MegaMav wrote:Nord,
I had a good chuckle at your post.
Why? Because you shot your old average and you're not satisfied.
Im glad the ceiling and floor on your game has gotten a boost.
All that analysis and moving around on the lane shows you're more of a bowler now than you were 2 months ago.
I guess if you put it that way.
But, I don't want to be at 175 anymore, I hate that average!
As I think back carefully, now that I have calmed down a bit, with the Jackpot, I found a shot up 8 that gave me up to three boards miss room right for half the game and about a board inside.
I was standing right foot on 10.
Then suddenly in the final third of the game, misses right would not come back anymore and even shots on 8 would leave that flat 10.
It was then that I started hunting.
I tried first squaring up a bit by moving my foot right and keeping my target the same on 8.
This did not stop the flat 10 and actually resulted in the misses left going high.
I then tried moving my target right a board to 7 and this caused the ball to go high.
I moved feet left to push more left to right at 7 but then the ball would not come back.
Finally I tried going up second arrow but even a half board miss right, yes, half a board, would hit super light and a half board miss left would go through the nose.
Game 1 over with a 200.
200 was the high game for our pair that night by either team.
Game 2 I tried the Jackpot on second arrow for the first 2/3s of the game but it was over/under hell.
Then I grabbed the Rack and tried going back to my original shot up 8 and the Rack would not even hook.
Then I moved further right to 7, hoping there was friction there and still the Rack could not find it.
I finished game 2 with a 149.
Game 3 I went right to the Purple and while it was dry, I got an immediate double up second arrow.
But as soon as it got wet, it was the same as the Jackpot up second arrow, a miss right would not come back and a miss left would go through the nose.
I tried pushing the purple right to the friction at 7 and 6 and it would not come back, but if I moved over and rolled right up 7 the Purple would roll out instantly and go left across the lane.
I just went back to second arrow and gritted out a 175.
The team we were playing against was the second place team.
Their captain bowled a 726 series the other week, but on these conditions the best he could do was a 502 series.
My doubles partner, who has a 217 average, is also in this league on another team.
I asked him how he did and he said "don't ask."
He told me: "I hate these lanes. I make the same exact shot and hit the same exact target the same exact way and I get a different reaction on each shot. There is zero consistency on these lanes."
Here is my thought process about what I could have done if I could have gone back in time.
I would have three balls.
A super, super strong ball that just rolls early and straight and has a very mild backend.
A benchmark ball, the Jackpot.
A super weak ball that I can play from outside, 7 or 6 or 5 and will not react strongly to the friction, but will just smoothly sweep in.
With those I could have played the first game with the Jackpot, got that 200 and then had the option of moving right or left with the other balls.
The weak ball from outside may have been a good option.
But the super strong ball up second arrow might have worked too because it could come back from slight misses right.
I rarely miss inside, I always miss right when I miss.
Thoughts?
BTW: I could not use the Purple up second arrow because I had taken it up to 2000/4000 to have as a outside ball on Kearny.
So the Purple did not have that heavy roll in the oil anymore that I get with the lower grit.
But now I am considering taking it down to 500 grit with a deep defined cross sand to have it as the super strong second arrow ball with control when things go off the rails like they did last night.