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thegame

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PAP/track question
« on: August 26, 2008, 02:50:49 PM »
I always thought a high track player meant the track was near the grip, and a low track was further away.  In looking at drill layouts on the MoRich site, it gives low track layouts, PAP 4 1/2 inches or less.  I would assume, if I was correct before that a low track or spinner player would have a longer PAP to grip center distance as the spinner track is further away from the grip.  Apparently I'm wrong about one of my assumptions, and just looking to find out which one.  Thanks for the info everyone.
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Re: PAP/track question
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2008, 12:53:45 AM »
The low tracker has a short pap measurement.  A spinner might have a 3 1/2 or 4" and a higher tracker would be like a 5"+ measurement.
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Re: PAP/track question
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2008, 01:11:13 AM »
The thing you have backwards is that the closer the pap is to the grip the farther away the track is from the grip. But if you were to have a pap measurement of something like 6 1/2 you would have the track on the grip.
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Re: PAP/track question
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2008, 11:12:31 AM »
What the PAP location is dependent on is not the location of the initial track ring in relation to the gripping holes, but is the location of the CENTER of the initial track ring.  This is the negative axis point (NAP), and the PAP is the other end of the imaginary axle from the NAP through the center of the ball.  Whether a track is a spinner track depends only on the axis tilt, which you get from the circumferential diameter of the initial track, not its location in relation to the gripping holes (typically a small diameter track - high axis tilt - will also be located away from the holes, but quite a few bowlers have a fairly large diameter track - low axis tilt - that is also located away from the holes).  --  JohnP
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thegame

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Re: PAP/track question
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2008, 10:26:35 PM »
Thanks for the help, I knew something was twisted in my logic on it.  Glad to get it straightened out.
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