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vlor

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Reverse block
« on: July 31, 2003, 02:37:46 PM »
Last season I had the honor of bowling on a 36 foot reverse block in a scratch tournament. This was my first time on this particular shot and to say the least I did not set the world on fire. The problem I had was getting my ball to the break point and when I moved to where I could find enough oil inside, I would send my ball thru the break point.Anything outside 7 board on this shot was out of bounds, if the ball didn`t go into the ditch you could be guarenteed the 4,7,8. I`m lefthanded.

Given the information in my profile, what would be the best way to attack this kind of pattern.

 

mumzie

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2003, 09:14:22 AM »
The fallback shot sometimes will work on a reverse block. Depends on HOW dry the middle is. Play a tight line to the pocket - I've gone in with my spare ball and played straight up 15.
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KennyRambo

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2003, 06:23:43 PM »
"People who can only swing the ball several boards fight this condition while those who can comfortably throw down and in can do quite well."

At JOG this year the opposite was true...



vlor

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2003, 07:07:09 PM »
Thanks all for the tips. This tournament is being held again this winter and I`m going to bowl in it again. I guess I`m just too stubborn to let a little thing like lane condition beat me. Must be an age thing.

Mumzie, what`s a fade away shot?

Bones, your suggestions make a lot of sense to me. I have trouble increasing my ball speed above what it is now, but I am going to purchase either a XXL OR XXXL this fall and this may be the way to go.

Bob, I did try to shoot break point at 10 board at first because this is where the regional guys were playing. But all my equipment was pearl reactive and my ball speed wasn`t even near what these young lions were generating. didn`t  think of trying my blue dot on this shot.

Gravy

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2003, 07:51:48 PM »
VLOR,
   My thinking on how to bowl on a reverse block is different then what most people do. Most people try to play very deep. The problem is the ball hooks to early tends to leave splits and washes. Very hard to get a string longer than 3 in a row or even hit the pocket 3 shots in a row. So what do you do? why not play outside through the oil? If you play a slight point shot across 5 board. Now you get some length and you know you will have backends. You can not swing this shot. What might happen is that you have 1 board left of your target and 1 board right of your target. I did this last weekend. I used a medium reacting ball. I used a viper. Throw a medium speed 15-16 mph, adjust speed according to the ball reaction (not quite hooking up- slow down speed, hooking up to early speed up the ball). What happened to me, I started with the first 6 strikes, tapped on 7th. Everyone else were all over the place and I was whacking the pocket and bowling easy( single pin spares) I was lucky because I bowled on flooded lanes and practiced the point off the corner shoot. It's a shot that needs practice. It paid off for me, won decent bracket $. Just my out of the box thinking.

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2003, 01:06:15 AM »
This is off subject to some extent, but I have a question. I often have heard bowlers talk about that this shot was a reverse block or that. Many of the times I have known for a fact that there was nothing reverse about it. What they were actually facing was a pattern that was almost or totally flat. If you run 15 units or 20 units, whatever edge to edge, it will most likely have an out of bounds and depending on the length will dictate where you have to play. No tug area, no swing, just accuracy or die. So, is or was the condition flat or did they really run more on the outside than in the middle?

vlor

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Re: Reverse block
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2003, 03:36:09 AM »
Tex,
   this was deffinately a reverse block. If you check my profile you will see that my league average is on a sport shot. the reverse block type of pattern is very little oil in the heads from 10 to 10  and a flood usually from 10 board out.