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1fife

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wet/dry
« on: January 08, 2012, 10:44:52 AM »
bowling in a house that has extreme wet dry
 
what have you used with success
 
ball type/layout



 

tenpinspro

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Re: wet/dry
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2012, 03:39:26 PM »
Thanks LL, miss being on this site with you old guys..haha  Just to let you know, 2 main balls in my bag for the wet/dry cause I stink at it too, 2k high glossed Money (Impending Doom, still have my staff ball) and a D2Z 4k high glossed (what's that 16-17 yrs old?).
 
I like the smoothness I get out of the high load particles polished, learned this a long time ago when I polished one of my Track GP2's and it was literally 8-10 boards weaker than GP#1.  The reason I like the old reactives is because technology wasn't there yet.  Coverstock and pores were not the same then.
 
What most people forget is that when each ball is created, it is created and designed for a specific purpose and oil handling need at "that" particular time.  For you old timers, think back, a yellow dot hooked and the LT-48 hooked more than that and then Angles/Hammers out hooked that. The dry or friction I see on the west coast is true dry, I can probably throw urethane to an LT but carry will suffer a little and nowhere near accurate enough anymore to do so.  So even old reactives are more than strong enough to react on this condition. 
 
I even have a few pieces with my Leong-Hall layout and a few with pin past pap so it can reverse flare to hold the hook back.  They work well occasionally so I know it's still just me being able to match up ball to physical game better...never ending learning experience.
LuckyLefty wrote on 1/26/2012 6:57 AM:
TenPinsPro,

 

Great comments about balls, release etc.

 

Along with the 5 board outside oil line tip I mentioned from Columbia above, as a bowler with a strong axis rotation release(60 to 70 degrees), and being Rev Dominant and speed soft, I suffer on this condition when extreme!

 

One solution that surprised me right before I left the bounciest shot I ever was on, was the use of a short pin, older style reactive Sapphire zone(with slower reacting PK17), drilled with pin under ring and cg under grip center.  This label leverage, slightly flattened the entry angle to get carry which was not present with all other drilling options.

 

Again used the 5 board outside the oil line tip worked also with the above drilling.

 

Regards,

 

Luckylefty

PS thanks Rick!


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LuckyLefty

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Re: wet/dry
« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2012, 04:24:07 PM »
Old guys?

 

Regards,

 

Luckylefty

PS thanks Rick!  Great stuff....

PSS sort of along the post you had above about the 4 elements the best lefties we had on the bounciest shot I've ever seen(I could handle the hard bounce at another house with my Panic, but not the super boing of this shot) were 20 mph lefties with 20 degrees axis rotation!  They were within 10 in average of the very good righties.!  What a shot....


It takes Courage to have Faith, and Faith to have Courage.

James M. McCurley, New Orleans, Louisiana
It takes Courage to have Faith, and Faith to have Courage.

James M. McCurley, New Orleans, Louisiana