In another thread Avbob said this ......

"Todays environment rewards high speed and high revs."

I am neither one...a little over a year ago kegel training center clocked me at a 196 rev rate, and I don't have much speed and I have somewhat short arms and not a big backswing, but I do have quite a bit of side rotation.  For the most part it seems that the ball companies these days are catering mainly to the player I am not.  It seems that lately I am "fighting" to still be me in an environment that is not making it easy to do so.

can anyone else relate?

Brad

I say we go back to short oil and shotmaking.

Could you imagine the "power players" of today being forced right of 10?  I chuckle to think about it.  The 230 average "house pros" would all of a sudden be shooting 450's.

I always felt the short oil days rewarded all styles... "Crankers" could move in when required and the straighter players could use their accuracy to play near the gutter.  I felt that era was the most "equal" .. but that's just me.

Hand position changes, 1/2 board adjustments, whatever it took to get the corners out ... I miss those days.

No one will ever admit this, but Bill Taylor was right.

Bill Taylor was brilliant,  and right snout many things.   However his major arguments were against the double voided laminated pins.  He calked them pinettes, and argued that it allowed weaker deliveries to carry where they would not have on the solid pins of an earlier generation.  I think evidence would show that scoring did not go up much on the newer pins, and the reason for the emergence of straighter players was more about lane surfaces.   You can make a strong argument that changing lane surfaces dictated the major style changes that have evolved over the years.   Pins are more lively today, and certainly have had some impact because of the way they accelerate.  However some of that is offset by them going airborne quicker causing more ringing hard tens.