Yesterday I had a Conference tournament and I placed 6th. However, everyone struggled. There was so much oil and I've never seen anything like it. It was also very wet/dry. I saw people with about 475 rpm throwing a Marvel-S and there ball was just skidding. My goal was to shoot 200 every game. I shot 206 208 and 166 in the first half. The second half, it was even worse. There was no friction on the lane til game 5. That was the game where it became very wet/dry. Game 6 I shot a 182 (credit to my Lights Out). But I felt hopeless on that shot. And I lost a lot of confidence after that. And I am very far from cocky. What could I have done (or next time I see a shot like this)?

Wow.  What scintillating and original advice.   

If there is too much oil, find a spot that the ball has very little work to do.  might look like a conventional plastic ball kind of shot when you find it, but it's there, somewhere.

Take a day like that as a learning experience, learn were your weaknesses are, and try to eliminate them as best you can.  If the whole field struggled, don't feel so bad; tough shot, tough day.

What I usually do in a case where the lanes are not hooking or wet dry:  1.  Take a ball that has some angularity to it and play straight up around 13.  If the lanes really are that tight, even if you pull into 14, you can still get away with not hitting the nose and leaving a big split.  If this is the route you take, you cannot miss to the outside.

Other option is to take something that is more of a control piece and go around it; meaning stand way inside and play 20ish at the arrows and bank the wall out at 3-4-5 board.  I say a control ball because if you go that route, you dont want the ball to be uncontrollable off the friction.  I have a 300C Solid with a 2 inch pin to PAP that works great for this.  If you chose this; then you cant miss inside or you leave washouts/2-8-10s. 

Straighter is usually greater in most cases though.  The "safe" play would be to get inside and and play direct to the pocket.  Square your shoulders up and pretend the 12 board is the gutter and take the outside completely out of play. 

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Wow.  What scintillating and original advice.   

At least he offered some, all you have is infantile pot shots. Your reputation on these boards is that of a grade-A jackwagon who ruins threads. How's that feel?

Swing area is addictive, and to make matters worse, we seldom see a house shot that doesn't have more than enough swing area.  It gets built into our approach and arm swing, making it physically difficult to square up and play straighter, taking what the lane gives you.  It takes some practice, and maybe even some fundamental changes in your game, to learn to play a bit straighter even when the swing is available.

I don't mean to sound like I am shooting anything down, but I was playing to the right. Although I am a teo-handed bowler, I am more of a power tweener than I ama cranker. I wasn't swinging the ball by any measures. I am a fairly versatile bowler. I can play up 5, 8, 10, swing it, bring it at 20 mph 14 mph(rarely necessary), crank it, forward roll, side roll, spinner style, backwards, etc. But even standing at ten and playing with my target to the left of me, it wasn't enough. All of my better days are from "squaring up". When I was hitting the pocket, I could carry. 4 pin, 4 9, 7, all sorts of things. I'll post a video tomorrow.