BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: avabob on May 21, 2016, 02:13:50 PM
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I bowled on a house shot in one league this season and enjoyed it. I have had more opportunity than many to play on sport patterns than many of you over the last few years and consider it a great challenge. Coming back and competing on a house shot I realized that it presents just as much challenge as a sport pattern. You need power and accuracy both, and you need to respect the house shot the same way you do a flatter pattern
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I enjoy both. I throughly enjoy practicing on sport,tobeable to blow the doors off of a THS. However in my area, all THS have seemed to get harder, one center put out a nifty out of bounds. One doesn't oil the middles as much, one has a terrible lane surface, etc.
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The trick is respecting the condition no matter what it is. For the first 7 or 8 weeks I pounds the pocket and carried bad without really trying to make adjustments like I would on a sport shot. My average hovered around 210 while some pretty poor players in my opinion were closer to 230. The last 24 weeks I made some equipment changes and some adjustments on the lane and ended the season in the 220's
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My local house shot is almost a reverse block I guess...bone dry down the middle and flooded outside...it's frustrating at times and almost as hard a pattern as I've ever played...you have zero miss room inside or outside
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My house changes the shot every month, so you are not always bowling on the same thing. Everyone seems to like it and there are a couple of months that the shot is really close to a flat sport shot. The scores are low 3 of the 4 weeks and averages dip during those months.