For those of us who didn't bowl as well as we would have liked, we simply weren't good enough on that day. I bowled in March and still kick myself for not trying something different because I thought I was close. In minors, I stayed too far right until game 5 and then just couldn't get enough pins in 2 games to make up for the rest. In team, I just didn't see what I needed to do. 9 games somehow go by really fast. For many of us, we don't understand ball motion well enough. We don't execute well enough.
I'd really like to join my kids league that bowls on different patterns. The pattern is same for 2 weeks so you have a week to reflect on what happened, then try something different next week. There's also an excellent coach on hand that provides paper of how pattern will "likely" play. He's also available to ask question during league.
Amazing how different lanes look when there's oil on the outside boards. Instead of knowing I can throw it right and find friction, you have to look for friction downlane. Still learning to reading front-to-back instead of left-to-right.
