Weight of the pins.  I'd make them slightly heavier by a few ounces so they'd be harder to knock over.  That would change the ability to score from light pocket swishers to a more solid perfect entry angle to knock all 10 down.

 

 

+1  

 Im glad to know im not the only person that despises synthetic approaches. I think they are part of the reason my knee hurts.

 

But if I could change one thing it would be a more universal Oil Pattern system. 

 

Technically, I'd like to see less friction, so that the player's release and ability to adjust would become more important. I agree on juggernaut's argument, that the ball coverstocks should become more limited - either through harder materials or/and limits to the coverstocks' porosity/coefficient of friction. I feel the gap between the balls' potential and "lane reality" becoming bigger and bigger - we are already discussing how to tame down balls or make them useable at all through very weak setups. This is IMHO leading nowhere.

 

I do not see RG diffferential limits, as already set into action, to be a sustainable regulation measure. More oil would be another wish/option, but it is just the other side of the same thing.

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  Iwould have the World Bank put a HUGE amount of money into bowling tournaments all over the world so that anyone and everyone worldwide would decide if they want to become rich and famous they would wan to become a bowler then after a while once bowling was bigger than soccer worldwide we wouldnt need the funding and advertising money would make up for it

 

Ryan

Change the handicap systems and go to divisions. The lowest division can have whatever handicap, middle division gets minimal handicap, and highest division bowls scratch. Remember, you used the 'IF' word...