Hi!

a few month ago a new center has opened here in our city. They take a lot of advice from the bowlers and are willing to fullfill the needs of the more serious bowlers as well as the open bowlers... which are their main income. Hand down.

Some question:

the approaches are so tacky I almost always fall down... it is real hard.
But then they try to polish and clean it... and it almost has no effect. The staff really do their best!
Right now I am using powder to give me at least a bit of a slide.... throws me totally of my timing.

Any idea to make a approach real good for sliding?
(synthetics)

then the lanes... well those are good. the oil pattern is nice but breaks down real fast. Which is not the problem! I like the challenge.

But the backends are so flying.
Is this because the lanes ae brand new? (AMF-Qubica)
or is it just the material?
Will they "break" in or always be so tacky and flying?

The trick on those lanes is to make a very fast and brave decision the right time... first two games... HIGH scores... then the lanes break down within one game so badly... (or at least it seems to me) that you have to move quick and keep moving constantly and adjust.

My decision is to move deeper or switch ball whereas the later was better most times.. I took my weaker pearl and it hooks of the dry like crazy.

So.

Will those lanes... or better to say break in? Or will it stay the same? or is it just a matter of oil pattern?
How can one make an approach better that is so darn tacky?
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Edited on 6/4/2008 4:28 PM

Using powder is a no-no in many houses. Someone else may slip and fall and it would be your fault. Better get some shoes with interchangeable soles and use the #8 or #10 or whatever slides the most.

When our local house put in synthetic lanes they kept the wooden approaches, thank goodness.

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Yes, my local center thankfully took the same approach and kept wooden approaches when they installed synthetic lanes. There is another center in my area that uses synthetic approaches, but they arent as bad as I usually find synthetic approaches to be.

One thing I do notice about myself is that I adjust to it very easily. One or 2 shots of getting stuck and my body seems to adjust automatically, without throwing my timing off. Its wierd, but I don't complain lol.