..one of the biggest things that has led to my decline.  So simple, yet I didn't even realize.  Sheesh.  If you're wondering....It's practicing in the house.  After some extensive review of video, I've been trying to decipher where I learned all the bad habits I've picked up this season...Low and behold....it's from practicing at home.  Gosh, all this time, I thought practicing an approach and throwing it into the couch would help me solve my problems, when in actuality, they made them worse.  It explains my awkward release, since to due this, I've had to learn to throw it up onto the couch instead of releasing at the flat spot down onto the ground.  And also develop a poor approach due to being inside a living room....Man.  This is pretty pathetic, I didn't even realize the thing dragging me down the drain this whole time, was what I thought would help me become better...

Reason I post this is because of all the time I've been here, this kind of topic has never been covered.  Well, I'm the one to say it.  Unless you got some homemade bowling alley, don't practice at home.  Ever.  Never do it.  It seems so simple and that it would help, yet before you know it, you're in a downward spiral and can't figure out what's going wrong....Man oh man.  I'm sure some of you reading this will be thinking "hmm well I practice at home and it doesn't hurt me", but believe me, unless somehow you have some area that perfectly simulates a bowling alley, you're going to end up hurting your game big time.  I figure, this whole thing has set me back an entire season of bowling progression...

Moral of the story:  Never, ever, practice at home.  It will ruin your game, and I'm proof of that.

Now I'm thinking, I might cram in practice to rework everything, before I stop bowling this summer, instead of being done right now...
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- Andy


Brunswick...........'nuff said.