Aslan's Scores (of the non-lady kind)

[mc_runner]

Nice series!

[Blacksox1]

Nice shooting 647 with all games deuce or better. Aslan what was your strike total for the series?

[Aslan]

That's what I thought. So, assuming you are using this site as your "journaling".

Well, I wanted to start taking better notes....include a section about the mental side, the journaling she mentioned, and also start tracking my speed variation. I'm just hesitant because I already do a LOT of over-analyzing and I just don't know how much more I wanna do.

Nice shooting 647 with all games deuce or better. Aslan what was your strike total for the series?

27 strikes

61% is quite high for me. I generally am happy with >35%.

[Amyers]

Well, I wanted to start taking better notes....include a section about the mental side, the journaling she mentioned, and also start tracking my speed variation. I'm just hesitant because I already do a LOT of over-analyzing and I just don't know how much more I wanna do.


27 strikes

61% is quite high for me. I generally am happy with >35%.

The mental side is easy for you just put in slightly neurotic with a tendency towards OCD. Congrats on the nice set

[Aslan]

Monday Practice: low oil, THS

512 Series: 193-142-177

448 Series: 169-131-148

PinPal Stats:
First Ball Average: 7.79 pins
Strikes: 28% (1 turkey, 2 doubles, and 11 singles)
Spares: 52% picked up

Single Pin spares: 75% (6/8)
Most common single-pin leaves: 5-pin and 10-pin (2x each).
Never left a 1-pin, 4-pin, 8-pin, nor 9-pin.

Multiple Pin spares: 47% (16/34)
Most common multi-pin leaves: Full Rack (4x). (Yup....4 gutter balls on shot #1)

Splits: 0% (0/3)

Average over 3 games: 160.00.
Average had I picked up 100% of single pin spare leaves: 162.83.

No comment. Nothing I have to say that will make it past the profanity filter...so we'll just post this and then it's here, it's official...but thats all I'll say about it.

[Amyers]

Dag man when you implode you don't screw around with it. Don't you just love it when you throw a couple good series and then pull one of these stinkers out? Happens to me all the time.

[classygranny]

Well, I wanted to start taking better notes....include a section about the mental side, the journaling she mentioned, and also start tracking my speed variation. I'm just hesitant because I already do a LOT of over-analyzing and I just don't know how much more I wanna do.

The idea is to take notes as you bowl - not analyze as you go. Take the notes and then act like a Monday morning quarterback later-after the game or even away from the alley. The more you do this, the more you will find that you are automatically adjusting or correcting WITHOUT the analyzing and overthinking going on in your head.

[mc_runner]

At least it was practice and not league, right?

[Aslan]

Tuesday League Night: low-oil synthetics

We played the 1st place team, serious bowlers, on the far lanes closest to the door. Usually drier on that pair because it's by the door. So, I had high hopes because I usually do better:
A) Against better bowlers/competition.
B) On drier lanes (speed dominant, rev challenged)

554 Series: 146-197-211

In Game 1 I currently average 10 pins below my league average and about 15 pins lower than in Games 2 or 3. My only guess is speed control. I come in firing 18-19mph...as I tire and settle down...I get back closer to 16mph. But, had trouble staying right...the lanes were far, far, far drier than usual. And my spare shooting started off horrid. Two missed single 7-pins, a whiff on a 4-7, and a 6-7-10 split. The only highlight was in the 9th when I picked up a 4-7-9 throwing a back-up ball. It's fun when you can impress the really good bowlers with a shot.

Game 2 I settled in and my only open was a single 3-pin. Still wasn't carrying...which has been a problem for both the D. Encounter and Asylum. The Asylum at least let me play closer to the 9-board vs. the 10-13 area I was playing in Game 1 with the D. Encounter.

Game 3 the line I was using with the Asylum finally came together and frames 1 and 2 I was really on. Frames 3-7 it was still there but giving me signs I might have to move left. And then I started seeing signs I might need to move left...but with only a few frames left, the line pretty much held up.

PinPal Stats:
First Ball Average: 8.94 pins
Strikes: 45% (2 turkeys, 1 double, and 7 singles)
Spares: 64% picked up

Single Pin spares: 66% (6/9)
Most common single-pin leaves: 7-pin (4x).
Never left a single 1-pin, 2-pin, 4-pin, 5-pin, nor 6-pin.

Multiple Pin spares: 62% (5/8)
Most common multi-pin leaves: 6-10 (2x).

Splits: 18% (1/2)

Average over 3 games: 184.67.
Average had I picked up 100% of single pin spare leaves: 196.33.

Not horrible. I won $6 in poker. We took 3 points from the 1st place team. Spare shooting started off rough...not sure why. Sometimes when I shoot the 7-pin I square up to the foul line..causes me to miss inside. And I missed the 3-pin because the Asylum is a little erratic...so on non-corner pins where I throw my strike ball...if the Asylum 'jumps' a little...I can barely miss even something like a 2, 3, 8, or 9.

But, better than practice on Monday so I can't complain too much.

[Amyers]

Nice set other than the first game. Can't say this makes sense to me though your having problems missing left starting off and the problem gets better as your speed drops and the lanes dry out? Lower speed and dryer lanes should equate to missing even farther left unless you can't throw the balls until they are burning up or something. I think you've got something going on other than what you think starting out.