Biting the bullet.

[aussiedave]

Lately, I've been playing what feels more natural to me. Hit the 12-13 boards (arrows), break around 7-8. And during practice, it works really well. But when the game finally starts, for some reason it doesn't seem to work as well anymore. Gonna try tonight going back outside and throwing straight down the 7 board. I was getting more consistent striking and a lot less spares when I did that.

Try a bit more pace if you can if it comes too far up the pocket.
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[aussiedave]

Last time i bit the bullet, I almost broke a tooth. I will never try that again.

You're supposed to remove the gunpowder first...8^)
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[Greenday]

Try a bit more pace if you can if it comes too far up the pocket.
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Figures. Turned out to be super dry on the outside tonight. I moved in and was throwing about 29-15-5 (Laydown-arrows-breakpoint). That worked great. The middle allowed me to get down the lane, but the real dry boards outside let it grab and rip in.

[aussiedave]

After enjoying some of the best form of my life over the last few weeks, my mojo made a mysterious exit for me last night after averaging 197+, I only managed a modest 170 - 157 - 168 = 495 last night. We won the first game (this is the position round after finishing .5 behind second place in 22 team league) then lost the second by 4 pins when I as anchor missed a 10 pin spare - after a nice pocket shot of course. What really sucked is we lost the 3rd too and the series by a lousy 6 pins...sigh.
I don't think I was doing anything different to previous weeks, but did come up high several times getting nasty splits - certainly makes a huge dent in ones score eh?
Can't see any adjustments so will just have to see what happens next week.
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[TCJ]

Sometimes these slumps make you learn new angles to play, or other techniques like a different release, etc. Just the other day, I was throwing in the pocket and leaving ten pin after ten pin (something I rarely do, the ten pin, that is) so I finally decided I need to make an adjustment. My original angle was basically start five boards left of center and throw just inside the second arrow to hit the pocket. I adjusted to move my feet to one board left of center and my aim went to the five board. I altered my release angle and slowed my ball speed down. The result was a 231 after I had been shooting 190's the games before. Playing the five board is NOT something I do very often (in fact, it's been many years since I've done so) so it was a rather drastic change on my part. However, it's something I did know how to do because over the years I've developed various methods of bowling and I can (usually) go back to them when I need to.

Just keep adjusting and when you make those adjustments, REMEMBER THEM so you can go back to them when necessary.