I was just curious, if there is anything that really unnerves you at a bowling alley.  Is there anything that really breaks your concentration?  

Here is our chance to come clean and help each other through our weak moments, or just learn how to mess eachother up

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"Here we go folks, he is working off the first 8, and looking good.  Looks good on the approach.... OH NO, its off his ankle and down the gutter!!  OHH THE HUMANITY!"

Over my last two tournaments a couple of glaring problems have shown their ugly heads. The first was dealing with a center with excessive heat and maintaining focus. The second a tough condition showed what should have been obvious for sometime. You can't be something your not. I was a stroker in the old days and for years had success as a pure tweener. In my wisdom I thought I could crank the ball and play that big inside hook with the kids. Well, on a wide open house shot I can. The last two weeks proved that is not my game and if I want to leave the tournaments with a check I better get back to what I do best. Accuracy, consistency and making spares. Take advantage of the strings when they come and leave the makable stuff, not spits and washouts. I had to hit bottom to see the obvious, but the proof was in the final score and it was UGLY.

Well for the past 2 years I have been bowling with one of my students and the biggest weakeness has been staying focused on my game. Often I will see that she is reading the lane wrong, has the wrong piece in her hand, approach issues, or whatever the problem may be all I know is that I am not concerned about my own game. When it is time for me to make an adjustment I will make it mentally but forget by the time I get to my next shot. So this year I am going to allow her to spread her own wings and if she needs help then she can ask me. Am I doing the right thing? But it was quite evident the nights that we did not bowl with each other my performance was more consistent. My game is usually pretty solid when I can detect my problems and focus on me. But if would have to pick one weakness it would be staying patient on the grind out shots. I would take the one or two 190-20? then I would get impatient and do some drastic.
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If it isn't EBONITE it isn't bowling........

Update: Extremely short (dry) reverse blocks........I do not mind going into the out of bounds and playing through that but sometimes even that oil does not stand up for the duration of the tournament. Once that becaomes spotty then I am in for a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGG Day.
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If it isn't EBONITE it isn't bowling........

Picking up the ball in the first place....
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"I'm God's gift to the lanes, sort of comic relief."

I have some jinxes too!

Mine are list below this sentence!

1)When a woman that turned you down on a couple of dates
a week earlier(aka Ok,I'll go out with you some other time)and
SHOWS up with another fella!My bowling goes down the toilet!!

This happened roughly around April of last year.I could NOT get
anything better than a 160 that night,period!!

I couldn't find my mark,umm what ball ta throw!I think she showed up on purpose!
My knees got weak and couldn't follow through either,yuck!!!

Thats a weakness(temporary though),I really dug her and I though she dug me,BUT I was worng(aka wring,thats wrong.

1a)Same thing,but when I see a woman and she's by hereself.Especially a 30's lady(aka ANY single female in that departmant)bowler,better yet she can BOWL!!!!!! I choke,and go to a thousand and sixty two pieces(aka I SUCK!!!)!

To this day I can't figure it out,but I'm still doing my best to fix this
kink with women at tha bowling alley.I still mess up,whether she's a 200 ave or 132 ave,I still choke!A neato looking beauty can jinx my game any day,but I love this weakness.I guess as long as its open play though!

2) When you get like 4 or 5 strikes in a row,and you hear the next lane clapping
really loud,you're working on a another strike and the same people yell and clap BEFORE you even walk the approach,huh?Huh??I haven't got the sixth strike yet,gee wiz.I ""appreciate the spot attention,but I need ta concentrate with out a gazillion peeps(aka 15 people) watching your every shot.

A lil' jr spooky.

You know what comes next,Chokeville!!!This kinda urks me a little,BUT I'm trying to fix too.I'll be fair,this curse I'm always trying to correct every
chance I get.

One has to MAKE the whole world(aka peeps that watch you)make invisible,like they never showed up.HHHIJHTTTITIWFAILMAORRL!!!!

4)I get this every night,"Why do throw different balls?".
After I hear this,I even start thinking(aka pondering his/her thought) and
I kinda end up throwing two balls instead of six.

4a)Same,but when I go to the bowling alley ,OVER PREPARRED.I mean bringing
9 bowling balls!!Yep,I typed that right.Thats a weakness too,ya dont know what
to throw sometimes.Ok,its a PART TIME weakness only.I have fixed this probleemo
from time ta time.Ya,just bring 3 balls and WORK it the BEST ya can!!!!

5)Those danggggggggggggggg,splits!!!Nuff typed!

6)This comes after 5.

7)Oh yeah,when you miss an VERY,VERY,VERY EASY SPARE,that makes the difference between a "199 and a 200" game!Oh thats a KILLER ONE!!!!!!!!Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

8)I have more,but they've been typed by others above my reply,and I'm going to the thrift store now to look for more bowling balls!

I'll post somewherze elze!

Moral ta post;Fix your jinxes,you'll be glad you did!

L8 peeps!

Psycho.B.T