Monday Night Practice - 665 Series

It feels good to get back into my normal practice schedule. It was an added bonus that bowling was on special tonight for 2 dollars a game :).
I got my number one comp Aric to come practice with me tonight. I always get nervous when I bowl against Aric. Check out the picture and I will explain what happened.
The 221 is my average for the 3 games, below that are the actual scores and below that is the total pinfall for the 3 games. The 9.3 is my first ball average and the 29.05 is the average number of seconds it takes me to bowl a frame.
First Game - 234
Didnt get a warm up game today, so i just tried my normal line for friday night. It came in light and left a split. Oh well, it was the first ball. I made a 3 board foot adjustment to the right, and struck to the 7th frame. So my left foot was 2 baords right of the far left dot, and i was throwing 13 to about 5. i had noticed on strike 5 that my ball was coming in light. I moved and the result was a 10 pin. picked it up and then in frame 8 left another 10 pin. this time i missed it. moved back to my original line and struck out. why i moved when i was carrying is beyond me.
Second Game - 213
Had three opens in the first 3 frames of this game. 2 of the opens were because i was throwing my spare ball at the spares which I'm not 100% comfortable with. For some reason i had migrated my shot to the outside, playing about 10 to 5. Finally moved myself back over and somehow saved the game.
Third Game - 218
I had a Dutch 200 going until the 6th frame when i finally got a double. I had another stupid open in the 8th frame but ended up striking out for the 218.
Under the header "Total" in the picture, the 5 is the number of open frames. 5. yes 5. As I mentioned, I am still learning to throw the spare ball at every spare, but that is just unacceptable. the 7 is the number of spares. the 22 is the number of strikes, the 3 is the number of splits and the 1 is the number of splits that were converted. Not completely horrible, but not all that great either. I would like to see an average of 8 strikes a game, so only 2 more total. I guess i cant complain about that.
The good ol league pattern saved my ball from going in the gutter a couple times. Its just amazing to me that the league pattern is that forgiving. I almost feel like i am cheating. I was doing my "mental clearing" thing that i was doing on friday. i really think it helps me. I threw the Virtual Gravity all night.
Aric had a 594. This was his first time trying to shoot at every spare with a plastic ball. He did pretty good for his first time.
Michael did really well, he had 588. Why he cant do that in league remains a mystery. He seems to get freaked out if he gets more than 4 strikes in a row. :)

Elena is getting much better. She had a 120, 122, and 130. She even had 2 strikes in the tenth frame of one game.