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Equipment Boards => 900 Global => Topic started by: Coolerman on June 09, 2009, 03:00:11 AM
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The new trend on the PBA tour is players using their fifteen minutes of practice to set up the shot how they want it by using sanded balls to strip the oil off the lane to the outside of their target area.The key is to breakdown the lane so you have recovery outside of the intended target line.The players have no intention of using this line once scoring starts.The next phase in building your very own wall/house shotis to take their plastic ball to move the oil down the lane on the the inside of the intended target line to create hold, thereby creating a not so hard sport condition.Once scoring starts,the players use the ball that matches up best to that shot. No rules against this but just how honest are these players being about their own ability.It just seems funny to me what bowlers will do to gain an advantage.It makes me think these bowlers have no confidence in their own skills.
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I wouldnt say that it is cheating. I'd say it's strategy. If you have enough knowlege to understand how lanes break down and how to play them why not use this to your advantage? I for one would play the lanes how they need to be played and adjust accordingly.
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any particular reason this is in the global forum..
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I wouldnt say that it is cheating. I'd say it's strategy. If you have enough knowlege to understand how lanes break down and how to play them why not use this to your advantage? I for one would play the lanes how they need to be played and adjust accordingly.
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"new trend" and "recent years" in the same sentence.....a tad, oxymoronish, no?
To my knowledge, smart players have been adapting to how the pattern changes since the pigs ate my brother. Why not take a pro-active stance on their lane play alterations and figure out how to stay ahead of the curve and change the pattern so they might score better? It's the reason I try to have a better average in my third & fourth games of a series than when the oil is fresh. It tells me that I'm able to read and react to lane condition changes better than my opponents.
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