Dry lanes and reactive resin

[Lancerdad34]

The house I bowl at is small 8 lanes and wood. Lately they have been really dry so much so that last time I used my plastic spare ball and held pocket for a 198. I am left handed and really am most comfortable playing out over 4 or 5 board. My question is can I polish up my reactive ball to hold playing that line?

Thanks,

Brian in MI

[bowl1820]

The house I bowl at is small 8 lanes and wood. Lately they have been really dry so much so that last time I used my plastic spare ball and held pocket for a 198. I am left handed and really am most comfortable playing out over 4 or 5 board.

You need to get out of your comfort zone, playing the 4-5 board is basically playing in the dirt. Especially if your standing left and basically going down and in.

My question is can I polish up my reactive ball to hold playing that line?

Playing the 4-5 boards your in the driest part of the lanes, So it's All going to depend on just what Reactive Resin ball you have. What is it?

[RobLV1]

In several of my BTM articles I have alluded to the fact that not listening to the lanes is like not listening to your wife... it can only get you in trouble. Because you are still bowling on wood lanes, you can play that outside line with a plastic ball because you are bowling on pre-modern conditions with a pre-modern ball. In the old days, friction was our friend because we needed it to get the ball to hook. With modern bowling balls, friction is the enemy and oil is our friend for the simple reason that we need it to keep the ball from hooking too early and losing energy before it gets to the pins. In a nutshell: no, you cannot take a reactive resin ball and polish it up to play in your comfort zone. If you want to keep playing in the dirt, keep using a plastic bowling ball and pretending that it's 1980, otherwise expand your comfort zone so that you can use modern equipment.

[Lancerdad34]

Ebonite MVP
Which works great on the other house I sub at with synthetic lanes.

You need to get out of your comfort zone, playing the 4-5 board is basically playing in the dirt. Especially if your standing left and basically going down and in.




Playing the 4-5 boards your in the driest part of the lanes, So it's All going to depend on just what Reactive Resin ball you have. What is it?

[got_a_300]

A person needs to be able to step outside of their comfort zone
to become more of a versatile bowler so then whatever conditions
they run into they can play it, be it 1st arrow or even the opposite
side of the lane on the 7th arrow.

[Lancerdad34]

I ask all of you on this thread I bowled a 162 1st game with my reactive ball and switched to my plastic ball for my 2nd and 3rd game right down the 1st arrow. I had a 256 and 257. So why not stay with what works?

[bowl1820]

I ask all of you on this thread I bowled a 162 1st game with my reactive ball and switched to my plastic ball for my 2nd and 3rd game right down the 1st arrow. I had a 256 and 257. So why not stay with what works?

Given if the conditions warrant and you are shooting that well with a plastic ball, then yes stay with it.

But that's not what you originally asked about.

You wanted know if you could polish a reactive ball to force it to play the line your playing with the plastic ball.

The basic answer to that question is most likely no, given if the conditions are allowing the plastic ball to work so well on that line. A reactive ball even polished will probably be too much for those conditions.

If you want to use a reactive ball,then your going to have to move out of your comfort zone and play in areas & lines with more oil to use it. (You might possibly get a very weak reactive to work, maybe a Fanatic BTU or use a actual urethane.)

[Lancerdad34]

Thanks for the reply. I know very well I will have to move in sometime and out of my comfort zone if I want to use a reactive ball on those lanes. That would call for a few games of practice first.

[LOUVIT]

I was brought up on wood and Plastic or rubber balls, Hated oil in the 70's to 90's I guess. Before I came back after 25 years, I had no idea the game was so different, why didn't someone tell me....haha. I Used the old AMF 3 dot or a Bonanza plastic ball. No pins no cores no nothing drill it crank ot and watch the pins fly. 190 was a great bowler back then.

My first ball when I was 12 was a GYRO.....It was the muscle car of balls