BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Ares on October 19, 2017, 05:52:55 PM
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How do you know when you need to throw a ball that is more smooth or more skid flip vs just moving left/right? Trying to get into more tournaments and building up my ball rotation.
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For me; I simplify it in this manner. If I want to go straighter up the boards; I go for smooth and controllable. If I need to move inside and open my angles up; I go more for skid flip because you need the extra entry angle to kick out the corner pins.
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Notice the different ball motion shapes in the diagram. In general you want to avoid early friction (the white) to avoid the dreaded over under reaction. Of course this is in general and can vary on sports patterns or extreme short or long patterns. Also you don't always start with fresh obviously as even shadow bowling can put a decent size hole to start depending not to mention the heads don't always stay intact either depending.
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Avoid early friction... Ha! The "fresh" shot in the house I bowl on has so much early friction that Its like starting out on the burn. Makes it really hard to work on my mechanics when I am either having to play deep inside with soft speed trying to play inside of the burn but have slow enough speed to turn the corner on the carry down (yes we have carry down beyond the burn), or trying to throw plastic as the only other option
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One of the keys to understanding ball motion and lane play is to not only understand the lane side to side but to look at the lanes front to back. Playing the lanes front to back with give you an idea of if you want something smooth or something skid flip.
I tend to go with smoother equipment on lanes that have really clean back ends that fly. On lanes where the back ends don't overreact, I use equipment that flips hard.