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Daytonstroker

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Knowing the score???
« on: January 22, 2005, 03:59:28 PM »
This question is for all...

When you bowl do you prefer to pay attention to the scorekeep;  whether to see your possible max for the game/series.

Or....Do you prefer not to know and just let the pins fall as they may???

I personally like to keep my eyes off the scorekeep.  I seem to bowl better scores when I keep my mind off the score.  When I start adding possible scores in my head it just seems to totally kill my game.  So by not knowing the score I can put all of my focus into the more important things at hand, "the shot".

So anyone else agree/disagree?
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Fatboy8

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Re: Knowing the score???
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2005, 09:29:59 AM »
I always try not to look at my score, just our overall score for the team. That keeps me focused, and doesn't stress me too much on my game.
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sdbowler

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Re: Knowing the score???
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2005, 10:59:07 AM »
Depends on how I am doing. If I am on a roll I don't look. If I am struggling I will look to see if I can break 200 or come close. I almost always look at team scores to see what the score is and what I have to do.

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mumzie

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Re: Knowing the score???
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2005, 03:21:08 PM »
If I don't look at the score, I waste brain cycles thinking about it.
But - when I step up on the approach, the only thing that matters is the shot at hand.
I do my darndest to clear my mind of everything, and just execute. Most times it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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MSC2471

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Re: Knowing the score???
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2005, 08:50:27 PM »
I look at the bottom scoring for the team to see what I may need in a 10th frame to make sure that we win, but generally I'm not looking at my own scoring. I try to take things one frame at a time...

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