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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: 2handedvolcano on October 13, 2016, 08:44:01 AM
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how to not let it bother you
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Don't listen.
I can understand a very loud noise (such as someone dropping a ball on the approach) being an occasional distraction, but you've got to tune out all voices once you pick up the ball. Even the voices in your own head.
Pick up your ball and give yourself "5 good seconds" to concentrate and block things out before you deliver the next shot.
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+1 for Lane Carter's reply.
However, I would think Volcano's 10 lb. ball crashing down 20 feet out on the lane would be causing a major distraction for others, yet he is worried about other's talking loudly and disturbing him. Hum!
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This is, to date, the only good post I have seen out of him. I agree with notclay. You just have to learn how to tune out everything. When I get on the approach when I am actually focusing on my shot, there could be a 747 taking off behind me and I wouldn't hear it as long as it is a constant sound. Anything sharp and sudden I do hear, but I take no notice of it. I use to bowl on an extraordinarily loud, obnoxious, and vulgar men's league so I had to learn quickly. Plus the other league I bowl on has a bunch of us really close friends on different teams trying to throw each other off our games during league. Try to concentrate when another guy spanks you really hard when getting set in your stance and you will never worry about noises again.
I was also a very competitive chess player in high school so I have a highly sharpened ability to focus and tune out everything from that time. I'm sure that doesn't hurt any
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How to not let it bother you? Easy, leave your ego at home. It's not always about you, it's not personal, and people aren't talking loudly to purposely mess you up. Everyone has their own little world before they come to the bowling alley. Some are there to meet up with friends they see once a week, some are there for the competition, some the beers, some to relieve some stress as they might work a job that puts them under a great deal of stress (Cop, Firefighter, EMT, Lawyer, Salesman, Small Business Owner).
Bowling is supposed to be sociable, fun, and above all a game. When I say leave your ego at home, it's not a personal direct insult. Our ego's are telling ourselves all day "ME, ME, ME!" "This happened to ME, because someone did ___", "This person is making ME upset with their indirect actions". Take the "Me" out of it and instead of focusing on the loud talking behind you tell yourself this:
"I am here in a competitive setting. There's going to be loud noises, there's going to be people talking, there's going to be random screams. This is the environment I am in for the night and it is up to me to make the best shot that I can make now".
Envision the entire shot before you throw it, and as soon at the ball "strikes" in your head, go.
This was something I used to struggle with a lot until I learned to let everything else go around me and it's a coaching technique that a lot of team sports coaches use. Especially basketball coaches in free throw drills where you have to make a shot among the noise of hundreds to thousands of people in the arena with you. Good luck.
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
You finally get people to give you good answers on a solid question and you come back with this? I hate to tell you, but there isn't a feared 180 handicap bowler on the planet as nothing about 180 scares anyone. Please just take the advice and not come back with something so off the wall as this. Maybe it's the belt or flash of underwear clouding your brain. It could quite possibly the inhuman revs of the T-Zone that has sucked you into some sort of time space continuum. Inquiring minds want to know....oh wait, NO WE DON'T!!!!!
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
No doubts that you are reading the real reason they talk loudly when you bowl. ::)
And all that giggling and laughter is probably not directed at you either.
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
James your not a 180 handicap bowler, you don't add your handicap to your real average and say that's your average.
156 is your actual listed USBC 93 game average for (2015-16) winter season.
Your 13 week summer league average is 147
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
James your not a 180 handicap bowler, you don't add your handicap to your real average and say that's your average.
156 is your actual listed USBC 93 game average for (2015-16) winter season.
Your 13 week summer league average is 147
OUCH
Somebody done got punked... :o :o
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared imaginary 180 handicap bowler
Fixed it for you. ;D
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They talk loudly on purpose when I bowl only because I am a
feared 180 handicap bowler
James your not a 180 handicap bowler, you don't add your handicap to your real average and say that's your average.
156 is your actual listed USBC 93 game average for (2015-16) winter season.
Your 13 week summer league average is 147
Bruh... Owned.
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And most of you would have a 156 average on a bear pattern with a ball that weighs :) 5 pounds less BOOM!
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Uh...147.
Nuff said.
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And most of us are smart enough to use the extra weight to our advantage. Granted there are people that cannot throw the extra weight. Those bowlers accept the fact, throw what they are capable of, and still out bowl you any day of the week
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I have aspberger's syndrome please do not be so hard on me.
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Don't start trouble and there won't be no trouble.
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2handedvolcano,
We are a family here, although sometimes we're more dysfunctional than otherwise. Many of us are trying to be patient as you ask questions, even when the question seems silly, because we hope you're sincere when you ask.
We are all very different, EXCEPT that we all seem to love bowling, so we can accept each other with all of our other differences. Sometimes we tease each other, other times we can be of great support and help each other immensely, whether it be breaking out of a slump, or even with some of life's other challenges.
You don't need to brag about your accomplishments in order to be accepted here. Just be you. We, in turn, will try to bring you along and give you the benefit of our years and years of bowling experience IF you will listen and try to understand us too.
Frankly, if we were in your league, and we knew that talking loudly might get you off your "A Game", we might just "chime in" also, whether it be because it bothers you, or because we'd probably do it to each other on occasion just having fun.
If it seems that we think you're weird, that's okay. I'm certain that there are people that think I'm weird, too (Don't answer that!). Just take the good advice when it's given and try to apply it to your game.
If we were all the same this world would be a boring place. Accept us with our faults and qualities and we will try to understand you better, too. Now let's all join hands and sing KUMBAYAH... (Okay let's just imagine that. I do not want to hear any of you sing.)
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Lane, well stated including your initial advice: Don't Listen.
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I have aspberger's syndrome please do not be so hard on me.
Really? Aspbergers? Is that a new type of burger that uses something beside beef as the meat?
Or did you really mean Asperger Syndrome?
Ironic that someone diagnosed with this wouldn't be able to spell it correctly. :o
However, it would explain the obsession with the T-Zone. ;D
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I have aspberger's syndrome please do not be so hard on me.
You better be for real about this SH*T!! cause my boy....... dude don't fk'n be playing... if you really do have this, I sincerely hope for the best and it's all good... but if you're jiving, KARMA sucks...
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Well my dual grasping, exploding geological formation friend, having aspergers syndrome is no reason for you to ask some of the questions, and make some of the statements, that you do.
How old are you? What is your experience level?
And, it is OK if you are young, and it is OK if you have limited ecperience, because you obviously have enthusiasm for the game and want to learn.
SO, ask your questions. Many here can give you EXCELLENT advice, and you can learn much if you learn when to keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut at times.
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Depends on if they shout towards me.
If the talk to me, loudly, then I'll drop my ball and turn around and ask them to stfu.
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I have aspberger's syndrome please do not be so hard on me.
You better be for real about this SH*T!! cause my boy....... dude don't fk'n be playing... if you really do have this, I sincerely hope for the best and it's all good... but if you're jiving, KARMA sucks...
Yeah.. if you're just trolling, that's one thing. If you're falsely stating that you have a condition that I would consider a difficult condition to overcome, that's another. If you truly do have Aspergers, then I would be willing to help you above and beyond.
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How will you know? How will you ever know?? I agree with Milo.....if you have a
condition you should know how to spell it. Hope I am wrong, but I am suspect!
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I just find it funny how we have caught him in so many lies/inconsistencies over the last couple months. I don't believe a word he types anymore. If you do have the condition, why not just be forthright with it in the beginning? Also, why ask a good question, get arrogant and cocky with us after we give you honest and solid answers, then turn around and play the pity card when you are called out on your BS? Your responses from other people are a result of your actions. Every single person on this forum will help another person if they are capable of helping a situation. If they are not, they say nothing. Nobody attacks without reason.
With all of that being said, it is still not too late for you to become a highly welcome member of this forum. If you legitimately have a passion for this game and want to succeed, by all means please stay and ask good questions. Open your eyes and mind to what the amazing members of this forum have to say. Don't come back with comments about how you are some kind of feared bowler. Comments like that make no friends here or anywhere else in the world. Have self confidence but draw the line appropriately.
Here is your chance to erase everything you have said for the time you have been here. Start with a clean slate. I am offering the olive branch, and I hope the rest of the forum with back me up. Do you accept it?
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r there USBC rules against it
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r there USBC rules against it
What talking loudly? No.
You could wear ear plugs.
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It depends. I expect it during certain leagues, but if we're pot bowling or I'm in a tournament, I'll drop the ball back on the rack, and go have some words. I am not a physically intimidating person at all, but I am not afraid to go up to someone and "ask" them to shut their yapper.
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earplugs?