This happens every year for one reason or another. Year starts out rough, have problems, aches, pains, swear I'm changing hands for good, start bowling good towards the end of the year, have second thoughts, barely scrape through end of the season tournaments, spend all summer thinking about it, think I finally have it all figured out, and decide to just bowl righty after all. Then of course the whole cycle continues, start out rough, get mad because I thought I finally had it all worked out, pout for several months and wish for the end of the season, only for the end of the season to show up and start back on the upswing, just to once again have another rough decision.
This year is more of the same, but it's different which is confusing me. Been dead set all year long, going lefty, just going to do it because I know better. Big games, big sets, lot more consistent, still have off nights but that's out of the ordinary, but at the same time, I feel like I've gotten over a hump. In years past, I've never really felt like I had it all together, I've just hoped/thought that I was close enough that a few more months would get me there, and that would be enough to change my mind. It's always been complicated, it's always been a struggle, but it's not anymore. Now it's effortless and simple. All these physical problems I thought I had were apparently in my head. What I thought was a dead arm is all the sudden working very well.
Just practiced for a bit lefty. While it definitely shows promise, it feels like starting over again. I feel like it's wasted time and effort when I could keep building on something that finally feels like it's there. I used to have 5 or 6 things I needed to pay attention to before my approach, now I have 2. I used to get tired throughout the course of the night, now I don't. The tournaments coming up will really be the test, but this is the first year I'm not just hoping I can keep it all together. It feels like it's already together, I just need to execute.
Bottom line, same pattern, end of the year, getting better, but instead of still hurting and feeling like I have a dead arm, and just feeling like I'm finally able to keep track of 5 or 6 different things every shot, there's no pain, all the strength in the world, and 2 things to keep track of. I've also never averaged 250 for a couple solid months before. No, scoring doesn't mean you have it all together, but it's quite a shocking difference. I don't show up every night hoping it's still there, it's there every week, I just have to execute. Go ahead, annihilate me for being a head case, I kinda hope you guys keep nailing me to the wall, it's helped a lot . .
