Sure there is modified versions of anything. Drilled a few myself and love it. Saw it on brunsnick. Instead of putting the pin directly on your center grip line, you put it an 1" to an 1.5" towards the positive side of the ball and drill accordingly. Basically a leverage version of the original.

Ball gets into a roll a little sooner and is more aggressive on the back end.

Also works great if the ball has a weaker coverstock and you worry the rico pattern may go too long and not finish.

Everything else is done the same, same angles, same weight hole location, just moving the pin closer to the bowlers PAP.
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Edited on 4/5/2010 4:58 PM

No one said it was the same thing. I said it was modified, as in a changed in form or character. Similar to how the Rico is a lot like the U.S. Pattern from the early 90s when the Sapphire Zones came out.

Yes you can say pin below the fingers is a modified version of the pin above fingers method. But considering it isn't as detailed in all other aspects of pin, cg, and x-hole locations I guess it really isn't

This takes everything you do with the Rico pattern and moves the pin, one element of it, towards a bowlers PAP. Everything else is done the same.

Since it can't be a modified version, I will call it the El-Rico pattern from now on.
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wow...

Pin down/hole down...

Is that better?

A rectangle can be a square and some squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares....how many miles from the train station is it if it left 2.36 hours ago with a .8 knot head wind traveling @ 35 MPH..??
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