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MSC2471

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What type of layout would you do for carrydown ball?
« on: March 26, 2005, 09:59:02 PM »
My bowling coach brought up an interesting concept when it came to setting up an arsenal to tackle a variety of conditions. All of the layouts that he threw at me I was familar with, but the one that he mentioned for carrydown I had never even thought about before. He mentioned that if you want to drill out a decent ball to handle carrydown, have the drilling occur with the weightblock lying on it's side rather than straight up and down, and place the pin at a 10 degree angle from your PAP. Do you think this would be a good idea for most bowlers as an ideal carrydown ball? Would it matter if you were a stroker, a tweener or a cranker?

Also, what balls would you think would be a good idea if I wanted to try this out? I'm thinking of a medium resin ball for this type of situation and only using it strictly for carrydown.

My coach couldn't remember what ball he had this drilling on, but he said it was a monster for carrydown.

Matt

 

Burak Natal

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Re: What type of layout would you do for carrydown ball?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2005, 02:18:47 AM »
In heavy carry down, you generally need to relatively, in a way, ignore the backends. You, again, generally need the ball react more in midlane and less in the backends to get rid of the inconsistency, over/under of the heavy carrydown.

Therefore, drillings providing early roll, midlane read, with relatively less flare potential are found to be ideal to combat with the heavy carrydown by many bowlers.

Of course, you need to adjust the cover according to the amount of oil, transition, and the condition of the heads in order not to let the ball "hook-out" or loose its energy too early.

Burak
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Natal
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