HOW TO COMMIT to EXCELLENCE IS IN MY HOW TO BOOK!

     My "HOW TO" book is a mental game curriculum to reprogram your brain's thinking on a fast-track approach for better performance in any sport by using the mental game's "Fun"da-"Mental"s. To excel at any sport, both mental and physical games MUST be practiced. Most world class champions have a great mental game and why should anyone be left out in the cold. It doesn't have to be that way! Give me 31 days to transform your game to have more fun, while seeing more positive results. Your brain is hesitant to accept change and with some work, you still have time to achieve some goals you've set for yourself. Your level of experience and embracing challenges should help you climb faster. Staying in your comfort zone can hold you back and paralyze your game. It's your turn to do a few great things like I have done.

      If you have a possitive attitude, challenge yourself, develop a routine and remain focused for what's ahead, you could reduce pressure while increasing your confidence during those "life or death" situations. Accept setbacks as learning experiences to be more knowledgeable in future situations, because I know that losing sucks and winning is lots more enjoyable. If you prefer to win and cash more consistently, my HOW TO book will take you on a path to better performances.

     My HOW TO book was written to help all athletes like you, to have more fun enjoying their sport. I know I've enjoyed the competition much more because of having a great mental game. If I can do it, I feel like anyoone else can do it, if physical able to! A half hour each day for a month is a small price to pay for huge dividends after you finish my HOW TO book. Don't let competitors think you're an easy target. My HOW TO book tells you short cuts to avoid some situations. I also give you over 50 tips for your transformation to having a good mental game. My knowledge in competing over 60 years in bowling and golf, while winning Championships and Leagues, is something I want other athletes to realize that they could do the same! Don't start with I just started competiting, all athletes regardless of the sport, needs to have a good mental game! After having a good mental game, read my Success book, so you can master your GREAT MENTAL GAME!

SEEB YOU IN THE ZONE!!  -Mr.Stats

       Christine Wald-Hopkins reviewed my HOW TO book in the Arizona Daily Star. Excellence doesn't happen by mistake. It happens from your experiences and how you handle the results and learn from them. World class athletes are always trying to improve, but until you can get to the zone on a consistant basis, you'll have a harder time getting great results. "Excellence depends on mental discipline." This is the link to my review: https://tucson.com/entertainment/books/southern-arizona-authors-pen-memoirs-guides-to-excellence-survival-tactics/article_1b14ae30-209d-11ec-b0ef-1fd83d2df67d.html

     Discipline is a regiment that all GOATs go through. Even though you may not be the GOAT, is having a great performance on your bucket list? The more you visit the Zone, the better chance you'll have to create a masterpiece. The price of my book is less than an actual lesson and what you learn will last a lifetime.

      The video on the right is from March 6, 2021. Bob O. took the video of my last shot shooting my 13th sanctioned 300 game. Austin O. had to resend so I could put it on my HOW TO website. You'll notice I get the job done stepping on the approach and delivering the ball just like the first shot of the game. JUST LIKE WHAT I DID IN PRACTICE!

      JUST 300 WAYS to get excited!!

SEE YOU IN THE ZONE!!  -Mr. Stats

•      It's weeks like the Desert Bowler newspaper clipping on the right back in 2017, shows that my commentment keeps me coming back. Nothing beats being in the Zone and doing something special that few thought would happen! Like throwing 23 strikes in a row! What can be better than repeating GREAT shots?

•      And thanks go out to the Phantom for helping promote my HOW TO book on Phantom Radio! These are the links to the two podcasts: Sept. 23, 2020 & 

                  Nov. 18, 2020. 

•      Owning the record on a sport shot in 2003, shooting an 800 series also in 2003 and winning one major Championship in 2014 shows that commentment will increase confidence and can fill a shelf to show off your hardware for your hard work. All achievements take work and you have to make the time to do the work. It's this work that leads to success and of course, my second book, From Excellence to Success. You'll see several photos and my other achievements on my HOW TO website.

•      I won't tell you it's always been easy, because it has been frustrating at times and a few times I thought about walking away from bowling. As long as I'm able to have fun while shooting some great scores every now and then, I'll be around.

•      On Feb. 24, 2020, I had a GREAT NIGHT and was able to throw 21 of 22 strikes starting with my 290 second game. 12 in a row, light hit then 9 in a row. It's been just over a year when I had this much fun!!! Being over 60 years old with my Commitment to Excellence, I can still keep up with the "kids". I was just having fun before the pandemic hit. Also see news clipping on the right from 2017.

• See you in the Zone!! -Mr. Stats

       Being inspired by GREAT athletes can help you go after your goals! When you finally 

Commit to Excellence, you should be able to start a list of the GREAT accomplishments you'll achieve in your career!

     One of the all-time greats, Norm Duke who was one of first two to win the Grand Slam, has given back to bowling by teaching others including me at various clinics. He is one reason I had success later in my career. His Commitment to Excellence got him in the Hall of Fame and why I feature him on my HOW TO website!

     There could be too much info on my About webpage, but you should find something to help your game in whatever sport you participate in. Have fun, learn, experience all you can, so you can show them you really are! 

See you in the Zone!

     I want to help YOU avoid how my 60 year sports career occured. It happened by hit and miss and some was trial and error. Now that I'm retired, I want to help athletes who want the help to enjoy competing and see better results earlier in their career, than I had in mine. There's nothing like showing others, WHO YOU ARE! It wasn't until the late 1980's, that athletes really knew about the mental game. I want to ELEVATE your GAME by teaching you the mental game's "Fun"da"MENTAL"s. HAVING A GREAT mental game is really the ONLY way to see GREAT results! What you'll learn is on a fast track of 31 days to a magical place called the Zone! One lesson each day to increase your knowledge and start using in your sport. You'll build a better mental game into a GREAT mental game! 

      My huge HOW TO website has many HOW TO articles on it for instant help. If I wasn't interested in helping other athletes improve, I would have a lot smaller website without the articles. I'm now retired and wanted to give back to sports which have given me some GREAT experiences, mostly in bowling. My HOW TO website is filled with many pictures to motivate athletes who want help. After reading my articles and you still feel like you should be seeing better results, then my HOW TO book may be the help you need! The articles I have online aren't in my book and basically supplement what you will learn from my book.

After being SUCCESSFUL later in my sports career, I know that many athletes could benefit from my knowledge of the mental game. 

      Most of my major accomplishments happened over decades! Finding out why the mental game was so important for getting consistent results, helped me achieve some GREAT THINGS over my bowling career. The sooner you work on getting a good mental game, can you start having a GREAT MENTAL GAME! You're almost never too old to improve if you put in a little work, it's just when do you want to start showing others that you can compete with them!

      After committing to Excellence in the late '80's, I have done things that only a few have ever done!

Keepng a logbook has helped me claim championships and having persistence also played a huge part in winning. It's about wanting to compete and have FUN doing it!

2014 Tucson Metro Senior Masters Champion - 244 average

2021 FIG Club Champion, golf (2nd time w/ 2018)

2003 Held TBA record sport pattern w/ 290 game & 12 bagger

1996 Held ABC record of 297 & 799 for 3 1/3 years before 300

1991 ABC Award of Merit (Germany - U.S. Army)

1990 PZBA Bowler of the Year (Germany - U.S. Army)

1994 Shot high series of 799 for 93-94 season at Tucson Bowl

1976 TBA City tournament - Doubles Champion

1996 Challenge tournament Champion - 12 gamer

1980 Sportsman tournament Champion (899 for 4 games)

1996 Green Valley Lanes Star of the Month

1989 Intramural High Average (202.6 Alabama - U.S. Army)

2017 Threw 23 strikes in a row (Summer at Golden Pin Lanes)

2015 Threw 22 strikes in a row, 280 & 300 (Camino Seco)

2006 Threw 17 strikes in a row (Show Low)

2022 Threw 12 strikes in a row & 9 in a row for 21 of 22 at 67

     The reason why I wrote my book is to help any athlete that’s wants to upgrade their game. When I was six years old, I had two of my fingertips cut of in an accident which ended my baseball pitching career. I then tried golf and bowling. I had way more fun bowling. My average kept getting higher because I was consistent at hitting my target. At the end of junior leagues, I was averaging around 173. I would cash in three of the four events in most every city tournament until I averaged 189. I finally took a few lessons and it helped me to average 200. It seemed like I was stuck there because no one ever talked about the mental game. There were few books on it, and having a positive attitude only took me so far. I went to the bookstore and got a few books on the mental game.

     After getting help for my mental game from these books, I was now averaging over 210. I never had more fun at bowling than I do now. Being over 210 helped me win more money in pot games as well as my team getting into the playoffs. Who would have thought that a book on tennis, would be a big help for bowling? As I continued to become better because of my mental game, the book stores started to stock mental game books.  I now have over 200 books for various sports, books on the mental game, motivational books and inspirational books. I’d read only the chapters that would help my game. You can check out my library here. 

      Right after I retired, I realized that I had much of the book on my computer. While I was a secretary for the Traveling Masters league 20 years ago, I wrote a Mental Momentums section in the weekly newsletter. You can see one of the newsletters here. It had a quote, and I would add a few things to help bowlers think about the subject, to help their game. I had several come to me to say they liked the section and that it’s helping their game. Since I never had a great physical game, I now know that the mental game impacts why some athletes become winners and then become champions. Once I got the league online with its own website, I wrote a several articles on factors about the mental game which are on this website.

     The last few seasons, I’ve seen bowlers and golfers self-destruct because of their mental game. As I began my book, I was thinking about all the mental game books I read. I wanted something that was different, where athletes who just wanted to have more fun and improve their scores, could do so. I wanted a book that any athlete could relate to me being another pretty good athlete. Most mental game books are written by a PhD and jumped from subject to subject. I made a list of factors years ago and have 345 in my book. I have never seen any book cover as many factors that are in my book. Obviously, not all factors will influence a match, but athletes should be aware of them. Only a few books are workbooks in trying to help you. Some books don’t use actual experiences to help your game. I also never have seen any book that takes you on a step-by-step approach to improve your mental game, using actual experiences and tips to gain more knowledge.

      Planning, practice and keeping a logbook are just the start to improving. Dedication, Motivation and setting goals keep you on track. Pre-shot routine, post-shot evaluations and visualization must happen every time to be consistent. Achieving goals, challenges, experience and persistence will help your success. I just quickly went through ways to step up your game. My book gives you 31 days to work on your game to climb to a higher level while learning how to get to the zone. Athletes learn more from practice, watching and reading. Actual competition is where athletes learn adjusting techniques based on their sport and realize how important the mental game is. I give actual competition experience from bowling and golf, which can help other athletes in any sport.

     Knowledge is power and is what separates champions from other athletes. Knowing what to try and when to try it, comes from experience. They are very few shortcuts for experience. My book can help you with a few shortcuts along the way. The one main factor that needs to happen from here on, is having fun, not quitting, putting mistakes behind you and keeping your head screwed on. Those athletes that love their sport, put in the work and show it while competing, are the ones getting into Hall of Fames. 

     I just felt it was time for a non-professional with championships in two different sports, to share knowledge and experience using the mental game. The mental game involves focusing on what you can control and for the shot or play that’s in front of you. Over thinking or over analyzing can get you into trouble. Trial and error is best for practice, but sometimes needs to be done in a match. Most athletes should be able to get to the zone before 31 days. Practice along with consistency is needed to be able to travel there. Practice helps with repeating great shots while consistency is focusing on hitting your attended target. You’ll have to put in some work to get to the zone. Developing a solid pre-shot routine that is dependable must happen to get zoned in. I hope you’ll enjoy reading my book and learning several things. Scoring better makes it more fun. Achieving success will make it real. Being in the zone, makes it real fun. See you in the zone.

     NOTE: My accident before I started bowling limited my scoring abilities early in my career. Add the fact that there wasn’t huge prize funds on the PBA tour, I really had no desire to turn pro. Even though I wasn’t interested in turning pro, I tested the waters in a few regionals. My book isn’t about getting athletes to turn pro, it’s about mental toughness and being able to compete at higher levels. Once you climb a level, you can decide if you want to be a professional. I understand that not everyone will want to be a pro for various reasons. But competing at a higher level and having fun is what my book is about. It’s also that in some sports, the better you are, there’s more opportunities to win money. If winning money and having fun isn’t you, maybe you should have stayed up there in Mars. In my book I have 58 actual situations which may help you on the journey to the zone. I’ve also included ten individuals that helped me win championships in both bowling and golf. These moments are highlighted from cover to cover in my book. 

Alan "Mr. Stats" Brizee, and now Mr. HOW TO, has shown why his Commitment to Excellence is second to none! Now that he's retired, he wants to share his knowledge of HOW TO have the mental game help you achieve more positive results and show he's willing to help others and tells you HOW TO to do GREAT things in your sport!

     The Path to excellence started at the early age of 6 with little league baseball. During an accident, I lost 2 fingertips on his throwing hand that ended his baseball career. Tried golf but had to carry my clubs. I shot 160 for 9 holes. My mom said “You’re not quitting. You never give up.”  I shot 130 the next day. At least I improved”!! My mom took me bowling and I stopped chasing balls at least for 10 years and it wasn’t long before I was shooting higher than my 9 hole golf scores. I then started my bowling career in the junior leagues. I won three All events titles over 5 years just before bowling with the adults, a singles title, a doubles title and a team title in the Tucson city junior tournaments. Not too bad for a bowler with a slight handicap. It was the start of bigger and better things for the sport I fell in love with. 

     I won the Tucson Bowling city doubles tournament in 1976. I was very good at putting when Putt Putt was open. In 1979, I won an Amateur Putting Association tournament with 24 under par for 54 holes. I was later elected league secretary for two seasons and was a tournament director before Iceland Bowl closed. I kept statistics that no other secretary ever did. This is where I got my nickname “Mr. Stats”. From 1999 to 2002 I finished in the top 20 season average twice in the Tucson Bowling Association. During 1988 to 1992 serving in the Army, I held one of the top two averages on the post I was serving at. I received the A.B.C. award of merit for the 1989-90 season while over in Germany. The Pirmasens Zeibrucken Bowling Association’s Bowler of the year was held April 1990, where I beat the other 11 “top” bowlers that season averaging 208 on a reverse blocked center for the win.  I also won the 12 game Challenge tournament on July 4th, 1996, shooting 390 his final two games and averaging 223.4 for the day and won $500 for first place.

     I was the secretary for the Miller Lite Traveling Masters league for over nine seasons. My last full season being secretary, organized the sweeper for the 24 teams having $8478 in prize money for the three games in 2004. I had a website for the league which won a national award after online for less than two months. It was the biggest website for any league in the U.S.A. I held an ABC record for the highest scores without an honor score having 297 and 799. Over 3 years later I shot my first of fifteen 300 games and later recorded an 807. I was the first to shoot a ‘Varapapa 300’ on a sport pattern shooting a TBA sport pattern record of 290 in 2003 at Camino Seco Bowl.

     I am only one of several who holds perfection in two sports with 15 perfect 300 games in bowling and a hole in one in golf. The hole in one happened during the Memorial Day tournament in Las Vegas in 2009 on the first shot of the day. "I didn’t need a putter on my first hole". I was honored in 2011 for organizing one of the best scratch leagues in Tucson and for my achievements bowling by Tucson Tribute and Honor. My lifelong dream finally came true winning the Tucson Metro Senior Masters in 2014. I bowled in 26 USBC National tournaments and averaged over 190 for my first 25. In 2018, I won the FIG Golf Club Championship to become a 2 sport Champion. I went on to win my 2nd Club Championship two years later.

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