Pin Perspectives: Improving Your Focus

Article Contents

• 1. Gaining focus
• 2. Touchpoint #1: You’re up next!
  • 2.1. Helpful considerations
• 3. Touchpoint #2:  Getting set
  • 3.1. Helpful considerations
  • 3.2. More on the pre-shot routine
• 4. Touchpoint #3: Approach and delivery
  • 4.1. Helpful considerations
• 5. Touchpoint #4: After the ball has been released
  • 5.1. Helpful considerations
  • 5.2. Visual focus practice
• 6. Touchpoint #5: Between turns, while teammates bowl
  • 6.1. Helpful considerations
• 7. Concluding thoughts

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Greetings, BTM readers! If you are reading these words, you already know that our sport demands skill and that those skills require time and effort to develop. But let’s consider the following scenario:

• One bowler possesses a great deal of bowling knowledge and skill but lacks consistent mental focus and discipline.
• Another bowler doesn’t possess the same level of skill and knowledge but has immovable…