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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Zanatos1914 on February 21, 2013, 12:53:59 PM
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After watching this video..... :-[
I might not purchase a new ball for a while....
http://vimeo.com/35679878
Is this really true......
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Seems that it is very true. Surface dictates everything on a house shot.
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Zan, just imagine zero room to the right and zero room to the left.
9/ is a GREAT frame.
190+ is a GREAT game.
Seriously, there is no room to leak the ball wide and no hold room to miss inside.
At least the PBA animal patterns have shape to them, this one......not so much.
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No joke. I want to roll one set on this pattern. I think it will show just
how fortunate I am to bowl on a 10-1 house shot every week.
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My approach to this pattern is defensive. I just try to manage my game and make spares, strike when I can, just trying to stay in play and "get through".
The key is to avoid the catastrophe.
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One small thing to note, is that on brand new lanes, this is true. If you were to put the US Open pattern on older lanes, where thousands of bowlers have played the track, there will be more friction in the track area of the lane surface, and that can give you a very small amount of miss area as well.
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Agreed. Wear of the lanebeds will dictate where you play. But, play as straight as possible, and stay nice to it at the bottom of the swing.
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If you want to try a "U. S. Open" type condition and are bowling in Reno, give the BTM a shot. Usually the pattern they put down is pretty close to it.
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The house I bowl at Wednesday nights has put this down a few times this season. What Impending Doom says is correct. Straighter is greater since there is virtually no room to miss. 9/ will be your best friend on this pattern. If you can score 190+, then you've had a really good game on it.
In my case, I typically go with the solids (Defiant, Outlaw), and I keep the speed a bit lower than usual to allow for better midlane/backend reaction.
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Its these types of patterns that teach you what the important part of the lane to watch is. When you control the midlane, it becomes much easier... well, as easier as it gets on that pattern.
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Yes, OP. It is very true. U.S. Open shot seperates the men from the boys. Gotta check the ego at the door. Think of the house shot as the minors, where you go to get ready for the bigs. Kind of makes the house averages at the beginning of the presentation look rather silly, doesn't it. Of course, not all patterns are as or should be as difficult as the U.S. Open, but I dare say most shouldn't be as easy as the THS. Of course this depends on the individual and what they are looking to get out of the sport of bowling.
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Modern balls can turn any condition easy if the pattern is attacked correctly, because the balls burn so much oil up as a track is estblished.
I bolwed on a 50 foot sport pattern recently against a bunch of seniors. Scores were super high, because everyone started out playing right up second arrow, and in no time we had hold area at 15 board and some out angle. I talked to a very good young guy about this later, and he joked that it was a good thing the kids werent playing on it because they would have tried to open them up inside right out of the box and blown up the pattern for everyone.