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NevadaBowl

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Problem spare
« on: May 18, 2003, 10:23:58 PM »
This kinda tags along with the topic The Hose started about 7-pins.  

My question is are there any pins or pin combinations that really have your number?  Most of us are pretty experienced bowlers and know our good and bad points.  And I bet each of us has a pin combination (other than 7-10, and the big 4) that we really don't care to see in the 10th frame going for the win.

For months mine was the 1-2-8.  If it popped up it, I confess I felt like saying "Just mark it down as a miss."  I could put on a clinic about how to miss that one, because I have missed it in many frustrating ways.

Then all of a sudden, I haven't missed one in a couple of months.  Nothing different that I can see, it just works now.  Good news?  Well, now the 4-pin hasn't been my friend for a couple of weeks.  It is always something.  

Am I the only one that has a less than favorite, although makeable, spare to pick up?

 

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2003, 01:44:59 PM »
5-7-10 twice in a week!

Thomas889

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2003, 02:27:45 PM »
I would have to say 9 pins. One week this year though i left 3! Yes thats right 3, 5-8-10!In one series! Covered two of them!
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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2003, 08:31:20 PM »
I have a fairly successful shot for 1-2-10 and 1-2-4-10 washouts because, unfortunately, I have a lot of experience shooting for those.  I shoot at them straight from the right corner of the foul line, aiming brooklyn.  For 1-2-8s I just stand about 2 boards left of where I stand for those washouts and aim the same.  The ball comes in on the nose and deflects into the the 2, and either the head pin or the ball takes the 8.  This works well for me.  I don't leave 1-2-8s very often, though, for some reason.

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9andaWiggle

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2003, 08:49:46 PM »
Good News!! I can cure you all and raise your averages just by helping you cover your most hated spares!  How do I know?  I was once just like you, only my nemesis was the 6-10.  Don't ask me how, but I could chop off the 6 9 out of 10 times.  You'd think it'd be easier to just make the spare!  However, what I found to be my way out, was to get it OUT OF YOUR HEAD.

I bet that 90% of the time, when you see the first ball heading off it's intended path, you are thinking "Oh God, don't leave the ____"  Then, once it is standing you think "oh great. Here's another open - probably chop it like I always do."  Therefore, your attitude is already set to miss this spare!  Next time you face your nemesis spare, instead of sulking, get pumped up.  Imagine the guy on the next lane just bet $100 you can't get it.  Be determined to knock those #@!!*'s down!!  Focus with the same intensity you do on the first ball and fill the frame!

It worked for me, hope it will help someone else out as well!  You can do it if you put your mind to it!

PS - If I'm ever bowling any of you for money, forget what I just said and miss all the spares you want!
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loose5682

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2003, 09:00:54 PM »
Let's see...where to start...

Washouts generally aren't too bad of a problem...I go at it from the left corner aiming brooklyn (i'm a righty) and pick it up more times than not

I agree...3-6-9-10 is pure evil...I throw straight at it (at EVERY spare, buckets, double wood, etc.) and have actually left just the 6 up there a couple times...weird...

Worst spare for me though is a 4-9 (which i think counts if you count washouts) In 16 years of bowling, I don't think i've ever picked it up!

The oddest spare though was I legitimately left a 1-2-6-7-9-10 at league...I don't know where the ball went, how it deflected, or anything, I was just baffled, and my teammates and I discussed for hours the next night on how to pick it up and couldn't come up with anything...weird...

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10 In The Pit

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2003, 03:59:10 AM »
Even though I have actually seen the 5-7-10 spare picked up TWICE in league play, I still feel that this anomoly should be worth a patch at the least!

I used to spare the 2-4-5 at least 90% of the time, but lately that leave conversion rate has dropped below the 50% mark. I blame it on old age, since I seem to be turning gray a lot faster than other bowlers around me.  But, I can handle the gray, as long as it doesn't turn loose!

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2003, 02:33:59 PM »
Dizzle, shoot for the 6!  Can't hurt can it?


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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2003, 02:56:05 PM »
The 7 of course but then any spare shot with more than one pin. I
usually do pretty well with one pin spares but multiple pin shots
can always cause a problem. Too many ways to miss. Come in high you
chop one way and light you chop the other way. Left the 2-4-5-8 and
picked up the 2-4-5, left the 8. I just don't like shooting multiple
pin spares of any kind.

laner7pin

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2003, 03:30:49 PM »
Besides a 7 pin, I would say either a bucket (always seem the leave the 5 pin), 1-3-4-6-7 (washout), or a 6-8 split. I seem to leave this washout once a week and hardly ever pick it up (all or none theory) and the 6-8 haunts me on occasion. Miss a board high and instead of either leaving a 6 or an 8, both stand, bad break, try to make it which I rarely do and sit down.
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squeaky2

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2003, 07:45:34 PM »
lets see....the past couple weeks at bowling
5 pin
6 10 pins
or just the 10 pin.......
used to be able to pick up the 10 pin all the time, now, well lets jus say I need to go back to my coach and have him yell at me for 45 minutes or so on my release. Then I'll be good for bout 200 games.
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DON DRAPER

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2003, 09:10:13 PM »
for the righthander( like me ) the 3-6-9-10 is the toughest spare you'll ever have to make---no doubt about it.

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Re: Problem spare
« Reply #27 on: May 22, 2003, 10:42:06 PM »
I left the 1-2-4-7-10 or 1-2-4-10 at least once in all three games in last week's position round, picked up once in game three tenth frame.
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