Practice Games

[canesrock82]

What is the norm for everyone when you go practice how many games do you throw?

I have been doing 3 on a normal practice night and tonight I threw 5.

Started crappy, 140 and a 138, then I started doing better. Next 3 were 190, 202, and a 179. Last game they went cosmic on my 6th frame or I would have been over 200 again.

[charlest]

Because everything is different when practicing, under normal circumstances, it is distracting and serves no purpose to keep score.

When practicing, one normally practices 1 or 2 things during practice. One method is to shoot either 7 pins or 10 pins on the first ball and then shoot your strike ball on the 2nd ball. The idea of shooting to the 7 or the 10 is to make sure you hit ONLY that pin. This leaves you most of the rack with which to shoot your strike ball, practicing, maybe ... release and speed consistency or target hitting consistency.

If I'm really practcing something, I'll bowl 8 - 12 games.

If I'm there for a refresher, to just keep timing and feel because of too many days off in between bowling occasions, I'll bowl 4 - 6 games.
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[ThongPrincess]

My practice session are generally 6 - 8 games.  

What I practice depends on what I feel is the weak link in my game.  This weekend there will be a ton of 7 pin practice.  I couldn't pick up a 7 pin during my 9 PM league Wednesday and it cost my team the last game and kept me from shooting 600+.  I had 6 opens total 4 of them 7 pins and 3 of those in the last game

I keep the scoring on just to keep track of the number of games so I am sure I can pay for them .  I do not look at the score, it doesn't matter.
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Edited on 4/29/2007 2:16 AM

[justdale]

7 games every other day, the first game all I concentrate on is getting my feet and arm going together. Then I keep score for 4 games and then all I do is throw at 10 pins ( i really hate that pin)

[zone]

anywhere from 6 to 12 games almost 3 times in a week. so for one week theres about anywhere from 18-30 something games of practice.
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[mab]

charlest is correct again,he's a plethera of great information!!! I do the same thing 7or10 pin first ball and strike shot second ball. Only go with one or two things which you would like to work on till you get thoose issues corrected then move on. It's a game of consistancy so it takes patience and practice. Don't worry about your practice scores they don't mean doodly squat.
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[ChrispyBrownies]

usually. . .10-20 games.
I dont know about anybody else, but usually 5-7 of the games are "Low Pin" games. You wan the lowest score possible. If you gutter, it counts as a strike(on first ball) or a spare(on second ball). Therefore, a perfect game is 20.
It makes you very accurate on your 10 and 7 pins.

But I also only have to pay 50 cents a game since I work there. . .

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Edited on 5/2/2007 4:48 PM

[spinner031]

I HATE COSMIC BOWLING!!!!!!!!!  I had to deal with some guy having a birthday party next to us so they put the whole thing into a 60s-lit disco.  I absolutely could NOT see what I was throwing at.  My mom bowled a 175 or something, which is OUTSTANDING for her, but I was so pissed I could have sworn  I fell off a lemon tree.
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[Grayson]

6 games every time and not more than 8... normaly once a/during the week as I have not more time for bowling... but I also try to do some practice on Saturday so it is more twice a week...

The normal "league" run is 5-8 here and house league is 4 games so my practice run is within the needed amount of games.

In practice I do 3 games to try around and work on my style (concentrate e.g. on the approach or the release... naturally then the scores go down.or try around different shots and stuff)
the next three games I try to convert/transfer the "learnt" things into scores and do 3 games simply for scores and no trying around.

sometimes works... sometimes I simply do 6 bad games and call it "trying"
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Edited on 5/6/2007 2:18 PM

[mainzer]

At least one more game of practice than you would in league i.e. if you bowl 3 games in eaue at least 4 games of practice. Work on things that you don't normally do when in league play new lines relases and ball speed that kind of thing you never know ehn having that knowledge in your game might be helpful.
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[astrodanco]

For actual practice I bowl between four and six games.  Enough to get drenched in sweat, but not enough to get tired.  I either work on whatever my coach told me I should be working on or whatever I feel like I want to work on.  Alas, it's usually the later!  Lately I've been limiting myself to working on my fundamentals such as drift and arm swing.  Fortunately I can work on things like seven and tens at the same time.  I do not keep score, but I always roll nothing but strikes for the last few frames of practice in order to feel like I'm ending on a high note (and to stroke my ego).

Before league I usually play two or three games, but that is only to warm up and get into the proper competetive mindset, not to practice.  My goal for the the first game is pure warm up.  I don't keep score.  The second game my goals is to achieving a clean game with as many strikes as possible.  If I bowl a third game, it's because I failed to achive my goal in the second game.

[Eddie M]

I usually practice between 3-5 games.  I don't shoot for score, I basically work on different lines, and spares.  This week for example, I threw 2 games in which I shot the 10 pin on the first ball, and the 7 pin on the second.  Another game was spent throwing straight up 10 with my White Dot, and the last game I worked on playing deep going across 20.
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[urpo]

Ar one time when i bowled they put the disco lights on and I kinda had to guess a bit where my mark was so I moved out a bit to play more on the edge to have a bit more room for missing my mark and I got 233 which was my best game that day but I got a bit pissed anyways cause I couldn't play my spares and missed 2 of them cause of the disco lights.

Even worse, the turned on the disco stuff 10 minutes early and even though I complained they didn't turn em off but I didn't have to pay anything that day which was kinda worthless cause it was my game I wanted. Well, I should of quit but when I did feel I got stuff working I couldn't stop.

Back to the subject, I bowl 4-8 games something when I practice.
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[JOE FALCO]

Rarely do I make a trip to the Center for practice alone .. I do most of my practice after a bad league showing .. and that happens more then you would expect!

I'm fairly consistent with Spare shooting .. so unlike many other bowlers . when I practice it's mostly to get the ball in the pocket. What I find is that after bowling LOUSY in a league session I get moved to a different pair for my practice .. usually the new pair is a LOT DIFFERENT then where I struggled. Most of the time I shoot well on the PRACTICE pair. It then becomes a CONFIDENCE BOOSTER .. where I conclude that the LEAGUE PAIR was a BAD SHOT
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[cgilyeat]

quote:Rarely do I make a trip to the Center for practice alone .. I do most of my practice after a bad league showing .. and that happens more then you would expect!

I'm fairly consistent with Spare shooting .. so unlike many other bowlers . when I practice it's mostly to get the ball in the pocket. What I find is that after bowling LOUSY in a league session I get moved to a different pair for my practice .. usually the new pair is a LOT DIFFERENT then where I struggled. Most of the time I shoot well on the PRACTICE pair. It then becomes a CONFIDENCE BOOSTER .. where I conclude that the LEAGUE PAIR was a BAD SHOT
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So, can I interpret this to mean "that isn't my fault that I couldn't adjust, but the lane's fault I bowled bad"