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

[Tampabaybob]

Still waiting for a few more replies, then I'll share my views as well. Most of you so far as I can see are right on the money, but one other question is, "Do you change your focus at all for those all important frames?

[J Anderson]

The ninth is the key frame. Unless your team is way ahead or way behind, the ninth is really where games are won or lost. An open in the ninth can make striking out in the tenth almost worthless. A strike in the ninth is the perfect set up for a strong finish.

With that said, are any of us not trying to strike in every frame? Okay, except for those shooting practice games and sandbaggers, is any one not trying to get a strike?

I find that when I start thinking about scores or potential scores instead of just executing good shots my game goes downhill rapidly.

[barcar]

9th and 10th, because my teams always seem to be tight at the end of the game.

[ArtVandelay]

Most important frame?

The next one...

Tom Brady and his old Michigan locker room guy (or whoever it was) were onto something with that.

[got_a_300]

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

Without a doubt every frame is important to me but I'd have to say
probably the most important frames are the foundation 9th frame and
the 10th frame.

I bowl anchor so I have to consider that the 9th and 10th frames is where
I either win or loose the game for my team if it is that close.

[GeorgiaStroker]

The most important frame is your frame of mind.....and of course BEER FRAME...

[swingset]

I'll be different and say the middle frames - 4,5,6. I think about them a lot.

Why? Because they are your salvation or ruin. If you start strong but can't maintain...it's the middle that dooms you. If you start poorly and then dial it in? It's the middle that saves you. If you have a strong finish, that's good but what would make a strong finish the cap to a 279 or a 300 instead of making it a 210 would have been your performance during the middle.

I say this because I see a lot of good bowlers start with a couple strikes, and finish strong, but the 4-5-6 games are where they lost concentration or made their mistakes.

[Flyer41]

To me, the most important frame is the one you're about to shoot. I look at it like this, every time you don't strike you lose between 10-20 pins depending on prior frames. It doesn't matter if it's the 4th or 9th frame. If all your focus is on the last two frames, and you don't focus on the first 8, you're probably going to be too far behind anyway. All you can do is once you get to the approach, is follow your routine and execute each of your shots to the best of your ability.

[coachkapps]

9th and 10th obviously but also 1st for starting off well and then 5th I like to be over 100 pins. Kind of break it into 3 parts I guess. But my vote is 9th and 10th.

I like the comment about 'the next frame' being the most important. Kind of like golf where even if you hit a bad shot, you can save yourself with a good 2nd shot, chip, or putt. Bowling can be that way too. Executing 'the next shot' is important. Kind of rings true when you have a big string of strikes. If you focus on the 7 bagger, 8 bagger, etc, you might tense up. If you focus on the next 1 shot, you're more likely to execute.

[Mtownsend010]

For a very novice bowler like myself I really have to start off my first frame good or my games go down hill quick