BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: TheGom on February 21, 2015, 06:45:06 PM
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I have a ball with 8 leagues on it plus some practice time.
Out of the entire year I have left four 9 pins and five 8 pins. Three of the 9 pins and 2 of the 8 pins were with this ball in only 8 games.
So please refresh me why this happens....entry angle, surface?
Thanks
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I dont really understand what you're asking. Are u asking why you leave 9's and 8's?
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I dont really understand what you're asking. Are u asking why you leave 9's and 8's?
Yes, more so with a certain ball though...why this ball?
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Idk...not tracked up yet I bet. Some balls work great oob, freshly drilled. Others took me 30 games until they really were strike machines...
what's the finish on the ball?
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I have a ball with 8 leagues on it plus some practice time.
Out of the entire year I have left four 9 pins and five 8 pins. Three of the 9 pins and 2 of the 8 pins were with this ball in only 8 games.
So please refresh me why this happens....entry angle, surface?
Thanks
That's bowling... Sometimes you throw it perfect & for whatever reason it's a stone 8 or 9... Just happens.
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I have a ball with 8 leagues on it plus some practice time.
Out of the entire year I have left four 9 pins and five 8 pins. Three of the 9 pins and 2 of the 8 pins were with this ball in only 8 games.
So please refresh me why this happens....entry angle, surface?
Thanks
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the old saying was that an 8 pin or a 9 pin were the only true taps in the game.
For those two, you really don't adjust, because you threw the shot and entry continuation through the pins was great. You just had a bad break. Also, think about it: If you've only had 4 and 5 out of a 32 - 34 week season, you're well above 75% on your carry rate.
7 pin? adjust.
10 pin? adjust.
4 pin? adjust.
6 pin? adjust.
8 pin? don't adjust.
9 pin? don't adjust.
BL.
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On the 8 pins, you just got a little "hosed", so to speak. To leave the solid 8, you have to get the head pin moving fast enough to come back from initial contact and still beat the ball to the 5pin. The 5 will get trapped behind the head pin and go straight back, missing the 8 on the way by. Just bad carry/luck.
The 9's however, are a bit different. They happen when you have relatively good entry angle, but little to no deflection as the ball enters the rack. The ball rolls so strongly through the pindeck that the angle of entry + the strong continuation cause it to hook past the 9pin, and leave it standing, unless you get lucky and something else hits it.
A strong finishing ball, when thrown just a hair too slow, or just a hair high in the pocket, can be a 9pin machine. It has been my experience that a strong finishing ball has tended to leave more 8pins for me as well. Not nearly as many as it did 9's, but enough to say it was a property of that ball that other balls didn't tend to have.
I have a ball that I love. It knocks the CRAP out of pins, Butkus it will also leave a few 9's, and some occasional 8's as well. I'll take it though, cause I know that this ball is hitting hard and moving pins well. I've thought about adding a small flare reducing hole and adjusting it slowly, but decided not to. I'd rather deal with the occasional misfire than take a chance on "over killing" the ball.
One thing you might do is SLIGHTLY adjust the surface to let it bleed off a little more energy before it gets to the pindeck. That will change the entry angle a bit, may change the initial launch angle, and probably help with the deflection as well, as long as you get the surface right.
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Idk...not tracked up yet I bet. Some balls work great oob, freshly drilled. Others took me 30 games until they really were strike machines...
what's the finish on the ball?
Wrecker not touched