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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: trash heap on August 08, 2014, 02:32:05 PM
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Curious. What are your methods on the approach for aiming when you make a move? This is kind of a both Mental and Physical side.
This is where I see a lot of bowlers failing.
Example: Person bowls a good first game. He/She will be on a good string of strikes (have 4 in a row) in the second game. He/She is playing up the 2nd arrow. Still executing well, but let's say the ball is hitting high.
Okay! Time to make a move. He/She has the knowledge that the move is more now of around 3rd arrow and they need to belly the ball out a little now to get to the pocket.
Here is the problem, this bowler has issues playing the line. He/She will have that occasional throw that is exactly the same when they were throwing at the second arrow in the first game. Confidence is lost. Bowler wants to go back to their safe line.
They would rather take the old line and struggle because they have confidence in hitting their mark; versus taking a chance on a better line, where they feel they have no consistency.
I try to tell them to stay focused, but the message is not getting through. Any good tips out there when you need to make that move.
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I have a quote from a very good local bowler that I took to heart and have used in my mental approach for years. It is somewhat cold but it gets the message across.
"Their are 39 boards out the their and your allowed to use every one of them"
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HEAD GAME - the MENTAL APPROACH to BOWLING (and SPORTS)
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The more you bowl, the more you practice different lines,shots,areas,releases ect the better you will be at these things. The mental side of it also has to connect with these things.
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Well what I usually do is this, wait, what were we talking about again?
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Ohhh piece of candy
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The more you bowl, the more you practice different lines,shots,areas,releases ect the better you will be at these things. The mental side of it also has to connect with these things.
+1. Practice. Practice. Practice. Especially things that you are not comfortable with.
The most difficult thing for me is keeping squared to target. I learned to play up the boards, squared to the foul line, and in essence target. But that was common coaching 25+ years ago in this area. Now trying to learn from the younger bowlers, I am learning keeping squared to my target and not the foul line.
I could be 1000% off, but that seems to be my biggest challenge when I need to move in and belly the ball more.
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Practice. You have to trust the adjustment and execute.
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A persons body is not square to anything at release...it wasn't 25 yrs ago and it's not today...it's illusionary.
You have your swing plane on line with the intended target line and then align to that
If you're only comfortable playing one spot or area of the lane one will NEVER improve more or less....you have to practice to see the proper reaction or motion but in 3 games on a THS one shouldn't be needing to alter their line that extremely...
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It really all gets down to practicing different lines until you get comfortable. I will say that the difference between playing 5 board or out is significant compared to playing 15 or deeper. When I was a kid I never saw any corner shots for several years. I could play from 10 board on in, and that worked well because every lacquer house had a track in that area. When I got out of college and came to a larger city with lots of houses, I joined a league in a corner shot house just to make myself learn to play out there. It took me about half the season before I really got comfortable playing the corner shot. Eventually I got to where I felt okay playing anywhere on the lane as long as I didn't have to walk around a ball return from deep inside. Never did get real comfortable doing that
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He/She is playing up the 2nd board
Play the twig baby!
Better find that focus quick if that's the game-plan.....
For real though.....when adjusting you're still hitting targets as the goal. So, to me, not much changes. Whether I'm playing in OR out, the goal is still to hit targets consistently.
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Playing in requires out angle and body alignments that promote such. Playing out requires a more squared up approach. In my experience people who get really comfortable doing either one often have trouble making the change when they have to move. I do know that it is much easier for me to move in and swing the ball than on rare occasions where I have started in, and tried to move out to the twig.
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first of all you need confidence that you made the right adjustment in your angles to hit the new targets. after that its just back to muscle memory. as long as your throw a good shot youll hit the target. if you try to aim it after youre properly aligned you will more than likely not hit the target. its math and mechanical physics. it doesnt change.
if the bowler doesnt know if its they moved to properly play the intended new targets, that is what you do in practice
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What I do when I make a move is I analyze what is causing me to make that move, if I am moving inside because the ball is grabbing early, or too hard, I make that move and look out at the lane visualizing the friction at that spot that caused the ball to make that over reaction. Then I throw the ball with as much confidence as I can believing that friction will bring the ball back into the pocket. Exact same thing with moving outside because of carrydown, or maybe an out of bounds on the outside. For me, all about trying to visualize the oil, and play the shot accordingly.
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He/She is playing up the 2nd board
Play the twig baby!
Better find that focus quick if that's the game-plan.....
For real though.....when adjusting you're still hitting targets as the goal. So, to me, not much changes. Whether I'm playing in OR out, the goal is still to hit targets consistently.
I mean second arrow. LOL! I fixed it in my message.
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First of all, I second Rico, Head Games will definitely help. I'll also agree with what others have said about practice. Confidence is born out of success, and success is gained after a lot of practice. Confidence is hard to fake when you're in an unfamiliar situation, however some people do have the balls to make an educated guess and totally commit to it. Now at the same time, educated guesses are built a lot off of previous experiences, the more experience you have, the more confident you are in moving into unfamiliar territory.
However, making a mental move is different from trying to do something unfamiliar physically. But like Rico says, there shouldn't be any reason to move that much during a 3 game league set. That tells me they have bigger problems than not being able to adjust. If they start out league with a 2000 grit Hyper Cell, I don't feel sorry for them. I rarely move more than 2 or 3 boards a night, but I manage transition the best I can and stay away from people that are throwing chalk monsters.
People will always feel more comfortable doing what they know, but if they're moving left because their ball is hooking, if they move into the right area they really shouldn't have to change much about how they're throwing the ball because they still have all that friction they created to bump. I was teaching my wife how to manage and use her own transition to her benefit, and throughout the games she bowled, she never had to change a thing about the way she was throwing the ball because I was showing her how to use angles and her created friction to her advantage. Also, you don't always have to bump your friction, you can move EVERYTHING left and use your previous track as a safety net. Sometimes perception ISN'T reality. If someone has to move because the friction has moved, that changes certain definitions. Just because you're moving deeper doesn't really mean you're hooking any more of the lane . . your ball may be covering more boards, but that doesn't mean you should have to change your game significantly, especially just to get through a 3 game league set.
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I just bowled my first league and had the good fortune to have a Yoda on my team to guide me on learning when to make changes. I started making my own decisions and worrying since it is all new to me. I find that focusing on something small helps me. So if I move 2 boards in, I'll try to focus on my follow through or on a smooth release. This helps me find my spot, but not think too much on it as I'm thinking about more about not stopping my hand short or something else unrelated to where I've moved.