Developing a Split Strategy

Hi, welcome to the national Bowling Academy. My name is Dan Triske. I'm a USB-C certified silver coach. I'm here with gold coach Richard Shockley with Bowlersmart. He's head of bowling and development with the Bowlersmart company. Today we're going to discuss, unfortunately, something none of us want to deal with, but it's the splits. And dealing with splits coach, it never seems to come at a good time. Never And there's never a good time to leave a split, but over the course of a tournament or course of league on a league night, what's the one thing, the main thing that we really want to do, if we do leave a split. It's a count Maximize our pin count. Maximize our pins. We really want to get out there, you guys. And it's happened to all of us many times. Where we've been bowling, you're on a double and all of a sudden you know what, you leave a Greek church. And there's a little bit of frustration. So now you want to go for it. So now we're thinking more about our game and not necessarily my team. So now if we go in there, coach and I go for it and I knocked down one pin on a double that equates to two. Two, right. As opposed to hitting three pins Right. Which now is boarding difference in score. And you're losing count. We're going to lose count. And this is where we need to go back and think about the team aspect of this and over the course of the end of the game or total pins at the end of a league night. Cause there's been a lot of times that we've lost by one or two pins By one pin and now you kind of reflect back and go, geez, you know what. Had I only just gone for the pin count and not for the spare. Mhm, mhm. So this is where and we get into like say a tournament situation coach. Even more so. So we, we get into where you're doing a 9 game qualifier. 10, 12, junior gold where you're bowling 16 games over four days. And all of a sudden we end up missing, you know you got the Greek church or the big four and instead of getting three pins or two pins on the big four And you add all those up for all of those games, it's a lot of pins. You know, now you're talking 40, 50, 60, even more. When we're talking about this, we want to make sure that we're going to maximize any chance we get. To maximize our pin counts. All the time. And you know, when you're in match play and you've made it through the cut and maybe you're on the show. What do you want to do then? I gotta beat you, so I gotta go for it. And that, that is the one exception to the rule. Right. Because at that point we're going for titles, or we're going to advance. We wanna advance onto the next match. So at that point, yes. That's when we're going to want to turn around to coach and say, all right, we're going for it. Whether it's a big four, 7/10, Greek church Throw it hard if it's the 7/10. Hopefully something bounces out, but probably not. And, and you know what, and again I want to reiterate that this is a lot of times you have to think about it from a team aspect. Whether it's high school bowling, college bowling, your league night bowling. You know, this is where we get into it. Your, your bowling a tournament. You know, and you're in a team event tournament can make the difference of you cashing and making money or getting nothing. Seen it a lot, seen a lot on the pro tour. So for taking out of this, and looking at the splits you guys, that you have. If you get 'em, really really think about maximizing your pin count, before you get frustrated and try to go for it.