Bowled SOOOO BAD that I thought about Giving IT UP!!!

[MICHAEL]

AKbash, the reason you may have better luck during practice might also be the ability to bowl at a faster pace. When bowling league you will bowl much slower than you do during practice. I can rattle off practice games pretty fast and the pace allows me to keep in form better as I don't take all the extra time between frames to relax and not focus directly on form. I think it might be similar in your case.

In my case I hate sitting and waiting. In life I do everything at a fast pace, which is just me. I score better at bowling when I am not waiting for my turn. My league average would be 20 pins higher based on this I believe.

GREAT POINT, and I agree 101 percent!

I am new to league bowling also! Started bowing when I was retired from Iron workers, on a little no money no pressure, 3 person team! The name of that league is the fun time seniors! Lol…. Pretty much says it all!

Funny,,,, the bowling movement is FAST,,,, FAST,,,, FAST…. People 60 and older, but the main difference is you don’t have to go get them in the lounge drinking, and B.S. ing, or even outside smoking!! Funny,,, the seniors on our league many times are waiting with their ball in hand, two deep foaming at the mouth in anticipation of rocketing their round projectiles down the lanes!!

I swear, many of the teams I bowl on these, (so called serious money leagues wear me out waiting)!!! I have to wait sometimes soooooo long that my butt takes root on the vinyl chairs!! Its crazy!!

And I agree it can affect your rhythm and flow very much!!

I come to bowl, if I want to Bull Shirt I would join a bridge game playing cards or get into politics, maybe even the house, or senate!!

I 2 can rattle off with Jason a dozen games in no time! When we bowl or Fridays for free, its usually just him and me on two lanes! And with all the strikes we through it not uncommon for use to bowl 15 to 75 games!!

Speaking for myself, I get stiff waiting for all the what I call real (((( FUN TIME BOWLERS)))) to find their way back to the lanes they are on to bowl!!

Bowling is about having fun,,, I agree with that statement, but let’s not forget the real reason we are there,,,, to bowl!!
Footnote, I had my highest average on a two person team this last summer! It was my wife and me! FAST, food may not be a good staple for your health, but ONE THING I know for sure, ( Fast Bowling is good for the score, and average)!!

[xthe_charismatic_enigmax]

My teammate has kind of helped me with a never say die attitude, like he was subbing for someone in my Tuesday night league and I just shot a 158..and was frustrated..and we had a small chat and I came back with a 232 and a 236 my next two games. Bad games happen, good games happen, it's an average for a reason. Always try to have fun too, it's all kind of good to have a friend in it as well, especially if they're your teammate, it makes things so much more fun.

[Brother_jd]

Never gonna give it up.

[billf]

I had a similar night a few weeks ago. I didn't help the team at all and almost took myself out of the anchor position. My series was 120 pins under average! Luckily the rest of the team took all their points and we still took overall too but DAMN!

[ArtVandelay]

We had one of those nights tonight... It was just never going to happen. Our league has no individual points, you only get team points and a total of 4 points per evening. We lost all 4 tonight (other team has been sandbagging all year, but that's besides the point... We just didn't bowl well enough to win).

It was just a bad night. We got swept by the 2nd place team, and now we are in 2nd by half a game, instead of up by 3.5 like we were going in. Next week is the final week of the first half of our season, and guess what: It's a position round!!! So we get a re-match next week, but it's such a mind game... Our averages are legit on my team, and we give up well over 100 pins per game to the other team that can throw strikes all day (normally they'll get to the 5th/6th frame at around a 80-110 pin mark per person. The problem is their averages range from 120-160. Go figure!) until the game is well in hand and then they shoot for corner pins.

It's disappointing. We have to take 3 out of 4 next week to win the league, BUT all of us have to bowl over 25 pins over average just to make up the handicap and we already know none of those guys will hold back next week... It's hard to not let it mess with your head.

I was inconsistent. I missed last week because of an upper respiratory infection (I was on antibiotics), and while sick I never worked out. I never felt I had a good read on the lane. It felt like a shorter oil pattern tonight, but I might just have thought that because I feel weaker from not having lifted in a while. I had a 181-164-211 for a 566 series (scores don't tell the story... That last game was a disaster. I don't think I hit the pocket cleanly once, and ended up getting one of the ugliest strikes I've ever seen in my life, but they're all beautiful to me!). 185.333 average, which is appropriate because my average in this league is currently 185 on the dot. Go figure...

Doesn't matter. No matter what happens, we can hold our heads high with pride. We didn't sandbag.

[AKbash]

AKbash, the reason you may have better luck during practice might also be the ability to bowl at a faster pace. When bowling league you will bowl much slower than you do during practice. I can rattle off practice games pretty fast and the pace allows me to keep in form better as I don't take all the extra time between frames to relax and not focus directly on form. I think it might be similar in your case.

In my case I hate sitting and waiting. In life I do everything at a fast pace, which is just me. I score better at bowling when I am not waiting for my turn. My league average would be 20 pins higher based on this I believe.

Someone has said this to me before too...never really thought about it like that but I guess it makes sense. When I am by myself, I don't even sit down at all. I remember what I did wrong on the previous shot and try to correct it. When in league, you take a shot, you sit down, you talk, blah blah, then you go after a few minutes. When I am by myself, I can usually play 5 games an hour. 6 if I am doing well :P

[scottymoney]

Someone has said this to me before too...never really thought about it like that but I guess it makes sense. When I am by myself, I don't even sit down at all. I remember what I did wrong on the previous shot and try to correct it. When in league, you take a shot, you sit down, you talk, blah blah, then you go after a few minutes. When I am by myself, I can usually play 5 games an hour. 6 if I am doing well :P

Exactly! I am trying to now invite people to go bowling with me when I want to practice, hoping the little break up of time will get me to condition myself to having to wait. For some reason I can't practice by myself and create the "downtime" it just doesn't feel right.

I tend to lose focus during league with all the guys talking and time between shots. And even found a few times forgetting what board I had been using when I walk up to start my approach. Man you feel so lost when you forget that!

[AKbash]

Exactly! I am trying to now invite people to go bowling with me when I want to practice, hoping the little break up of time will get me to condition myself to having to wait. For some reason I can't practice by myself and create the "downtime" it just doesn't feel right.

I tend to lose focus during league with all the guys talking and time between shots. And even found a few times forgetting what board I had been using when I walk up to start my approach. Man you feel so lost when you forget that!

LOL. that's what happens to me too. When I practice by myself, I'll "try" to sit for a few seconds...but usually as soon as my ball gets back from the return I stand up right away and take a shot.

In league I think what happens to me is I forget what I did wrong and get too excited. Since I'm used to taking shot after shot, by the time it's my turn in league its like I have this "I CAN'T WAIT TO GO" feeling. It's like a little kid on christmas morning and along with the pressure, it doesn't end well for me sometimes. Lol

[GoodGorilla]

You always say this.