Less Can Be More With Your Bowling Game

Written By: bowlingball.com | Written On: Friday, February 27, 2015


If you have reached a point with your bowling where you must make a change or two for improvement purposes, less can be more with your bowling game.
Since no bowler masters every part of the game, you will be faced with making decisions regarding changes to your game.
These changes can be in the form of one or more adjustments, both physically and with alignment in hitting the pocket and converting spares.
It is important to realize that knowing your limitations and your personal range of effectiveness makes the difference when you are facing the task of implementing changes to your game.
In order to completely trust making changes to your game during pressure situations related to competition, you must first understand the strengths and weaknesses of your game.
It has been long established by top coaches and by top tier players that relying on your strengths in competition will give you the best chances at success.
Since the pressure of highly competitive bowling makes it a challenge for anyone to relax and make effective physical adjustments when you lose the ability to hit the pocket or to make good shots, keeping things as simple as possible is usually the best course of action.
Keeping things simple means that you rely on the strong points of your physical game and rely on your best lane adjustment options when you know it is time to make changes.
As examples, rely on your ball speed control abilities if that is something you are positive you can control under pressure.
You may have good skills in making slight adjustments to your release technique to help you alter the skid distance of your bowling ball or to add or reduce revs applied to your bowling ball.
Maybe your best bowling attributes are in making effective delivery angle adjustments as the lanes changes during the course of competition?
Whichever adjustment options you can rely best upon should become staples in your game “bag of tricks.”
Instead of trying to implement too many adjustments at one time, choose the single best option you feel is right for the given situation you face and go with it.
Try not to get too cute and make two or three adjustments all at once because you no longer are getting the ball reaction you want.
Maybe a simple bowling ball change will make the difference as opposed to changing ball speed, loft distance, severe delivery angle adjustments, or sighting adjustments up and down the lane all at one time?
Learn that less can be more and trust your strengths when in competition.
It is possible to win when you are performing with 80% or 85% of your best stuff so avoid the pitfalls of trying to be perfect.
Keep things simple. Less can be more with your bowling game.