Before putting my shoes on for leagues, one of the bowlers on the other team said, "we bowled on this pair last night, and everyone kept leaving 10 pins." Well, all night long everyone with different styles and different lines/angles to the pocket kept leaving not only the 10 pin, but also 7 pins. Back row pins as well.

For me, I did all that I know in my bag of tricks to carry the corners. I guess I have a small bag, or just sucked like everyone else. I played different rolls, lines, angles, balls, and I had the pocket. I'd see the light, but that door closed quickly. The rest of the folks had their own battles with corners. Though, I started thinking of what that guy on the other team said. But I refused to believe him, because I've bowled on this pair and shot 711 not to long ago.

Finally, I switched balls and made a big jump. I played deeper than everyone else, like that one Timeless ball reviewer who said he can play 30 to 7 and even 35 to 7 lol.. Seriously though, I did move that far and had a 3 bagger. then lost it....9/ for the next 7 frames. I left 10's, a 9 pin and a 7.. at this point had lost it mentally and missed 3 10 pins.. just few days ago, I was 100% on all single pin leaves in 3 squads..

All of us couldn't get it going, no one had more than a turkey. A lot of 9/ on the board......now i think that dude was right....

Were both lanes doing it, or primarily one lane?  If it was one lane, I might suspect that the pin setter may have been off spot with a pin on a fresh rack.  If it was both lanes then I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't something in the way the lane pattern developed that caused the ball to go through the pin deck oddly. It would be like having a ball the gives you a 4 pin/10 pin reaction, but instead of the ball doing it, it is the lane pattern. Curious to hear about whether that pair is doing it again next week

Both lanes....

by the time we got to the end of the second game, two of the bowlers could not carry the 7 pin. Right hand bowlers too. I left 3 or 4 all day. We all were shaking our heads. every strike was a celebration and we cheered each other on. those points didn't matter anymore it seems. we just wanted to see strikes like the guys next to us.

Guys on the other team, well two or three of them couldn't believe as well. there was a lttle "coaching" going on to lol... we were not against each other anymore... we were against the rack.

in the end, even dropping a stick or two in average, losing all our points, missing 5 single pins all day after being 100% the last tournament and being 92% single pin spare shooter for the year...... I HAD FUN!!

Before putting my shoes on for leagues, one of the bowlers on the other team said, "we bowled on this pair last night, and everyone kept leaving 10 pins."

Something to make you go hmmmm.

If that player hadn't said that at the start, Would it have still happened?

Lane 21 in my local center is a notorious 5-7-10 lane - no matter how much hand you have.  Hit'em the wrong way, and you're leaving the Lilly. 

It's the only lane in the house that I've seen it left - it clearly has it's own MO.  When I'm bowling on it, I try to pack the pocket instead of going for a light mixer on that lane...

Quote from: Impending Doom on February 17, 2017, 12:21:10 PM

The house I grew up in was notorious for this. 7&8 were particularly tricky. 7 would carry nice, but on 8, there was a HUGE hang spot in front of the 1-3, so much that you had to to get the ball going high to get it to fall back to carry.

That could be caused by lane topography.

Oh, the surface was crap. Wood that didn't get replaced until 2000, and even then the place is a brick house

The guys on the pair to our right who were carrying all night, well that pair had produced many honor scores. I've been keeping track since Wayne Webb was still in the building.

Many bowlers have had 300/800 on that pair and high series.

It's kinda funny how this has changed over the years.

With wood lanes each pair generally had a unique personality. Bowling in your home house where you knew what those were was a huge advantage. There were certain pairs that were high scoring, some pairs where the lanes were mismatched in how to play them, some pairs/lanes that seemed to need a certain angle to get a corner pin to kick out.

With synthetic lanes and modern lane machines most pairs generally play the same now. Maybe a flat gutter is a little deeper, maybe a kick board not as lively here an there. But other than some pairs on the end of the house the line to pocket is generally the same within a board.