fokai73
03-21-2016, 12:54 PM
I bowled in a tourney recently with a very difficult 40 plus feet pattern. I don't know exactly what they had, but it was a difficult pattern. Scores were very low for the whole weekend. I never saw so many gutter balls thrown buy guys who are so used to swinging it from left to right...
anyway, here are a list of things I screwed up for being stubborn and not listening to my gut.
1. After warm ups, my gut told me to move further in with my feet, target 12/13 at the exit point and use a certain ball that was still in my bag. Well after the first game, I finally made that switch. 80 pins difference between the first and second game. In fact, I stayed with that ball for the next squad as well and did okay barely breaking 600 in the last squad.
2. there were several frames when I didn't use my spare ball and paid the price with a hooking ball making its move in the last minute. I missed three single pins due to hooking balls. And these are pins I can use my strike ball with on house shots....2 8 and 9... so sad missing these. YET, I converted 2 4 7 10 and 2 4 10 and 3 7 10 all with my spare ball...... I made stupid choice on those single pins.
3. Then I knew I had to move or adjust, but I was always late making those moves.
On house shots, it's easy to get "lazy" and still convert spares or have good results (strikes) on missed shots outside or inside. it's refreshing to bowl on patterns that lets you pay for it for not being there mentally or just being lazy. Even when I threw a good shot, rolled on the spot I was aiming for, and the ball never made a turn. It wasn't just me, everyone struggled. The margin of error was so tight.
anyway, here are a list of things I screwed up for being stubborn and not listening to my gut.
1. After warm ups, my gut told me to move further in with my feet, target 12/13 at the exit point and use a certain ball that was still in my bag. Well after the first game, I finally made that switch. 80 pins difference between the first and second game. In fact, I stayed with that ball for the next squad as well and did okay barely breaking 600 in the last squad.
2. there were several frames when I didn't use my spare ball and paid the price with a hooking ball making its move in the last minute. I missed three single pins due to hooking balls. And these are pins I can use my strike ball with on house shots....2 8 and 9... so sad missing these. YET, I converted 2 4 7 10 and 2 4 10 and 3 7 10 all with my spare ball...... I made stupid choice on those single pins.
3. Then I knew I had to move or adjust, but I was always late making those moves.
On house shots, it's easy to get "lazy" and still convert spares or have good results (strikes) on missed shots outside or inside. it's refreshing to bowl on patterns that lets you pay for it for not being there mentally or just being lazy. Even when I threw a good shot, rolled on the spot I was aiming for, and the ball never made a turn. It wasn't just me, everyone struggled. The margin of error was so tight.