So Close...
Went out for some practice Friday morning. I'm a sucker for a buy-one-get-one offer.
Bowling early in the morning means that the lanes are freshly oiled, and they laid it on thick at this place today. My Reign Supreme was barely moving, so I had to slow down to about 13.5mph and put a few extra revs on my shot just to get it back into the pocket. Wish I had my Infinite Theory by now, because it was tailor-made for these conditions.
I had a string of eight straight 200 games coming into today, and that streak ended at 10. I needed a mark in the 10th of my third game to break 200 again, but my ball speed was a bit too slow, so it hooked through the nose and left a split. That was a good sign for me, though, because it meant that the oil pattern was breaking down to the point where I could play a more comfortable shot.
My last game of the day was.... well, see for yourself...
I was so disappointed that I didn't strike on my last ball in the 10th. My personal high game is 278, so I wound up falling one pin short instead of beating it by one.
Despite that, I'm liking what I see from my latest rounds of practice. I started concentrating more on my timing and balance, and it seems to have transferred into better accuracy. Once I got lined up, I had only one open frame the rest of the day, and that was the aforementioned split.
I was also extremely pleased with how my Reign Supreme was finishing. I wasn't flush in the pocket that often, but on my off hits I was kicking out the 7 pin or ripping the 5 pin into the 10, more so than my old Ultra Zone ever did.
And one of these days I'll hit perfection. One of these days.
Bowling early in the morning means that the lanes are freshly oiled, and they laid it on thick at this place today. My Reign Supreme was barely moving, so I had to slow down to about 13.5mph and put a few extra revs on my shot just to get it back into the pocket. Wish I had my Infinite Theory by now, because it was tailor-made for these conditions.
I had a string of eight straight 200 games coming into today, and that streak ended at 10. I needed a mark in the 10th of my third game to break 200 again, but my ball speed was a bit too slow, so it hooked through the nose and left a split. That was a good sign for me, though, because it meant that the oil pattern was breaking down to the point where I could play a more comfortable shot.
My last game of the day was.... well, see for yourself...
I was so disappointed that I didn't strike on my last ball in the 10th. My personal high game is 278, so I wound up falling one pin short instead of beating it by one.
Despite that, I'm liking what I see from my latest rounds of practice. I started concentrating more on my timing and balance, and it seems to have transferred into better accuracy. Once I got lined up, I had only one open frame the rest of the day, and that was the aforementioned split.
I was also extremely pleased with how my Reign Supreme was finishing. I wasn't flush in the pocket that often, but on my off hits I was kicking out the 7 pin or ripping the 5 pin into the 10, more so than my old Ultra Zone ever did.
And one of these days I'll hit perfection. One of these days.