The BTM Bowling Night Blog
Featuring weekly bowling league analysis by Tyrel Rose
Last Updated: April 26, 2023
Welcome to The BTM Bowling Night Blog! Follow along each week as Coach Tyrel Rose provides insights and analysis of each week of his 2022-2023 league season. A new post will be added on either Tuesday or Wednesday of each week.
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Week 30: It All Comes Down To This
By Tyrel Rose
For the first time in about 10 years, my team was competing for the league championship on the final night of the year. My faith in my team last week paid, as they put in a solid enough performance without...
Week 29: A Much-Needed Week Off
By Tyrel Rose
I didn't bowl this week. Usually, there's no blog when this happens, so why am I writing this? Because usually, my weeks off are because of sickness, family obligations, or as part of my team's scheduled rotation. We're a five-man...
Week 28: Well, That Was a Grind
By Tyrel Rose
A lot has happened off the lanes since my last week of league bowling. With a stressful week behind me, I was hoping for a good night of bowling, but things don't always go exactly to plan. As usual, there...
Week 27: Keep Your Eyes Open
By Tyrel Rose
Walking into the bowling center this week, I wasn't sure what to expect. I saw that we were bowling the team that creates a very unique situation in our league, thanks to their roster. With two lefties and a straight...
Week 26: And Down the Stretch They Come…
By Tyrel Rose
This week's blog will take on a bit of a different focus. With about a month left in the season and my team in a dogfight for the league championship, I want to spend a bit more time on some...
Week 25: What Not to Do
By Tyrel Rose
I knew what the title of this blog would be before I even bowled this week. I did several things that I, as a coach, don't recommend this late in the season or close to a major tournament: I made...
Week 24: And Suddenly…a Different Pair
By Tyrel Rose
To say this week's league session was interesting would be an understatement. We had a rough start, a lane breakdown that forced us to change pairs, a great game, another brief delay, and a mediocre game that included a missed...
Week 24: Sometimes You Need to Flip Things Around
By Tyrel Rose
As practice started, I was looking forward to a fun night. We were bowling on the same pair where I'd shot 800 a few weeks earlier, and we were bowling against a team that I truly enjoy bowling with. Getting...
Week 22: Poof, It Was Gone!
By Tyrel Rose
Last night was not my best score in the last little while, but I left feeling very good about things. From last week's experience, I thought that I might need some loft again, but we were also bowling on lanes...
Week 21: Where Did I Put That Tool?
By Tyrel Rose
It's always interesting coming back to league after a big night of bowling the previous time out. I wanted to adopt the same kind of attitude and mindset going in, without setting myself up with an expectation of the same...
Week 20: Well, That Just Happened!
By Tyrel Rose
Walking into the lanes last night, I had no idea what was in store for me. I did know that I was confident in my mindset as far as having zero expectations. This week of league bowling actually started on...
Week 17: Focusing on the Right (and Wrong) Things
By Tyrel Rose
After missing last week due to illness, I was looking forward to being back out on the lanes this week. After a rough week struggling with both my release and launch angles two weeks ago, I also went in with...
Week 15: Finding the Positive
By Tyrel Rose
I walked away from bowling this week very disappointed, but I woke up the next day with a better understanding of why I hadn't bowled up to my expectations. Let's set things up, shall we? It was our first night...
First Half Wrap-Up
By Tyrel Rose
With no bowling for a couple of weeks and the new year around the corner, it's a good time to look back at how things have gone over the first half of the 2022-2023 season. Starting this blog has proven...
Week 14: Turning the Night Around
By Tyrel Rose
This week started with the two worst games of bowling that I've put together this year. Score-wise, they might not have been my two lowest scores, but as far as execution and the mental game are concerned, it was a rough...
Week 13: I Love This Game
By Tyrel Rose
For those reading the title of this blog and assuming I had some kind of monster night or personal best, I did not. Not even close. What I did have was a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the grind of a...
Week 12: Stuck in the Middle
By Tyrel Rose
I had a pretty specific goal for bowling last night. We were facing the team that had just beaten us the week before, to take over first place in the league. This is the same team that beat us pretty...
Week 10: What Just Happened?
By Tyrel Rose
Everything was going along just fine until the third game. Back in the day, this was the kind of night when I would have bought a game or two of lineage after the league finished, just to figure out the...
Week 9: A Tale of Two Hand Positions
By Tyrel Rose
After a week off to go trick-or-treating with my family, it was back to the lanes for my Monday night league. Walking in to find I was bowling on lanes 55 and 56, I thought back to week 4 of...
Week 7: When Luck Meets Opportunity
By Tyrel Rose
It's not overstating things to say that last night's bowling could have been very different from how it turned out. Nor is it false humility to say that I had more than my fair share of good luck last night....
Week 6: Learning From My Mistakes
By Tyrel Rose
No, the title of the blog is not a typo. It's the sixth week of the league, but only the fifth blog post. This is because I don't bowl every week as part of a five-man rotation in a four-man...
Week 4: Topography Always Wins
By Tyrel Rose
Let's set things up by once again discussing my pair. Last night, we bowled on the hardest pair in the league last year: lanes 55 and 56. I should qualify that by saying that it was hard for some players,...
Week 3: M for Mediocre
By Tyrel Rose
I didn't want to bowl last night. It's a feeling that I'm sure most bowlers will share once in a while during the league season. In my case, it was because of a sick wife and kid at home that...
Week 2: The Urethane Problem…
By Tyrel Rose
Walking into the bowling center last night, I knew things were going to be interesting. First, we were bowling against a new team in the league that featured two two-handers. My area doesn't have very many bowlers using this style,...
Week 1: And Away We Go…
By Tyrel Rose
Welcome everyone, to my new blog. My goal with these weekly entries is to provide insight and advice based on my own experiences as a bowler. As both a high-level coach and a formerly high-level bowler, I can say without...