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shipper50

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Which is more important, hook or score?
« on: November 03, 2006, 12:25:56 AM »
I have been reading this board and the Track section for a long time now, and I have come up with the conclusion that most bowlers of today would like or rather throw the big hook and not care about scoring.

If you had only one choice of being able to hook a ton or throw the ball that only hooks 5 boards but carry 215 average or more which would it be?

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chitown

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Re: Which is more important, hook or score?
« Reply #31 on: November 03, 2006, 10:36:40 PM »
I don't care how much a ball hooks.  It's more about where it hooks and how I can score.

This is why i'm always saying that all balls now a days work great on blocked house shots.  The difficult lane conditons that are not blocked show how good a ball really is.  Not all balls work great on tough patterns.


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Mark T. Trgovac

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Re: Which is more important, hook or score?
« Reply #32 on: November 04, 2006, 03:11:08 AM »
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I want to hook the ball more.  That way the one time out of 1000 that there is actually oil on the lanes (none of this "check up at the arrows" house shot garbage), I will be able to get a ball to hit while all the straighties would repeatedly leave 5 pins, 7 pins, 10 pins, and the most dreaded of all weak shots, the 5, 7, 10!  At which point I laugh, tell them to take their girlish crap out of here and proceed to gloat for the remainder of the night.


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Just because you can hook it on a shot doesnt mean you wont leave something funky. He|| on the a sport shot 2 weeks ago I had a ball hook up into the pocket and leave me the sour apple. Also carl I do think about it every night, I try both lines in practice and then deside whitch one looked to carry best. As of late you cant do much when I let the ball go and at the arrows my desert heat is wanting to turn left (refrance to tuesday).
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Re: Which is more important, hook or score?
« Reply #33 on: November 04, 2006, 05:01:19 AM »
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since i wanna be versatile, i do it both ways.
 


I agree with this statement. I am a low speed higher rev player. If I usually get stuck playing with down and in bowlers, I will adjust my game accordingly and play deep to bump off their lines. If I have a ton of crankers, I will play that line maybe for a game, but after that I adjust accordingly and stay more behind the ball and play up the outside.
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Re: Which is more important, hook or score?
« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2006, 02:02:09 PM »
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I really don't care about hook. Some of the young people at my center like to palm the ball and not use a thumb to watch it hook. To each his own.

If my ball hooks enough to take out the 5 and 10 pin, I am happy. Some of the big hook players I know shoot sets like 279, 140, 258, or 300, 170, 220. A lot of them washout and leave stuff like the 2 8 10 because they either misjudge the break point or they get their feet too fast and the ball never hooks.

I know a guy that shot 120, 210,  and then 290. He shot 620. I shot three low 200 games and beat him for series. I would have liked the 11 in a row award like he got, but I would not want it with a 120 game in the mix.
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I shot a 128, 160, 290 set way back around 77 or so. I moved from the 10 board to the 4th arrow. Left a 5 pin on the first ball and then sheet as they say today.

You still wouldn't want a 11 in a row award? I have 4 of them, all 290's.

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sullymatt

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Re: Which is more important, hook or score?
« Reply #35 on: November 09, 2006, 02:17:34 PM »
Last night, 197 average bowler, straight up 10 board player who usually is very consistent, good spare shooter and versatile was playing deep hooking the ball because lanes were pretty wide open:

142, 137, 278 (after moving right and adjusting speed) so yes score!

My teammate and my brother......

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