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United States24480 Posts
To whoever is systematically rating my blog a 1: keep doing it and don't reflect on your actions. In fact, encourage the coding team to implement a rating of 0 system so that you can be really extreme.
To everyone else:
Introduction: I was hoping to break the cycle of excruciating pain today, and didn't really do it. Once again my good throws were met with horrible pin formations. This is partly due to the fact that the condition of the lanes were similar to last time. They were fairly (but not ridiculously) dry.
My Scores: 129, 162, 159.
Game 1: 5 splits, and they were all pretty good throws. A tad low or high, perhaps, but certainly not ugly. I also was leaving the 10 pin on the even lane (the one where the ball return is on the left) consistently, which is the side I have more trouble making that shot on and I kept missing it.
Game 2: 4 splits this time, and again they were pretty good throws. I made a few more spares and the score reflected it.
Game 3: Only 1-2 splits for a change. I got off to a rough start because for some reason my shoe was having trouble sliding on the first ball (but amazingly not on the second ball).
Conclusion: This is getting to be a waste of 17 dollars a week. I am not really enjoying bowling worse each month, with no explanation for it. There are only a few more weeks left of the season, so hopefully things will improve by then and I'll feel like going into a new season for the winter/spring.
 
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im not a bowler or anything but just out of curiousity how come every single week, the lanes are dry?
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United States24480 Posts
Because the bowling alley doesn't oil them enough, I guess. I prefer when the lanes are a little more oiled. There's an easy way to tell if the lanes are oily or dry. During the 5 minutes of practice, I throw the ball and see how much to the left it hooks. I adjust my starting position left or right until my ball is hitting the pocket. If my adjusted starting position is towards the left, the lanes are dry. If it is towards the right, the lanes are oily.
Today, after I adjusted my throw a few times, I discovered that I was hitting the pocket when I started all the way on the left side of the lane, and thew it so that it went all the way to the right side, a few inches short of the gutter. Then, it would hook back into the gutter. If you just envision that you will realize the lanes had to be rather dry.
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To me the problem seems to be you more than the lanes. I mean having to stand that far over either means the lanes are really really super super dry, you bowl without your thumb, you throw your ball really slow, or you dift towards the center of the lane during your approach. It seems to me that you expect the ball to strike everytime it comes close to the pocket, which is not true. Although I could be wrong and you could just have really bad luck lately. I mean if the ball comes in high it could leave you with a spilit very easy like the 4-9 or if the ball comes in light it would very well leave you the 8-10 or something like a 4-6-10. I mean I think you have to look at how you're throwing the ball more then the lanes imo. It's easy to blame to lane conditions. I mean Thursday I was throwing the ball horrible and the lanes were a little dry but I still bowled a 625. And everytime I bowl bad I blame it on myself not the lanes. Which seems like what your doing. Maybe you are just letting out some anger when you write your blog which I would be too if I bowled what you did. But it's not always the lanes or your carry. Like I said last week our lanes at the ally have been rather dry the last month or so but I've bowled decent. Although our lanes aren't close to as dry as yours sound but I've bowled a league on lanes like that before. All in all it shouldn't necessarily be about how you bowl but just spending time with your friends unless it's a money league. Anyhow I'm talked way to long for a post. Like I said if you have any questions about bowling you could pm me.
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
162, not bad, not bad at all =)
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United States24480 Posts
On November 19 2007 13:43 Snet wrote:
162, not bad, not bad at all =) No, bad :-(
Duke, I appreciate what you are saying. Of course, just automatically blaming the lanes when I did bad would be a bad habit. On the other hand, there is definitely a strong correlation between how oiled they are and where I throw. I don't throw the ball particularly fast, but it isn't all that slow. I don't drift to the middle, or at least not appreciably so. I keep the thumb in the ball. Also, I hope I didn't make it sound like I expected a strike every time the ball came near the pocket. But when two games in a row your have 4.5 splits per game, almost all of which were throws that you couldn't tell if they might be off before the ball contacts the pins, you are forced to look to external reasons. If I could observe anything I'm doing differently than the week when I bowled 597, then I'd definitely look at that as a thing to work on.
I have to keep at it for a few more weeks until statistical anomalies are no longer the norm.
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Yeah I understand your frustration because when you think you're throwing a good ball all the time yet the results aren't showing it then something is wrong. Maybe you are just getting really really bad luck and all. Or maybe it's just the angle you're coming in from or that it's just the way your ball is hitting the pocket. It's hard to say from not seeing how you throw and all. But it was just my opinion. I could be all wrong.
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