The crankers do not ruin the condition, the balls ruin the condition. They way the people play the game is not the problem, it's the balls that are used that create the holes in the pattern.
Most people who bowl today, hook the ball. Thus your going to see many changes and transitions in the pattern. The problems come from the wide variety of bowling balls that go down the lane by many different types of bowlers.
The THS allows all bowlers to play many different angles, with many different balls. Your going to get a wide variety of transitions if some guys are using Nano and Defiant, others are using Freezes and some people are using 15 year old balls.
Take a good look at the balls on the rack and see where these balls are going down the lane. The bowling ball is no longer defined as a universal ball for all styles like it used to be in the 80's, Thus EVERYONE on the pair is doing their part to ruin the condition.
You have crankers using Nano and stronger balls, you have straight players using same ball. You have med handed players using Freezes on the same pair and you have some guys using weaker balls yet outside. The wide variety of equipment makes the transitions much different these days.
Very few people understand break point, and that at the end of the pattern we all are pretty much in the same spot. They think just because they be inside or outside of the cranker or other type player that their shot should hold up all night. At some point all of our balls end up rolling over the same area on the lane, thus creating transitions.
The days of everyone using a singular based cover stock strength is over. (Urethane days where everyone used Hammers, U Dots or Nitros).
Edited by Xx 12 X 300 xX on 1/21/2012 at 3:48 PM
Edited by Xx 12 X 300 xX on 1/21/2012 at 3:49 PM
