EricHartwell wrote:What I am saying is start in at 8 1/2 If you can. It will give you more room to move to the outside.
The further inside you can create the carrydown the better it will work as a defense against guys that are bowling inside of you causing them fits in the later games.
And it will be easier for you to bowl around it.
I understand that some days you will not be able to play inside of 7. On those days it will put a premium on your shot making from further outside. You will know where the carrydown is and what you need to do to use it as hold to the inside.
The more accurate you are and hitting your mark the more defined that line of carydown will become. If you are having one of those nights where you can't seem to hit your mark and spraying the ball all over the place you won't be able to play this strategy.
Tonight was my first league night at the new lanes called Surf bowl.
They have a perfectly defined house shot.
Mountain in the middle with super blocked on outsides and squeaky clean backend.
I was great for game 1 and 2 playing up 8, but then the shot went away fast by game 3 and moving right with my target did not help the ball roll up.
The ball was lazy as hell and I actually missed a lot of easy spares right by a touch because it would not roll up.
Finally by the 8th of game 3 I moved my feet right and my target left onto second arrow just to see what would happen.
Now the ball would get perfect length, hold the line and then roll hard and strike.
A very, very odd result that I have never seen with this ball before.
Normally at Parkway if I try to stand right and roll down and in over second arrow it simply will not roll.
Now I am totally confused as to what was happening at Surf bowl.
Carry down, or too much friction killing the ball when I was going up 8 and then trying up 7?
Why did squaring up and going through the oil up second arrow make the ball suddenly have so much hitting power?
I established tonight with a 170 avg.
And one other question:
What grit is lane shine on a ball?
The True Motion after last night has track marks through the palm.
They are duller in appearance than the rest of the ball.
If I let the ball keep tracking like this and don't touch up the finish, what grit will these track lines eventually be?
I know in the old days with rubber balls they liked it when a ball got broken in.
They said it had a better reaction.