My son started waking up here every time I came in and typed at 6:00 am when I usually do it. I like you guys but I can do without that!
Here we go!
OK.
So a quick review.
1.We talked about cores, high potential hook potential, low hook potential, high flip potential, low flip potential, early roll and late roll.
2. We talked about pin to pap distances.
3. we talked about cg out, cg stacked, cg kicked label or back towards cg and integrating with your style. (up the backer, perfect 45, sideroller, and spinner).
4. We talked cg up or down combined with short pins and long pins. DONE
5. I've promised a little more about midlane control. NOT DONE
6. last will be weightholes. Not DONE
7. OK I'll add some drill ideas for some non league shots that have worked for me and some people I know or have helped a little. NOT DONE
8. small little bonus to refer to here. I recently posted a section on heavy oil(flat) and heavy oil (league). Here's the link.
http://www.ballreviews.com/Forum/Replies.asp?TopicID=46810&ForumID=16&CategoryID=5OK, MOre on midlane.
Remember all that core stuff at the beginning, Comon, no skipping ahead!!
Balls that supply good midlane have cores that are wider in the midlane(examples tour power, vortex particle), cores that are providing less midlane are frequently straight down or even narrower in the middle of the core(reaction rip was are example here) frequently these balls go fairly straight in the midlane.
SO what are our options. There is no doubt that whether your core supplies it or not you can increase it or decrease it. To increase midlane off the stacked drilling(the stacked drilling provides to you what the core provides on it's own!) One only has to kick out the cg (or mass bias to not upset the mass bias crowd). Kick what ever it is out!!!!! But how far??? Well if one wants to maintain backend I recommend for the side roller not much more than an inch oh an inch and 1/2 can work. If an up the backer I would typically not go up to an inch unless the pin out is 4 inches out. Remember this is to provide backend AND MIDLANE!!!!!
However if one doesn't care about backend, well one can go all the way to the total kick out, cg on pap. This drilling often called axis, or axis leverage, supplies tons of midlane, and complete roll for backend and very little hit.
Especially for the up the backer!!! The bowler must supply the hit.
Happy mediums or hook set are at the midpoints. Usually called a 45 degree!
Often a 4 X 2 with a weighthole on pap can work for the side roller! I'd rather see the 4 X 3 for an up the backer with a weighthole on PAP to get near the same reaction. Interesting is that different balls can supply near the same reaction with variations of this drill.
For example, my Crimson REd Sledgehammer is drilled 3 3/8 X 1 with a weighthole on pap and is almost the same reaction as my 4 X 4 Ti Hawk with a weighthole on the pap. Why the Sledgehammer is a more flippy core when stacked. Laying it more on it's side took out more of the potential of the core. (REmember, "Help me I've partially fallen, and I can't fall all the way") Both balls I've brought out on shorter conditions heavy head oil and extreme backend and not come close to making a fool of myself!
So to add midlane, kick out. More kick out for the side roller, less for the 45 degreeer and even less for the up the backer to provide the same midlane.(remember the up the back release supplies midlane, they don't need a lot of help in this area).
The opposite is true for decreasing midlane for the bowler. Kick the cg back towards the grip or even towards the negative side of the ball. (This for the mass bias crowd can yes apply to the mass bias position). This applys when one has a gradual pattern. What I mean by that is that there is X amount of head oil and then it decreses and a cg out ball has trouble pushing to the breakpoint it's nice to have a 90 degree or 135 degree ball to allow one to push to the break point. Again taking the concept above it works in reverse. The up the backer needs more kick under to help him get less midlane. The side roller his release often does not get him an early read in the midlane. For him just slightly off stacked reduces his minimal natural midlane just enough. Let's say he will get a similar read of the midlane with a 90 degree drilling where our up the backer needs 135 to get the same length thru the mids.
This explains why our up the backers tend to operate in a range of cg way back towards grip(135) to a slight kick out(60 degrees) where our side roller ranges more in the 90 degree to 25 degree area. The difference in midlane that their release provides on the same condition.
Capece!?
Summary: All variations off stacked reduce core flip potential(why?, flip blocks are no longer straight up. they are laying on their side in variations off stacked reducing potential to fall!!)
Enough on the important topic of midlane!
Onward HO!
WEightholes.
REgards,
Luckylefty
Edited on 3/3/2004 8:27 AM
