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ccrider

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How to attack this pattern?
« on: May 09, 2007, 04:31:52 AM »
The house that I bowl at put down a 38ft even oil pattern, buffed 2 feet, and then dry on our last league night. Noone scored high. The highest series was 568.

Any suggestion on how to play this pattern. The owner says it was a USBC professional pattern.

Thanks

Charles

 

shelley

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Re: How to attack this pattern?
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2007, 12:43:27 PM »
Sounds very much like the US Open pattern.  The length and buff areas may be different, but since there's plenty of oil on the outside, you pretty much can't get it right of 10, maybe 9 or 8 with real rolly stuff.  Oiling flat to 38 feet means there's still a lot of oil in the buff on those outside boards (usually there is on the inside, since the inside's usually oiled 35+ feet anyway).

Playing far outside will be tough since there's so little friction to react to.  A real tight line usually works well.  Inside or the track area can work, but don't put your breakpoint outside of 10.  Watching the US Open shows in the last few years where they've played real deep, most are putting their breakpoints around 12-13.

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ccrider

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Re: How to attack this pattern?
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2007, 12:45:30 PM »
Is there a way to play it effectively down and in?

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Re: How to attack this pattern?
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2007, 01:31:58 PM »
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Is there a way to play it effectively down and in?


Sure there is...just gotta make sure you are accurate enough to mark and consistently hit 1/2 board targets and then make moves off of that all the while keeping your rev rate, speed, axis rotation, tilt, and angle ALL THE SAME.

Oh yeah...better make sure you have the right ball too!

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Re: How to attack this pattern?
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2007, 01:35:12 PM »
I agree pretty much with what Shelley said, with one caveat: while this is a flat pattern, it isn't all that long.  Typically the longer the pattern the more to the middle it will force you.  On this one I'd start at 10 and see what I had, being prepared to move left.  I'd guess that, as Shelley said, outside of 10 is pretty much OB.  I would probably not use anything really aggressive either.
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