Preparing For An Important Bowling Tournament
By: bowlingball.com, 1/11/16
As a top tier player preparing for an important bowling tournament, here are a few tips to help:
*Assess your game - develop a few simple practice goals such as physical technique, game management strategies, and perhaps your mental approach to competing.
*Challenging lane conditions - this is a game management goal where you may wish to strive practicing on long, short, and lightly blended, challenging oil patterns.
Practicing like this helps your focus for a range of lane condition skills, although you may need to enlist a professional bowling instructor to help you best familiarize yourself with given alignment and adjustment techniques.
*Prepare your bowling ball arsenal - making certain you have the ball surfaces of your existing equipment cleaned and textured so you can depend on getting a reaction is vital when competing on challenging oil patterns.
Adding new equipment in preparation for a coming tournament can be done if and when you become familiarized with the oil pattern you will face. Add a new ball which produces a motion you presently do not own.
*Hit the pocket - this is a technique strategy and another game management skill.
Develop awareness of hitting the pocket and committing to adjustments which give you the best changes to hit the pocket as the oil pattern transitions through the course of a tournament. Remember, it is critical to have something to monitor so rely on an awareness of how often you achieve the goal of hitting the pocket.
*Establish a reliable pre-shot routine on every shot - this is an actual mental game and game management goal that can be worked out on the practice lanes when scores do not count.
Using a pre-shot routine where you separate thinking from playing the shot to actually playing the shot. Instead of keeping score in practice leading into a tournament, tally how many times you execute your pre-shot routine.
*Physical game technique - during two practices sessions each a week, transfer your physical game techniques from the practice lanes to competition.
This is a very common problem and a game management/mental game goal that makes a time commitment. Most people practice their technique but fail to successfully incorporate the training techniques to the competition.
Make you have time to achieve this transference. One simple way to transition your swing techniques to the competitive lanes, as example, (without spending hours on the practice lanes) would be to play a game during practice from multiple delivery angles.
Anticipate angles of attack you will likely face on the scheduled tournament oil pattern and use multiple bowling balls during practice time which will most likely react best during the projected competition.
*Identify your goals - write your goals down and post them somewhere that you see them often. This is a critical step in goal setting so you are accountable.
Reevaluate and measure your progress often.
To take your game to the next level, adapt the habit of using your goals when preparing for an important bowling tournament event. Top performances do not happen randomly but rather are produced by dedicated and purposeful practice and by goal setting.
