mental game

[jmainville]

anyone have any tips on how to improve the mental game? I went to a tournament over the weekand and didnt do so well. It had me very low because I could find any line that was working. Thought I was the worst bowler in the world. then tuesday night at league I shot 690 so i felt a little better. How do you maintain a good outlook when your bowling like crap?

[dpmusic70]

There is an article by Susie Minshew that might help you out with this problem. My good friend Colleen Becker sent it to me a while back and it really helps to improve your confidence. I'll try to send you the link and if I can't I'll get my husband Kev to do it when he gets home.


Bowling - Having Confidence

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Bowling - Having Confidence

Your Evil Non-Bowling Twin by Susie Minshew

[tbrownie]

There is an article by Susie Minshew that might help you out with this problem. My good friend Colleen Becker sent it to me a while back and it really helps to improve your confidence. I'll try to send you the link and if I can't I'll get my husband Kev to do it when he gets home.


Bowling - Having Confidence

Information and articles for everyone who is passionate about sport or wants to get fit.


Bowling - Having Confidence

Your Evil Non-Bowling Twin by Susie Minshew

id love to see this as well :)

[dpmusic70]

OOPPS! Oh well that didn't work. I'll get Kev to put up the link when he gets home from work.

[kev3inp]

Hi there! I'm not sure what went wrong, but we'll try this : http://www.sportandme.com/docs/sports/bowling/evil_non_bowling_twin.html I'm not quite sure how to rename it, I'd have to experiment, but let's see if it works.

[kev3inp]

having confidence (http://www.sportandme.com/docs/sports/bowling/evil_non_bowling_twin.html)

Yay, me! I figured it out!

[bowl1820]

Here's some links to info on the mental game that may help. Some of These are pdf files so you can read off line.

Avoid the Choke: Practice Techniques to Wipe Out Stress (http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/stories/slowinski_jan_09_article.pdf)

How Important Is the Mental Game? (http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/stories/slowinski_btm_how_important_mental_game_feb08.pdf)

Experimental Tip # 7: Identifying and Dealing With Stress in Tournament Play (http://bowlingknowledge.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172&Itemid=48)

How Complete Is Your Game? (http://bowlingknowledge.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=46)

5 Pillars of a Strong Mental Game (http://bowlingknowledge.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=48)
(Note Dr. Eugenia M. Kolasinski bowled on one of my leagues here at one time.

What Is Your Focus IQ? (http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/stories/slowinski_focusiq_btm_dec_2006.pdf)

[tbrownie]

great stuff :)

[kev3inp]

Dr. K used to be a sponsor of Let's Go Bowling and made regular appearances, but I haven't heard anything about her in a while. She was holding seminars about her "pillars" in tournament cities. I know in Kentucky they sleep on their pillars. ;)

[jmainville]

thank you all for the great information. I'm going to read through all this and apply it to my game. I know I can overcome this hurdle. I never used to have this problem but as my physical game improved my mental game did not. thanks again

[jmainville]

thank for the article " Your Evil Non-Bowling Twin by Susie Minshew ". what an eye opener that one was. It made so much sense to me when I was reading it. I have league tommorrow night so I plan on applying some of the things I've learned and hopefully it helps. I've spent so much time trying to develop my physical game that I forgot about my mental game. thanks yall

[dpmusic70]

You're welcome from both me and Kevin. I know it helped me out alot.

[jmainville]

Thank you all again for the great articles. I have finally read through all of the ones I got plus the ones I found online myself and am going to put them to work on tuesday at league. I think of the mental and physical game that the mental is the most dificult to work on. But I have confidence that doing so will make me a better bowler.

[branstew]

I can only saythank you as well as I tried yesterday and it helpped. so thanks again

[jmainville]

what did you work on? Which article did you take the most from. I can certainly relate to the article about my evil twin. I found some other really good ones that I will try and post later.

[fbushstl]

well to me ur mental game is all basically mental i usually do things to distract me while i keep my attention talking helps umm playing with ur phone umm other things like listeningt to ur ipod i see ppl do use that but u just need to relax walk a round take it all in and just go with the flow remembr its all mental