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agroves

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4 opens======560...argggggggghhhhh
« on: January 18, 2004, 08:11:53 AM »
My friday night mixed league is driving me nuts.  We always get fresh oil to start the night.  I was standing 26 with my werewolf looking 16 at the finish of practice.  When I put the werewolf away I was at 17 looking 9.  I left three blower 7-10s and wiffed to 10-pins.  One of the 7-10's was at the end of the tenth.  Anyway, the oil (prodigy) carries down extremely bad.  I make my normal adjustments left but I can't seem to carry b/c the ball slides, hook and slides.  I end up pointing my basketball the last game and shot 189 clean.  

I have a game plan for next week, play the ditch or keep it tight with a low load particle.  Does anyone else have a better suggestion???  I am not used to seeing carrydown, I mostly see the lanes dry out.

andrew
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Re: 4 opens======560...argggggggghhhhh
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2004, 12:23:57 AM »
Agroves: I find on that type of shot that playing the ditch with a low level particle will be fine for the first game, but you will probably have to resort to a weaker ball by game two when the carrydown occurs, or see if you can move back to pointing the ball to the pocket. Sounds like a similar condition that I face in my house on Tuesday nights. Last week I took my Vortex particle and pointed across 5 board to the pocket, then moved game two to my El Nino Wrath before hitting game three with the Barbed Wire. The back ends in my house are spotty, but I managed to stay clean for the night outside of an opening game wash out in frame one, game one.

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Re: 4 opens======560...argggggggghhhhh
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2004, 12:50:50 AM »
Are you sure that it's carrydown?

It takes an awful lot to get prodigy to carrydown, normally it just burns up, extremely quickly I might add. I'm not sure what your oil pattern is or who's bowling on the lanes, but I would be willing to say that in normal league conditions, you're looking at the ball rolling out.

HOWEVER, if you're bowling with a bunch of people throwing plastic, there's a good chance you're right & that you're looking at carrydown. Let me tell you, although very rare, when prodigy does carrydown, it's a BEAR.

My best suggestion to you would be, get right of the carrydown & get a ball that will get into its roll before it crosses the carrydown on the way to the pocket. If you've got fresh lanes before league & everyone is throwing plastic up the middle, you should have decent dry on the far outside to get the ball to bite & roll. If you're getting too much of an over reaction & crossing over, you may have to play it deep after all. You may be surprised how much bite there is around 4th arrow since not many people play there.

agroves

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Re: 4 opens======560...argggggggghhhhh
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2004, 01:04:59 AM »
Yeah, I am sure it isn't rolling out.  The carrydown is a pain in the butt.  Normally, you have 8 to a pair and 4-6 of those spray wider than a shotgun.  The oil carries down in really weird ways.  Getting to the pocket isn't a problem, carrying is.  I am not the only one having this problem.  

Let me put it like this, the highest averages are 220, 210, 209, 208, 207, and the highest set between us this week was 613.  I tried getting right of the carrydown and spreading my fingers to get the ball to read, hook and roll.  That is when I finally threw a turkey, followed by a 7-10 great!.  I may have to find a reactive that rolls earlier, maybe my Bruiser will work.  

Thanks guys,
andrew
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Edited on 1/19/2004 2:11 AM