Hi,   

  I will be bowling on this pattern on sunday, and was wondering if anyone has ever bowled on it and what was it like/how did it go for you.  This is a 6 day tournament that is putting out a different oil pattern each day.  I bowled a qualifying squad each of the past 3 days..on the Wolf(wed), dead man's curve (thurs) and Route 66 last night..I did fairly well on each but failed to qualify for sundays semi-finals. I am going to try another qualifying squad on sunday which will be on an oil pattern called "I want my momma", which after doing an internet search, found the pattern as one of the Slowinski series oil Patterns. I do not recall ever bowling on it..but here is the pattern info and a picture of the graph/pattern

http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/stories/i-want-my-momma_3-d.pdf

Anyone ever play this one?...or if you are someone who hasn't played it, but are knowledgeable when it comes to analyzing lane pattern info & graphs I  would be curious and pleased to know what you would think it should play like. One guy I spoke to last week that had played on it before on an 8 game sweeper they held on that pattern said nothing would wrinkle--and that's what the pattern looks like to me, but any insight/help would be appreciated.

Oh yeah, also, how would you suspect something like this would break down..there are 2 3 game qualifying squads and then the 3 game semi-finals and then stepladder final, and the lanes won't be re-oiled that day.

Brad

At 50 mL, it's not going to break down very fast, so keep your breakpoint in front of you, around 10 or 11 at the end of the pattern, end over end, I would use lots of surface to slow the ball down before it reaches the end of the pattern, and make your spares.

I've seen it once but it was on a pretty worn in pro anvil where cash was around even.
I started with a pin down hole down torrid affair at 500 around 6-7 and had a pretty decent look.  The use of surface was to both burn the track in practice, but at the same time it also gave me a read of the midlane where the most recovery existed and helped control my backend reaction. 
My struggle was that in moving pairs, the people in front of me were playing all over the place and it got real mucky for a couple of games.  Eventually, a look appeared with lightly scuffed balls playing a deep/tight shot similar (which I wish I had tried earlier) to what you would normally see on the us open pattern.  Enjoy the grind!

Total volume is 27.45 ml, about average for a lot of sport patterns.  However a lot of reverse oil, which often keeps the shot from opening up in as quickly as you can with less reverse oil. 

It is finished...for me anyways. Once I started playing the pattern before I realized that I had bowled on it once before, maybe. It played much like a reverse block.. Oily outside and dry inside. I struggled the first game trying to find myself--I wasn't the only one...I had a 135...but by the end of the game I had found myself. I ended up playing down and in, in the oil around the 5 board with a ball with surface, which ended up being my Legends World Class..I put it at 150 + light polish for the event. With my normal release I get much side rotation, I don't come up the back, but with only 41 feet of pattern the low grit covers were too much for the backends.. 5 more aggressive balls, & the couple of "weaker" balls were not enough for the oil. I ended up making an adjustment with my hand position that I typically don't need to make. I split the difference between going straight up the back and my normal side rotation and that was the ticket..the cover on the world class could easily handle the volume of the pattern and bit less side rotation calmed the back end reaction enough that I found a groove....209 the second game , and then 177 the last game. With the handicap I was getting in this tournament my score stood at #2 for the squad with a 2nd squad to go.....the leader had a -6 and was 2nd at -22..scores were very low for the squads..the 2nd squad was packed with about 46 bowlers...I decided to take my chances and sit on my score--the top 7 for the day would make the finals...ended up getting bumped out and finished 8th...the last score to get in was -14....9 more pins and I am in :-(   

this past week has really opened my eyes as to what I can do to compensate for different conditions...I will store the info and use it in future environments. The thing I certainly have to work on is figuring out my optimal line/ball/strategy for me much quicker...1 full game is too much when you only have a 3game block to try and make a cut, but I had fun and learned a lot.

Brad