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mr300ny

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What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« on: November 11, 2008, 03:08:01 AM »
Personally, mine is the reverse block. Just cant get any success on it. I find shark easy as i average near 195. Whats your hardest?
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2008, 03:36:51 PM »
I would have to say bumpers for sure LOL. No really the reverse block &a close second is the US Open shot.....
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2008, 03:45:17 PM »
To me it would be where you throw one shot for a strike then come back to that lane and throw in the same general area and not get a strike a bucket or a split.A over and under oil pattern.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2008, 03:58:15 PM »
Anything that hasn't been oiled in weeks.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2008, 04:16:21 PM »
T of C shot.  50 feet of basically flat oil.  Miss it just this [ ] much and you're screwed.  We bowled on this pattern during sport league one year.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2008, 05:36:00 PM »
I thought the TOC was really fun, I hate the short patterns and true dry lanes. In PBA league I did the best on the longer patterns and terrible on Cheetah and Viper.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2008, 11:15:28 PM »
With today's equipment, anything super-short will kill us.

I would say reverse-block, but you very rarely see anyone lay it down on purpose anymore. What you *do* see is a flat shot where the track area gets burned down and then it looks like a reverse block.

Actually, Cheetah is worse for me than reverse block simply because I used to bowl in a house that would do the flat oil/burned out track thing and I got a lot of practice on it. Next to that is the U.S. Open pattern.

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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2008, 05:37:13 AM »
Any condition on Guardian heads.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2008, 05:56:24 AM »
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T of C shot.  50 feet of basically flat oil.  Miss it just this [ ] much and you're screwed.  We bowled on this pattern during sport league one year.
I loved the 50 foot ToC shot.  I stayed in the 180-200 range on it consistently, and in practice fired a 246 or something like that despite having an open.  On fresh oil, I was getting approximately three boards of hook (seriously) even with a pin down Cell at 1000 abralon (eventually took it to 2000 the last night on that shot to avoid having too much early hook), but it was enough to carry!
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2008, 06:15:58 AM »
The Willow Creek shot in Wisconsin.  Every year i torture myself and drive down and bowl in the big Wisconsin tourney.  I shot a 96 last year, and still managed a 500 series
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2008, 06:47:32 AM »
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.... dry heads with carry down ....


Ditto. Anything with carrydown forcing the shot 'tight', I struggle.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2008, 06:59:50 AM »
Everything lately!!
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2008, 07:35:37 AM »
A reverse pattern on old wood lanes with guardian overlay.  Really rough when the middle is dry as a desert and the outside boards are super flooded.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2008, 07:48:16 AM »
Old BTM shot 48 ft 1 to 1 ratio  Think us open but more lenght and tougher
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2008, 08:02:45 AM »
Super long oil.  The kind where you have to point the ball off the corner and put it straight at the pocket, because there is no back end.  

I struggle on it, and for the lefties it never breaks down.  After a few games the righties turn it into a modified house shot.

Tough for me though.
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Re: What in your mind is the hardest oil pattern to bowl on?
« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2008, 09:15:47 AM »
reverse block or US Open.
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