11/18/11 Friday Leage

Had a good night of bowling, and I rolled my 1st 600 series in league since switching to the left hand.  Like I said in my earlier post, I needed to keep my feet slow along with making my 1st step a half step.  That and staying focused on my mark through my delivery made for a consistent night.  I rolled 226, 190 and a 194 for a 610 series.  I only had 5 open frames for the set (and one of those was a split).  I was 6 out of 8 on my single pin spares, which is a big improvement.

2011 Carl Richards Open Results

The payout for the Carl Richard's Open is available at http://carlrichardbowl.com/CROPayout20111.pdf.  Me and my partner tied for 10th place in doubles.

11/11/11 Friday league

Strikes were hard to come by, but I was consistent.  I only had one double the entire night (10 strikes total) and I rolled a 168, 169 and a 160 for a 497 series.  My spare shooting is still my biggest problem.  Being that I had a total of 9 open frames with 4 of them being splits, shows that my spare shooting is improving.  I picked up 6 out of 8 single pin spares.

I am also still having problems with my timing.  I can tell when I deliver my ball that my timing is off, because I don't get any lift on the ball.  I can tell its off, but I don't exactly know where I am messing up my approach.  However, I practiced Monday and Tuesday, and I started shortening my 1st step of my approach.  That seems to have helped on both my strike shot and spares.  Obviously, the real test will be when I bowl league next week.

11/4/11 Friday league

Did not bowl well last night.  Actually, I was good on my spares to the right of the head pin, but did not do well on the left side.  Half way through the night, I figured out that I was taking my eyes off the mark early, and I believe that was causing a lot of my problems.  I need to continue to work on picking up the 7 pin though.  It was an extremely frustrating night, but the fact that we won 5 out of 7 points made it a little better.

11/3/11 Thursday league

I still missed a couple of spares, but overall, my spare shooting was better tonight. I only had 1 double in the 1st and 3rd games, and I ended up rolling a 170 in both games. I did get a few more strikes the 2nd game, and rolled a 213 for a 553 series. It was nice to actually start picking up my spares.

11/2/11 Practice / Workout

Finally got the thumb hole opened up enough on my new spare ball (drilled conventional) that it doesn't catch.  It looks like I am only going to use it on the spares to the left of the head pin, and will use my vis-a-ball (drilled fingertip) for spares on the right.  Had a good practice set today.  Worked on my 7 pins spares at first, and then rolled a set for score.  Was concentrating on just keeping my eyes glued to my target through the entire approach.  I think I was taking my eyes off of my target, and then going back to it.  Those times that I was able to keep my focus on my arrow, the ball was on target.

I had posted a news article earlier about a college bowling workout.  Well, I didn't know how to do all of the exercises, and I don't have any weights.  So I did some balance drills, some push-ups and some lunges with no weights.  I hadn't done lunges before, but it didn't seem too bad when I was doing them.  But later on when I had been sitting for a while, and then got back up, I felt it.  I understand why they said it was a once a week work out (and I only did 1 of the exercises listed).  I hope I can bowl ok tomorrow.