Rely On Your Strongest Skills When Bowling In Competition

By: bowlingball.com
Publish Date: 10/17/15

As an advanced player you will, from time to time, need to rely on your strongest skills when bowling in competition.

No player can be at peak performance each time they enter a league or tournament so you must learn to rely on the strengths of your game to get you through tough spots during competitive sessions.

The great Earl Anthony, PBA Hall of Fame Champion, has said many times that “you can win bowling with 80% of your best stuff.” Earl referred to feeling as though you have less than your best game physically but you can manage your way through competition if you rely on your talents and skills to get you a win.

You, as a skilled bowler, have strong and dominant parts of your games.

Learn to identify and trust what you do extremely well and what has been a past cornerstone to your bowling successes.

Trust in your game and what you do best, what has proven to work in past competitions.

Maybe your ability to read the lanes right and make good adjustments based on your ball reaction is a strength of your game. If so, rely on it and trust what you see happen and make crisp decisions related to lane adjustments as conditions vary during the course of a long tournament.

Identify which physical game fundamentals you excel with and use these skills to an advantage when you bowl in meaningful events.

When you work with a coach or an instructor, they typically steer you to the parts of your game which can help you perform well in pressure situations.

Your coach will give you a short checklist of areas of your game to practice before a competition.



Your coach wants you to recognize these are key points vital to your success.

Being well practiced is one method of building upon your best assets.

Relying on what you have trained yourself to do is an important step to reducing the time it takes to get your game back on track if things slip away a bit during competition.

Trust yourself and your decision making process.

Believe in your game when in the heat of competition.

The greatest bowling strength any player can achieve is the power of the mind and the ability to trust decision making.