Goals for 2012-2013 Season

[JaMau24]

I thought I would make a thread so people could post their goals for this season.... Then, when the season is over, you can come back and look at if you accomplished your goals or not... Feel free to set some goals for yourself...

I like to set mine high...

My Goals:

• Average 230 in at least one league (Participating in three leagues this season -- previous best: 223)
• Bowl more than one 300 (One will be fine with me though!)
• Bowl an 800 series
• Win first place in all 3 leagues
• Pick up 10 pin at least 90% of time
• Don't get overly mad at yourself, stay positive at all times
• Encourage teammates
• Win at least one tournament (Unrelated to league)
• HAVE FUN!!

Now I hope to complete as many of those as I can, I'll post a review after the season and let everyone know how I did.

Good luck to everyone this season!

[Tokes]

Cool thread idea Jamau.

My Goals

• I want to average 160 (I'm shooting for 180 but ill be happy with a 30 pin increase)
• To handle pressure situations better and not choke on key shots
• No faceplants in the alley (bought some shoe covers for those random spills
• Get more consitent on hitting my marks
• Improve my balance at the delivery

Really just trying to be more consistent all around.

[MICHAEL]

Goals for 2012-2013 Season
1. Be a better person, more loving, and forgiving, spread my wealth from bowling around the world to all in need.

2. Try to resist the temptation to purchase a new storm bowling ball, but GOD THE APPLE CRISP, is cruel and inhuman punishment, once you have partaken of its aroma, its,,,, ITS Hard to not desire it next to your nose!

3. To build a Church, with a bowling alley in the basement! ( The Catholics had a good idea when they did that years ago) I remember my mom saying when I was but a small boy, that thunder was the angles bowling in heaven! It was at that moment that I knew I wanted wings, so that I could bowl with the angles! I even made a pair, got up on top of the barn in Kearney MO. And jumped! Next thing I remember was waking up, not in a celestial bowling alley, but in grandma’s kitchen on the table! She was a seamstress, and did a pretty good job of putting me back together.

4. Go to theology school so that I can not only have the church, with the bowling lanes in the basement, but save souls too! There is no bowling in hell! Only barbecuing, and cooking!

5. Never have a 10 pin leave! To do this I will simply go down and stuff the pin setting machine with old dirty rags, and continue to bowl!
That slot does not deserve clean rags,,, the pain and suffering it has cause most of us, and near perfect 300 games it destroys!

6. Be kind to all that deserve it on league night! The Dude knows what I am talking about! 99 percent of the people I have met bowling are wonderful fun loving people! It’s that one percent
That needs the Lord, or Iceman to see the light! Amen!!! I say again AMEN! (a certain a Man)!!!!
!

Last but not least, I want a 300 game, on my sanctioned league, (not my unsanctioned one with the older bowlers! Now that I did the 700, I am shooting for a 701, 725, and 749, I want a 800!! I want to be a good bowler, not just for the glory of it, but because I need people to worship me, and respect me! I want kids to say,,, when I grow up,,, I want to be just like that super hero bowling Iceman!
He is soooooo Slick, Cool, Frosty, Glacial, gelid, Icy, nippy, shivery, Solid! Iceman!

[Zothen]

My goals for 2012/2013

To avg 170 or better in both regular and sport leagues

To be more consistant in hittng my mark

To improve on 10 pin pick ups

To remember to take a deep breath,keep my knees bent & inhale as I let the ball go

See everyone at end of season!

Good luck & good scoring!

Zothen

[RoccoRock]

My goals:
-average mid 190's-200's for the season, and raise my sanctioned average
-bowl a sanctioned 300 game, 800 series
-have my team finish in the top 3 in both halves of the season
-help my teamates get better, and even help my friends on other teams
-use my thumb every single game!
-be the guy everyone in the league fears, and doesn't want to bowl against
-lead the league in match points won
-win lots of money in the brackets

[striker12]

my goals

-try to avg 180+ ( in the 2 leagues in bowling in)
-try to get a 300 game (in any of the 2 leagues)
-try to get the 700 series
-try to hit at least 50% of splits
-hit 80% of 10pins
-stay calm
-try to get into a few turnnys this year(posably nationals if high enoph avg or local turnnys)
-for last of all have alot of fun

[panbanger]

• To beat my personal high game of 224.

• To not have a really bad 1st week, so people accuse me of sandbagging and hit me with bags of sand or say something like "life's a beach" whenever I show up.

• To resist the urge to say "oh captain, my captain" to whoever the captain of my team is, even if it's me and I say it to myself in the mirror each day, to the dismay of my girlfriend.

[The German Shepherd]

Goals for 2012-2013 Season
1. Be a better person, more loving, and forgiving, spread my wealth from bowling around the world to all in need.

2. Try to resist the temptation to purchase a new storm bowling ball, but GOD THE APPLE CRISP, is cruel and inhuman punishment, once you have partaken of its aroma, its,,,, ITS Hard to not desire it next to your nose!

3. To build a Church, with a bowling alley in the basement! ( The Catholics had a good idea when they did that years ago) I remember my mom saying when I was but a small boy, that thunder was the angles bowling in heaven! It was at that moment that I knew I wanted wings, so that I could bowl with the angles! I even made a pair, got up on top of the barn in Kearney MO. And jumped! Next thing I remember was waking up, not in a celestial bowling alley, but in grandma’s kitchen on the table! She was a seamstress, and did a pretty good job of putting me back together.

4. Go to theology school so that I can not only have the church, with the bowling lanes in the basement, but save souls too! There is no bowling in hell! Only barbecuing, and cooking!

5. Never have a 10 pin leave! To do this I will simply go down and stuff the pin setting machine with old dirty rags, and continue to bowl!
That slot does not deserve clean rags,,, the pain and suffering it has cause most of us, and near perfect 300 games it destroys!

6. Be kind to all that deserve it on league night! The Dude knows what I am talking about! 99 percent of the people I have met bowling are wonderful fun loving people! It’s that one percent
That needs the Lord, or Iceman to see the light! Amen!!! I say again AMEN! (a certain a Man)!!!!
!

Last but not least, I want a 300 game, on my sanctioned league, (not my unsanctioned one with the older bowlers! Now that I did the 700, I am shooting for a 701, or maybe a 702! I want to be a good bowler, not just for the glory of it, but because I need people to worship me, and respect me! I want kids to say,,, when I grow up,,, I want to be just like that super hero bowling Iceman!
He is soooooo Slick, Cool, Frosty, Glacial, gelid, Icy, nippy, shivery, Solid! Iceman!

Yo Michael, I can help you with numbers 3 and 4!

My goals would be to average 210+ in my second year back from my hiatus. This may be a lofty goal, but I think it is within reach;
Throw one more 300;
Throw one more 800;
Add another Defiant (maybe the EDGE) to the arsenal.

Jay

[got_a_300]

I guess my main goal this season is

1.too just make it through the season
without blowing my knee(s) out or having my back go out on me.

2. see above goal

3. any other goals would have to just be maybe bowl another 1 or 2
sanctioned 300 games and maybe have 2 or more sanctioned 800 series

[mdlee3]

1. Average 200+ in one of my leagues and 190+ in the 2 leagues combined.

2. Convert over 80% of my single pin spares. This could be a challenge since I leave a lot of 10 pins and I miss them a lot. However, so far in my 2 leagues this year, I'm 14/16 on single pin spares and 6/6 on 10 pins.

3. Win my Monday morning league. We've finished 2nd each of the last 3 years with the same team winning it each year and this team does not sandbag, they are just a bunch of good bowlers.