Bring Your Bowling Monster To The Lanes

bowlingball.com, Originally Posted: 8/28/2015; Updated: 4/27/2022

If you are a good bowler but privately find yourself too shy, timid, or even scared when you face direct competition which, in turn, adversely affects your performance, then bring your bowling monster to the lanes.

It is your inner-self which has powers you can tap into, develop, and bring out to use when you bowl in competition.

There is no need to bowl angry or force yourself to lather-up and prepare for mortal combat when simply bowling in tournaments or leagues, but you can bring the powers within to give you the energy and determination needed to bowl your best when it counts.

Anger or false motivation only brings tenseness to your game. Tensing your muscles in your neck, shoulders, legs, and in your bowling arm is not a recipe for making consistent and accurate shots repeatedly.

It is 100% possible to be nervous inside and yet be smooth moving and physically relaxed with your body motion.

The monster within you is not a “killer instinct”, a term popularized in sports over many years as wanting to crush an opponent, but rather the spirit needed to face the pressures of competition by remaining focused, in the present, and purely determined to make one good shot at a time.

You may see some high energy people, high strung bowlers, seem to always be on and battling to win as a natural instinct.

Truthfully, everyone runs scared from time to time, even the top professionals get nervous when facing serious competition.



The trick is to trust your personal powers to give you the energy, the motivation, and the intensity necessary to perform well under pressure.

Knowing how to bowl under pressure begins with using the triggers your brain has to summon your personal powers from within as needed.

Your monster is nothing more than using your brain, trusting in your abilities, and bringing your spirit to the game of competition.