{"id":121,"date":"2009-01-09T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-01-09T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T03:01:22","slug":"now-if-only-i-can-do-that-in-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/now-if-only-i-can-do-that-in-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Now If Only I Can Do That In League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a long day of calls, I had to take a late lunch and decided to get some practice in after Wednesday night&#8217;s poor performance.\u00a0 The scores were as follows: 192, 182, <strong>236, 259, 249<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first two games were warming up and trying to put into practice one very valuable piece of information someone gave me on Wednesday&#8230; more on that later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last three games, I had a total of 1 open frame and if those would have counted, would have given me a 744 series (my first in a three game set of any kind).\u00a0 So, what was this piece of very valuable information that helped today and hopefully can in the future?\u00a0 I was told to &#8220;throw my second ball first&#8221;.\u00a0 Apparently, to no real knowledge of mine until pointed out, I was trying too hard on my first ball, but had a nice relaxed swing and release on any spare ball.\u00a0 So, today, instead of trying to guide or muscle my first throw, I just picked my target and went.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t try to add extra speed or revolutions.\u00a0 The result; more consistent throws that hit harder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, I know this was one practice session on one particular day and previous results don&#8217;t predict future outcomes; but if I can try to remember what I did (or really didn&#8217;t do) today, hopefully that can translate to better scores when it does count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/now-if-only-i-can-do-that-in-league\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long day of calls, I had to take a late lunch and decided to get some practice in after Wednesday night&#8217;s poor performance.\u00a0 The scores were as follows: 192, 182, 236, 259, 249.\u00a0 The first two games were warming up and trying to put into practice one very valuable piece of information someone [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/now-if-only-i-can-do-that-in-league\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}