Clasping a crutch in his left hand and a bowling ball in his right, Luis Macias fell Friday while beginning a turn at St. Charles Bowl.

Cerebral palsy forces Macias to calculate his every move, so he doesn’t often hit the deck. Still, falls happen, which is enough for the 43-year-old St. Charles man to blush as deeply as his 13-pound orange-red ball.

“If the thumb gets stuck in the thumb hole and I forget to let go, I sometimes feel like I’m going to go down the lane like Barney Rubble,” Macias said. “If that happens, I just get up and try again. Just like everyone else.”