I would appreciate hearing from some of the guys who consider themselves particularly talented at reading lanes. Please tell me your style and the choice you would make in the following situation...

Being a tweener, I like to start out the night swinging the ball to the track.
Assuming you have been scoring well, when the track area breaks down and a quality shot goes through the nose is it better to

1) Change equipment and keep playing the same shot
2) Increase ball speed
3) Move the feet deeper and keep rolling the shot out to the track
4) Move the feet AND eyes deeper inside.
5) Other option - please explain

What if a quality shot rolls so early it goes brooklyn? Does this change the choice you would make?

As a tweener who likes to play the track, I've been struggling with this, and I typically try #3 until it stops working, and then I try #4.  I tend to have trouble making the ball recover and hit the pocket when I move my feet and target left, so a very experienced bowler at my lanes suggested that when the scenario you described happens, also change to a stronger ball.  So for me, I usually start out with a solid reactive, and then when the track is gone, I move left with my target and feet and switch to a heavy load particle, so a combination of #4 and #1.  Maybe just another idea to practice and see if it works for you.

17 mph avg speed, 280 avg rev rate.

at one of the houses i bowl at, they use a rather slick and very very very VERY clean surface (They strip in the AM, and again in the afternoon... and the center is kept pretty consistently cool). The vast majority of the bowlers are elderly, and are using plastic balls... rolling it down the middle. This creates dry heads between 12 to 12 or so, and carrydown is an issue.

Equipment of choice for me would be a ball with a high-rg drilling, but with quite a lot of cover on it (particle ball w/ a 6x4 drill). I play way outside and make sure that I come up behind the ball for forward roll. I will then break down a spot on the outside part of the lane and then just throw it faster and/or change axis tilt to delay hook as breakdown occurs.

As for a fresh house wall I usually play the track area. I will first try to throw it a bit faster when a dry tube starts to form there, but if that doesn't work, I'll have to move left and bounce it off of the dry spot I was playing earlier. That might involve some speed and axis tilt adjusting, but that's what i'd normally do.
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-Jeremy Vitug

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