保齡球問答(三) - 保齡球

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Q. I have been working on my game and have my average up to 190 but I can't
seem to get a mark in the 10th frame when my team is in a tight game. I am a
bit of a perfectionist and this problem is making me nuts. Any suggestions
would help?

Q.
我一直都很用心打球，也把平均分提高到190了，但是當我們球隊的比賽到
了緊要關頭的時候，我往往無法守住我的第十格。我有一點完美主義，這個問題
深深困擾著我，可以給我些好的建議嗎?

A. I believe you have answered your own question. You say you are a
perfectionist that is your biggest problem in a tight situation. When the
pressure is on you need to be loose, relaxed have a nice free swing. With a
perfectionist frame of mind you will most of the time pull or point the ball.
Your mind is telling you throw it perfect. Adjust your thinking to I will
just make the best shot I can. Instead of trying to hit an exact mark try
adding 2 couple of boards to each side of your mark. Look at that target as a
tunnel and throw the ball through the tunnel. Five boards are way easier to
hit than one. You can even do that with most spares. This just builds in a
little margin for error and takes your mind off being perfect.

A.
我相信你自己已經回答你的問題了! 你說你是一個完美主義者，也就是說
你最大的問題在於營造自己一個壓力的環境，面臨壓力時，你必需放鬆自己，
作出自然的擺盪，心理老想著: 這一格一定要打得完美，只會常造成你手勢上
的失誤。別一直告訴自己: 我這一球一定要打得完美無缺! 而是要把它轉換成:
這一球只要盡力打好就可以了。 設定目標時以通過隧道的方式來取代精精確確
的某一點，在你目標點的二側各加上二塊板，把它們整體看成是一座隧道，然
後將球送往隧道中使其通過。 瞄準5塊板比1塊板要來得容易得多，甚至在多數
解Spare的場合也可以引用這種觀念，這麼做可以稍稍地給自己建立一個誤差的
範圍，也緩和了你心理的完美想法。


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Q. My game has been great all season long till now. I don't know what has
happened but all of a sudden I can't buy a strike and I can't spare either. I
feel like my timing is all right. What do you supposed has happened?

Q.
到目前為止我整個球季的成績都非常好，也不知道為什麼，我突然打不出
全倒來了，Spare也不會解了! 我覺得我的timing也都沒有跑掉呀! 可以告訴我
問題出在哪裡嗎?


A. Sounds like a mid season slump combined with the holiday blues all mixed
in with a lack of confidence. This time of year we have many things going on
most of which are more important than bowling. It is also about halfway
through a long season. It is easy to lose focus and even though you think
your interest is there it may not be. Before you go bowling again try a
change in your mental game. Slumps are caused most of the time by a loss of
confidence not so much by a new bad habit. Use mental visualization more than
usual see yourself making the perfect approach, throwing the perfect ball and
getting the carry you deserve. Remember, you haven't forgotten how to bowl.
Relax and just let your natural game come back to you. It will and a few good
shots will turn your game around just as quick as it went away.

A.
聽起來你好像是球季中的低潮與假日症候群再加上信心的缺乏所導致的
，這一年來，每個人週遭所發生的事情當中有很多是比打保齡球更重要的，
在一個長時間的賽季當中，很容易因為其他的事情把打球的焦點給移開了，
即使你一直以為你還是把興趣及心思放在保齡球上，但是事實可能不全然是
如此! 在你下一次打球以前，試著把心理狀態改變一下。低潮的產生，自信
心的喪失遠多於新的壞習慣(心理層面遠多於技術面)。多專注於心寧的洞察
力，把助走到出球的每個環節作好，使球達到應有的擊瓶效果。請記住! 你
根本就沒有忘記怎麼打球，放鬆自己，你以前怎麼打，現在就怎麼打，擲出
幾個好球以後，很快地你就可以找回失去的球感了!


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Q. I watched a recent PBA finals on television and some of the scores these
pro's shot were not any better than I see in the scratch leagues in my home
house. It seems as though any scratch bowler could be a pro. Am I missing
something?

Q.
看了最近的一場PBA電視決賽，當中有些職業球員的分數都還比不上我
們球館的"站館"球員，看起來隨便一個球館的狠角色好像都可以去打職業球
壇打天下了!這種想法有什麼不周全的地方嗎?

A. We just had the pro tour stop at the lanes I bowl in Lava Lanes in
Medford, or. I got the opportunity to bowl with them in a special pro am
event that is held at Lava. We get the same condition to bowl on as they
shoot on all week. Let me tell you the shot that was put up on the lanes at
this tournament was extremely difficult 43 feet of oil. The outside boards
were flooded. This gave you about 2 boards of area and speed wascritical.
All of the amateurs the struggled, we were lucky to hit the pocket
twice in a row and spares weren't easy. But the pro's bowling with us made
this look like our regular league shot. Trust me the pro's on the exempt tour
are world class they do things with a bowling ball the rest of us can only
dream about. We have bowlers in our scratch league that average 220+ the
pro's were averaging 220+ on what I would call a nearly impossible shot. This
is what you can't see on TV the actual playing condition. The best league
bowler would be fortunate to average 190 they truly are the best of the best.

A.

我們剛打完在Lava Lanes球館舉辦的 Medford分站比賽，整個禮拜我
都和這些職業選手在同樣的球道狀況下競技。我來告訴你，那種把油上到
43呎的賽道真的是有夠難打，靠外側的那幾塊板子整片都油膩膩的，只有
二塊板寬的區域可以打，還有球速還要非常固定才可以! 所有的業餘球員
都打得很辛苦，好不容易才可以幸運的連續打到二個1,3，Spare也不是那
麼好解。可是那些職業球員就好像我們在打平常球館的歡樂道一樣。我沒
騙你，那些擁有PBA保送賽資格的世界級高手在球道上的表現，你我可能只
在夢中才能達成。我們聯盟的球隊比賽時也常有球員的平均分數在220分以
上，但是那些職業選手則是在我認為幾乎沒有辦法打的球道上，還可以創
造平均220分以上的成績! 那種球道的困難度不是我們在電視轉播上所能看
到的，業餘聯盟中最好的球員如果運氣不錯的話勉強可以打到190的平均分
，那些職業球員才真的是菁英中的菁英。


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Q. In our league last league session a member of the opposing team rolled
his first shot. The ball went into the gutter but a spectator had noticed
that there was a pin missing from the rack. The eight pin was not there. The
bowler was allowed to take another shot. The ball was thrown into the gutter
no pins were hit therefore nothing was affected buy the missing pin. That
does not seem to me to be the correct ruling. Please what is the rule?

Q.
上一季的聯盟比賽時，一位友隊的球員擲出了一球洗溝球，但有人注
意到置瓶區少了一枝8號瓶，於是這位球員就被允許重打一球。問題是球掉
進球溝在先，不管置瓶區中有沒有少瓶子應該都不會影響這一球的結果，
在我看來這種判決好像不是很正確，請問相關的規定為何?

A. Common sense would tell you that if a pin was missing from the rack
the delivery would not count. The reasoning behind this is that had the
bowler gotten a strike and the missing pin was noticed you would have
declared a dead ball and made the bowler do the frame over. The result
of the shot does not matter it is a dead ball. Just to make sure of
my reasoning I went to the USBC rules online and under Dead Ball: Rule 8
states,a ball shall be dead if any of the following occur: After a delivery,
attention is immediately called to the fact that one or more pins were
missing. That is the first listed rule there are more but this one settles
the question.

Q.
如果置瓶區中少了任何一枝球瓶，那麼該球的分數不算，這是大家都有
的共識。這個判例的理由是球員打出全倒後若其中少了一枝球瓶那麼這個全
倒就不可以計算，該球則必須重打。為了確認這個說法，我特別把USBC的有
關無效球的規定找出來: 規則8提到，以下的任一情形發生時得判定該球為無
效球: 球擲出後發現置瓶區的球瓶少擺了，這只是該條規則的第一款。但我
想它已經回答了你的問題了。

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