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Storm269

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Ball speed
« on: October 27, 2005, 05:06:06 PM »
Hi, I have a polished intense and am bowling in medium oil lane condition but think because of my speed, most of the time, it missed the break point and goes straight. Someone told me to either slow down my speed or alternately is to dull the intense...I found than it is quite difficult to lower my speed so does dulling the ball really helps ? any comments are welcome... Thanks
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Re: Ball speed
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2005, 01:18:21 AM »
????

Could you please reprhase your question?  What exactly do you want the ball to do/not do?  Missed the breakpoint and went straight?
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Storm269

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Re: Ball speed
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2005, 01:21:55 AM »
Ok becasue of my speed, the ball always missed the breakpoint and went straight instead of hooking into the pocket. So does dulling the ball solve this problem of ball missing the breakpoint ?
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Re: Ball speed
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2005, 04:40:25 AM »
Move right(if you are a righty), square up, if that doesn't work see above^^^^^^^^

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Re: Ball speed
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2005, 07:55:42 AM »
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seriously though, there are a huge amount of answers to your question, it could be too oily, too high ball speed, no oil (burning up,) drilled incorrectly, playing wrong part of lane, not enough revs, OOB on the lanes, poor axis rotation, or you may just be missing your mark..... (many others, i am just lazy)
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These are some of the possibilities.

And the partial answer to your question is "yes", sanding the ball or changing the surface could help,
IF THIS IS YOUR ONLY BALL
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YOUR ARE 100% POSITIVE THAT THIS OIL AMOUNT AND PATTERN WILL NOT CHANGE.

Then the problem is how much to sand the ball. YOu could start with a green nylon pad which is about 600 grit and lightly, by hand, partially remove some the gloss polish, some of the shininess.

BUT THIS IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION. Moving your feet and target further outside, finding more dry to make the ball hook at the right time is a simpler one.

If this oil situation is temporary, you'd have to re-polish the ball; so, buying a 2nd ball might be a better solution or using a milder covered ball, if you already have one is another.

Oddly enough, I brought my Intense with me last night for the first time in a long time and there was too much oil for it. SO I did just slow down a bit and had a ton of area AND the Activator+'s hitting power. By the 3rd game some of that oil had gone and I slowly raised my ball speed back to normal.

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