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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: 2hands836 on March 03, 2006, 04:12:51 AM
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i was told i was a full roller by the way i track, what exactly does this mean? thanks
Justin
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Full roller track goes between the thumb and fingers, encompassing the full circumference of the ball. It will usually be right on the outer edge of your middle finger hole and the inner edge of the thumbhole. A true full roller doesn't flare at all. Most of the better players in the modern game now have a semi-roller or 3/4 roller. The track is outside of both the thumb and finger holes, up to 3+ inches away. These guys will usually have multiple track lines after every shot as the ball flares. The semi-roller only covers a fraction (large tho it may be) of the circumference of the ball.
This is not to say that a full roller can't score today; I've seen some pretty large numbers put up w/ full rollers.
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Full-rollers can flare, even true full-rollers. Flare is dependent on pin position and core orientation. One of the canonical full-roller drillings is pin-in-palm with a 0" pin, basically like a plastic ball. If you track between the fingers and thumb, that pretty much puts your pin in the track, which is a zero-flare layout. In the glory days of the full-roller, you didn't have cores to orient, so putting the pin in the palm was just fine.
Nowadays, you're pretty much guaranteed to get flare from the ball if you don't put the pin in the track. It's not a release issue, it's a core dynamics one.
SH
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Actually Shelley is correct. I was thinking of back when I threw a full Roller, but that was 30 years ago, with plastic or rubber, and flare was unheard of.
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"I do desire that we may be better strangers." Willie the Shake, As You Like it(III,ii)