Bowling Goals

[UBowling]

I am a firm believe in setting goals. So I thought I would post this thread to offer up the opportunity to discuss your goals for bowling.

Post up some bowling goals you accomplished during last year/season.

Post up some of your current bowling goals for this year/season.

[UBowling]

I accomplished a couple of my goals for last year:
Shoot a 300 game
Win 3 tournaments
Receive 3 lessons from USBC Gold Coach

Here are some of my current goals for this year:
Receive 10 Lessons From USBC Gold Coach
Shoot 300 Game
Shoot 800+ Series
Win 3 Tournaments
Compete in High Roller
Place in the Top 5 of the Storm Utah Open
Add 3 New Clients For Coaching
Get to 100,000 Views on the YouTube Channel for the Website

[e-tank]

Continue to raise my high game

get a 600 series

raise average to 170

Come in first place in my current league

[ssclary]

Get a 250 game in league/tournament play.

Get a 700 series in league/tournament play.

Finish my current league with a 180 average.
172 currently-15 weeks left

Continue to work on my approach and finish, not were I want it yet. Still off balance too much and release is inconsistent.

[wimsical]

My goals when I started again last august was:

Improve my highscore - still working on it.
Get a 600 series - done
Improve to a 180 average over all competitions - don't think this one will succeed, my tuesday average is currently 177,25 and my friday average is currently 166,4 for a combined average of 173,17.
Aside from that, want to improve on my technique because I'm certain there's still some flaws in it.

[GaryBriggs]

I'll play...

I'd like to get a 300 in the bag, gotten 289 twice.
I decided to try my hand at some tournaments, at least one a month weather they are USBC or some of the local charity events, I'd really like to cash in an event this year!
Up my high series of 739, I left an open in the 10th working on a double 2 weeks ago for a 692. That one stung!!!

[UBowling]

For you guys wanting to raise your average to 170 and 180, make sure to practice spares as much as possible. Each open frame is about 10 pins off your score so averaging one more spare per game could get that average right where you want it!

[75lockwood]

So far this season i have gotten a 600 series and a dozen or so 550+ series, last year's high series was in the low to mid 500s

Goals:
700 series! (forget 650 i'm jumping to 700 lol)
300 game would be nice
average over 180 for 21 games (league averages in the 160's and can't possibly change that much counting the entire year)
Win the Provincial Doubles Tourney i'm in next weekend
Place in Provincials in the National Tournament (making it to National's would be a bonus)

:D

[billf]

Goals:
1. Three sanctioned 300 games. Shot two non-sanctioned 300s this season
2. Lead a league in average.
3. Win one of my leagues. Monday nights we won first half so at worse we will have a bowl off at the end of the season.
4. Win overall City title

Achieved:
1. 800 series
2. Obtain a staff position

[Bizwan65]

Finish with high average in my practice league;
Win my practice league;
clean game;
225 game (current high 201);
clean series;
600 series (current 504);
score better than my son when we bowl together.

Got my clean game today and bettered both my high game (201 to 211) and series (504 to 538).

[Hammer]

My goal for this year was to finally have a league night like I use to have. Until the end of 2012 I was bowling lousy. I was very inconsistent. I was looking for a night like I use to have a couple of years ago. It was an uphill battle. I couldn't seem to get on track. Well league night tonight changed that. I bowled a 220, 214 and a 247.
That gave me a whopping 681 scratch series. I haven't had a scratch series of 600 or more in a long time. Not bad for a guy that will be 66 in less then a month. It
sure felt good to get over that hurdle. So my goal for the rest of this year is to bowl series that are at least 500 or more scratch. I use to do that for a whole year with some 600 series thrown in. At least I know it is still in me. Tonight my best was real good.

[J Anderson]

I accomplished a couple of my goals for last year:
Shoot a 300 game
Win 3 tournaments
Receive 3 lessons from USBC Gold Coach



My old boss used the same definition of a couple. He he sent you to get a couple of 2 by 4s and you came back with only two you got yelled at.

[J Anderson]

score better than my son when we bowl together.

That was always my Dad's goal, didn't happen very often after he passed 75 years old.

[SouthpawTRK]

My bowling goals for 2013 would be as follows:

600 series
Raise my average in league
Break my high score of 220
Raise my average on picking up spares
Take at least a handful of bowling lessons

[americantrotter]

Raise my average to 175. (Currently 153)
Hone in my delivery to a repeatable and easy feel. (Instead of constant tweaks)

[panbanger]

We are halfway through my league, give or take a week. Looking over my leaue scores spreadsheet I can see the sprinklings of 140s and 150s are gone, but like almost everyone here I just want to get more consistent. My average is up to 190, it would be nice if I could raise it up to 200 by the end of the league.

A 600 series was a milestone for me, I've since gotten about 6 or 7 of them! A 700 series is a goal of mine. An 800 series is one of those "wouldn't it be nice if" kind of a goal, as is a 300 game. But if I work towards the goal of consistency, those other goals should take care of themselves :-)

[got_a_300]

I guess my main goal is too just make it through the year. LOL!!!! :p

I guess my real bowling goals for 2013 is

1. get my average to over 220+ this year on THS and 200+ on sport shot/animal patterns
2. get a few more sanctioned 300 games
3. get at least 1 or more sanctioned 800 series this year
4. get myself back into shape and get back into my old bowling form like years ago
5. get to where I can go out and try and see if I can make it on the PBA50 tour
6. get to where I can go and try to bowl a few regular regional PBA events

[remix]

Would like to put in a good showing at a couple of tournaments.
Get bot my league averages over 200 (currently 210/193).
A 300 game and 800 series would be awesome. Have never done either.
Improve my consistency in general.