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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: CRSmith on April 20, 2007, 08:21:22 AM

Title: Ball Burning Up Early
Post by: CRSmith on April 20, 2007, 08:21:22 AM
Went to Ebonite Demo Days last year, mainly to try the XXXcel. Hated it on all 4 shots that were put down. It just did not hook like I expected. I had a much better reaction with a polished XXcel.
This past season, my Delta 1 has been a turd. The ball hooks less than a polished(1200) Firehawk. I was puzzled. There is oil. So I get a Threshold and try it in box finish(1000). Not nearly the hook I expected.
I never had this problem before as far as a ball rolling out or burning up early. I've tried going down in grit on the spinner to make these balls hook more. Maybe I'm going the wrong way?
I just shot 728 with an old pearl Whiplash that outhooked my Delta and Threshold by 5-7 boards. Threw pins all over the place as opposed to weak-10 city. I'm just trying to figure all this out. Does anyone throw dull equipment anymore?
Title: Re: Ball Burning Up Early
Post by: mainzer on April 20, 2007, 04:30:59 PM
You are going the wrong way on the spinner go hope with it polish them up and they will get length down the lane a little more beofre they try and turn. Another thing you could try is moving to the middle of the lane if you haven't already play real deep stay in the oil longer that will also bring out the balls true colors a little more. I have the same problems with my stuff now I just make sure I have some old stuff in the bag when I go into certain houses just is easier that way, all that highe end stuff is designed for sport and PBA Patterns.
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Mainzerpower
Title: Re: Ball Burning Up Early
Post by: vilecanards on April 21, 2007, 01:01:04 AM
"Does anyone throw dull equipment anymore?"

Dull equipment is for people with a lot of ball speed, but average(medium)hand... like me. In most THS houses, this allows me to play along the outside edge of the oil...usually between the 4 and 7 board...where very few others will play. I'm not talking about swinging it out to the 4 board, at least not for the first two games anyway, but piping the ball right up the boards with some serious giddy-up. Usually the folks that are playing swing shots from the start will push enough oil out my way so I can stay there for a full 3-game set. If I do see myself crowding the headpin early, I can actually move RIGHT, with an equal move forward on the approach. If the "swingers" aren't there to push the oil over to my line, and it becomes unplayable(for me, usually about a game, game and a half), then I move BACK on the approach a full shoe length, left(towards the center) five/six boards, slow my ball speed a couple MPH, and THEN play a slight swing shot out to the same 4-board/breakpoint. This is not a style that I see many other bowlers playing, so I pretty much have this area of the lane all to myself... kind of like lefties having their side much less traveled. I stumbled onto this idea by trying ANYTHING to get rid of the ten-pin, which was plaguing my game like a swarm of locusts, early in the season. A GREAT side-benefit is, as long as you keep your speed up, you almost never leave splits but you have to guard against wash-outs. Oh... and it does get rid of those pesky, ringing tens! It takes a little while to get used to playing out there close to the ditch, but the improvement in my average at both houses(one a THS, one with an OB about the 2-board) has been well worth the effort!

P.S. Almost forgot to mention... ACCURACY is a key element for this type of lane-play, if you haven't already figured that out!

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r.k.wolfe

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