I went with the changed plan to bowl at Westgate Lanes with my best friend yesterday, joined by his wife and her sister. Overall, it was an excellent effort for just coming back to bowling, as I posted a 132-160-164=456 series.
I did not roll a single first ball in the gutter, but the problem of missing my spot right still popped up, leading to many leaves where the head pin was still standing. I made some of them, however, with the misses coming when I tried to repeat my first ball and missed my spot again. I also only missed one single pin leave out of three. That miss was the 7 pin, however, so I’ll still need to learn how to make that single pin.
Joyously, in the 8th and 9th frames of the second game, I posted consecutive strikes, repeating the double to start the third game. I was hoping I’d stay consistent enough have a clean game and shoot 200 in that third game, but it was not to be. The fact that the doubles helped lead to a pair of games in the 160s (around the average I had when I left league bowling, BTW 🙂 ) was good in my mind, though. It meant that it was less a matter of learning how to bowl again now, and more a matter of regaining consistency.
Five-game average for the weekend: 140…about where I want to be before joining a league again. I still will wait out the winter league season, though, only doing open bowling for practice in that time.
The Tenth Board 