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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: xrayjay on October 20, 2017, 11:11:10 AM
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I'm bowling on extremely dry lanes. I'm not suppose to be hooking a spare ball away from the pocket and still going brook. It's crazy how dry it is.
I plan to practice very early (4 - 5am) Saturday morning after Friday night leagues and cosmic bowling, before they dress the lanes mid morning and work on things to combat these dry lanes.
I just need some input on what you guys/gals do when faced with such conditions.
One thing I'll do is polish my XXXL and my breeze, or get my hands on a true spare ball.
I need some ideas so I could work on them when I head out this weekend. I appreciate the input. thanks, it's rough out there in this second shift league.
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I'm bowling on extremely dry lanes. I'm not suppose to be hooking a spare ball away from the pocket and still going brook. It's crazy how dry it is.
I plan to practice very early (4 - 5am) Saturday morning after Friday night leagues and cosmic bowling, before they dress the lanes mid morning and work on things to combat these dry lanes.
I just need some input on what you guys/gals do when faced with such conditions.
One thing I'll do is polish my XXXL and my breeze, or get my hands on a true spare ball.
I need some ideas so I could work on them when I head out this weekend. I appreciate the input. thanks, it's rough out there in this second shift league.
Well its an extreme measure but you could get yourself one of those old super hard rubber balls as they will go fairly straight on anything (and can take abuse of crappy lanes). Might also look at buying some Vise Slip Agent and putting it on as the last step after polish on one of your current balls.
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How are you at tumbling the ball forward? It isn't flashy, but if you can take a lot of the change of direction out of what you are doing, it can be more productive than you might think. I don't mean trying to put the ball down right in the dirt where the fronts are most blown out. You can move in or out to find what is remaining of the head oil, if your ball roll direction through the fronts is good, you can get the ball to scoot on the remains and roll up when it sees the dry without making a big, fast motion.
Just a suggestion, I know that what I am saying isn't everybody's cup of tea.
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I'm bowling on extremely dry lanes. I'm not suppose to be hooking a spare ball away from the pocket and still going brook. It's crazy how dry it is.
I plan to practice very early (4 - 5am) Saturday morning after Friday night leagues and cosmic bowling, before they dress the lanes mid morning and work on things to combat these dry lanes.
I just need some input on what you guys/gals do when faced with such conditions.
One thing I'll do is polish my XXXL and my breeze, or get my hands on a true spare ball.
I need some ideas so I could work on them when I head out this weekend. I appreciate the input. thanks, it's rough out there in this second shift league.
Well its an extreme measure but you could get yourself one of those old super hard rubber balls as they will go fairly straight on anything (and can take abuse of crappy lanes). Might also look at buying some Vise Slip Agent and putting it on as the last step after polish on one of your current balls.
I still have my rubber Brunswick Johnny Petraglia LT-48 from 1983. Gave it to my son and had it redrilled. That rubber ball doesn't like oil at all. But on extremely dry lanes that rubber ball grabs the lane and hooks like a bridgestone g-force performance tire. I'm not sure if this ball is considered hard or soft but I figured I'd give you the information. FWIW I use my hammer arson low flare (2014) for extreme dry conditions, works pretty good.
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I'm bowling on extremely dry lanes. I'm not suppose to be hooking a spare ball away from the pocket and still going brook. It's crazy how dry it is.
I plan to practice very early (4 - 5am) Saturday morning after Friday night leagues and cosmic bowling, before they dress the lanes mid morning and work on things to combat these dry lanes.
I just need some input on what you guys/gals do when faced with such conditions.
One thing I'll do is polish my XXXL and my breeze, or get my hands on a true spare ball.
I need some ideas so I could work on them when I head out this weekend. I appreciate the input. thanks, it's rough out there in this second shift league.
Well its an extreme measure but you could get yourself one of those old super hard rubber balls as they will go fairly straight on anything (and can take abuse of crappy lanes). Might also look at buying some Vise Slip Agent and putting it on as the last step after polish on one of your current balls.
I still have my rubber Brunswick Johnny Petraglia LT-48 from 1983. Gave it to my son and had it redrilled. That rubber ball doesn't like oil at all. But on extremely dry lanes that rubber ball grabs the lane and hooks like a bridgestone g-force performance tire. I'm not sure if this ball is considered hard or soft but I figured I'd give you the information. FWIW I use my hammer arson low flare (2014) for extreme dry conditions, works pretty good.
Supposedly there is some rubber balls out there at nearly 90 on the durometer. Those LT-48 were softer I think and more the hook monsters of their day.
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Sounds like a headache. Tried taking something like a Hy-Road Pearl type ball and lofting past the first 10-15 feet from the lane left of you lol?
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1- stop hooking the ball
2- straighter is greater
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Sounds like a headache. Tried taking something like a Hy-Road Pearl type ball and lofting past the first 10-15 feet from the lane left of you lol?
hahaha, I went to the far left with my Turbo/R but the ball return kinda threw my timing off. and when I did get it to the pocket it was either the 7, 8, and 9 pin. On the left lane I had struck 8 or 9 in row between games cause I had room to walk standing that far left.
I should of stood right and threw dead straight with my hard ball to the pocket, and pick up what ever pin(s) I left.
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breaking the wrist to flatten/kill my shot somehow causes me to roll end over end. Is that what breaking back the wrist does to the roll?
Also, I feel, or am, topping the ball at release when I break the wrist. Is that what breaking the wrist does too?
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Look for the nearest exit, exit, locate your car, get in car, put key in ignition, turn car on, drive home. Thats the best advice I can give. No sense in bowling on something so extreme that you will rarely, if ever, see.
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Look for the nearest exit, exit, locate your car, get in car, put key in ignition, turn car on, drive home. Thats the best advice I can give. No sense in bowling on something so extreme that you will rarely, if ever, see.
Yep and houses like that wreck your equipment as well. Shuddering thinking about dumping a ball in the channel in a place like that.
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Look for the nearest exit, exit, locate your car, get in car, put key in ignition, turn car on, drive home. Thats the best advice I can give. No sense in bowling on something so extreme that you will rarely, if ever, see.
sounds like what happened at on tourney years ago lol..