shot 1 depends on your style...personally, i think the best way to bowl on a flat shot is to go as direct as possible, and i personally would try to go straight up the boards anywhere between 8 and 12. when they break down, usually the track area dries up, and you get a wall from about 8-12 that acts like the outer boards on a THS...only less consistent. here i would strat moving left, using the 8-12 boards as my target area, basing it on the fact that the lanes should have broken down. the surface has as much to do with the condition as the oil itself on a flat shot.
for shot #2, this reminds me of PBA shot E. i have never bowled on it before, at least not specified as shot E, but a short pattern with flying boards outside 7 or 8 pretty much describes pattern E. here, i would take a very mild ball, maybe a barbed wire, and play from about the middle of the lane, on a very small angle out to about 5 or so, as far down the lane as possible. hopefully, the ball will glide through the drier than normal heads, going through as much oil as possible, before reaching the scorching backend. just like robert smith did last year, this should create an amazing entry angle, and would require me basically to move left little by little depending on breakdown. there shouldnt be too much carrydown for such a low volume pattern, and dry boards cant get any drier. again, the lane surface is very crucial in how the lane plays.
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Erik Olsen - e13ez85@hotmail.com
