What are the "Most Important" frames of each game to you ?

[GeoLes]

What's the most important frame of the game?

The next one. It demands all your focus. Go for it.

[Bendial]

Since I'm a newbie I would say the most important for me are the first few frames. If I don't do well on my first few, I tend to get pretty frustrated and the rest of my game goes down hill with it. I think thats my biggest challenge is learning how to get back on track when I'm bowling poorly.

[J Anderson]

Since I'm a newbie I would say the most important for me are the first few frames. If I don't do well on my first few, I tend to get pretty frustrated and the rest of my game goes down hill with it. I think thats my biggest challenge is learning how to get back on track when I'm bowling poorly.

I'm probably going slightly off topic but here are a few suggestions for when the first few frames don't go well, actually they're good anytime but then I'd really be off topic.

After each ball ask yourself: Did the ball roll over my target? Where did the ball go? If the ball was on target, where the ball wound up and what pins were left tell you what adjustment to make.

IF the ball wasn't on target, forget about it! In my experience if you worry about what you did wrong on the last shot, you will either repeat the same mistake ( oftentimes even more so ) or you will over compensate and miss the opposite way. A few frames like that and it seems like there's an invisible wall in front of your target. Instead focus on executing your basic shot. Don't take too much time. Once you get in your set up position, and your eyes focus on your target, go!

Good or bad, don't get caught up in what your score is. Seeing a bunch of strike up there may make you careless with the next shot. A pile of open frames may make you too tense.

[Tokes]

Good or bad, don't get caught up in what your score is. Seeing a bunch of strike up there may make you careless with the next shot. A pile of open frames may make you too tense.

This is what I really need to work on.

So for me my important frames are just after the start like 3-7 if I can close those it help calm me down. Like when I start off well and open the end it might help carry me through to stay reasonably over my average, or if I close those and stay strong after with the same results. But when I leave those open with some before or after I fell like I tense up from to many opens and that leads me to blow a game. That even finishing strong or starting strong without my middle frames leaves me with a below average game at times.

[martinezsam2495]

In my experience, it's the 6th~8th frame, since that's where I see most people start to lose focus, miss marks or get splits.

[Koontzy]

9th and 10th for sure. more pins, and of course most games are won in these final frames. however I also like the first 2 frames as they almost always set the tone for how well i am going to play..

[Tampabaybob]

Thanks guys for all of these answers. As you can see, most of you want to be there big time in the ninth and definitely in the tenth. A few agreed with me on the first couple or three frames as well. Again, this game is very mental and if you can get your opponent starting to think he may be in trouble early, that will work in your favor.

Focus is very important for the entire game, but what I call "bearing down" in the first two or three and then again in the last two works for me.

Good luck and kick some butt in those frames!

[Old lefty]

I would have to agree ......the first 3 frames and the 7th through the 10th

[BrandonKR]

9th and 10th. Especially 9th, an open in the 9th can really turn an good game in to a less than average one.

[Tampabaybob]

9th and 10th. Especially 9th, an open in the 9th can really turn an good game in to a less than average one.

very true ! Struck the other night in the tenth spared on that and won my match by one pin. My opponent only spared. He won the game, but I won the total point by one. He wasn't a happy camper !