Today on my sunday league. I opened up with a 212. Not bad an average game. Then the second game began. My shot completely disappeared. I tried everything. Front to back, left to right adjustments. Ball speed and hand position changes. Nothing worked for me. I couldn't find the pocket. I ended the day with a 171 and 166. I haven't had a day like this in forever. Just really discouraging for me. Cuz no matter what I've always been able to adjust to the conditions under any pattern. Sorry just had to get this off my chest. I don't complain about my bowling ever. So I'll do it just this once Just one of those days I guess.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">Originally posted by TurboManGT:
Today on my sunday league. I opened up with a 212. Not bad an average game. Then the second game began. My shot completely disappeared. I tried everything. Front to back, left to right adjustments. Ball speed and hand position changes. Nothing worked for me. I couldn't find the pocket. I ended the day with a 171 and 166. I haven't had a day like this in forever. Just really discouraging for me. Cuz no matter what I've always been able to adjust to the conditions under any pattern. Sorry just had to get this off my chest. I don't complain about my bowling ever. So I'll do it just this once Just one of those days I guess. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">In all of our bowling futures there is a bad game or series waiting to test our mental strength.
Shake it off. I know this is crunch time. Time to get paid and all of that. But its not the end of the world.
That's a 549 series and a 183 Average. No body on this forum who bothers to check and definitely no one in your league thinks that this series is the sum of your bowling skills.
By the same token if you had shot 750, no one would think that you carry a 250 average.
Did your team pick you up?

Turbo

I guess by definition most bowlers have average days but every now and again you just bowl badly, you can’t put your finger on what is going wrong let alone put it right. It is just “one of those days”; you have not turned into a bad bowler over night, you just have to accept that fact that you had a stinker and get on with your bowling.

If you can feel what was going wrong and it is something that you can work on in practice then by all means do so but whatever happens do not let that series carry over to your next set and try not to over analyse the situation.

As we all know from experience we bowl best in the now, think neither of the previous shot / game / series nor of the one to follow.

If you really want to put a positive spin on it, as an average is built up of good and bad sets, then a 700 is probably just around the corner.

Hey man!!! I finished up my last Fri night league night with a big old fat 134 game. I changed balls and just couldn't get this new ball to come up to the pocket no matter what I did. About 5 2,8, 10s, and some chopped spares later, there you go....pretty awful game. We finish around 1am or so and I had to be up at 7:30am to travel to an all day tournament on Saturday. I was in all the squads and started at 10am, out of the box 246, 248, 198.

So one bad night, doesn't make your bowling career. It wasn't easy to put that disasterous 134 game behind me and bowl just 8hrs later in an all day tournament. I'll will tell you, that I didn't use that new ball. LOL

Erin

I know its just very frustrating. I'm known for my versatility lol.

That's too bad. Just do better next time and try not to let it get you down.

Think of it this way, even the pros out there on the tour have a bad outing. Yes Even the big time pros like Walter Ray, Parker Bohn, Norm Duke, and even my late idol Earl Anthony had bad outings, but they all know how to put it behind them and bounce right back. One thing that I tell myself is just because I had a bad night doesn't mean that I suck, it's just I couldn't figure out the lanes and it doesn't make me less of a bowler. And then I try to add some humor to it by saying "Boy if I had $5.00 for each bad night that I ever had I would be rich by now." Believe me I had my share of bad nights and sometimes it's hard to stop thinking about it. And there have been nights that I've tried every single adjustment that I could think of and nothing worked, but I try to learn something out of that bad night and I move on. It all boils down to your attitude and how you handle a bad night. If you dwell on a bad night then most likely you will repeat a bad night, because you psyched yourself out from that bad night. This is also how you would develop your mental game by how mentally tough you can be after a bad night. I've been bowling for 8 yrs and always had the physical game mastered, but what held me back was the mental game and I'm just now learning to Master that part of my game and it's becomeing my strength. Here's my motto "Never Give Up, Because That's The Easy Way out." Just keep those words in mind and you'll be fine.

Hey man,

Let me say that EVERYONE has their bad days, I mean EVERYONE.

Secondly, It's a SUNDAY League!!! Since when did a Sunday league get this much hype?

But seriously now, I'm not trying to discourage you or anything. So just shake this one off and get the next one.

Wow, my good games are everyone's bad games. I feel good, though. That just means I'm getting better.

Its all relative Rolly. Every bowler struggles and every struggle is a mountain for that bowler. So no matter what your average or skill level, if you are working hard then your struggles are our struggles.

Erin