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TheDude

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Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« on: October 31, 2003, 02:03:29 PM »
I bowl in three leagues and two of them are just normal house shots , but all three share one thing in common. It's typically the same group from league to league. But all leagues offer us fresh conditions to bowl on. only facing carrying down in the thrid game and never having to worry about the heads everyone can use strong particle balls and cover the entire lane. And recently when some of us had to play on broken down conditions in a tournament some faired considerable worse than others. when i practice 3 or 5 times a week i always ask for a pair that has a bit of play on them, if it's seniors league or open play i rather play on a broken down pair to offer a little more challenge.

If house conditions are soft as they are, and Jrs always face fresh conditions, how is this going to prepare them for the real world of adult leagues where you don't always get nicely conditioned lanes? oh well, i'm trying to get ready as possible as i can for the real world, i'll just be taking there money sooner or later. lol

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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2003, 01:13:18 AM »
My lanes are always bone dry. Put one rev on the ball and Gutter2Gutter
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2003, 01:48:04 AM »
When I was in YABA we always had lanes that had league and then open play on them. At the center I use to work at we never oiled for the Saturday YABA. So most of those kids faced the opposite as you are. It really depends where you are at if the youth leagues get fresh oil or a dry shot. In my book should mix it up one week oily another week dry never let them know what they get.
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2003, 07:10:09 PM »
This is kind of a "duh factor" question.

Most junior leagues bowl early in the morning. They aren't going to have a league bowl on a shot that was put out a whole day before, so obviously it's gonna be fresh oil.
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2003, 08:34:06 PM »
Check if they are throwing "storm" stuff, haha, those are oil vacuum's I tell ya, POS balls
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2003, 11:51:00 PM »
Um, yeah, that is kind of a no brainer.  Unless you get a second shift Saturday morning league (I bowled a scratch league after peewees the last couple years), it's always going to be fresh.  And the whole myth about the adult leagues thing is only true in certain houses, I guess.  I think the shot's easier, actually.  Even the so called "sport" league (although the pattern was really sport compliant, which I didn't believe) was easier than the other sport shots I've bowled on.  Either way, carrydown is carrydown.  If you've run into it before, you should know what to expect.  Pearl balls push the oil onto the backends, particles or sanded solids burn up the track.  Pretty simple stuff.
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2003, 12:34:30 AM »
yea, no re oil for stars, every once in awhile after jat they do, makes it fun, as far as saturday morning leagues, where i bowl saturday mornings (cerritos) for all the locals who know that alley, we get a different shot usually every week, some weeks there is a HUGE out of bounds, some weeks none, waled sometimes, other times feels like a sport shot, keeps ya on your toes
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2003, 12:18:37 AM »
i wish we had fresh when i was in youth, we got what was left over from friday night, which usually wasnt anything
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2003, 03:10:36 AM »
I know there is a certain duh factor to this question but i see some players face more challenging conditions and all they do is complain, and don't accept that they haven't practiced to face it.

But for adult leagues it just seems to get worse. and i think to myself, when i start the tournament curcit regionally it's gonna be irratiting.
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Re: Why do Jr leagues always get fresh conditions?
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2003, 07:25:28 AM »
My Jr. league is double-shifted this year with the little munchkins (aged 4-10) bowling at 9 am and the rest (me included) at 11:30. Needless to say I never get a fresh condition to bowl on because the oil gets smeared all over by all the plastic balls being used the shift before.
Quite frankly, the adult league I am bowling in for my dad while his wrist heals has way better conditions than the Jr. league.

Has it helped to prepare me for tournaments and the like? Sure, I can recall a tournament I went to last year where they only oiled to 20 feet between shifts and I thrived on it (I am used to throwing it hard and straight down the dry outside because the middle is always spotty from the above mentioned plastic throwing kiddies).
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