It might be possible that your confusing a pap change with the flare on the ball and the bowtie. For me, anytime I drill something with the pin below the fingers, it looks like it flares backwards or away from my thumb. In reallity, Its tracking the same but because the bowtie is now in a different spot in relation to the grip, it just looks different. If I use tape to mark my pap, its still in the same location.
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Reason I think this is a PAP change is that, by any measure, the entire oil tracking has changed (and a quick tape check seems to back it up).

There are barely any oil rings present in the thumb-negative quadrant and the NAP appears to be in the finger-negative quadrant. I've had this happen on one other ball before, a 6x4 drilled Dyno-Thane Element Au-79 that had the pin in the track.

It may be we're talking about the same things. What I can say is that on most of my balls, if you put the ball on a table and looked straight down at the label, you would see flare lines going through both negative quadrants, closer to the thumb than the fingers. If you look at these two Rico balls, the first oil line barely appears to touch the thumb-negative quadrant, and appears to come into view in the finger-positive quadrant and disappear somewhere around the midline or just below, into thumb-negative. I know it's not the ball construction, because I've thrown just about every Thunder-series ball Storm has ever made and it's only happening with these two balls.

The bowtie has changed positions (raised), but at the same time, the angle of the oil line has changed from an 11-to-5 angle vs. the label to a 2:30-to-8:30 path. Measuring out the PAP puts me about 3.5 over, which is close to my usual number, but the vertical goes from 3/8 up to about 1 down and perhaps more.

This becomes a mix of things I do and don't understand. I am previously aware of pin placement effect on the bowtie, because back before I had actual lessons from a coach 10 years ago, I used to be about 5 1/2 or even 6 over 0 up and was horribly speed-dominant. There were certain pin-down drillings I could not use, as it would draw the bowtie into an area that would cause me to clip holes. Now that my PAP has moved back to 4 over, I no longer have to shy away from certain drillings.

I'm not complaining, as I love the reaction. I'm just a big how-things-work kinda guy and love learning about what things trigger what outcomes.

Jess

The strength of the core can make the ball alter, as it is being released onto the lane, thus altering a bowler's PAP. It is not uncommon especially the more the loft's the ball. Add onto that the typical inconsistencies of the average bowler and you can have varying PAP's.


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