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thewhiz

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Modified House Shot
« on: September 20, 2018, 02:33:57 PM »
Is a modified house shot just a house shot with more oul?

 

bcw1969

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2018, 02:47:32 PM »
A "Modified house shot" is simply a house shot that has been altered in any number of ways. Could mean longer pattern, shorter pattern, more oil, less oil etc.

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2018, 03:06:38 PM »
My definition of a modified house shot is anything that gives me a severe over/under reaction and keeps me from scoring because I'm not rolling the ball good enough to hit the broad side of a barn anyway.
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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2018, 04:22:09 PM »
Is a modified house shot just a house shot with more oul?

My definition of a Modified House Shot; any shot where the local lane hack thinks because they can push a button and put a pre-programmed pattern down, proceeds to screw with the shot even though they don't know shit about what they are doing.

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2018, 04:35:09 PM »
Since no 2 house shots are the same no 2 modified house shots are the same.   Most common thing I have seen is the pattern flattened out just a little, but still much more crowned than a sport pattern. 

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2018, 06:01:23 PM »
Anything that isn't 10:1 with adult bumpers is considered modified.

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2018, 10:26:03 PM »
When we have a local house tournament, saying "modified house shot" is a way to NOT scare off house bowlers who refuse to bowl on ANY named pattern. Crazy

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2018, 08:01:30 AM »
It seems when someone "modifies" a house shot, it is an attempt to lower scores ..... so expect it to be flatter and or shorter/longer.

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2018, 08:36:26 AM »
I worked at a center whose "modified" house shot was simply the house shot laid out twice.  They would do this for tournaments with multiple shifts to prevent the need to re-oil in between.  We had wood lanes and the normal house shot would not last over a 5+ hour timeframe.

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2018, 02:49:54 PM »
Where I used to bowl, modified house shot meant "We stripped and reoiled them days ago with the house shot, but we're only doing a 16 ft run of head oil run before leagues. We will strip the lanes again when enough people start complaining."


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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2018, 03:44:07 PM »
Bottom line, modified house shot is anything that is different in any way ( length, volume, pattern ) from the house shot.  Or anything the lane man says is modified

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Re: Modified House Shot
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2018, 02:28:09 PM »
Is a modified house shot just a house shot with more oul?

After bowling a tournament over the weekend that was described as a modified house shot to me, I believe it's just one with a ratio in the middle of a THS and a sport shot.

It was medium length, with a 4:1 ratio. My scores (180, 182, 185) were right in the middle of my house shot average (205) and my sport shot average (167).

So you can think of it as a difficult house shot, or an easy sport shot. You can't spray the ball all over the lane like on a house shot, but you can miss by a board or two and not be punished as harshly as on sport shots.
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