I've been bowling in the same house for a year if not two!

Not my favorite place either!  Now I've gone to a new house where the lefties are known to really shine!  Why not!?

Well this place does carry but hitting the pocket is harder than my previous house.
Stronger equipment is used often and most players swing much less than my two year home.

I just can't get comfortable in this new place and the mids are really wet.

One of the old old salts of the place,(no not as old as Sawbones!).  Saw me and said you just can't swing the ball that much here.  Well I'd heard that and even when I felt I was playing up the boards I'm told I swing too much for this house.  10 to 5 is too much?

Anyway I said I'm trying to do that!  He said, "let me give you an idea!".

Slide no farther right(lefty) than board 21.  You are drifting a little bit to 24.  You'll hit the pocket here but you won't flush it like You should!

I didn't tear them up but I had a nice shot at tearin em up!  If my spare maker was like other decent bowlers I would have finished 230 230 with starts stronger than that!

I saw other better bowlers who really struggle this night and I noticed these righties drifting to the right(correction I meant LEFT!) and getting to much swing and catching hang on many shots.

Me I just tried to nail my slide to 21!  Now the point is not that 21 is the magic board but that the straighter approach allows one to swing less!

Now I've got my approach down but it's sticky on the synthetics this night!

I really can't get my front knee bent the way I like(don't you love how when one is bowling good that knee is bent and it allows you to project very strongly and accurately down the your intended line!).

Well when I am sticking I just can't do that.

A fellow on the other team was complaining of the same thing.  On his team is a guy with a slide sock.  He was coaching his guy and said "since you don't have slide sock lets put on a weaker dexter heel".

Well I've tried the red number 7 and I just skid right through the gate.
My very used #4 is sticking but my hardly used #5 is sticking more!  Weird!

I hear almost as old salt(No Not as old as Sawbones!) tell this guy, about his also weaker heel.   "The edge on that shoe is too SHARP!, especially for synthetics."

I instantly looked down at my #5 heel and see that the front edge is much sharper than my very used #4!  Ah,  a strong rubbing of two heels one on the edge of the #5 starts to slightly round that sucker right off.

Now the #5 is slidier than my old #4!  Ideal!!!!  Now I've got that bent front knee!  mmmmm mmmmm good!  Could have maybe done some serious damage.

REgards,

Luckylefty
PS on the pair next to me I saw a lefty really show me how to play.
279 first and I thought he was going to go 300 second but got another 9 in the ninth!  788.  To me it almost looked like he could have really shot about 840!
But that is another lesson I saw there!
PPS I mentioned the rounded heel edge to my pro friend and he said, "Oh yeah, when I was on tour and we were sticking we just rounded off more with a knife!".  Oh, hmm, I've only been stickin on synthetics for two years.  Thanks!
PPPS, I've noticed single heel linds were not sticking as much always than dexters!  Is this the secret!, more rounding of the front edge?  Anyone know?
Sawbones?

Edited on 10/3/2003 8:55 AM

Bull,

Those sound like good ideas!!!

I'm sort of the type of person where I have so many facets to my life that I find that I only find solutions when either focused on that one area very directly or as I take focus off then return and look at it a new way.

My friend and great pro is a great guy.  More and more often I'll say to him, oh so and so gave me a great idea, and he'll reply "oh, I could have told you that!".  Me, I'm thinking, "it would have been good!"

Anyway at this point I'm just glad I learned about all these ideas regarding my sliding problem!

Note I have always done all my damage on wood approaches!  Maybe now a little bit can come on synthetics!

REgards,

Luckylefty
PS does anyone know?  are the front slide edges of Linds more rounded than the dexters out of the box?  How about ABS in comparison to the others?  
PPS now that I know about front edge on the shoes I am going to get my different heels to look the same as my broken in #4 so they can all maintain their difference they are suppossed to have!  Ie my $5 was not sliding more than my #4, now it will.
PPPS above referring to righties swinging the ball too much on this wet midlane shot, I referenced sliding too far to the right!  Obviously I meant left!