last night finally my first experience in this league. Played these shots many times on the practice session at this house which is held the last 10 pairs of the alley and if one is open and available to bowl on.

I practiced Chameleon and was the same shot in league. I couldn't get the ball right to save my life most of the time and even then which I thought the break was about the 8 board if I got it right then that I left a light pocket split or washout or one shot in the channel. Never really got easy spares to shoot at when I missed. My slide leg was hurting from all the bowling I did on the weeked and was difficult to get leverage and speed. Every time I moved left it still hooked brooklyn. I ended up moving to 40 around the 5th arrow to the 10 board and finnally got a good reaction at the end. But that was after shooting 160's my first 3 games.
How do you play this shot? Is it speed sensitive to where you need higher speed? I saw other guys that got it to the pocket with higher revs but but had higher ball speed then me also.

Sounds more like the ball you was using.  I have found from over time that ball choice on these patterns for me is about 75% of the battle.  If you have the wrong ball in your hand this pattern (and the rest) will play a lot hard, even impossible.  Depending on if I''m on wood or synthetic I''ll play anywhere from 6-7 at the arrows all the way to 20-25 out to 9-10.  There is no set place to play but you want to keep your breakpoint inside 5, sometimes even 10.  On wood lanes I''ll start with a Hyroad playing around 13-15 out to 6-8.  On synthetic I''ll use a Virtual Gravity with weaker drilling and play a little straighter with less side roll, and switch to a Virtual Energy or along those lines as they breakdown.  The biggest thing I see from amature''s on these patterns is using balls with too much skid/flip.  But to answer your question all these patterns are speed sensitive, and you don''t really have to have a high ball speed/rev rate to score well, just the right ball and line.

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last night finally my first experience in this league. Played these shots many times on the practice session at this house which is held the last 10 pairs of the alley and if one is open and available to bowl on.

I practiced Chameleon and was the same shot in league. I couldn''t get the ball right to save my life most of the time and even then which I thought the break was about the 8 board if I got it right then that I left a light pocket split or washout or one shot in the channel. Never really got easy spares to shoot at when I missed. My slide leg was hurting from all the bowling I did on the weeked and was difficult to get leverage and speed. Every time I moved left it still hooked brooklyn. I ended up moving to 40 around the 5th arrow to the 10 board and finnally got a good reaction at the end. But that was after shooting 160''s my first 3 games.
How do you play this shot? Is it speed sensitive to where you need higher speed? I saw other guys that got it to the pocket with higher revs but but had higher ball speed then me also.

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Edited on 6/8/2010 8:20 PM