Some of you might remember my Chameleon PBA experience week 1. The next 2 weeks were sub par. 2nd week I couldn't hit my marks, if I did that then my speed was too fast or slow, if my speed was right I missed my marks. Shot 506 or something like that. I was able to pull it together the last game to shoot a 212 game. 3rd week my speed and targeting were better but I was bowling with 7 other guys who were playing the same line and tore the shot apart by the end of game 1, shot just shot of average for the night. Current average after 3 weeks is 170.
My experience last night on the Cheetah (my least favorite).
Started out practice playing around 5 board. I was getting inconsistant results. The last 2 shots in practice were quality shots with strike results. I was playing 8-2 most of the night. Used a control drilled BVP Rampage.
Game 1 was a spare shooting nightmare! I had 1 spare, and a 3 bagger between frames 4-7, rest were open frames. I was chopping spares, or just completely missing them to the left. I would over adjust and start missing them to the right. Speed was an issue as well, too fast and the ball would just skid, too slow and checked up.
Game 2 was awesome! I moved my entire line farther outside, I was playing 6-1.5. No one was playing the lanes were I was at. I had a lot of people look at me like I was nuts for playing so close to the channel with most of them saying "Man you should NEVER have to play that far outside on any condition!" My response was, "This is the PBA pattern, you have to play were the friction is, if you don't you won't have any real chance to score." Their reaction to that was yeah right. lol. I made little adjustments throughout game 2 but since I was the only one that far outside my adjustments were mainly ball speed.
Game 3 was pretty good in my books. I didn't make any drastic changes from game 2 to 3, I did have to make a small adjustment. I moved 1 board left, saw that was the wrong move so next shot I moved 2 boards right and found the sweet spot again, struck the last 6 frames to end the night.
Now for the scores:
Game 1: 150
Game 2: 290
Game 3: 233
Series: 673
The unfortunate thing about this leauge is, it is NOT sanctioned. Figures I shoot my 1st leauge setting honor score in a non sanctioned leauge. I don't really care to be honest, just be a peice of hardware that would sit somewhere and collect dust or get lost under a pile of crap. Just the feeling of achieving it is cool and plus I know I can do it. I think the weird part of all this is, this is my 3rd year bowling on Sport/PBA patterns and I shoot an honor score where I've been bowling on the THS the last 21 years and my best game there is 286....
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Mike Zadler
"When in doubt, Pull out" - Rob Stone
Below, my stats from previous seasons:
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