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skbowl800

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Question about the nationals pattern
« on: March 17, 2010, 01:19:03 PM »
So I got to practice on it yesterday and was surprised to find out that it actually has less oil than our house shot.  Keep in mind that I bowl on wood lanes with guardian heads and they lay down quite a bit of oil to combat the high friction surface.  

So my question is this, in order to get a similar reaction on these lanes as compared to the lanes at the stadium, what pattern should I be practicing on?

Would something like the U.S. Open pattern be a better option or is there another pattern that is going to make these high friction lanes act like the lanes at the national bowling stadium?
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headwest

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Re: Question about the nationals pattern
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 11:07:20 PM »
There is no real way to make Guardian lanes play like synthetics but when I lay the shot out I add two extra 2-2 loads and an extra foot to the pattern.

Hoselrockets

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Re: Question about the nationals pattern
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 07:49:22 AM »
US Open pattern is always good to practice on IMO....
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jhutch769

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Re: Question about the nationals pattern
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2010, 09:46:27 PM »
I have been practicing on US OPEN pattern since we do not have the drop brush feature.  That and been just shooting at a lot of spares with plastic ball.  We have AMF 82-70s so I can use shadow ball feature, makes it nice to practice all the single pin spares

skbowl800

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Re: Question about the nationals pattern
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2010, 07:44:48 PM »
ok thanks for the help guys
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