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mrwizerd

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Tight lane explanation
« on: January 29, 2016, 04:48:49 PM »
I feel I should know the answer to this, but when someone says the lanes are tight what do they mean?
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txbowler

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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2016, 05:05:41 PM »
For me, tight means not a lot of hook on the backends.  So long patterns, greater than 43 foot, or even some shorter patterns that have a very high volume of oil.

If I throw my normal strike line and I miss the head pin (assuming I did nothing wrong) then the line I chose to play is playing tight.

Tight lanes = slick lanes
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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2016, 05:37:00 PM »
Tight to me means that the lanes have no forgiveness. You miss in or out you're gonna pay the price. You gotta be spot on
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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2016, 06:54:50 PM »
Quote from: mrwizerd on January 29, 2016, 04:48:49 PM
I feel I should know the answer to this, but when someone says the lanes are tight what do they mean?

Tight lanes are ones that are not hooking much, oily, not much room for error.
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avabob

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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2016, 09:14:57 PM »
Term goes way back. You can't hook the ball much because of oil
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mrwizerd

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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2016, 07:15:07 PM »
Thank you everyone for your responses.  A heavy oil condition with little room for error makes sense when describing a tight lane condition.
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scotts33

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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2016, 08:43:24 AM »
Tight can mean a lot of things to many.  For me tight has meant for years tight backends which would mean you have carry down or could be duller balls burning up and less reaction on backend.  With the advent of new lane conditioning machines using stripper....that function in them we can see poor machine maintenance that will not allow the stripper to work correctly and you either leave film or stripper on the lanes and therefore you got shoddy ball performance.

So, tight doesn't always mean more volume and less miss room.  You can have a THS with poorly maintained backends that are tight and won't allow reactive resin bowling balls to use friction to their advantage.
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Re: Tight lane explanation
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2016, 02:22:04 PM »
Scott explanation is what I was thinking. I ususally use the term comparing one lane to the other. In houses that have bad lane machines you often see one lane with a slick spot down lane or that plays with less hook and forgiveness. Some tines carry down will create a similar situation. I would describe the less forgiving lane as playing tighter than the other.
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