What ruins your game, and how do you recover?

[Tony]

For me it's missing the 10 pin or another single pin spare, if I start out by missing one it sometimes continues the rest of the night. The other one is being too deliberate on my approach and delivery, this causes me to loose the free flowing arm motion and follow through causing poor ball rotation and misses to the right

[classygranny]

I hate to follow a bowler that has to give a commentating dissertation about everything they did wrong on the shot, or what happened on the lane. Seems like I tend to start thinking about what NOT to do instead of staying in my own game, watching the ball reaction myself, etc.

I've started an ignore stage where I try and not listen and just nod my head (it's hard because I tend to hear everything). On Friday mornings we have changed our lineup so I don't have to follow the commentator, so we will see if it changes things any. I know avoidance isn't really going to help me "address" the issue, but after 3 years, I'm tired of following that.

[Kells]

I have a problem with rushing my next shot after throwing a bad one. Generally since I'm so amped up and ready to correct my prior mistake, I will move my feet too fast and end up throwing a worse shot. I try to avoid rushing by taking a deep breath before I deliver my next ball and if it doesn't feel right, I'll stop, put the ball down, and start my approach over.

[Tony]

I hate to follow a bowler that has to give a commentating dissertation about everything they did wrong on the shot, or what happened on the lane. Seems like I tend to start thinking about what NOT to do instead of staying in my own game, watching the ball reaction myself, etc.

I've started an ignore stage where I try and not listen and just nod my head (it's hard because I tend to hear everything). On Friday mornings we have changed our lineup so I don't have to follow the commentator, so we will see if it changes things any. I know avoidance isn't really going to help me "address" the issue, but after 3 years, I'm tired of following that.

That sounds very annoying, hopefully changing the lineup will help you somewhat. I would think just ignoring the comments and not acknowledging the commentator would be an option, maybe if they know that you're not an audience they might talk to themselves or wait until they get back to the table where they have other potential audience members.

[billf]

Hitting my ankle is the hardest for me to recover from. I have many faults but that one tends to stay the longest.