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tenpin477

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How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« on: October 04, 2008, 09:07:42 AM »
I finally got a chance to bowl today after a nearly 2 month layoff due to school.

Me and my father went to practice, bowled about 10 minutes of practice, then bowled for score.

First game I went 9- 9- then threw 9 in a row, on a burnt up THS that was bowled on by a youth league early in the morning.

255 first game out there door, then ran into some sick carry issues due to the extreme lack of oil, but nevertheless. It was after this that I greatly missed my PBA League over the summer lol.

 

tenpin477

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2008, 01:11:40 PM »
I wish I could my friend, but I don't have time to bowl league anymore, at least not this year.

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2008, 01:55:26 PM »
Being a good bowler has alot to do with it.

Carry happens from hitting the pocket correctly.

If you keep leaving ten pins then you need to adjust to carry it.

Good bowlers will realize this and adjust accordingly.

Like I said carry is not luck or magic. You must hit the pocket correctly.

Are there times when you do get lucky and carry something you shouldn't? Yes

But those are the exception not the rule.



86camaroman

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2008, 02:27:02 PM »
Joshy dont pay attention to crowned he doesnt know what he is talking about. Everyone knows that no matter how good you are you cant kick the corners out everytime but if you leave one every shot its you not the pin you arent hitting the pocket correctly and need a minor adjustment. Also ball roll can help determine carry. If you have good roll on your ball you will carry better then someone who doesnt.

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2008, 03:06:19 PM »
So if I consistently leave flat tens then I am a good bowler?

Being consistent allows you to adjust and understand how your ball will react with that adjustment.

It is not always the line that needs adjustment sometimes its wrist position sometimes its speed sometimes its  finger placement sometimes its an adjustment in your release etc.
 
Good bowlers will make the necessary adjustments to score. Being consistent allows you to make adjustments and still deliver the ball the same in those adjustments time after time.

You are pretty limited if all you can do is change your line. You need to make other adjustments at different times. The ability to make those adjustments and deliver the ball the same each time is what makes a bowler good.


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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #35 on: October 05, 2008, 03:36:15 PM »
It was in reference to you saying that consistency makes you a good bowler it wasn't at the OP.

I am not trying to argue.

You feel free to believe that the only adjustment you need to make is the line you play if you aren't carrying.


86camaroman

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2008, 04:26:51 PM »
Again you have no clue what your talking about crowned and josh dont sweat him he is an idiot. Maybe everyone on your pair was on a pair that the pins were off spot. We obviously know that wasnt the case if he shot 250 then 180 180 Of course I have never in my life seen everybody on a pair hit the pocket flush the whole night and then again I have never even seen everyone on one pair just hit in the pocket the whole night. Sounds like total bs wait it was crowned that said it so obviously its bs

J_Mac

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2008, 04:36:33 PM »
TCP, 86...

Do everyone a favor and take your pissing match to PM's

86camaroman

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #38 on: October 05, 2008, 07:09:24 PM »
Sorry JMAC wasnt trying to affend anybody.

Crankenstein300

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #39 on: October 05, 2008, 07:32:27 PM »
Is it just me or is threatening and then adding someone to the ignore list the equivalent of stomping your foot and taking your ball and going home? Heck I want to see someones attempt at a witty comback, not supress it.

Of course saying this probably earns me a spot on his iggy list, but I think I can still live knowing that.

nextbowler

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #40 on: October 05, 2008, 07:43:12 PM »
"me and my father."  If you know the correct form and don't use it, it makes
you more stupid--not ignorant.

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #41 on: October 05, 2008, 08:10:42 PM »
Another hijacked thread.  Let's stick to the issues here.  Tenpin, you implied that THS was stupid easy, yet you bowled on a blown THS.  Carry issues second and third game (sounds like you found the only playable line in the first game and destroyed it by games 2&3).  255 out the gate doesn't mean THS is a piece of cake, it sounds more you found a line and got hot.  That's it.  You stated that the missed spares were largely ring rust.  You were only gone two months.  If you started out with a 255, you couldn't have been that rusty.  And it doesn't make a difference if you were bowling THS or PBAX, because in PBAX you primarily pick up spares with a plastic ball.  Sounds like your spare game is what needs work.  Also, how are the lanes when freshly oiled?  Can you go out there, especially now with the wisdom you've gained from the PBAX, and shoot 200's on a somewhat consistent basis?    And do other houses in your area have similar shots where you can go in and shoot the lights out of the place?  Then, THS is easy.  Then, what you said would make sense and not draw the firing squad, so to speak.  I'm not, NOT, trying to rag on you.  I just think that that statement might have been made a little prematurely and you may have some holes to fill in your game before you can accurately say that THS is just too easy for YOU.

Urameshii6

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #42 on: October 05, 2008, 09:14:54 PM »
Okay, I'll take that.  His house is very easy.  But that's not what he said in the beginning, which started all this.  Heck, sometimes I wish my house was notoriously easy, other times I'm glad it's not.  Gives you a false sense of security and an overblown image of where your game really is.  But still, all that aside, my response was really made to point that one THS does not equal all THS.  They're not all easy or "an absolute joke".  My center is a prime example of that.  The other statements I made in terms of his game were made in response to his statements on his game, that's all.

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in Joe's defense, his center has always been notoriously easy. funnel to the pocket from both sides.
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tenpin477

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Re: How I know the THS is an absolute joke
« Reply #43 on: October 05, 2008, 09:45:30 PM »
Yes, my house is notoriously easy to begin with, as is the only other house on Staten Island.


The entire point is that it shouldn't be that easy that I could shoot 255 out of the gate.

My spare game does need work, however it was worse than usual the first day due to ring rust. I went and practiced this morning, shooting like 650 on a fresh THS, ran into the same carry problems the third game only I made them all and shot like 213, after stringing 8 in a row I believe for a 267.

Edit: Now that I think about it, as easy my house is, its the hardest house in my area, without traveling the half hour to Brooklyn, which is actually probably as close as the other house on SI lol.

Edited on 10/5/2008 10:28 PM