Author Topic: Best way to pick up spares? (Read 6412 times)

punkrawk77 · « **on:** December 23, 2003, 08:52:50 AM »

I hear a lot of people saying to throw straight at your spares, yet i throw a hook when i pick my spares. Is there a right and a wrong way of doing it. I don't use a spare ball at all. I have just one ball, and old Ebonite Gyro blue.

I don't have a big hook, so maybe that is why i can get away with it.

Let me know

AnotherRinger · « **Reply #16 on:** December 24, 2003, 10:05:29 PM »

I'd say it depends. On a house shot, hooking the ball to your spares is quite effective, as the wall helps the ball find it's way to the other side of the headpin, but, on more difficult shots, hooking the ball is actually to your disadvantage.

Personally, I use both. On my normal walled up shot, hooking the lane for the 7 pin is easy, but on difficult flat shots, straight at 'em is definately the more guranteed method.
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CountryClubBowler · « **Reply #17 on:** December 24, 2003, 10:38:41 PM »

The reason I switched from hooking to straight at almost ALL spares cept the 5 was simple. If there was a puddle in the middle of the lane, as there is on most THS, then hooking to a side got kind of wierd. On a fresh sport shot, it was just so darn difficult to hook at em.

Straight means I don't have to change anything about a huge part of my game from house to house. I go straight so I don't have to use my strike ball again, and so that I can be confident that I can get the same spare no matter what the condition.
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10pin2002 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 25, 2003, 02:03:36 PM »

I'm right-handed so:

2,5,8,3 pins: adjust from strike ball
other single pins: straight at them (don't count unless you hit the pin 3 times)

3-6-10: straight
2-4, 2-4-5:Hook
4-7 or 6-10: straight
sleepers: Hook
Durbin: Hook
Bucket: Hook

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Just once I'd like to show up at a place with the lanes FLOODED 45 feet down and flat. That way I can watch these crankers struggle to find the pocket and leave splits while I come straight off the corner and do nothing but make 4 pins and 10 pins all night.

punkrawk77 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 26, 2003, 10:45:43 PM »

Using a hook to knock down my spares has been working quite well. The only time it doesn't is when i have a difficult spare. I guess those are challenging no matter what.

I have found that I can get a 6-10 spare, or 10 pin spare standing way left shooting cross alley but putting some hook on the ball. The last 3 feet or so, the ball will ride down along side the gutter, but not fall in the gutter and not hook out of the way of the 10 pin.

Is this odd? or does anyone else knock down there 10 pins that way?

shotmaker · « **Reply #20 on:** December 27, 2003, 08:49:56 AM »

Forgot to mention one of the benefits of my method (posted earlier in this thread). I pick up 90% of my spares over the middle arrow, I just have different starting points for my feet. Also, since I throw straight I always use the same line to my spare. Imagine how easy it is to pick up spares when you always throw at them the same no matter what the condition.

LuvThatWhiteDot · « **Reply #21 on:** December 27, 2003, 12:36:44 PM »

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Durbin: Hook

Pardon my ignorance, but what's a Durbin?

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