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Zanatos1914

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28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« on: March 10, 2008, 02:33:04 AM »
This is a crankers nightmare - Anything you put on the lane is going to EXIT STAGE LEFT..  Any ideas beside just praying and throwing your arm out....
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BowlerKidR

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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 10:50:11 AM »
Plastic bowling ball and big time loft.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2008, 10:50:54 AM »
yea definitely plastic.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2008, 10:56:06 AM »
put a thumb in it.
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Zanatos1914

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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2008, 11:18:04 AM »
Normal bowling ball weight 15.2
Do you think if I drop weight to a 14 pound ball in that type of condition it would help...  I know it has to be pearl and it has to be drilling left handed with a weight hole stopping the ball from turning that early - What do you think....  

With the lighter ball it would give me more room to man handle the ball - What do you think...


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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2008, 11:23:38 AM »
Do you bowl on my Friday league ! Sounds like our shot. It makes the 160 bowler a 190 bowler.

My advice, quit before you get aggrevated !
A guy on my team has drilled a XXXL, Neptune, and Blue Slate Gargoyle
and still has problems keeping the ball on the lanes.

Learn a spinners release, or a kill shot (explained in a Jowdy book I have), or
loft the heads.


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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2008, 11:32:55 AM »
You can try plastic, but my suggestion is old urethane.  In the days of short oil, they only oiled about 26 feet.  Today's oil has a better behavior and doesn't go away as fast.  All ball manufacturers during that time developed urethane balls for the short oil.  If you get something with a substantial weight block, you may have trouble maintaining control.  Go for a pancake block urethane ball and you will be better off than plastic.  The new AMF Black Angle is pancake block urethane.  Just shine it like a marble.  Only problem with the new Angle is it seems to track out easily.

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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2008, 11:37:49 AM »
Everything resin is going to go bananas once it hits that friction with high revs, no matter the drilling, just to much friction there, 60 foot of lane a 26 feet of oil.  You need to stay with plastic or urethane, Ebay is great for older urethane, might be able to score a C300 Stingray or Hammer or some sort.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2008, 11:41:39 AM »
Sounds like you have a good opportunity to try to learn different wrist positions and ball releases. (Not as dirty as it sounds! LOL) Being versatile is not a bad thing, you know!
Also, overpowering the lane with weaker equipment and higher speed can lead to inaccuracy and injury.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2008, 12:46:02 PM »
I would say try a XXXL and if that doesn't work, your spare ball and if that doesn't work I don't know.  It sounds like you would have to really try to throw the ball harder than you would like to (you mentioned throwing your arm out which doesn't sound good) or learn a totally different release and I don't know how much you want to do that.

Do you think it will mess you up to learn something that radically different?  If I intentionally tried to learn how to throw a weak spinner it would really screw me up for a while trying to get back to the old release on a normal league.

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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2008, 12:48:52 PM »
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put a thumb in it.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2008, 12:59:22 PM »
Oh wait are you really a no-thumber?  Maybe that will help some.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2008, 01:00:49 PM »
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2008, 01:02:28 PM »
Sounds like a great time to break out the old Pink Hammer.
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Re: 28 Ft Shoot and Cranker
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2008, 01:06:11 PM »
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