pjape wrote:
Absolutely! Since changing the lane surface itself to make them flatter would be a financial impossibility, I need to figure out how to combat it with proper lane play and equipment. Since we bowl Thursday nights, we have off this week. I'm hoping to be able to do some practicing and play around with my ball surfaces and hopefully come up with something that works for me. After all, some are hitting it, so there is a solution. Let's face it, if it was too easy, it would become boring.
You can't defy gravity on this planet. Some gurus out there states that a ball has more than 9 shapes of ball motion. That statement is there for a reason:
Next time you go to the alley, right before you starting to bowl, you should lay down on your stomach on the approach and look at the pins. Ask your self: What do I see? You see pins, you see a foul line and you see lots of lots lots of hills!
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Every hill has a depression and a crown, it is a hill! These hills aren't a product of the lane's alignment to the wood frame. These hills is the result of bowling, and results of the synthetic laminate irregularities. Every hill has a uphill and a downhill, and the ball can't defy the gravity!
Your ball goes through several physical moments of gravitation, some are breaking the ball, others accelerates the ball to a given direction (no, not there you have your line!).
Now, the topic of Kegel's study of the topography wasn't the regular dents, lane track (most used area on the lane) and irregularities on the lane, it was the plate's alignment itself. They studied the individual synthetic plates in relation to the wood frame. In this case you can plan ahead and choose the surface on the ball until you discover that the topography has changed with himidity and temperature that day. Now you are on the first frame again, and you need to plan again. These types of topography is quite regular and general (the seagull wings as example), the settlement of the wood frame changes the hole plane, not bits of it. You can plan for this when you read the lanes when you play.
Instead of train ahead, learn to read the ball motion on the lane, and change surface and balls after that. No lane ever plays like that lane of yours, that lane you surfaced the ball for.
Or: Vote for the new aluminium synthetics!
"I mean they will not dent. Oh, I guess you might dent one with a sledgehammer, but not with a bowling ball."
if you see a termite chewing through this stuff, you're about to see a termite with monumental dental problems.
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