Well guys, does the attached statement hold any truth?

Who is the judge of talent?  If bowling was just about technique, timing and release no one would have ever beaten David Ozio in the 90's.

Succesful styles have always been a product of the environment.  I once watched a video of a match of Ned Days from late in his career.  For you young guys Day was generally considered the greatest bowler of his era until Don Carter came along.  Day threw a big looping full roller with a figure eight release.  His follow through seldom went the same way twice, sometimes up, sometimes across his body, sometimes in between.  He shot close to 700 in the 3 game Championship bowling match, defeating a 21 year old Glenn Allison who had a great style but couldn't crack 600 in the match.

In fact, look at many of the greatest of all time.  Carter with his pitter patter approach and bent arm swing.  Weber coming up out of every shot with his right foot coming around to balance out his approach.  Roth taking any number of steps and literally over powering the lanes with loft and turn.     

Think about this as you tout the blessing of resin balls.

Where would resin balls be without walled up lanes.

Evidence shows, there would be about a 50 pin drop in average for many people.

Actually I totally disagree.  Resin balls don't need a wall to be valuable.  In fact the biggest advantage of resin balls to me is on long flat patterns.   Resin balls create more friction for hitting power than urethane or plastic.  That is all.  They are not radar guided and do not give you more margin of error on the lane.  If you are throwing the ball all over the lane, you are not winning with resin, even on house shots. 

As long as we are on this topic, I cant believe how few people give bowlers any credit for being much more talented and knowledgeable than years ago.   When I look back at my skills and knowledge when I was 23 years old compared to today at 68 it is mind boggling.  Send me back to 1970 with the skill and versatility I have today and I would dominate the bowlers in our area at that time using only the equipment we had then.

The good young bowlers today are so much more talented and knowledgeable than I was at their age.     

My only point is/was, how can you have a 50-60 pin discrepancy between house and sport averages with the same equipment being used for both? Bowler isn't a high rev guy who creates area with revs. He is a by product of equipment. Many of us are. But I'm a 20 pin difference (230-210), which I take pride in. But being a high rev guy, I'm told that my revs are the reason I score. Which is when I tell them, the equipment is why you are. Who is right in this instance?

P.S.- I averaged 217 for half a league with plastic on house. So I see an extra strike a game by using reactive. My teammates on the other hand, lose 2 strikes a game with me using plastic 

People, especially younger people, argue that bowling has evolved along with all of the technology that comes with it.  I would argue that the game has devolved.

Someone said you need a wall for resin to be effective.  For resin to be effective, you need squeaky clean back ends which was made possible by machines that both strip and oil at the same time.  Prior to sanction machine technology, stripping happened at most one a week and usually just a couple of times a month.

Balls are stronger, hook more, hit harder but somehow the pins haven't gotten harder to knock down but easier.  Double void pins, bouncy pin decks and kickbacks all make striking easier.  How many times on TV have you seen a bowler leave a solid 8 or 9 and the announcer says the balls simply don't respect the pins?

Until bowling gets back to a place where weak half pocket shots are met with pocket splits not kamikaze scouts, I will simply say that I don't see the game ever returning to a respected sport. 

Quote from: Urethane Game on March 30, 2016, 08:18:52 AM

People, especially younger people, argue that bowling has evolved along with all of the technology that comes with it.  I would argue that the game has devolved.

Someone said you need a wall for resin to be effective.  For resin to be effective, you need squeaky clean back ends which was made possible by machines that both strip and oil at the same time.  Prior to sanction machine technology, stripping happened at most one a week and usually just a couple of times a month.

Balls are stronger, hook more, hit harder but somehow the pins haven't gotten harder to knock down but easier.  Double void pins, bouncy pin decks and kickbacks all make striking easier.  How many times on TV have you seen a bowler leave a solid 8 or 9 and the announcer says the balls simply don't respect the pins?

Until bowling gets back to a place where weak half pocket shots are met with pocket splits not kamikaze scouts, I will simply say that I don't see the game ever returning to a respected sport. 

Every era is different.  Each subsequent era of bowling poses different challenges.  To insinuate participants today are lesser bowlers simply because they aren't using extinct equipment or extinct lane maintenance programs in idiotic.

No matter which ere you feel is superior, there will be someone who says that era "cheated".

my ball had a pre-drilled diff of .0604. I did cheat