New High Game!

[Walkin Kamikaze]

bowled this past sunday at my best local house. Their approaches allow the best slide and i am comfortable thowing there. We just bought 2 hours of bowling for practice and on the 6th game i bowled my new high. Although it is unsanctioned, i know i can do it now =) My new high unsanctioned is a 276! game was- XXXXXX7/XXXX9... the 7/ was a grip problem where i didnt dry my hand and it slipped, the 9 on last ball was a ringing 10.. so i mean now i know i can bowl a 300 and before summer is over that is my goal to get a sanctioned 300.

[idlehourlegend]

Nice Game Walkin. The 300 will come, just stop thinking about it and it will happen, its not as hard as it looks or people make it out to be, as long as you keep your mind off it and stay focused on your shot and not the score its easier. Just a tip, breat through the mouth and out the nose when you are on a big string or start to get nervous at all, deep breaths. Tommy Jones uses that technique, it works believe me, after I learned that the other 4 of mine came very easy. First one was nerve racking.

[PinSlayer]

bowled this past sunday at my best local house. Their approaches allow the best slide and i am comfortable thowing there. We just bought 2 hours of bowling for practice and on the 6th game i bowled my new high. Although it is unsanctioned, i know i can do it now =) My new high unsanctioned is a 276! game was- XXXXXX7/XXXX9... the 7/ was a grip problem where i didnt dry my hand and it slipped, the 9 on last ball was a ringing 10.. so i mean now i know i can bowl a 300 and before summer is over that is my goal to get a sanctioned 300.

Nice game.. Sooner or later it will come. I know that's a goal of yours and there great to have. Just don't think about it as much. Too much thinking will be too much on the mental game. Just roll one shot at a time..

If you have a string of 0 going (yes zero) and your on the approach but feel it's not a good time to roll just step down till your ready to roll the ball.

Even this past Sunday I was in the second or 3rd frame working off a spare. Was on the approach ball in position ready to pull the trigger. My thoughts was not there I took one step back. (off the approach) let the person next to be bowl then got back on the lane placed my hand in the ball and rolled a strike. Do a normal shot from start to finish every time. Don't stand on the approach too long before taking a step. The longer you stand there the more you think too much...

I remember my first 300 was during league. I had strung 9 and 10 in a row several times only to ring a 10 pin on the 10th or 11th ball.. The more you get them big strings the easier it gets to NOT think so much about that big 300. Good luck in reaching your goal..

My goal as of now is to carry and finish the league with a 190. It's 20 pins lower than my last league but that was back in 2000 or so. As of this past Sunday I have a 199.5 avg.. I thougt about setting a higher goal avg wise but I figure I will stick with what I set. If I set it too high I may try too hard to get there.. My other two personal goals is to take scratch high game and series.

[Walkin Kamikaze]

Nice Game Walkin. The 300 will come, just stop thinking about it and it will happen, its not as hard as it looks or people make it out to be, as long as you keep your mind off it and stay focused on your shot and not the score its easier. Just a tip, breat through the mouth and out the nose when you are on a big string or start to get nervous at all, deep breaths. Tommy Jones uses that technique, it works believe me, after I learned that the other 4 of mine came very easy. First one was nerve racking.

yeah i am really good at focusing on the game more than score. I compare my bowling to baseball, just because you are down or up doesnt mean you cant win/lose. Dont get too down or too cocky. Of course i was watching the Eagles vs Giants game at the same time so it got my mind off of it =) my friend was bowling on the same lane and he didnt want to bowl that game, so i just played both. I used the first one to read the oil change and make adjustments for the second game =P im just a cheater haha ;) but in league i will just watch others reactions. Its not something I think about on the goal really for what the other guy said (sorry took forever writing so i forgot who else wrote.) I focus on the now and not anything but each frame. That is when i am doing good. Sometimes i just am doing awful and my compulsiveness is harder to control. I am not blaming it on that, but it slightly just makes it worse.. I lose focus and that is why i dont have like a 185+ average. On most days i bowl that, but there is always one day of 130's cuz my mind wasnt there.

[PinSlayer]

Sometimes i just am doing awful and my compulsiveness is harder to control. I am not blaming it on that, but it slightly just makes it worse.. I lose focus and that is why i dont have like a 185+ average. On most days i bowl that, but there is always one day of 130's cuz my mind wasnt there.


OK first of all I am not being a smartass. I am being serious...

Rolling a 300 is a great feeling and every bowler out there would like to roll one but after reading the above quote I would say you should change your goal. Or at leas add more to put in front of the 300. Like being able to shake off a couple of bad shot's in a row and get back on track. You say you don't have a 185+ avg because you lose focus. Maybe working on not losing focus should be one of your goals.. There is something that can be said about a bowler that has the first 3 then rings a 10 and misses then leaves hits a tad high and leaves a split and missed then thows X the next 7. Not many can do it. Many get pissed off and blow the game winding up with a 150

If I would gladly give back both of my 300 games in exchange for being more consistant from week to week.

One the last 3 weeks I had shot high 500's only due to a low first game every set. (range from 160-175) That hurts the series.. It may have been a slide issue I was having. I bought new shoes and used them this past sunday for the first time shot 650 first game being the lowest at 202.

Again all this is JMO on what your main goals should be. But keep the 300 as one of them if you work on the others and get them down the 300 will be here before you know it. ;)

[Cobberz]

i agree with pinslayer here...300 is a great goal, i have still not thrown one and everyone i bowl with is astonished that i havent, and considering i have 2 800s under my belt and am avging 215+, and to tell you the gods honest truth its probably not in my top 5 goals. Yes i want to throw one, and have the ability to, but ill get it when im least expecting it. i guess my biggest goal right now would be to be a 90%+ spare shooter. and to keep dialing in my shot making. To be able to repeat shot after shot all the time. I also want to learn the PBA patterns better. Think im avging like 185ish on the 4 ive bowled on so far this year. So i guess we all have our own goals, thats what makes us keep returning to the alleys.

[Walkin Kamikaze]

i agree with pinslayer here...300 is a great goal, i have still not thrown one and everyone i bowl with is astonished that i havent, and considering i have 2 800s under my belt and am avging 215+, and to tell you the gods honest truth its probably not in my top 5 goals. Yes i want to throw one, and have the ability to, but ill get it when im least expecting it. i guess my biggest goal right now would be to be a 90%+ spare shooter. and to keep dialing in my shot making. To be able to repeat shot after shot all the time. I also want to learn the PBA patterns better. Think im avging like 185ish on the 4 ive bowled on so far this year. So i guess we all have our own goals, thats what makes us keep returning to the alleys.

well i mean of course i have those kinda goals. Im working on keeping my form Kegel improved and trying to slide straighter (old slide was like 10 boards right). i was saying my next high goal is a 300. I will be trying to accomplish others on the way, but that is like my goal for high game this year. lol, that sound weird but not in my head.. anyways. thanks for the tips and pinslayer ur not a smart butt i just didnt really explain my other goals and u are being helpful to my getting better =)

[PinSlayer]

i agree with pinslayer here...300 is a great goal, i have still not thrown one and everyone i bowl with is astonished that i havent, and considering i have 2 800s under my belt and am avging 215+, and to tell you the gods honest truth its probably not in my top 5 goals. Yes i want to throw one, and have the ability to, but ill get it when im least expecting it. i guess my biggest goal right now would be to be a 90%+ spare shooter. and to keep dialing in my shot making. To be able to repeat shot after shot all the time. I also want to learn the PBA patterns better. Think im avging like 185ish on the 4 ive bowled on so far this year. So i guess we all have our own goals, thats what makes us keep returning to the alleys.

When I threw mine I had a 205 or so avg that night.. Started out on I think 9 and 10 There was some kids bowling next to us walking up on us and everything.. You sould be 1/2 way in your approach when one runs to the foul line passing you. Talk about breaking ones thoughts on the shot..

I was getting really pissed and so was the other bowlers on my team as well as the other team.. Lanes 15 and 16 was not being used becuse the two teams pre bowled so I asked to be moved. They said that was fine they would move us afer we finished the first game.

My 300 game was a series of 646 Shot a pissy 136 the first game. Moved over to 15 and 16 away from the kids. Shot a 300 the second and a 210 the third game.

Not much point here just that my two high series was not shot with a 300 game in there. I am sure one day I will roll another one but there are many other goals I have other than shooting another 300... Even before I shot mine it was never a goal. Yes I like all bowlers wanted one. BUT.......

[PinSlayer]

well i mean of course i have those kinda goals. Im working on keeping my form Kegel improved and trying to slide straighter (old slide was like 10 boards right). i was saying my next high goal is a 300. I will be trying to accomplish others on the way, but that is like my goal for high game this year. lol, that sound weird but not in my head.. anyways. thanks for the tips and pinslayer ur not a smart butt i just didnt really explain my other goals and u are being helpful to my getting better =)

Sounds like your on te right track to improving your game. Keep working on all the aspects of the approach from start to finish the better you get with them the faster that 300 will come.....

Some would think I was being smart that is why I stated that upfront. Didn't want to make ya mad.. :D :D

Here is why I posted the first post. Just look at the odds.. Straight off bowl.com

Q. What are the odds of rolling a 300 game?

A. There is no scientific way to determine this. The unscientific method, however, involves the number of games bowled and number of sanctioned 300 earned in a bowling season. It is estimated league bowlers roll an average of 100 games per season (90 league, 10 tournament). With about four million sanctioned league bowlers rolling about 400 million games and more than 35,000 perfect games rolled each year, the odds are about one 300 for approximately every 11,500 games. Since women and youth roll far fewer 300s than men, their odds are much greater.

[idlehourlegend]

When I threw mine I had a 205 or so avg that night.. Started out on I think 9 and 10 There was some kids bowling next to us walking up on us and everything.. You sould be 1/2 way in your approach when one runs to the foul line passing you. Talk about breaking ones thoughts on the shot..

I was getting really pissed and so was the other bowlers on my team as well as the other team.. Lanes 15 and 16 was not being used becuse the two teams pre bowled so I asked to be moved. They said that was fine they would move us afer we finished the first game.

My 300 game was a series of 646 Shot a pissy 136 the first game. Moved over to 15 and 16 away from the kids. Shot a 300 the second and a 210 the third game.

Not much point here just that my two high series was not shot with a 300 game in there. I am sure one day I will roll another one but there are many other goals I have other than shooting another 300... Even before I shot mine it was never a goal. Yes I like all bowlers wanted one. BUT.......

I agree, I have 5 of them and all of them are when you least expect it, I too have an 800 and I didnt have a 300 in that set, had 254-258-289, also had 2 opens that night with shooting an 8, shows how many strikes I have in that series, with my 300s I had 794(Total NV), 786(Playmaker), 769(Total NV), 748(BWB:)), and 662 :). The 662 was in a house I never bowled in before and was my first ever 300 on the first game. I also shot the 300 - 794 and the 300-769 in back to back sets the same night. But personally am much more proud of the 800.

You will get there and it will come Walkin, like the others said, focus on making spares and focusing on your shot from frame to frame and being able to get your mind to focus after throwing a bad shot or bad game, thats what makes a good bowler and will improve your game a ton when you are able to do that. Like Jason Belmonte said, bowling is 20% skill and 80% mental ability, if you can keep your mind in good places and be able to focus highly from shot to shot you will be good. Good work with improving your game and keep us updated.

[BubbaRay]

Nice bowling Walkin. Like the others said, do not worry it will come when you least expect it. Do not think about getting one and it will come. The key is to focus and be consistant in your game. Never think about a shot when you are on the approach because when you do, well the shot goes errant.

[Viking_Bowler@hotmail.com]

learn not to lose focus nothing distracts mewhile im bowling wheather im doing good or bad thats why i haveso many perfect games they will come trust me

[Harris]

I have to agree with what everyone said about making spares and stay focused my highest sanctioned series is a 746 so far and that was with a 279 and I should have easily shot 800 (which is more important to me than 300 right now) but because I wasn't consistent and pulled 3 balls and left 3 splits I missed it. I through 28 strikes that series and couldn't shoot 800 my teammate shot 26 strikes and shot 789 so concentrate on making the same shot and picking up spares if possible. But like others have said they will come and that's why I keep going to league every week because they will come I know they will. Good shooting and good luck with your goals.