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Title: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Martin710 on February 25, 2007, 05:46:56 AM
I don't want to start a war but just for fun, it would be interesting to know: in your centers are there more crankers or more strokers amongst 200+ bowlers?

Edited on 2/25/2007 2:45 PM
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Madrox on February 25, 2007, 02:01:11 PM
Strokers up here by far
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: BOWL119 on February 25, 2007, 02:08:53 PM
Strokers from what I have seen.
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Juggernaut on February 25, 2007, 02:11:48 PM
Strokers, by far.

  The proprietor likes to keep the shot just a bit on the dry side ( for me anyways ) and it makes the crankers have to play VERY deep.

  There is also an "out-of-bounds" if you swing the ball all the way out to the ditch. Crankers usually find that the heads and mids hook a touch early, so they adjust their feet to play deep, but have to be careful not to swing it into the no-no zone.

  It is much easier to score here going up the boards than it is to swing them a lot.
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: golfnutFL on February 25, 2007, 02:38:08 PM
Strokers, no doubt about it.
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: DON DRAPER on February 25, 2007, 02:42:13 PM
i think you'll find that except in a league situation with a "house shot", strokers will usually win most of the time-----the pba tour is a good example. most of the winners have been straighter type players who stroke the ball.
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: DON DRAPER on February 25, 2007, 02:53:06 PM
pete weber is not a cranker---he is a power stroker. the two winningest players in the history of the pba, walter ray williams, jr., and earl anthony, are/were strokers.
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Lane1Redneck on February 25, 2007, 03:06:32 PM
Well I can't say for the entire center BUT, in the 2 leagues I'm in and the 2 I sub in..

There are more STROKERS & TWEENERS(power stroker)in the 200+ then CRANKERS..

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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: DON DRAPER on February 25, 2007, 03:12:18 PM
i don't know about that. it's a personal choice like a lot of things. i think it came naturally to mark roth, marshall holman, and robert smith.
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: shelley on February 25, 2007, 03:27:37 PM
Strokers.  We've only got about three guys who would even begin to qualify as crankers, and none of them have the "typical" cranker form like Tommy Jones or Jason Couch.

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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Jock on February 26, 2007, 08:21:57 AM
Hey Andyp99,

Ask Paul Moor, Stu Williams and Robert Kendal (the mintcake)(to name but a few) if no one averages 200 in England.

Paul Moor has actually been Europeen Champion for the last 3 years running (and you can't do that without averaging 200+)  In fact he just (Feb 21 - 25 2007) won the Luxembourg Open with a 227 ave.

Like I said before, have a look at the Talk Tenpin site.
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on February 26, 2007, 08:31:31 AM
Strokers.  A couple "tweeners" also.
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: APheLion on February 26, 2007, 08:56:48 AM
in my gold pin league, nobody plays inside of the third arrow, if in the case there is someone, that would be me. So, in other words, theres no crankers, high rev guys preffers to play straighter since it will give them a better look and higher percentage of carry.

in my case, no crankers = strokers/tweeners win

but from my house, the highest bowlers are tweeners/crankers but its only couple of them
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: nospareball on February 26, 2007, 09:35:11 AM
Highest average on my league is held by a cranker, 2nd is a cranker, everything below that is tweeners and strokers.  Now that I think about it those 2 guys may be the only true crankers in the league.  Lots of strokers, and a few tweeners.  Depending on your definition of the two.
Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on February 26, 2007, 10:42:34 AM
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Well since I would only consider a very small percentage of league bowlers crankers, I would say strokers.



Yeah I would say in my league there are only a few actual crankers and only one that puts up decent scores every now and then.  He doesn't average 200 though...
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Title: Re: Crankers VS Strokers
Post by: skbowl800 on February 26, 2007, 11:03:15 AM
There aren't that many true crankers anymore, alot of guys you might think are "crankers" aren't really crankers, they are tweeners.  A true cranker doesn't really have a slide, more of a stop, plant and pivot.  I would say where I am from there are a couple crankers that avg 200+, and a couple strokers that avg over 200.  Most of the 200+ bowlers around here are tweeners, which stands to reason since most bowlers today truely are tweeners or "power strokers".  Just because a guy has a high rev rate doesn't make him a cranker, Parker Bohn once was qouted as saying his rev rate was as high as 427, would you call him a cranker?