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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: thedjs on September 24, 2016, 01:13:12 PM
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How many balls do you carry to league at one house? For years now I've been taking 4 balls. Oil, Medium, Dry and Plastic. After thinking about it I found that I usually only use one ball plus plastic. Sometimes two but very seldom three. I'm really thinking about getting a two ball bag with a tote for the spare ball and cut down on all the choices.
Anyone else doing this?
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3 balls. Urethane and two reactives
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I usually carry 3 with me, and 3 on my sport league.
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Usually 3.
2 reactives and one spare.
But on Monday's match I'll be bringing 4.
The Scandal, the Grudge, the Freakshow and the spare.
I wasn't planing on using the Grudge at the alley the match is at, because the machines there often keep the balls down there, and the machines don't stop when it happens like it does on the home turf alley.
So balls might come back with marks on them.
But I did so well with the Grudge on Wednesday's practice that I want to bring it.
The Freakshow is for when the lane becomes very dry there, which is highly likely to happen there since they put on so little oil there. House shot pretty much, but the volume is so small, and it's hot in there.
Bringing the Scandal because there's already a few marks on it, so if the lanes keep our balls down there, I'll stick with the Scandal.
For matches on home turf, I'm bringing 3 balls.
Grudge, Scandal and spare.
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Right now, 3 plus spare no matter where I'm going on a house shot. Black Ops, Night Hawk SE, Boost Pearl, Booyah. Sport shot, I'll throw my Dream On and Desert Hook in the bag.
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One medium/heavy solid (Black Eagle), one medium hybrid (GB2MVP), one medium/light pearl (Track Heat), +spare ball.
Works on most THS.
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I have a four ball bag so answer is 4
amf pure adrenaline,amf decimate,pyramid pathogen,spare ball
atleast thats been the rotation for the first 3 weeks
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That's what i have done, two ball tote and I carry my spare ball with me.
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For our men's league I take 3 + urethane.
For the league I bowl solely for fun with my fiance I just rotate 2 + urethane
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Four. Heavy, medium, medium to light and plastic.
Usually only use one ball and plastic, but when you have to go to something different having two to choose from has been very helpful.
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For league it's three total (one spare ball). Usually one goes untouched. I have a personal rule to not switch balls unless I've tried everything else first.
I fail to see the reasoning behind guys dragging in 6-8 balls to bowl on typical house shots. They will go through their whole arsenal searching for the magic ball that allows them to play their magic line to the pocket, and waste a whole game (or more) in the process. They just end up lifting them back into their trunk later...
For me the dilemma is which three? Too many good choices!
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I have a personal rule to not switch balls unless I've tried everything else first.
I've decided that I'm taking this one step further this year - I'm going to see if I can bowl the season with just one ball (and plastic for spares). So far, so good after 9 games - the average is already up 15 pins albeit in a small sample size.
Those league nights of using 4 balls in desperation, I'm over it....
Obviously bowling in tournaments and UBA/Bowling Federation matches in other houses, that's a different story - the full arsenal is coming out (4 balls and plastic)...
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I take 3 to my house shot league but only need 1 and a spare ball. Sport leagues I will bring 4 or 5 the first night of a new pattern but usually cut it to 3 after I figure out how I want to play them.
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6 to my Challenge league, although I rarely bring my tournament arsenal stuff. If I normally work with 6 options in tournaments, I believe in working with 6 options in league. This also eliminates the excuse of "should have brought x ball tonight" that I hear from so many league bowlers.
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4 to league, 2 solids, a pearl, and a plastic spare ball which I will be replacing with either a Mix or the new Purple Pearl Urethane Hammer to have a ball that can double as a spare/dry lane ball and is more durable than plastic. For tournaments I'd probably take 5, the fifth being a hybrid since they always come in handy!
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5 balls total. 1 urethane, 1 plastic, and 3 whatever the hell I feel like taking.
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I take 5 (6 with plastic,for spares) That doesn't mean I use 5 -- but you just never know what you might need. I am sure you have run into where the alleys oil machine just is not working correctly that night. It either puts out too much oil, or not enough. So I would rather have too many balls with me, cause they can't help if they are at home!
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I take two 3-ball rollers, so that gives me five "regular" balls plus plastic. I know that it's total over-kill, but I figure why own the balls if you're never even going to consider bringing/using them.
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thedjs,
like you I usually take two. One for medium and one for med/dry. I'll take three if having issues making 10 pins. If to dry I will move left and come off the side of ball. If to wet I will point my shot off the twig. In a league setting, I don't have the time, patients, or skill to test a ton of different ball reactions.
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I'll be bringing 3 to each match and practice now.
For matches on home turf and practices I'll bring: Scandal, Grudge Hybrid and the spare ball.
For matches at the alley where the lanes dry up fast: Swerve, Freakshow and spare ball.
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I bring 4 balls:
Scandal
Red Legend
Blue Urethane
Plastic
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1 Quick Response Ball
1 Slower Response Ball
1 Urethane
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House, 2, longer hook phase ball and urethane. Sport, I bring three, surface/shine/urethane. It's infuriating to see guys who have bowled a house league for a decade show up with 6 balls and in most cases said balls do the same thing. Furthermore, these guys have all these balls, but won't move their feet or move left or right of the track. Nope, let's jam 5 balls up the track and hope one works.
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House, 2, longer hook phase ball and urethane. Sport, I bring three, surface/shine/urethane. It's infuriating to see guys who have bowled a house league for a decade show up with 6 balls and in most cases said balls do the same thing. Furthermore, these guys have all these balls, but won't move their feet or move left or right of the track. Nope, let's jam 5 balls up the track and hope one works.
Or they bring all 6, throw whichever one is the newest, and shoot 490 just so they have a story to tell about how bad the newest ball from ___ is.
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House, 2, longer hook phase ball and urethane. Sport, I bring three, surface/shine/urethane. It's infuriating to see guys who have bowled a house league for a decade show up with 6 balls and in most cases said balls do the same thing. Furthermore, these guys have all these balls, but won't move their feet or move left or right of the track. Nope, let's jam 5 balls up the track and hope one works.
All drilled STACKED LEVERAGE!
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5 one is urethane that is my spare ball. One that hooks alot three that hook less
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3 balls. One for fresh oil, one for transition and whatever ball I have that I am testing.
NF and the peanut gallery can hate on my layouts, but I don't care lol. I score with what I got, and tried nearly every layout on the planet and after drilling approximately 50 balls I know what works, FOR ME. The nice thing I don't need to bring 6 to league like some. I can't flatten my hand out for 10 pins, etc. Feels great not to be a whipper snapper anymore.
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I still take 6 no matter where I go. It's more of a habit than anything else, since invariably I will only use two a night. The one I've chosen and my spare ball.
I don't bowl in the same house all the time so it's good to have variety. The lane man is never always the same either in my regular house, so I always have a back-up plan just in case this is the "rookie's" first night treating the lanes!
One of the balls that never leaves my bag is my slow-response Saturn that DP3 sold me many years ago. Love this ball because of it's versatility, especially on light oil and dryish lanes. Oh yeah, and I never had it re-drilled. Started using it the day he sold it to me!
So its usually one hi-performance; two mediums; one light oil and a spare. And that one ball that I constantly change out of my bag, as an experiment.
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Another thing to consider for this is how much you're throwing down on brackets, jackpots, eliminators, etc. each league night too. In some houses I bowl at those are extremely popular and competitive. If you want to get in them you better be bringing the best/most equipment you can. Don't want to lose $100+ instead of making a profit because you left a ball home that would be a better fit that particular night.
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Another thing to consider for this is how much you're throwing down on brackets, jackpots, eliminators, etc. each league night too. In some houses I bowl at those are extremely popular and competitive. If you want to get in them you better be bringing the best/most equipment you can. Don't want to lose $100+ instead of making a profit because you left a ball home that would be a better fit that particular night.
This used to be my reason for bringing a large arsenal every time I bowled. Trunk of my car would have 4 double ball totes just in case. I remember my father in the 70s bringing many balls for the same reason. He would be bowling and call me over to get a ball out of the car. Just never know, especially in the 70s where the conditions in the area were no where near as consistent as they are now.
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One league (higher caliber of bowlers): I bring 2 + plastic (Phaze II and Marvel Pearl)
Second league (more fun league): I keep 3 in a locker (Critical Theory, IQ Tour solid, and Fight) and bring Phaze II and plastic. In this league you never know what lane transitions you will face from week to week, i.e. carry down or burn up the outside.
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For league it's three total (one spare ball). Usually one goes untouched. I have a personal rule to not switch balls unless I've tried everything else first.
For me the dilemma is which three? Too many good choices!
That is me as well. I always seem to tote my 900 Global Train, but the other 2 balls vary all the time.
I also have just a few balls laying around that I will never throw in league, just for tournaments. I don't like putting extra games on tournament stuff, I'm too frugal.