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use your benchmark ball and start playing between second and third arrow, you’re basically bowling on the U.S. Open. It’s really short, and it’s really flat. And so when you see your ball hook, your first move is to move left [if you’re a right-handed player]. It’s a natural instinct. And when that hooks too much, then you use shiny balls that still hook too much. “Then eventually you get to something
that hits the pocket once, but, again, you’re bowling on the U.S. Open. If you miss one or two right, you probably miss the headpin. And if you miss one left you’re going to go Brooklyn. Pretty soon you’re so tight that it doesn’t matter if it was the right place to play. You couldn’t get it off your hand the right way every time anyway. “That goes in with the lane-play strategy that starts in practice every time.”
4
TAKE EMOTIONS OUT OF THE EQUATION Barnes did not win the Team
USA Trials because he bowled better than everyone else every day. In fact, he never placed first on any single day of qualifying. He won because he did a better job of bouncing back from poor games than anyone else in the field. “Ultimately, you’re best served by taking the emotions out of it and answering the question ‘Why?’” Barnes says. “Ask why it’s happening first, and then ‘How can I fix it?’ You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You can see who is doing the right things and then imitate. If what you’re seeing and
thinking isn’t working, then that’s why you work on versatility, and that’s why you work on your physical game.
5 “The PREPARE
FOR DIFFERENT CONDITIONS
FROM ONE CENTER TO ANOTHER
The average league bowler back home may be a superstar in one center and yet find himself in the middle of the pack at
average league bowler
the center across town. That does not have to be the case. Here, Barnes offers a tip on how to enhance your adaptability on the lanes. “By starting with a ball that rolls
earlier from further right [for right- handed players], you get a picture of the lane,” Barnes explains. “Most people use way too much shine [on their bowling balls], so when there are small differences, they have huge differences in the results.”
CHRIS BARNES This is where a versatile arsenal of
bowling balls comes in particularly handy. Barnes recommends “setting up an arsenal that goes from a heavy oil control ball down to a heavier oil, angular-type ball, and then so on, so that your moves all go from right to left and your ball choices go from earliest to longest. That helps make your choices simpler, and it helps get you to the right part of the lane faster. And when you run into carry issues, it makes the decisions more educated.”
back home may be a superstar in one
center and yet find himself in the middle of the pack at the center across
town. That does not have to be the case.”
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