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