Place To Post Your Scores And Type Of Bowling Balls and Anything Else About Your Score. Like Lane Conditions .
I don't know if there is a thread about this already but they can get very popular.
Ok I'll post.
Well lately i've been practicing on the pba pattern scorpion. It is a 41 ft pattern I am not sure why its called scorpion though.
I play this pattern to start at around 14th board at the arrows and at the break point iI want the ball at about 11 board.
and about every 6 to 10 frames I have to move left a board at a time but still hit the same spot at the break point.
in other words I will use a more indirect line to the pocket as it breaks down. it not an easy pattern but not real hard ether and also breaks down fast. I am on old wood lane also. I try to use a particle ball on this pattern rather than reactive they seem to be more consistent. Last night I posted scores of 225+222+190 on it. and used a ebonite big time. and also I tried an storm double agent,
willard46: Ok I'll post. Well lately i've been practicing on the pba pattern scorpion. It is a 41 ft pattern I am not sure why its called scorpion though. I play this pattern to start at around 14th board at the arrows and at the break point iI want the ball at about 11 board. and about every 6 to 10 frames I have to move left a board at a time but still hit the same spot at the break point. in other words I will use a more indirect line to the pocket as it breaks down. it not an easy pattern but not real hard ether and also breaks down fast. I am on old wood lane also. I try to use a particle ball on this pattern rather than reactive they seem to be more consistent. Last night I posted scores of 225+222+190 on it. and used a ebonite big time. and also I tried an storm double agent,
Please, do not take this as criticism, I am just seeking an opinion. How do you mark your start point on the approach, and how do you mark your ending spot at the foul line. Let's say you mark the shoe you line up with, with a black line, and you use this line to mark your starting point on the approach. OK ,now you move from L19 board to 20 board on the approach. I believe most approaches have a dot on 20 board, so it should be easy to mark your starting point exactly. You take a 5 step approach from approx. 13 feet and release the ball. My question, what are the odds that the mark on your shoe in lined up on the 20 board, when you finish your slide, and if it is, can you repeat this shot after shot, and then make the same adjustment, every 6-10 frames????
Remember I am just seeking opinoins, this should be a good topic to discuss. After we reach a conclusion on this topic, we can discuss the folks who say, " I made a 1/2 board adjustment with my feet."
OK I am not sure if this is the answer that your are looking for.
here is what I mean ---> I line up with my feet at the first set of dots 1 dot left of center and use a more direct line from the 14 board at 15ft and go a little straighter to the break point at 41 ft which is where the oil stops and the ball makes its turn. I try to hit on this at about the 11 board.
then as the lane breaks down I move my feet left on the approach 1 board at a time and my spot on the lane at 15ft both left - then on spot I keep the same break point at the 11 board at 41 ft. so I may be constantly moving left and using a more indirect line - now that on this pattern. on a house pattern I do play it very differently. look up direct - medium - and indirect lines - ------>after all bowling is only line and angles<------
note keep in mind that not every bowling center is the same the dots are different on the approaches wood synthetic and so on.
willard46: OK I am not sure if this is the answer that your are looking for. here is what I mean ---> I line up with my feet at the first set of dots 1 dot left of center and use a more direct line from the 14 board at 15ft and go a little straighter to the break point at 41 ft which is where the oil stops and the ball makes its turn. I try to hit on this at about the 11 board. then as the lane breaks down I move my feet left on the approach 1 board at a time and my spot on the lane at 15ft both left - then on spot I keep the same break point at the 11 board at 41 ft. so I may be constantly moving left and using a more indirect line - now that on this pattern. on a house pattern I do play it very differently. look up direct - medium - and indirect lines - ------>after all bowling is only line and angles<------ note keep in mind that not every bowling center is the same the dots are different on the approaches wood synthetic and so on.
Ok I think This Is what you want.
I fade about 3 boardsl
Now we're talking. So in actuality your 1 inch adjustment is actually a 3 inch adjustment, which is reasonable. My point is how many bowlers can make a one board adjustment with their feet, and execute it time after time. There are some, and you see them on TV on Sundays, maybe that is why they are there, and we are here. Now about that 1/2 a board adjustment you hear about so often??????
Willard46, I just closed out the Winter League for '07/'08 with a 163 Avg(shudder) rolling a Brunswick Fury and a Fury Pearl TE. My kid brother has talked me into trying my luck at a Sport League(shudder again) for the Summer! Gonna try for the experience and hopefully learn more about identifying conditions...gotta work on consistency(half the season I rolled 500+ sets)!
I used my Hammer Black Widow Pearl last night in summer practice. yes I still bowl in the summer. but I do slow down quite abit.well on the house shot I bowled a 720 on freash the next day I struggled as the lne conditions had not been oiled and were flipping hard I had strikes but spare were hard as the bowling balls would over reaction in the friction. the center changed lane oil and this new oil don't carry down it just drys out. and I still had a 650 but missed lots of spares.
2KDriver:Willard46, I just closed out the Winter League for '07/'08 with a 163 Avg(shudder) rolling a Brunswick Fury and a Fury Pearl TE. My kid brother has talked me into trying my luck at a Sport League(shudder again) for the Summer! Gonna try for the experience and hopefully learn more about identifying conditions...gotta work on consistency(half the season I rolled 500+ sets)!
2KDriver--sounds like you and are are pretty much the same bowler, except for the sport league thing. due to scheduling issues and the fact that the sport league isn't happening at my house this summer, i'm not going to be bowling sport this season. not that i've bowled a sport league before...maybe next year.
the only other difference between you and me is that i don't shudder at my 160 average. i've worked very hard to get to a 160 average this year (i started with a 144, last year my book average was 120-something and the year before that it was 109 or something...we're not going to go into my sub-100 average year), and i'm not planning to stop getting better. i may or may not make it to a 200 average, but i'm not going to stop trying. i am consistently bowling 500+ sets as well, which is definitely helpful in the whole raising my average thing.
i'm still trying to figure out how my average dropped a pin when i missed league for nationals. we don't subtract 10 pins for absentee scores in my Wednesday league. whatever.
Last Night I decided to try something that I have not bowled on in years. that is short oil I don't know how many out there remember short oil but it was a rule that was passed in the late 80,s i believe that a center could do anything that they wanted to the lane but could not oil pasted 26 ft and later the amended the rule to 24 ft cause they said scores were to high. well I believe that there was not reactive resin balls out yet and popular balls were hammer red pearl and the blue hammer urethane, I also used a black rhino. well any way I didn not go as short as 26 ft but is did go back to 30 ft I may try the 26ft some day. I used my Hammer black widow pearl. and had a 215+222+228+236 for 4 game of practice.
