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jonah300

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CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« on: April 11, 2009, 03:25:38 PM »
So i wanna made this post because i have one doubt in my mind. i know we are talking about one of the best phisical games out there...but i have seen him compete when he was an amateur bowling in team usa and he used to hook the whole lane in every tournament...then when he went pro he changed to straighter its greater,he always say that there is a big difference bowling amateur than professional...when you bowl pro you need to controle your break point as a must so he almost always is playing the hook and stop so what i want to know is...columbia equipment its better for this king of game than maybe storm that has a skid flip reaction trade mark???...what i want to know is i know he can throw anything (he averaged like 278 in the round of 8 with a plastic ball)but i a m trying to make the same transition to bowl amateur international tournaments and now trying to test skills in the tour,so what could be better than trying to do what the best bowler on earth did,so if i want to begin to control my breakpoint and not having a skid snap reaction should i quit throwing storm (that brand always worked best fot me beacuse i used to put a lot in the ball so storm always worked great fo me) because right now with these pshisical adjustements in my release and tempo,i am beggining to see that i lose my breakpoint often (i mean my ball skids when it supossed to roll)...so please any advices will be great...i know at this level its not the arrow its the indian...but we all know that patrick allen after his player of the year award in 2005-06,signed with track and didnt make a round of 32 in 10 events and then he switched to ebonite again and win back to back tittles in the first week...so i know sometimes some brands matchup better with some bowlers
thank a lot for takin time to read this and sory from my english i am from argentina
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pate08

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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2009, 03:25:04 AM »
You realize that Storm equipment dominated this year right? By controlling the breakpoint, he is referring to not a skid snap/flip reaction. He does this through surface and roll on the ball. On tour, rolling the ball and not throwing it provides more control. Guys on tour also use a lot of surface, anywhere from about 500 to 4000. They don't use much polish because it is so much downlane and they try to get the ball to read before the end of the pattern so it transitions right for more control. I went to Dream Camp and learned a lot about what the guys do out on tour successfully, so this is what they told me.


Hope this helps.
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