Iceman
02-09-2009, 12:40 AM
I just experience my first day of "nothing working" and "can't do anything right" since switching from cranker to stroker. Never in my days, have I felt like I did today. I was dropping the ball, circling or spinning the ball (as track was over label). I even tried my hardest to quit dropping the ball and circling. I was still hitting my mark, playing 5 board, but it seemed as with the 30 different hand positions I had today, none of them worked for more than 1 frame. I did throw 2 or 3 frames the same, but other than that, it was abosultely horrible.
I know these days happen, but what do others do to work through them or get through the day without killing avg's or losing a lot of brackets. This was a tourney in Kentucky, had a great shot for the line ball shooters as crankers were missing pocket light or coming in to heavy.
I went back to home house this evening, put a towel 8 inch's past foul line, and never hit it, so I fixed the dropping, but I had hard time correcting circling. I ended up slowing everything down, like I was sneaking up on pins. I realized my arm swing was so far back causing shoulders to open up and made my left foot point towards 10 pin on most shots. Well after a few frames of trying things and talking to my coach on phone, we shorted or compacted everything - including my backswing, it's no more past my right leg on 3rd step which kept me much more square to the lane. We also switched to a 4 step approach. I know all these changes were drastic to get out of what I was doing....But sometimes, you have to do something different even if it's wrong to make something right.
After about 15 frames, I was consistently getting the ball out on the lane, (not dropping) and keeping my track line closer to the finger and thumb holes at a good slight angle, thus staying behind the ball longer before I released it and kept more pressure on my fingers without twisting my wrist.
I do wear a full robby glove, but it doesn't stop me from moving my wrist over top, I can feel sometimes the tendency to cup my wrist, which the wrist band reduces it.
So what does everyone else do when nothing is working, and they can't correct it in time or at all during games?
Also something funny I heard today at tourney, when I was shooting 10 pins, I couldn't get one to save my life. I'm usually 9 for 10 or so, but today, I left 6 in first 2 games, but didn't get any of them, the lanes were oiled outside (like I like them) but I kept pushing the ball into the gutter after 3/4 down the lane. During the 3rd game, switching to my gamebreaker, I threw first frame, smashed 10. I picked up my ball, got lined up again, and paused. It seemed without thinking, I moved 5 boards left and moved my target to middle arrow - I usually stand 15 left and shoot 10-12 flat to get them, well I picked up the 10 pin perfectly. I heard 1 guy say "Hey Great audible". Next frame, I left 6-7-10. I said I can pick it since I can get 10 pin - same move and picked it perfectly. The 6 pin shot straight over to the 7 like it was a magnet. The audible comment was still flowing then too. It was funny to me, never heard that put towards bowling. Nice move on my part to salvage a game ended with 211 - but it was a bad rolled game. Just got breaks and did pick up some decent splits.
I know these days happen, but what do others do to work through them or get through the day without killing avg's or losing a lot of brackets. This was a tourney in Kentucky, had a great shot for the line ball shooters as crankers were missing pocket light or coming in to heavy.
I went back to home house this evening, put a towel 8 inch's past foul line, and never hit it, so I fixed the dropping, but I had hard time correcting circling. I ended up slowing everything down, like I was sneaking up on pins. I realized my arm swing was so far back causing shoulders to open up and made my left foot point towards 10 pin on most shots. Well after a few frames of trying things and talking to my coach on phone, we shorted or compacted everything - including my backswing, it's no more past my right leg on 3rd step which kept me much more square to the lane. We also switched to a 4 step approach. I know all these changes were drastic to get out of what I was doing....But sometimes, you have to do something different even if it's wrong to make something right.
After about 15 frames, I was consistently getting the ball out on the lane, (not dropping) and keeping my track line closer to the finger and thumb holes at a good slight angle, thus staying behind the ball longer before I released it and kept more pressure on my fingers without twisting my wrist.
I do wear a full robby glove, but it doesn't stop me from moving my wrist over top, I can feel sometimes the tendency to cup my wrist, which the wrist band reduces it.
So what does everyone else do when nothing is working, and they can't correct it in time or at all during games?
Also something funny I heard today at tourney, when I was shooting 10 pins, I couldn't get one to save my life. I'm usually 9 for 10 or so, but today, I left 6 in first 2 games, but didn't get any of them, the lanes were oiled outside (like I like them) but I kept pushing the ball into the gutter after 3/4 down the lane. During the 3rd game, switching to my gamebreaker, I threw first frame, smashed 10. I picked up my ball, got lined up again, and paused. It seemed without thinking, I moved 5 boards left and moved my target to middle arrow - I usually stand 15 left and shoot 10-12 flat to get them, well I picked up the 10 pin perfectly. I heard 1 guy say "Hey Great audible". Next frame, I left 6-7-10. I said I can pick it since I can get 10 pin - same move and picked it perfectly. The 6 pin shot straight over to the 7 like it was a magnet. The audible comment was still flowing then too. It was funny to me, never heard that put towards bowling. Nice move on my part to salvage a game ended with 211 - but it was a bad rolled game. Just got breaks and did pick up some decent splits.