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Rhino's Take - Emotions
Since we just finished the series on the mental game, I find it only fitting to touch on the topic of emotions. Emotions in my opinion act a lot like gravity does with any object. The higher you throw an object, the faster and harder it comes back to the ground. To relate this statement to bowling, let’s take a regular league bowler who just bowled their first 300 game. Anyone who has accomplished this amazing feat or has even come close knows this feeling. Your hea
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Nov 5th 2014
Rhino's Take - Mental Game part 3
In this last segment of the mental game, I want to discuss mental mindset. It is amazing how quickly our mindset can change in the game of bowling. Sometimes it is for the best, but most commonly it is extremely detrimental to our game. One of the most important things we have to be aware of as players is when this change occurs. Some days it happens when you see your competition, while others it happens in the middle of competition when things aren’t really going our way
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Aug 13th 2014
Rhino's Take - Mental Game part 2
Throughout my life, the mental game particularly as it relates to my temper has been something I have struggled greatly with. I remember as a kid throwing many temper tantrums that ultimately led to my parents either having to pull me out of the tournament or even worse, not allow me to bowl for many weeks or months at a time. Despite going through these tough lessons, I continued to struggle for many years with my temper. One day as I was working with one of my students, I real
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Jun 12th 2014
Rhino's Take - Mental Game part 1
These last few years have brought a lot of change in my life as well as other PBA players. Changes in formats, amount of tournaments and so forth have forced most players to have other sources of revenue during these tough times. Of course there are many tournaments to compete in overseas, but with the formats, prize structures, and the rising airline costs, it has made things very difficult for players to go all in and rely on just their earnings to put food on the table.For myself, when I am n
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Apr 2nd 2014
Rhino's Take - Ball Fitting
Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of Rhino’s Take. In this blog over the next year, I will comment on all of the new Storm and Roto Grip ball releases, as well as give you an insight on what is going on out on the PBA Tour as I go from stop to stop.In this addition however, I want to start by saying how grateful and proud I am to be a Buddies Pro Shop staff member. 2 ½ years ago, I met Chris Forry at the Ace Mitchell Turning Stone Trade Show, and I had no idea how much it would cha
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Feb 3rd 2014