rate of a cranker with the smooth timing of a stroker. Compared to other bowlers of this style his ball speed is slower but gets a large amount of side roll into the ball.
• He wears sunglasses while bowling on television to reduce the glare of the TV lights. He also wears a golf glove on his bowling hand.
• When he gets a strike, he sometimes does the D Generation-X crotch chop.
• Pete's bowling idol growing up was not his father, but Mark Roth, one of the game's original power players who inspired Pete to hook the ball much more than his father ever did.
• Pete dropped out of high school in the 10th grade, opting to work behind the pins at a local bowling center and refine his game during time off. He got his General Equivalency Degree (GED) at age 17, just prior to joining the PBA Tour.
• He has been married to third wife, Tracy, since 1997. They have three children together.
• Weber has many superstitions when bowling, including: sitting in the same spot the same way when bowling well, not having his wife Tracy wear red on TV, and folding his towel the same way.
• Weber's most embarrassing moment came on national television on April 13, 1991. As Pete explained to Sports Illustrated on November 7, 2006, "After I won the 1991 U.S. Open, I went to lift the trophy over my head. The eagle toppled down and busted into a million pieces. People came up and grabbed pieces to take home."
• He likes to follow all the St. Louis professional sports teams: Cardinals, Rams, and Blues.
• In an interview after winning his first title of the 2001 season (Great Lakes Classic), he addressed the bowling world with the statement: "I want you to take a look, I'm back and I am P.D.W." During the telecast, Weber shot 299, leaving a 4-pin on the 12th ball after eleven straight strikes.
• He has written on BowlSpace, the social networking site for bowlers, that he is a big wrestling fan, particularly of the WWE. His favorite wrestler is Triple H, and when Weber gets spares and strikes on TV "The Game" by Motörhead (Triple H's entrance music) plays through the speakers. Weber's nickname "PDW" is a take on Rob Van Dam's nickname "RVD", and Weber often points to himself with his thumbs in the same manner of Van Dam.