You Have to Do it All

A few years back I took some bowling lessons.  Why?  One may ask.  It was an activity that I was never very good at and I wanted some basic competency.  Billiards is on the list too -- but a different post for sure.

The lessons were cheap, 3 hours for $100.  When you consider that lane time is about $25 per hours, you are getting lessons for $5 per hour. 

One of the things that Mike said was, "You have to do it all."  Bowling consists of a number of steps in a smooth sequence.  Strangely like golf, one might inject here for those not paying attention to the blog subject.

So you have 4 items that you have to do.  "Can I skip #2?"  "No, you have to do them all."

We did a lesson and I went away and then came back and did lesson 2.  Off I went.  When I came back Mike had sold the business and disappeared!  The new owners were cool and covered the lesson.

But what I took away from Mike was the "doing it all" bit.  So when you see some pro on TV who takes a long backswing by turning his shoulders and then launching from the lower body and staying behind the ball, you've got to do all of that too.  You can't skip the shoulder turn or the lower body uncoil.  Do it all!

And about that bowling...  I found it too easy.  I went from 135 average with a huge standard deviation to an average over 210 with a smaller deviation.  Never rolled the perfect game, but I commonly was above 250 and a high of 279.  Bowling is more expensive than golf on an hourly basis!  You have been warned.