Ive just started bowling at a new house with very sticky approaches(synthetic).
I wear DExter SST 5...but using the sole with the most slide I am sticking on my final step,no slide ,resulting in a jarred knee.
Any little tricks you guys have would be great!!

Look out for those slide socks if you have large feet...I wear a size 13, and the one size fits all must stop at 12...something to keep in mind...
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Ryan
Wilmington, DE

Thanks debs130!

We are unlike any other slide sock on the market.  We custom manufacture and have frequently done size 15's. If you have a pair of size 20 Lind's we can make you a Bowler's Slide Sock for it! SLSM Designs is the only manufacture that makes a Slide Sock specifically for the wide footprint shoes.  SLSM Designs owns the patents. We started by making the Bowler's Slide Sock for the writers and editor of a well known bowling magazine on a custom basis.  They are a little slick at first but rubbing them in the carpet cures that fairly quickly.  Once the sock is broken in (about 1 game time) they work on slick, tacky , wood, synthetic does not matter.  They are the only product out there that does it. Availability should become easier here real soon.  We just shipped our first shipments to Classic Products in Dallas and Florida.  Indiana should be real soon.  Hopefully they will get them out to their Pro Shop networks quickly.  How many slide products tell you that you should wash them every 30 days?  We do!  Read our Faqs section on our website.  

Single sock sales are handled by our family owned Pro Shop in Irving Texas and shipped US Mail to your door.

Smash49
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Smash49
robert@bowlersslidesock.com
Bowler's Slide Sock: What's the Difference?  Quality!, Construction! and Performance!
www.bowlersslidesock.com
www.slsmdesigns.com/irvinghighbowling

Something I do when I am having problems sticking could be just as simple as taking your hand and making sure there's nothing on the bottom of your shoe.  After you determine that your sole is fine, I learned this little trick.  When the employees sweep the approaches, they push the dust under the ball returns.  Sliding your foot under there a few times and then sliding it on the lane should give you a little bit more slide.  I have also learned to adapt to kind of "driving" my foot into the approach, expecting not to slide, and it takes some getting used to, but can help you out with the approaches.

Just my two cents.


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-Ricky-
Member of the St. Louis, Missouri YABA

MORE Speed = LESS time to PANIC

Currently Throwing: Brunswick Inferno, MoRich WMB, MoRich Labyrinth, Ebonite Eyeball, Brunswick Impact Zone, and Columbia 300 Piranha.

Thanks JohnP!

We had a major shoe company try to use our materials to velcro a pad on the bottom of their interchangeable sole shoes!  Didn't work!!!!!  Felt is slick and inconsistent.  It's slick everywhere even when it doesn't need to be.  Felt also tends to pickup debris around the center.  Getting it wet is a major problem.  We have had customers step in water, take our product into the mens room and hold it under the hand dryer then go back to bowling and not miss a beat. We made a Bowler's Slide Sock with an extra long bottom to cover the leading edge of a heal last year.  The customer was a fairly large man that planted his shoe evenly at the arch of the foot.   Everyone's slide is different and if you find a way that you are extremely happy with and it is legal that is fantastic.  A major Bowling Shoe manufacture finds it odd that people put the Bowler's Slide Sock over their interchangeable sole and heal system.  It just happens one of the most frequent questions we are asked is if the product will fit over that wide bottom shoe and the answer is yes!  The goal is to slide consistently without hurting you or people around you have ever you get it done.

Smash49
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Smash49
robert@bowlersslidesock.com
Bowler's Slide Sock: What's the Difference?  Quality!, Construction! and Performance!
www.bowlersslidesock.com
www.slsmdesigns.com/irvinghighbowling