bowling
Mrs. Kuhl-Essay Matt Clemons
Period 1 10-4-12
Bowling is a mentally challenging sport. When it comes down to the ninth and tenth frame everything has to be cleared from the mind and focus on winning the game. Often times I’m at the bowling alley practicing on my physical and mental parts of the game. Over the years since I was 7 years old, I have progressed and now I’m competing throughout the state. In order to be the best of the best, there could be some problems getting there, the bowling alley itself, and the behavior of all the excited yet out of control teams that are dedicated to take the state title. First of all, getting to the bowling alley could cause problems. Leaving my bowling equipment at home isn’t an attractive idea on a snowy blizzard day. Even if the weather cooperates, there is still a thirty-five minute drive to the bowling alley down on a congested highway, followed by the hassle of looking for an open parking space when there are only 100 parking spaces but there are about 200 more people that come to watch the chaos out on the lanes. Then there are lines waiting to get to the other side of the bowling alley to find seats for the family to sit and enjoy the ruckus. Once I’ve made it to my assigned lanes and have gotten all situated, the worker there tells me that the lanes are being repaired and everybody has to move to lanes 1 and 2 from my assigned pair which was 47 and 48. If it’s an old musty smell seldom environment with quite a bit of dust getting on my shoes then I’ll have to get used to it. Even half the approaches are busted with pieces of wood peeling away from the surface. By the end of the competition dust has been compacted in everybody else’s shoes as well as mine. It was as if dust was falling from the sky. Some of the people there have an even more of a problem than the bowling alley does itself. Little kids race up and down the aisles, usually in giggling packs. Teenagers try to impress their
Period 1 10-4-12
Bowling is a mentally challenging sport. When it comes down to the ninth and tenth frame everything has to be cleared from the mind and focus on winning the game. Often times I’m at the bowling alley practicing on my physical and mental parts of the game. Over the years since I was 7 years old, I have progressed and now I’m competing throughout the state. In order to be the best of the best, there could be some problems getting there, the bowling alley itself, and the behavior of all the excited yet out of control teams that are dedicated to take the state title. First of all, getting to the bowling alley could cause problems. Leaving my bowling equipment at home isn’t an attractive idea on a snowy blizzard day. Even if the weather cooperates, there is still a thirty-five minute drive to the bowling alley down on a congested highway, followed by the hassle of looking for an open parking space when there are only 100 parking spaces but there are about 200 more people that come to watch the chaos out on the lanes. Then there are lines waiting to get to the other side of the bowling alley to find seats for the family to sit and enjoy the ruckus. Once I’ve made it to my assigned lanes and have gotten all situated, the worker there tells me that the lanes are being repaired and everybody has to move to lanes 1 and 2 from my assigned pair which was 47 and 48. If it’s an old musty smell seldom environment with quite a bit of dust getting on my shoes then I’ll have to get used to it. Even half the approaches are busted with pieces of wood peeling away from the surface. By the end of the competition dust has been compacted in everybody else’s shoes as well as mine. It was as if dust was falling from the sky. Some of the people there have an even more of a problem than the bowling alley does itself. Little kids race up and down the aisles, usually in giggling packs. Teenagers try to impress their