The anatomy of what goes WRONG
the anatomy of what keeps a person from having a HIGH AVERAGE! I did this a while back! Looking at it 2 missed ten pins did get the others, and a final game of sh#T!
What was the reason.... TOTAL LACK OF FOUCS! Maybe the number one reason most bowlers have high and low's FOCUS!
How many times do you even now find yourself not KEEP YOUR EYES on the target? I hate to say it but probably more often then I should. I don't know how many times during a bowling outing I take my EYES of the target just before release.
It's like golf, you need to keep your eyes down and on the target to replicate a shot! Maybe the hardest thing in world to do. Yesterday when I had that 240 something, I was bowling with a guy that looked at each of my shots! He said I was on target and not more then a board off either direction, but mainly right on!
OF all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these what might have been..... should have bee a strong 700... not just a 700!
Don't walk on Thin Ice!
Well dang, congrats on almost another 300 as well. That one pin... At least the pressure was off right off the bat. I fully understand why this happens though. I might throw a 210 my first game, then a 170 my second game, and a 185 the third. Not that I am truly that inconsistent, it's just that I occasionally don't hit where I want to an inopportune times.
Somewhere along the line someone said " think of every missed spare as a minimum 11 pin penalty"
it got my attention and I focus just as hard on spares if not more than my first ball
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Try guttering a ball after string of strikes. That hurts. If my math is correct that is a 30 pin penalty
It's only a 10 pin penalty if that string of strikes is the first 11.Originally Posted by NewToBowling
Years ago I managed to shoot 270 with a -/ frame somewhere in the middle.
You are correct, with an exception for the 11/12 frame that give you a 290 for 11 in a row, and 280 for 10 and the spare. Tough ways to finish a great game.
I did the 11 in a row and then put it in the gutter earlier this year. Would have been my 3rd 300 this year.
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Looking at your frame by frame score in the third game, it occurs to me that the beginning of the end came in the third and fourth frames with a nine count and an eight count. When you initially adjusted to strike in five and six what was the adjustment: line change, ball change, speed change, loft change? Lanes have a bad habit of "exploding" in terms of the shot. This is the point where small adjustments no longer work, and a big move is required. While bowlers love to take full responsibility for their successes and failures, citing loss of focus or some physical aspect of their games, more often than not it is nothing more than a failure to keep up with what the lanes are demanding of you. Make sense?
Sorry to hear that, that has to be a tough finish to a great game.
I once bowled 2 250+ games then guttered the first ball of the third game. Didn't even get my 700.
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