Eh, I do the same thing, can't help you. It's worse when you're actually having problems too. I also do the over-hitting thing. I start ripping on a ball and when it's looking so nice, I always want more. I've been bowling terrible this year, mostly because I'm trying to stay away from looking like a house bowler and just playing the easy line to score. I need to start doing that and just work on things in practice, but spraying and praying really hacks me off, and I don't want to lower myself to that level. I can imagine you're a perfectionist and get too hard on yourself, which is especially why most of your comments and suggestions to me have worked so well. I'd rather play a line laying it down at 38, between 4th and 5th arrow, never letting it out past 13 or 14, or some other extreme line that lets me gratify my hunger for better shots and mind-numbing accuracy, but the fact of the matter is that most of that isn't really needed. Watching the pros taught me one thing. They're blind to everything but scoring. A ball is a ball, boards are boards, arrows are arrows. There's nothing special to them about any certain ball (although they may have favorites), nothing special about playing 2 board all the way down or playing 5th arrow on the left lane and 1st arrow on the right lane (which I saw somebody do painfully well on Friday) and nothing special about anything else. If the pins don't go down, it doesn't matter. Of course this is probably insulting your intelligence, but sometimes it helps to be reminded and have things beat into your head, I know I could use that sometimes. And of course you know if I'd have said what you just did, you'd have told me that no shot is too good if you screw up a part of it. We'd both throw it like Robert Smith if we could, I'm sure, but maybe your game isn't built for that, I know mine isn't. I don't think there's any cure for this except to try to beat into your head that the X's are all that matter. I know that's the deal, and I still haven't talked myself into just being a house bowler for the time being. I don't want to start leaving flat stuff, there's nothing I hate worse than throwing a shot and knowing off my hand it has no chance. At least with more revs you know you'll blow the pins around a bit more.
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Cocky? I'm not cocky. I'm the proud owner of a 280-742 set with a White Dot. So, who wants to touch me? . . . . . . . I SAID WHO WANTS TO F*#%!&G TOUCH ME?!?!
Man! I'm like the white Larry Bird!
