12/1/11

Rolled my 1st left handed 600 series on my Thurs night league.  Rolled my 1st 600 on my Fri night league right before the week of Thanksgiving.  Can't complain about back to back 600 series.  Tonight my spare shooting was pretty good.  I didn't have my 1st open frame until the 10th frame of the 2nd game, and ended up only having 2 open frames for the night.  Had a total of 12 strikes for the 3 games and had a 1st roll average of 9.03.  I think making the 1st step of my approach a half step (to help slow down my feet) has been a major factor in the improvement of my game.  I rolled a 232, 193 and a 199 for a 624 series.

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.