i guess its time for me to try to cave on this subject. for 15 years i have used my strike ball and just moved left, killed the wrist and thrown over the center arrow. lately for some reason i have been shaving the 10 pin to the left or missing it all together. last season in 30 weeks i converted 65% of my 10 pins which isnt that great. I average 207 and bowl one night a week. i feel good using my strike ball for any spare on the left, i just hook it into it. as for the right side i have been missing them to the left a lot. SO....... should i get a plastic 10 pin spare ball? i still have to hit my mark but this should cut down in missing the 10 pin to the left, right? what percentage of people use a seperate, plastic spare ball? should i go down a pound to 15 if i do? i use all 16 lb stuff.

To look at it another way, why put wear and tear on a 200+ dollar reactive ball, when a 60.00 plastic ball will do the same thing, maybe better?

It boils down to practice.   I used to think it was necessary to have a plastic ball for the 10 pin spare (right handed), but after a league seeing Purvis Granger pick up spare by just flattening the hand.  I converted.  Was finally convinced me was seeing other people using spare balls and still have a poor conversion average when it comes to picking the 10 pin/7 pin.  On a good night, I usually pick up the all my corner pins, on a bad I might go down to 60 percent.  Due to lack of practice.  Which is about the same when I was using plastics for corner.

So use or don't use is up to you.  Practice however is required.  By the way, the change in your sparing average is probably to a small change in your delivery.  It helps a lot if you can have someone knowledgeable observe you bowl.

 

Hope to have helped.

 

Edited by ambi1 on 12/15/2011 at 0:52 AM