I feel your pain, I myself have been in an ugly slump. Inconsistency. Throwing a good score, and then following it up with a terrible score and not understanding why. Its been timing, hand issue, accuracy, just about everything. As soon as I stumbled into a solution to 1 problem, several more popped up.
Last night, I pulled out an old Burgundy Hammer ball and hit the lanes. I picked an old urethane ball, so that I could focus on accuracy as well as hand. Even if I threw an accurate ball, if I didn't come out of the ball right or tried to get too cute with my hand, the ball wouldn't hit. I made sure to use it on both spares and strikes. I figure if I threw the ball properly, I could control where I wanted it to go without it taking off like resin can. Anyways, after 6 games my timing and accuracy came back, and I was able to find some funny things I was doing with my hand. (Coming around the side, letting it go soft, etc.)
If you have an old ball that really makes you earn your strikes, I would go with it for some practice. While resin is nice that it can cover small mistakes, I think I got too dependant on it and then lost my game. All I know is I never felt better after a set than I did last night, where I could really see what I was doing wrong, and not getting away with anything. Good luck bud, and if things keep getting worse, take BK's advice and just take a break for awhile. Then come back, and pick one thing and work on it, scores be damned. The rest should fall into place soon enough.
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D <~~~~ Used to be terrible wiffing 10 pins. Now through much practice, can wiff any single pin spare at any time.
Darrell Guzman
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