Monday Practice: medium oil synthetics
478 Series: 153-169-156
Started off Game 1 with 5 straight spares and a strike. Then I opened 3 of the last 4 frames. Game 2 was more of the same, mostly clean but a few frames of spare issues. Still couldn't strike in Game 3 so I switched to the Frantic in the 4th frame and was clean except for a 4-6-10 split in the 8th.
499 Series: 164-169-166
All 3 games were virtually identical…7 clean frames and a few splits/chopped or missed spares. Switched to the less aggressive Encounter near the start of Game 6.
451 Series: 129-156-166
Game 7 was 5 splits. Game 8 spare shooting was a little off…but I did pick up a 6-7 split…which was cool. And Game 9 was clean except for 3 splits.
491 Series: 168-158-165
Games 10 through 12 were more of the same…mostly clean but 3-4 open frames of splits or missed spares.
PinPal Stats:
First Ball Average: 8.45 pins
Strikes: 28% (7 doubles and 22 singles)
Spares: 53% picked up
Single Pin spares: 67% (21/31)
Most common single-pin leaves: 2-pin and 10-pin (6x each).
Never left a single 1-pin.
Multiple Pin spares: 46% (27/58)
Most common multi-pin spare leaves: 6-10 (5x).
Splits: 10% (2/19)
Average over 12 games: 159.92.
Average had I picked up 100% of single pin spare leaves: 168.58.
Actually…this practice wasn't so bad. It wasn't good. 12 games with nothing 170 or higher is NOT good. Being virtually unable to pick up a corner pin spare is NOT good. BUT…the overall stats were encouraging. And, I seemed to have a bit of an "aha moment" in Game 12 when I took off my wrist positioner and started getting a feel for keeping my hand behind the ball. Still a work in progress, but I saw some encouraging things.
I'm also going to post a bit of a ball comparison in the Stats Part II thread which is sort of inspired by Amyers questioning whether perhaps using the weaker Slingshot could be a reason for the struggles as of late…so go check it out!!
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