Contrary to bones belief, flinging doesn't work everywhere.  I have been bowling for 3 years in a house where this just isn't possible.  The problem was it took me 3 years to figure it out.  I have always been a tweener that preferred to play 17 at the arrows out to 7 or 8.  While this shot works, it opens up no area for me and makes it extremly easy for me to push it through the breakpoint.  I miss outside, no recovery.  I miss inside, dive through the nose and maybe even brooklyn (at least early in the night...late in night its just dead through the center of the headpin).  While I had been averaging OK in one league at 192 with 600s in 4 or 5 weeks in a row, that was because I make a lot of spares and throw a double here or there.  None of those 600s were above 625.

I am now convinced stroking the ball like a girl up the boards is the only way to go.  The last 3 sets out there have been 660 640 and 660 and I am now up to 199.  With the 2nd game transistion killing me every time.  Right now, I am using my weak Time Zone standing 16 and going straight up 6.  This line kills the pins, and seems to anywhere else I have bowled (even on "wall" shots).  It opens me up a board or two more of area (so I have 2 or 3 on a good night now!), and doesn't leave near as many corners, unless I get a bit fast.

So flinging isnt for everyone everywhere.  Even with todays crazy easy oil patterns, there are still centers that are not giving in, and truly rely on consistancy of release and speed for you to score well.  anyone agree with me?

Hose, Bones, one leg at a time please.
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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel

Bones

This shot definitly isn't a reverse block, as those there is a much more pronounced out of bounds than what I am seeing.  It is just extreemly loose backend I think and a fairly short pattern (39' i think).  However with the oil volume in the center and the small block outside, I want to see a flinger come around and score well in the first few times he bowls here.  There just isn't that amount of area on the lane.  

The only guys that avg 200 in this house are truly consistant bowlers.  Their speed, revs, timing, and target are very close to the same on a regular basis.  We do not have any true house bowlers here (at least not with an average above 190), and most of us score better anywhere else.

We held a tournament here not too long ago and watched some of these flingers come in and average 170 for a 4 game block, and of the people to cash 4 of the 10 were from that center (only 5 bowled).

My point isn't that flinging is not a major part of the game, and it will only be a matter of time before we see it on tour, but that it hasn't reached that point yet, and if your only game is flinging, you will not score everywhere everytime (even on other peoples house shots).