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Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« on: November 16, 2005, 09:38:35 PM »
Watching a video of Walter Ray the other day, I was curious how his equipment is laid out? Bearing in mind that he plays up the lane around the driest part of the lane, what sort of layout does he use to prevent early burn out or over-reaction? I appreciate that he can end over end the ball, but on this video he was throwing around first arrow with a little more hook on the ball
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DON DRAPER

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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2005, 06:12:28 AM »
i've seen walter ray williams, jr. at several tournaments and many, many times on tv. most of his equipment has the pin right next to the ring finger. he relies more on surface adjustments to the coverstock.
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2005, 07:58:20 AM »
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Watching a video of Walter Ray the other day, I was curious how his equipment is laid out? Bearing in mind that he plays up the lane around the driest part of the lane, what sort of layout does he use to prevent early burn out or over-reaction? I appreciate that he can end over end the ball, but on this video he was throwing around first arrow with a little more hook on the ball
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Here's pics of his equipment layouts.
From his site.

http://www.walterray.com/tour2/balls/listing.html
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2005, 10:08:57 AM »
Also his high ball speed and forward roll keep his equipment from over reading the dry.
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2005, 12:17:28 PM »
You got me Rodney.

Did you notice that his tape is directly at 6 PM not around 7 to 8 PM like most bowlers?


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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2005, 12:33:40 PM »

 Chexk out his web site and you can see what kind of layouts he uses.
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DON DRAPER

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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2005, 03:31:07 PM »
some time ago bowling digest did a piece on walter rays' equipment and his "oil" balls had the pin next to the ring finger, the cg stacked or swung towards axis side of the ball, and a balance hole down below the midline. these balls were either dull or smooth sanded particle balls . for less oil, his equipment had the same pin position but the cg was swung towards his grip center with no hole. these were usually reactive balls, some smooth sanded, and some polished.

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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2005, 03:39:10 PM »
WRW doesn't care so much about drillings. He choose a drilling he likes and then he alter the surface. He usually use max flare layouts.
Hes thumb hole is very bevel. And he has cork in it.
A layout he uses: Pin-Pap 3-4"
PAP: 5 7/8over 1/4" up.
He uses no X hole on drier conditions. Med to Large x hole on fresh conditions, about 1" of PAP.

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Edited on 11/17/2005 4:40 PM
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2005, 03:46:25 PM »
scott how can you tell if it is 6:00pm or 6:00am????  
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2005, 04:21:00 PM »
AZUS...

"Hes thumbhole is very bevel" from above means??? he uses a lot of bevel...not much?
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Re: Walter Ray - Drillings & Layouts?
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2005, 07:50:06 PM »
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scott how can you tell if it is 6:00pm or 6:00am????  


It's always PM for me dstanek.  And I hate standard time.......let's go with daylight savings time year round!


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