They won’t do that…because if they do some of us will be able to compete against them and beat them!

@@santanah.6897that is most definitely not the case. They can show us this on KZfaq and maybe 13 people will apply this to their game. The rest of us will think about it and never carry it over into the physical game.

hahaha I was thinking the same! lol

Going to be hard to get lane time here at home the next couple weeks 🙂 Good luck!

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I just use my spare ball

@@xxspawn2trapxx356 I don’t have one😭. I just use my reactive and throw it straight

A stronger ball is definitely the way to go. Look at some of the specs of the balls that have been recommended to you. A lot of them will have asymmetrical cores, providing stronger down lane reaction. Some will be stronger than others, so I would recommend watching some videos of the balls in action before you commit to a purchase.

@@EchoTangoFuture7 thank you, I’ll definitely be doing some research on that.

Something along the nova or gem would be perfect for longer patterns, Zen would be a good step down of bowling multiple game tournaments

As someone with the Dark code as a benchmark ball, I can say stronger balls are awesome. I also throw the ball 18-20 mph on average, and I don't hook much

Just my stupid opinion from experience: If you have a low rev rate (under 350) your ONLY option on long patterns is the following: -Throw the MOST AGGRESSIVE ball in your bag. Solid asyms that move as early as possible. Nothing else will work. Everything else will slide like a spare ball and I mean EVERYTHING. -Apply as MUCH SURFACE as you can. We're talking 360 at the HIGHEST. Nothing else will do. -Stay aggressive. Most low rev players think they need to throw it super soft to get their ball to hook on super long patterns but that is a trap. It's a trap that will lead you to 5-7-10 variations throughout the entire day. Keep your damn ball speed UP. -Your target at the dots, arrows, AND the breakpoint is TEN. Nowhere right, nowhere left. Just DIRECTLY UP TEN. Maybe, MAYBE feed it to 10 from 15 if you're feeling limber. This is how Liz Johnson, a bowler with a rev rate UNDER 200 (that's WITH a wrist brace), has won title after title...on SUPER long patterns. She doesn't need to do the next thing because she has superhuman accuracy, but still. -This one is the MOST important. You NEED to LOFT. HIGH. And Very, VERYYYYYYY FAAAARRRRR. We're talking to the down lane markers. Jason Eubanks/Hit it Harder has a really good video on this. Lofting makes oil patterns shorter. Eubanks himself has a rev rate approaching the 600s. If HE is lofting it to the markers on Dragon (which is 45') then what do you think you should be doing if you have half the rotation he does? Yes. Doing this is not conventional. Yes. it WILL earn you dirty looks. Yes, it WILL take a lot out of you. NO, it will NOT be comfortable. But it works. REALLY well. Speed dominant/low rev bowlers have very good looks when the lanes turn into sandpaper. So what do you do when there is a lot of oil? You need to replicate that sandpaper like environment. The above is how you do it.

For the 45 foot pattern in the video, they'd be going for a breakpoint at the 14th board, and tbh when Brad went from 16 to 10 it hit kinda light. So a 14-board breakpoint is actually a pretty good starting point. So I'm gonna say Yes, the rule of 31 still works.

It won’t hook

uc3 if you have crazy revs but otherwise reactive

One has been filmed, and will likely be released after the league!

@@dennisfredell7586 DENNIS DENNIS DENNIS

Suipiss (I'm sorry)

The answer is not the same for everyone. Surface depends a lot on rev rate, speed, the ball you are using and what type of reaction you are comfortable with!

That's an excellent question. B&K themselves will probably do a video on this but I hope my explanation works for now. Shim = Push = Hold. They all mean the same. When a bowler is telling a ball to do ANY of those three actions, they want the ball to STOP hooking and stay where it is. They want it to "shim" away from the entry point that they don't want, they want it to "push" through where it is right now, or they want it to "hold" onto the line that it's currently traveling at.

@@SirJoelsuf1 Awesome. Makes sense. Thanks!

Yes!

that is going to be wildly different for every single person. Some people drift left, some right, some walk toward the target, some walk away, and crossover on the powerstep, some have wide shoulders/hips some narrow. the line is all that matters and so expressing that line as 16 to 10 is about as universal an expression as you could give. Where to actually target to achieve that line is personal for sure! You MUST watch the ball path after release, this is absolutely vital or you might as well just close your eyes and swing away.

@@stevelennard7320 16-10 from launching at 15 will have a different path and ball reaction than 16-10 from launching at 45. Steeper and shallower projection angles will yield vastly different reactions. Which I believe you can understand, hence my question about Kyles landing and his projection.

@@runnerboy6886 hahahaha 16 to 10 is a line you cannot approach that line from 15 (BTW launch spot has nothing to do with lines in bowling, the approach starts at the address and finishes at the line, the ball path starts at the line and extends to the break point (the second number in the "line" in order to play a 16 to ten, while launching from the 15 hahahahah you'd need to swing from in front of your body crossing over the wrong side of your shoulder... impossible. You can however achieve a 16 to 10 line from any position deeper than 20 at the foul line.... but having the ball project from 16 to 10 is the same regardless of where your feet were on the approach. This is very simple geometry.

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Nope. 5 pins combinations, and lots of em if you do that. Much better idea to loft the ball as far as you can and as high as you can, shortens em up.

@@SirJoelsuf1 Didn't Norm throw a dang 300 on tv doing it though? Sometimes you gotta throw what the lanes allow. Darren Tang has done a few times last year on long pattern as well.

for you, you should be moving to the outside of the lane (which may be the middle of the lane in your case) and up the ball speed, don't worry about rollout, but do use the natural entry angle afforded by more outside angles to control ball deflection... Urethane works well for your situation too for similar reasons

It's only banned in the major usbc tournaments you can still throw it in league if your league didn't ban it

Nope. That'll leave you 5-7-10 variations all day, if not the 5-7-10 itself. If you can't get a wrinkle out of your ball, what does that mean? It means you don't have enough surface to counteract the oil. Slowing down doesn't help either because you don't have the rotation to get it to create power and motion. If you don't have rotation, you need to generate power from a different source. That source is SPEED. You have the right idea about the frozen rope, or what I call "riding the track" which entails feeding the ball to the 10 board from the 3rd arrow. However, to do this properly you need an aggressive ball with a lot of surface. And you need to loft it. This will make the pattern shorter and will make it resemble the shorter patterns most low rotation bowlers succeed on.

Most house shots aren’t too long. But when I bowl tournaments I run into longer or modified house patterns, and sport/challenge shot leagues offer different patterns (at my houses where THS is usually short.