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60bowler

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PAP Question
« on: April 18, 2007, 02:44:01 AM »
Can or does a persons PAP change depending on the ball?
You read alot of people say to roll your spare ball or
any ball to figure your pap.  Does the PIN to PAP change
how the ball rolls and would change the location? A difference
in the PIN to MB on different balls change the location.
Thanks for any help in this matter.
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dumbcomputers

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Re: PAP Question
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2007, 11:12:37 AM »
I would think that the PAP could possibly change if you there was a difference in weight between the balls and thumb pitch.
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monstercrank

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Re: PAP Question
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2007, 11:22:21 AM »
The PAP is based off of the inital flare ring. Some balls, how ever drilled, can flare more or less, with different ammounts of seperation. When you have a ball that falres alot it could get a little confusing to get the measurement like when there are 5 or more rings. When you throw you spare ball, you still have that inital roll, that would be on the first of many rings on a reactive ball, but it is the only ring. Taking the guess work out of it in a way. The different feel, weight, or hand positions could effect your positive axis point.
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shelley

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Re: PAP Question
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2007, 11:39:41 AM »
The PAP can change with release changes, and your release can be altered with pitches to an extent.  It shouldn't change significantly from ball to ball unless the grip is changed.  Breaking your wrist back during release will usually change your PAP, you hear guys like WRW thumping over the thumb hole throwing at spares all the time.

What will change more from ball to ball is the flare pattern.  The wrong drilling can make a ball flare backwards (particularly with super-strong asyms), and the location of the bowtie is somewhat dependent on the pin position and weight hole position (think of the Rico layout).  If, as crank says, you're measuring your PAP using the oil rings, changes in flare patterns can give you different measurements.

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