I am a right handed bowler, somewhat of a tweener/not a pure stroker with a ball speed of 16 mph on the average. I just recently bought 3 new Roto Grip balls Epic Battle (pro pin), Epic Odyssey and the Illusion. These balls work great on the average house shot here in mid missouri but when I attempt the longer, flat oil patterns in other facilities (usually AnviLane) I have trouble getting my balls to hook.
I adjust my feet to play where the shot is, but a lot of times the shot is tighter than the look I am used to. It almost seems as though my ball just makes a tight arc to the pocket, when I am used to a 15 board angle into the pocket. This is the question: Should I be satisfied with this tighter shot or have the layout adjusted to give me more backend movement on the tighter shot? Sometimes you want more angle to the pocket and I can't seem to do it with what I have on heavier conditions. (Battle goes to long and snaps, Illusion arcs and the Epic hooks too early, generally.) I am a semi-roller, track about 2 inches from fingers and 1/2 inch from thumb.
This may not be a typical scenario because I was on a pair with a guy that didn't use his thumb and covered most of the lane from 25 to the right gutter. He was using the black widow pearl. I found a narrow shot to the left of his (34 -foot, across 25 at arrows, breakpoint 15 way down lane).
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