I got to thinking, me and a_ak57 bowl on a real crap fest shot, and I was wondering what everyone else bowls on? People rag me about being a 170 average bowler, but the truth is, thats about 90% of the people that bowl in our house! Even the coaches and directors of leagues and stuff say that our house SUCKS!!! The difficulty of our house could almost be compared to the difficulty of a sport shot, just a different way of going about playing the shot. The difference is there are actually honor scores shot on sport shots, our house has about 1 800 i believe, and a handfull of 3's. I realized from doing PJBT's, that on a THS/wall I average around 220, though this could also be due to the competitiveness of the tournies, but none the less. So what do you bowl on? I still stick by my belief I would average over 200 on a THS in league.
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16 years and still going strong! 16 years old that is! The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS!

A dead wall, where it's impossible to miss the pocket.  I still miss the pocket about a half-dozen times a week, though.  
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"Dispensing conventional wisdom to a fingertip world."

Horrid in Doubles, torrid in Singles...
...that's The Curse of Dusty.

I primarily bowl at Palo Alto Bowl... and I basically bowl on a huge wall.
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It is YOU who decides what happens on the lane.

Well its a crap fest because 1)they're OLD wooden lanes 2)there really isnt a real "pattern", and I say this seriously, the lane man doesnt even know what an oil pattern is. He pushes the buttons and lets it go, I kid you not. 3) Its heavy outside of 10, so anything that gets swung out there stays there, its dry inside that, so anything pulled goes through the nose/jersey. For some reason though, if you throw up the boards, all of a sudden nothing hangs and shoots right out across the lane. It still confuses me, so normally I just swing my triple X, seems to work ok to get it out in the oil.
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16 years and still going strong! 16 years old that is! The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS!

Another thing I find funny is that a friend of mine averages like high 180's-low 190's on the shot I bowl on, yet you put him on a THS, and he's lost, doesnt know what to do with himself. It baffles me.
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16 years and still going strong! 16 years old that is! The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS!

just to emphasize his point.............We went to a sport shot tourney.  By the third game, I actually had to ask someone if it really was a sport shot, because it was nothing harder than what I was used to.

There is definitely something wrong with that.

But I pretty much have the thoughts of Tony Ashworth there.......I'll actually miss bowling the messed up shot and moving on to adult bumper bowling and losing any real talent...
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There is doing in not doing what you weren't doing but doing in what you weren't doing to do what you were doing but not doing and doing as well

So don't do it!

Mondays: Biggest wall of China you could ever want to see. If you know how to get the ball outside of 10 board at the breakpoint, you will hit the hole. I'm at 222 in this house after a month and probably 40th in terms of average. I won't be surprised to see at least 3 or 4 people average 240 for the year if they keep the conditions the same all season.

Tuesdays: Reverse block with medium to low back end action. Forget about playing outside of 10 if you are a lefty, and the righties complain because their oil breaks down quick on their side. I'm at 186 so far after 6 weeks in our league.

For tournaments I rarely see the Monday shot, occasionally see the Tuesday shot and can face everything from sport shots, floods and bone dry conditions. I would say overall my average would be around 205-210 in a given year of bowling.

Matt