you’ve now managed to master the first c of bowling after putting hours and hours of your time into faithful practice. you are now able to turn off distractions and focus on your swing and target with relative ease. you are now ready to move on to the second c. it is not something that needs even more practice, and that’s somewhat good news. rather, it is a consequence of concentration: consistency.
let’s say you bowl three times a week, four games each practice session. that would equate to at least one hundred and twenty (if you bowl all perfect games, which is highly unlikely) shots a week, two hundred and forty at the high end. let’s take two hundred shots at the average. that’s eight hundred shots a month, nine thousand six hundred shots a year! if you’ve already developed a good enough sense of concentration before even adhering to that practice schedule, there’s a high probability that your shots would be consistent. if not, they will lean towards consistency. several thousand shots in a year would already be enough for your body to get the feel of that effortless motion. you’d be sliding, gliding and swinging as if you were just breathing. the more times you do it, the more natural the feeling gets.
there would be bad days, of course. no worries, that’s what concentration is for. if you feel something is off, go back to step one. concentrate. observe where you go wrong and understand what you need to do. focus on correcting your mistake and work your way back to consistency. these two c’s go hand in hand. when you’re already bowling like it’s second nature, the third c won’t be far away.
tbc.
