Your Bowling Opportunity

By: bowlingball.com, Originally Posted: 2/18/17; Updated: 11/17/2021

If you are averaging in the 160’s and can’t seem to improve your scores, then you are missing your bowling opportunity.

There are so much in the ways of techniques and equipment to choose from today that you do not need much to improve your scores if you make an honest effort to do so.

Did you know that the median average of all male bowlers, as example, in the 1980’s and 1990’s was about 168 as reported by the ABC, now the USBC?

That median average has virtually remained in the same average range today. The thing here to remember is that the number of top average scores over 190 have soared in the past 15 years.

If you are averaging in the high 160’s today, you are quite simply not taking advantage of the equipment advancements and instructional information available in the industry right now.

You can take lessons from any number of experienced and able coaches in an effort to learn more about bowling and about your skills and how to sharpen these skills.

Modern coaches have literally decades worth of bowler development techniques they can share with any bowler, especially bowlers in the median average range.

These coaches can help you learn about your current physical game and which technique changes will get you on a path to progress.

Coaches are not limited to only helping with your physical game but they also help you strengthen your strategies in playing the lanes and with your mental game.

Once you improve your physical game skills, then learning as much new information on playing the lanes as possible and in making sensible adjustments when you lose a reliable ball reaction becomes extremely important.

Also, trusting your game skills and how to apply what you have learned during competition is another area an experienced bowling instructor can address.

The quick fix is simply to become an improved spare shooter to cut down the number of open frames you encounter on average each series of games you bowl.

Pick up more spares than you presently do on average right now and watch your average rise.

Don’t forget about your pro shop professional when it comes to all of your equipment needs. Bowling ball manufacturers have made enormous technological advances over the years that knowing which new ball and how to have it drilled is best for you is very important.

Using modern bowling ball equipment to your advantage is a specific area your pro shop professional specializes in and must become a target area for you to address.

Maintaining your bowling ball surfaces is vital in establishing and retaining a reliable ball reaction with all of your equipment. There are simple bowling ball surface maintenance strategies you can follow routinely to make sure your bowling balls are ready to perform. If you refresh your bowling ball surfaces routinely and get the equipment resurfaced on a periodic schedule, you will prolong the use of your equipment and understand how to finish the surfaces to best match with the local lane conditions you encounter most frequently.

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