greyguy

After about 3 1/2 months, I went bowling today! Thumb slugs are great, I got a urethane one and I would recommend it to anyone. Still a little rubbed skin, but not until WAY into the session.

Started off bad, a couple 130s, and ~100s. I tried speed adjustments but there was no getting around it, the lanes were bone dry. That used to be great, but now instead of taking advantage of it with 5-7 boards of hook, I have to move left because I’m missing WAY left. Then things got better. I put my left foot about 22 a little behind the dots and tried to get between the 2nd and 3rd arrows. This was most consistent and got me the highest scores of the day(158,169,187). 2 turkeys(separate games), still no 4 in a row! Both were xxx9 though.

Even though I took a little too long to get “dialed in”, I did. Next time I shouldn’t wait so long before going. Fun as always though! Good luck everyone.

129,134,149,165,170 and some others. I did best with left foot aligned a little behind 12 board and hitting 7,8 straight down. 2 turkeys, no 4 bagger yet. Picked up a washout though!(1,2,4,10) Hitting my target is getting easier;trying to develop a system for single pin spares and groups of 2/3.

Seems like I have some of my better games when it takes pretty long to get dialed in, like today. I don’t know if the lanes are changing, or I am. First 3 or 4 games I was getting 9 counts. Some of these were first arrow, some second, a little in between even. Tried over 3rd and out a little, still no strikes. If it wasn’t a 7, it was a 10. Partially my fault for leaving them, and then for not picking them up. Kept psyching myself out on where to stand/where to roll, but got a strike line eventually.

And so I can escape 110-130 finally. Got a 150 game built on spares, not even sure if there were 2 strikes. Did some speed adjustments, then about 6-8 were the sweet boards for strikes. Once again three in a row, then one left standing next frame. X X X 9/ It was the 9 left, surprisingly enough. Then I screwed up the 9th frame that game and ended up with 178. I had 150+ in the 8th frame. Not complaining, but I think it’s going to take 4 in a row(for me at least).

Satisfied by that, I messed around with the 3rd/4th arrow until my time was up.

Keep bowling, good luck.