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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Sebastian Koch
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Edited on 6/4/2008 4:28 PM

I would agree witht the bowlerslidesock.  I order them 2 at a time.  I never have to think about the approaches any where.  In past years while everybody would complain about sticky approaches at Nationals I would not have any problem.  I can go from wood to synthetic without changing anything.  I wear it right overtop of my Dexter SSt7.  I also bought them for my wife and mother.  The diffrent colors and design help.  I bowl in many diffrent houses and never have a problem.  Example from last night...Huge thunderstorms roll thru my area about 5:00 pm.  Humidity goes up very high we bowl at 6:15.  teams on lanes right nezxt to mine all complaining of sticking approaches center cleans approaches bowlers still complaining one guys goes head first down the lane.  I go over to see and grab my ball and slide no problem and throw a strike.  I think I may have sold at least 2 more bowlerslidesocks last night because of this.