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Metal_rules

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what would you change?
« on: December 01, 2011, 05:53:54 AM »
if you could change one thing about bowling, and i mean anything bowling related - ball weight, lanes, pins, etc. what would you do?


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2011, 02:17:22 PM »
End the THS mentality.  And by that mean, again assuming I can change aspect of bowling, i'd change the mindset of  "I want to hook it a LOT of boards, the lanes to be wide open, and most imporantly score huge".  I'd love to see a 4:1 flat pattern as the easiest pattern and this being USBC mandated and taped consistantly to ensure that's what's out there.

 

Realistic?  No, but that's what i'd change.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2011, 02:27:51 PM »
+1
 
I would also change the tech a little bit. Make the surfaces a lot less porous to open the lanes up so your hook-in-a-box can hook 40 boards from a stroker. Make skill be a part of the game. There's a lot of "I don't have to aim anymore" going on at the houses I see.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2011, 03:59:24 PM »
Get rid of worthless forums where all they do is belittle and degrade the sport?


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2011, 03:59:58 PM »
What would Sawbones do different?


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2011, 05:31:09 PM »
Less ball technology, and the same oil patterns. OR same oil patterns and the way it used to be?
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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2011, 12:35:54 AM »
I'd encourage a minimum oil volume, and in that course maybe flatter patterns without dry bounce zones near the gutter. It is not ball technology that "kills" the sport of bowling, it's the easy and partly unworthy lane conditions out there that pose no basic challenge to the player to develop a sound game.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2011, 05:23:23 AM »
A USBC regulation of 4:1 ratio of oil pattern as a maximum.  Oil must be applied from gutter to gutter.  No bounce boards (dry boards) from 5 to 1.  This would make the big house guy a 220 instead of a 240 avg bowler.  200 would then be a good bowler, not just an average bowler.  When I bowled the Team USA patterns this summer, I struggled more on them (2:1 ratio) then I did the named pro patterns.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2011, 09:36:31 AM »
I wish the price of bowling equipment was cheaper. I use to buy 4-5 balls a year. BUT NOW $160 for a ball!!!!!! It is maybe $45 for all the material to make a ball. plus $50 for someone to drill my ball and he may not drill my ball to my levels in according to my preferences.  I think bowlers should take a stand and say no to the higher pricing of balls. IF each ball was 100-120 i guarantee the companies would make more money.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2011, 03:35:13 PM »
raise the minimum amount of oil required per board and mandate the minimum amount of oil houses must use to be sanctioned.  No more 3 unit rule.  Raise it to at least 6.

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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2011, 03:38:14 PM »
Just one thing. Make associations enforce the rules we have, in particular the conditions and inspections being unannounced. That doesn't seem too much to ask. My list is longer, but you said one.


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2011, 06:25:29 PM »
Your only method would be to invent a time traveling machine.
 
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taige690 wrote on 12/1/2011 6:31 PM:
Less ball technology, and the same oil patterns. OR same oil patterns and the way it used to be?


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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2011, 06:31:41 PM »
You're living in an unreal world.
 
Price a car back when you bought balls for $100. Then find out what that car cost today. Then multiply that ratio by that $100 ball. You'll find it cost about $350 - $400.
 
You have info about making balls today that lets you know how much it costs to make. Try do to that with any other marketable goods in today's economy. Then eliminate every other middle man like you want to do with bowling balls. You'll find again that you will never be able to purchase those goods. period. For any price, unless you make or manufacture them yourself.
 
Stop living in a fantasy world.
 
OR
 
Open up your own pro shop or distributorship, give any manufacturer $10K or $50K and you can have all the balls you want for $40 each. Yeah, fat chance!!
 
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ithinkican wrote on 12/2/2011 10:36 AM:
I wish the price of bowling equipment was cheaper. I use to buy 4-5 balls a year. BUT NOW $160 for a ball!!!!!! It is maybe $45 for all the material to make a ball. plus $50 for someone to drill my ball and he may not drill my ball to my levels in according to my preferences.  I think bowlers should take a stand and say no to the higher pricing of balls. IF each ball was 100-120 i guarantee the companies would make more money.




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Re: what would you change?
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2011, 06:39:51 PM »
My most realistic that would have a direct affect on scoring with least effort. Increase minimum pin weight. Every center eventually would have to buy new pins. Changing the ring at the base aka gold PBA pins would also help that area.


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