I would suggest taking it down step by step, I don't know where it is now... but GENERALLY speaking here from MY EXPERIENCE ONLY, and yours may vary, 2000 grit is usually the cats arse for getting a ball down the lane and controlling the break point on a house shot. Its enough to let the ball clear the heads and enough to get the ball not to fly off the dry. That is MY experience and your milage may very from that. I would always prefer to take a ball down over going up if only because it will offer more control. If you shine a ball and you plunk one in the oil, especially if you tend to spin the ball, the shot has no chance of anything "good". Now if you do that with a sanded ball it might cross over, might hold and destroy, might face up and bash the beak and leave you split city, but its still going to have a chance. If you leak a sanded ball outside, it will roll earlier and puke a little, which may or may not strike, the same can be said for a polished ball, but it may slide to the gutter before it rips back and gives you that cool looking, insane angle.
My tip of the day, make it simple again. Go with your natural release and your most accurate line, use it exclusively for a while and quit trying to change the line and release for a bit. Get back in a groove and go from there. Its realizing that the equipment will do the job and I don't have to do it all that got me back going again. Litterally 2 games of trying to recapture my "old" release got me back to being a much better bowler than I have been in the last 3 years. Simplify it and see if you can just get back to being where you know you should be. One last thing, usually spinning the ball comes from TRYING to make the ball hook, try to make it hook as little as possible and see where that gets you sometime once you are back to making shots. Good luck and if all else fails, good drinking.
