Sunday, December 7, 2008

Bowling struggles

We went bowling this morning with some friends, I took the opportunity to practice my hook ball. Yeah. I stink at it! Well I guess I should clarify, my ball has a wicked break to it....I just can't control it! It heads toward the right gutter and then breaks all the way across the lane and hits the 7 pin (far left corner pin). So I tried moving to various dots at the start, but never could get it dialed in. It is hard to work on consistency and moving around to different boards. Anyway, I bowled a game and a half with all hook balls, and then I gave up and went back to my straight ball which was working extremely well today!

So I guess in conclusion I'm not ready to break out the curve in league play quite yet. Maybe next year if I keep on getting the practice in. Check out this guy, he is a professional bowler who uses a two handed grip. It is completely legal and starting to catch on. I tried it today and got even more of a wicked spin on the ball, but that made it even harder to control!

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