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Practicing – Does it really help?

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:26:13 +0000

Does practice really do as much ‘good’ as everyone says it does?

Last weekend I bowled in Australia’s biggest event. I ended up coming 3rd but over all I felt like for 90% of the event I was in horrible form.
I had picked up a ball twice in 6 weeks before bowling that event. Thinking talent was enough to win. It wasn’t.

It got me thinking, how important is practice. I began to look back at the practice I have done in the past and the form I was in during that practice period.
Every event I had won or every event I felt like I was bowling great in, I was doing some kind of practice prior to those events. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Now its nothing new – practice makes perfect – but sometimes we forget that form is a funny thing that can go away very easily.
When we are in form, we think it will last forever and sometimes we forget the hard work it took to put you in that form. Its a weird feeling, one moment you feel unbeatable, the next you like your brain has turned off the bowling light inside.
Lucky for me, I’m a harder worker and im no quitter.
Since that event I have been practicing everyday, working on the little things that have made me feel like im ‘out of form’.
Going back to basics is the key for me. On top of all this im playing a bunch more sport, like squash, tennis, walking the golf course and touch football to help strengthen my physical fitness.

Another reason or incentive to get back to where i want to be (form related) is because soon i have to bowl back on tour. If I bowl like I did in the event last weekend, I will get run over by 50 other guys…. Then they would probably put the reverse lights on and run over me again just for fun haha.
That is something I WILL NOT LET HAPPEN!

So this got me thinking – how do you practice? What do you do when your out of form and want to get it back?
Leave a comment and maybe your ‘ideas’ may help a fellow reader….

be good

Staying put for a while!

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:52:36 +0000

Right now I should be in the USA, New Orleans to be exact bowling with Chris Paul and other American celebrities. But due to a ankle injury in Chris Paul’s last NBA game, we have had to postpone the event for a 2nd time.
This is very frustrating, especially when booking travel from Australia to go over there. But it’s no ones fault and I have to be a big boy now and take it on the chin.
Good news though is I get to stay home and be with my wonderful 8 month pregnant wife. Not long now till I’m a daddy, so the window for me to be immature is closing by the day haha…….but the reward of maturity is AMAZING. A little bub to look after and a new step taken in my life.
I really cant wait to be a dad.
Also I have already decided – Kimberly will be the disciplinarian and I’ll be the fun parent (Kimberly has yet to be told this news haha)
So if your in the Orange. NSW, Australia area over the next 8 weeks…. come say Hi at the Orange Tenpin Bowl. Ill be the one bowling with 2 hands

Be good

What do you think?

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:28:52 +0000

Hey hey everyone.

In my previous post I have listed what’s new to the site and some new things that are coming.

This post though is all for you – Reply below to what you want to see, what you don’t like and what you do like.

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Looking forward to reading what you guys think

Jason Belmonte

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