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Hex017

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Turning down free bowling?
« on: February 27, 2005, 06:34:03 AM »
Hey guys, I just came back from my local alley and need to ask what you all think. My friend called me up asking me to go practice with him, but on Sundays the house I bowl at is always hella-packed. No open lanes ever. I usually don't bowl on Sundays but my friend has these tickets that let you bowl for 2 hours free. I went inside and as always no open lanes. My friend had already gotten us on a waiting list. We were the 4th or 5th in line? It would have been a forty five minute to an hour wait. Even so though we would have been placed in the middle of a bunch of courtesy-less bowlers or down by a birthday party of little kids. Right now I'm working on my release(not my mental game) Sometimes I will ask for lanes next to little kids and do my best to block them out, helps strentghen your mental game I think. But I need to fix my release.

So I told my friend sorry, I usually don't bowl on Sundays because of this. I told him I would just bowl later. So I said bye and walked out.

Would you have walked out as well or would you have waited it out and took the free bowling? Thanks for any inputs in advance.
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Ernie McCracken

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Re: Turning down free bowling?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2005, 02:42:24 PM »
I can't even begin to imagine how fried those lanes would have been.  Free or not, I wouldn't have stayed to practice on that junk.  The only thing I'd learn from bowling on that would have been bad habits.
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Hex017

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Re: Turning down free bowling?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2005, 02:52:08 PM »
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I can't even begin to imagine how fried those lanes would have been.  Free or not, I wouldn't have stayed to practice on that junk.  The only thing I'd learn from bowling on that would have been bad habits.
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I was sorta thinking this to. But sometimes I bowl saturdays (almost as crowded then to but you can actually get a pair without waiting) because the lanes are all fried and it helps me learn how bowl on fried lanes. That's only sometimes though, no point in learning how to bowl on just broken down lanes right? And Ta 152 sounds like me and you are coming from the same thing. What's the point if you can't even do what you planned to do? Again, thanks for the inputs.
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-Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you want, but you can only spend it once.

-I will forever love this great game, I love the people and the competition, I only wish the best would get the recognition of an ATHLETE that they deserve.