Mark O's Bowling Scores

[Mark O]

Very Nice! What kind of ball are you doing all this damage with ?

Thanks everyone I appreciate it! I have been using a Track MX10 primarily with a Track 300c as a ball down option once the MX10 stops carrying the corners. This week I didn't even need to bring the 300c out of the bag, it was all MX10 for 6 games.

[Mark O]

Haven't been able to post in a while but I am happy to report that the hot streak is still rolling on!
Last Tuesday: 180-243-186 for 609.
Last Wednesday: Off
This Tuesday: 212-207-213 for 632.
This Wednesday: 221-245-196 for 662.

That makes 6 600+ series in a row and I feel like I'm rolling the ball extremely well right now.
My strike ball has been on point and I've been striking close to 60% of the time over the past month.
However over the past month I also have a 16% open frame rate even with the good scoring. That averages out to 5 opens a night and that definitely needs to be improved upon. I'm learning and improving every week and I can't wait for it to be next Tuesday already!

[vdubtx]

Nice Mark. Keep at it. Since you are striking so much, assuming it is single pin leaves that are messing you up. Good practice session can help take care of those. Just a few more closed frames and you are improving 20+ pin per series.

[NewToBowling]

Good stuff. Nice string of 600's

[Mark O]

Nice Mark. Keep at it. Since you are striking so much, assuming it is single pin leaves that are messing you up. Good practice session can help take care of those. Just a few more closed frames and you are improving 20+ pin per series.

Thanks Vdub, you're exactly right! The majority of my leaves are single pins with the rest being nasty splits when I get a little slow with my shot. Those I can't do much about but there's a lot I can do about the single pins. Last year I was close to 90% on my single pins and around 80% on the 10 pin. This year so far I'm only at about 75% on my single pins and 60% on the 10 pin. I obviously know how to make it, I'm just not doing it which tells me it's probably more upstairs than anything else. You're right though nothing a few games of lowball can't fix, gotta get out and practice!

[Mark O]

The good times kept rolling this week as I finished off November nicely.

Tuesday: 206-208-214 for 628. Very proud of how I shot on this night because it was a battle all night. There was about a 10 board difference between the right and left lanes and the strikes didn't come as easy as they have in previous weeks. Made every non-split spare including 10 single pins and stayed relatively clean all night. In the past a night like this would have been around 540 so I'm very happy with 628.

Wednesday: 264-191-248 for 703. The strikes came much more often on Wednesday. Only had 2 bad shots all night where I left the 3-6-10 at the end of the first game and the greek church in the middle of the second. Other than that it was nothing but strikes and 9s with the majority of those being corner pins. Lost a bit of carry in the 2nd game but was firing on all cylinders again tonight to end up with my 2nd 700 of the month.

Ultimately averaged 218 in the month of November so I'd say it was a very successful month and I'm looking to continue that going into December!

[fortheloveofbowling]

Nice set with the 703.

[Blomer]

Fantastic shooting. One of my goals is to reach 700.

[mc_runner]

Nice series!

[Mark O]

Fantastic shooting. One of my goals is to reach 700.

Thanks again all, the game is really fun right now haha. If you can throw 300 Blomer, you can definitely throw 700, it's only a matter of time!

My 600 streak finally came to an end on Tuesday night. I shot 182-186-214 for 582 on the night. I ran into a really tough pair where the right lane was very wet/dry and was giving all the rightys fits all night. I couldn't adjust and found it really hard to double, combine that with a few bonehead single pin misses and it made for a relatively lackluster night. Frustrating but chalked it up as a learning experience!

Thankfully I bounced back nicely on Wednesday with 210-258-181 for a 649 series. 3rd game should have been much better as I inexplicably threw a gutter and also tugged a shot and got a nice 4 count on one of my spares. Other than those two blemishes the ball was working well and I'm back on track!