Aloha Fellow BR Members,

Today, I write to you asking about adjusting your target(s) on the lanes. I struggle with adjustments, and would love to hear everyone's opinions on a few things: El Paso then general adjustment questions.

I went to El Paso last week, and experienced two completely different transitions on the team and doubles/singles patterns.  For teams, my adjustment on the lanes was keeping the same breakpoint (the 9/10 area) and just scooting my feet left/further in as the lanes started reading earlier.  During teams, I also downshelled from an IQ Tour Nano at 2k to a Totally Defiant at 1k with some shine).  My breakpoint never really moved, but how I got there did. 

For doubles/singles, my adjustment on the lanes was to moving my breakpoint as I moved further in with my feet (breakpoint starting around 11, and finishing around 15).  During doubles/singles, I used my IQ Tour Nano at 2k. All my other gear was either reading too soon or had trouble reading the breakpoint...I'll be honest, I had trouble reading what the others balls were doing. 

I do have video from El paso, and I'm going to try ripping some clips onto YouTube so we can have video evidence of the above.

Questions about El Paso:

• In your best guess, what caused the difference in adjustments on fairly similar patterns?
• As mentioned earlier, during the doubles/singles event I struggled understanding the difference between a ball that read early and poops out in the back and a ball that didn't read at all and had no backend.  What cues do you guys look for to better understand this?

And general questions about adjustments:

• When do you guys use parallel adjustments (say move 2 with your feet and 2 with your eyes)?  When do you use staggered adjustments (say 2 or 3 with your feet and 1 with your eyes)?
• When do you find it best to use a larger staggered adjustment (say 7&3 vs 3&1)?
• When do you find it best to use parallel moves vs. staggered moves?

I'm sure I left out some information, so if you need any more added to this question, just let me know.

Thank you in advance for the help. I hope this turns into a very fruitful discussion - looking forward to it :-)

Just as every bowlers release/game is unique. The adjustments that work for them is unique.

On the THS, once I'm lined up, I make double moves. I move both my feet and my eyes.

If I go a little high on a shot and only move my feet, if I only move my feet my shot will typically going even higher. I project the ball further right earlier into the dry with this move and get a larger reaction. So I need to chase the oil line to stay lined up and project the ball to the old breakpoint.

Most of my moves are 2 with my feet and 1 with my eyes. But in some houses I have moved as much as 5 with my feet and 3 with my eyes depending on how big the wall of oil is.

I am rev dominate to things tend to ever react to the dry. I bowl with several guys who are more speed dominate and they tend to start with their feet and then eventually their eyes. They don't get the hard over reaction that I get when the ball hits the dry. 

Thank you for this info, Pinbuster! It's greatly appreciated.