My club house has, after last league season ended, applied a shorter apttern: 37-38' long, 22 units of oil total. Gutter to gutter, BUT the oil is heavily concentrated in the middle in a fat tongue, and in the 12-10th board area is a sharp edge - the outside is buffed up to the gutter. When fresh, this thing is quite tricky, since the lane surface is quite slick, even though I cannot play strong balls there effectively due to the pattern length. Once transition starts or with high humidity, this pattern becomes hell, finding and keeping a line is pretty difficult.
In the neighboring town they applied a similar pattern, but the surface has much more grip in the backend. Without notice, I also ran recently in a real short pattern there, must have been less than 30'...
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DizzyFugu - Reporting from Germany
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