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stopncrank

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need some opinions please...
« on: September 04, 2009, 02:53:42 AM »
before i start you can check my pap and rev rate in my profile along with arsenal stats. im bowling two leagues this fall on back to back nights in the same center. wednesday is a mixed fun league. four person teams, with at least one woman. thursday is men's league, five man teams. wednesdays im averaging 230+ and really can do no wrong. thursdays are a different story. the lane conditions deteriorate so rapidly on thursdays that by the end of the 1st game im inside of 20. most of my high end balls i just leave in the bag because of the over reaction i get off the dry. the manager and lane man have already heard complaints, so in an effort to comply so to speak with the bowlers they upped the units of oil from 90 to 120, to no avail though it broke down the same again last night. lol what kills me is most of the teams got wind of more oil and what did they do, half brought virtual gravitys and upper end stuff SANDED and using them for three games. i started with my dynamo x2, then had to scale down to an eraser by the second and third games. yeah i know i shouldnt complain, but dry lanes are no fun to me. so how do i combat this guys? the only thing i have left to do is redrill a couple of balls with some longer pin to pap distances to promote more length. thinking of plugging my tropical and redrilling at 5 to 5 1/2" pin to pap. i have bowled for over 20 years now, ive loved every minute of it, but im to the point of getting aggrevated, so it looks like i might have to change my whole game to stay competitive or just give it up. sorry rant off lol.
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Re: need some opinions please...
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 10:58:40 AM »
Well, when the lanes start to get a little toasty and the shot breaks down I usually just take my Neptune, move right and square up a little bit.  I find that I can stay competetive that way.  I may not strike as much as before, but I will stay in the game and still shoot some decent scores.

Have you thought about getting something like a Neptune or even The Natural, the urethane ball from Storm?  Either one of those might be a solution for you.
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Re: need some opinions please...
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 11:12:16 AM »
Welcome to the world of THS for a men's league.  I would say do what I saw a lot of people do last year at our place...Throw Plastic the last game...When you can swing a White Dot 25 boards it is really beyond dry.

stopncrank

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Re: need some opinions please...
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2009, 11:20:40 AM »
well its a combination of things for my guys. one i long for the urethane days, dont get me wrong i love the sport even as it is today. it just amazes me that guys with literally half my rev rate playing as deep and in some cases deeper than me, granted with a virtual gravity but still you get my point. plastic is a viable option at this point, and i have though about the nautral, but dang i already have a trunk load of balls as it is. the second thing is if everybody would play the pattern right it would probably hold up alot better but you know how typical league bowlers do it, throw the strongest thing in your bag, even if it only works for a couple frames right? heaven forbid they actually move to the right a little bit ya know?
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JohnP

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Re: need some opinions please...
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2009, 11:42:31 AM »
Urethane.  --  JohnP

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Re: need some opinions please...
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2009, 11:55:17 AM »
Don't know what you want from us, you already know the answer.

stopncrank

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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2009, 12:00:48 PM »
i guess its just more of a rant lol. i just get irritated because i worked my arse off coming up learning my game adding revs along the way, now a days you just shell out 200 bucks and get free hook in a box. my rev rate is my greatest advantage and disadvantage at the same time lol. i wish i could use my virtual for 3 games lol. instead im lucky if i can use a hot rod or angle evolution pearl for three games.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2009, 11:51:06 PM »
Kinda in the same boat. I don't struggle anymore on dry, it took alot of experimenting with different drillings,coverstocks,and core's. You will get it. Good luck.