Last week I had some struggles on the Kegel Boardwalk pattern. I think my issues were from not understanding that there are three versions of this pattern and I had planned for the 35', 50uL, 23.9mL pattern. I believe we are bowling on the V2 35', 50uL, 28.25mL pattern (https://patternlibrary.kegel.net/patter ... 0d3a5afff3). The lane surface is synthetic (SPL I believe). For the first two games I used a Raw Hammer Black drilled at 5" x 30 and 500 surface and averaged around 180. I had a hard time getting it to read the pattern. I used a Hammer Big Rig Diesel drilled at 2 1/4" x 45 the last two games after trying urethane for a few frames and had much better results averaging 203 with 14 strikes (which could have easily been 230 had I not had two splits and two missed makeable spares). I was playing straight up 4 as anything left of 4 wasn't reading the pattern.
I saw others bowling in the same area with asymmetric balls with decent results. On my pair urethane wasn't working at all (Purple Hammers). I saw one guy on the pair to my right throw a Pitch Black with good results for two games until he fell apart and couldn't get either a urethane or a reactive to the pocket. This week I'm taking the surface on the Raw Hammer and Big Rig Diesel to 500 and will try my Hammer Obsession Tour drilled at 45 x 4 7/8" x 30 at 500 surface and see if that results in a better read of the pattern and more room for error.
All of the information I can find on how to play the pattern on the internet (besides the pattern itself) seems to be more geared towards the original version of the pattern. Any thoughts on playing the Boardwalk V2 would be much appreciated!
The other patterns I have coming up over the summer are (bowl two weeks on each pattern):
- Autobahn 42' (going to miss this while on vacation)
- Highway to Hell 40'
- Broadway 37'
- Beaten Path 41'
- Final position round based on vote
Dan