Well....I have a few valid excuses for why Week1 was not good.  Some of it, is plain and simple bad bowling. For those of you wanting to bypass the whining to follow, I'll sum it up by this: 133-144-155 for a whopping 432.

I didn't make the proper adjustment until the 3rd game and was trying to force a down and in shot with a very aggressive ball and it just wasn't happening.

Unfortunately, my only experience on Viper was last week when they didn't strip the lanes down before applying the pattern.  What I practiced on, reacted way different than what I walked into blindly last night.

Had I realized my aggressive ball was too much, I would have used my other ball: Which wasn't usable because my fingertips inserts are too tight and need to be swapped out. I had them done the week prior because they were too loose.  Of course, this was just as the pro shop guy is closing up and I felt rushed to say 'yeah that's right' and I should have made him keep tinkering.

Next week is the Shark, so I might use it for spares since it goes longer, on a long pattern.

Well.....I went into this league hoping to learn. I think I put a couple of nuggets in the ol' noggin. Hopefully that'll translate into more respectable scores from here on out.  I saw a lot of people struggling out there, so I don't feel like a complete idiot.