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fishnic

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if you could do it over again...
« on: February 03, 2005, 10:01:35 AM »
If you were to go back to when you first started bowling, what would you do differently throughout your learning process that would make you a better bowler now? I am pretty new to the sport so jsut wanting to know what you think.







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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2005, 06:14:30 PM »
Get a coach, try to learn good mechanics.

I'm too late for that now.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2005, 06:39:00 PM »
Would have started with #15 instead of #16.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2005, 06:42:04 PM »
I'd have forced my parents to move us to somewhere where bowling isn't ridiculed, and there are actually coaches and stuff.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2005, 06:42:47 PM »
Hmmm... topic looks familiar.  You can see my reply here - I'm too lazy to type it all again. LOL. http://www.bowlingballexchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=1907
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2005, 06:46:51 PM »
To do it over again knowing what I know now, I would have sought an instructor from the get go. I spent 2 yrs bowling by trial and error, mostly by error until some kind hearted soul could no longer resist the temptation to help me.
Exact same way for me except one year
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2005, 09:19:34 PM »
Coaching. nothing can make you better than good caoching. the best players in the world have coaches. Had taken the offer of a coach 17 yrs ago I ay have turned out Pro. I had a physical game but no knowledge. I have knowledge and no physical game.

having been on both sides of the extreme; it is more brutal to know what to do, but physically can't than to be frustrated becuse you don't know what to do.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2005, 04:14:14 AM »
I would either get a coach that would work with my natural style and not try to turn me into something I am not, or no coach at all and just bowl. I am one of those unfortunet people who worked with a coach that tried to turn me into a textbook bowler and it did not work and now I try to go back to what I use to be but can't so I end up stuck in the middle thinking all the time instead of just doing what comes natural. Worst thing is I bowled much better before than I do now. Seem's like I am in a 4 year slump. Lesson well learned.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2005, 06:13:11 AM »
not coaching on my game, but my mental side, for my 15th year of life i struggled emensly with my head.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2005, 09:58:31 AM »
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Get a coach, try to learn good mechanics.


Would have saved many years and prevented the cost of millions of lives...


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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2005, 10:11:52 AM »
I would have found a certified coach as soon as possible.  I've only found one within the past 2 years (he started with drilling my balls for the first year, then I decided to have him coach me).  Since then, my game has gone a LONG way (from a 160avg bowler to a 180+avg bowler)!

I'd also practice more with a certified coach watching as I bowl.  My coach can quickly see things wrong with my game, and withing a sentence or two, I'm bowling much better!
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2005, 10:44:14 AM »
I wouldn't have stopped completely for 12 years. That gap was from the time the black hammer was introduced till the Firestorm came out.
What a difference...
I could have kept up with what was going on in the game, particularly in equipment, and not had to completely relearn everything.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2005, 04:04:36 AM »
No coach. If I had to do it all over again...

Mental stability, growing in a game/sport is tough when you are growing as a person. Wish I could have been more mature and been able to handle the ups and downs. The natural progression is to improve drastically and then drop off slightly and then improve drastically and then drop off slightly. Its a steady rise up when you work at it and practice and (most important to me) think about it---but there are plateaus that happen. Learning to live with the plateaus and learning the game continuously---not just I know how to throw the ball good---is a huge key.

Listen to more than one person---not everyone takes the same road to the top. Alot of people have gone through a lot of different experiences, you can learn something from each of them.
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Re: if you could do it over again...
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2005, 04:40:31 AM »
If I could go back to the time when I first bowled league, the sad thing is, I wouldn't pick up that ball. At the time I was like 11, and was a promising soccer player. Ide fill in for under 14s, and get man of the match, and I gave soccer up because of bowling.

I didn't have the right attitude with bowling. soccer I was good from the get go, bowling takes more patients then that. My parents sunk alot of money into bowling, which didn't go to much good, because I now no longer bowl. I finish uni at the end of the year. Once I get a full time job, I'm going to pay my parents back a sizable amount of money for the money they wasted on bowling.

Dont get me wrong, I loved to bowl, and I wasn't too bad at it, and I've made alot of life long friends from it... If I could go back in time, but keep the friends, I would never have bowled. I'm not saying that I would have been a pro soccer player, but I would have been alot better at soccer then I ever was at bowling, its too late to take up soccer again and be good.

Heinsight(sp?) is always 20/20 so they say.

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