After the team event did not go so good I tried to come in with a different mindset. I watched the team event prior to my doubles singles event to see what type of bowlers were on the lanes ahead of us and how they were playing the shot to see if I need to make a strategy change. Being left handed I shouldn’t see much difference from the team event to the doubles/singles portion. I watched the pair to find that there were three left hand bowlers on the pair ahead of me, and not one of them was playing the same. I was thinking, oh great this should be fun. I had a left hander throwing the ball straight up second arrow with no revs, one that played between 3-4^th arrow, and a two handed delivery lefty playing between the second and third arrow. Can you just imagine what the conditions will be when I get there? I checked into the locker room, waited my turn to go out, and headed out to the lanes. Just as I expected, anything outside of the 7 board was completely out of bounds, and between the 2^nd and 3^rd arrow was hooking in the heads. I saw my ball reaction and was not happy. I went through all the equipment I had to try and figure something out. After I did, I couldn’t carry. I had two times in games 1 and 2 that I was on a double and left an 8 pin, a 7 pin, not to mention the 7 pins that I left throughout all the games. I was burned. I couldn’t wait to move to my singles pair. When I moved to the singles pair, I moved left with the ball I started with in team event. I threw two bad shots at the start but finished strong with a 212. More...

The first day of competition was fun and challenging. Our team got together to have an early dinner before last night's team event. We had a great dinner at Fuzio in the Sands Casino, and just before we headed to the National Bowling Stadium, we got together to have a quick team meeting. We ran over what we are here to do and what the game plan is. We discussed communicate and staying focused at the task at hand. We got through our March out to the lanes, which still stirs up a little butterflies in my stomach every time I do that. We got to our lanes, got set up and waited for the practice to start. The first game was a little rough for my teammates. We had too many open frames and splits and ended up with an 895. I had one open in the first game with a 178.  More...

We are on our way to Reno. Boarding the flight was good. Little slow, but we had a full flight. You know Delta now offers WI Fi. Sweet!!! Well you have to love the tight cramped seats, but they are leather so that’s a plus. I left Detroit about 10 minutes behind schedule, but I’m sure we will make it up in the air. I am on my way to great Salt Lake City Utah. Have about a 40 minutes lay over before I board the flight to Reno. I will continue blogging when I get to Reno. I should be the last to arrive into Reno. The rest of my teammates have already arrived between Wed and Saturday. I should be the last one in. I will be getting all of us together to get a nice dinner as a team, talk about how we are feeling and what the plans are for tomorrow. Well that’s enough for now, I’m gonna keep listening to my Disturbed CD and Chat with everyone later. Thanks, I look forward to all your comments.  More...

The time has come. I have been writing about it for the last month and a half and it is finally here! I leave for the 2010 USBC Open Championships Saturday! I have put a lot of time in practice since the middle of February at Bowling IQ Training Center on the pattern. My team mates and I have held practice sessions there every week since February. Are we going to take over the team lead? I wouldn’t hold your breath on that. You can be as prepared as you want it still comes down to execution. We have the Game Plan. We have the equipment. We have the notes that I keep on when and what moves should be made. We have all the knowledge we have gained during the training sessions, but that doesn’t help you execute. I do feel more confident in my teammates this year then in prior years, simply because we really worked together in practice. I have 9 guys who I would be proud to bowl with every year because they have shown the commitment it takes to work as a team.  With all the training and preparation we have done, I will keep all of you aware of what we are doing. I will be blogging from Reno this year. I will be packing up the laptop to give you all the reports as to how I see the lanes, how we bowled, what our scores were. I will be excited to share with you exactly how well we were able to replicate the lane conditions at Bowling IQ that we experienced in the stadium. All I can really say is that as of right now, I want to get on the lanes and knock some pins down. I wrote in the past about how I get excited every year for the USBC Open Championships, but this year is special. We as a whole group of guys have never put this much time and practice into an Open Championship as we have done this year. I am very proud of the commitment my team mates have shown me and I wish us all the luck that we can get. So I will make this short and sweet this week, since I have a lot of small things to finish up before I get on the plane Saturday. If anyone is interested we will be bowling Team Event Sunday Night at 8:30 P.M. PST on lanes 15-16. I will start my blog after team event and get it posted as soon as I can. I look forward to all your comments and questions, during this event. I hope everyone has a great weekend and log on to the site to check the progress during my bowling. Don’t forget to check out our face book page along with Bowling IQ’s face book page. I will post the blog on Face book in both Bowling IQ and GLC Bowling.

T.J. Yeip is the Manager of GLC Bowling and the Lead Technical Advisor. He is an IBPSIA Advanced Certified Member and former PBA member. He is a USBC Certified Bronze Level coach.  You can email your questions to him personally at thomas.yeip@glcbowling.com

“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”  ~Saint Augustine

Week in and week out I help readers out with their bowling game. I provide tips and articles for you to improve your game. These are minor changes in your bowling game to help you become a more effective efficient bowler. So with change, come a learning period, a transformation, and finally retention. So why do I see so many people who have either gotten a few tips, or a full blown lesson, to help improve there game go back and do all the things that they were doing before? The only answer I have for that is bowlers are afraid of change. More...