What is the most demoralizing single pin leave?

[I suck at bowling]

I vote for the 8 pin.

[scottymoney]

That's just a lot of deflection!
a few question.......
What weight ball are you using?
Have you been adjusting during the game? That shot tells me you need to make a move to get into the pocket at a better angle.

[I suck at bowling]

That's just a lot of deflection!
a few question.......
What weight ball are you using?
Have you been adjusting during the game? That shot tells me you need to make a move to get into the pocket at a better angle.

That was my first ball of the day, so no adjustments yet. By the end of the 8th game I was lofting the over the left gutter, lol.
And I use 14 pounders.

[scottymoney]

That was my first ball of the day, so no adjustments yet. By the end of the 8th game I was lofting the over the left gutter, lol.
And I use 14 pounders.

I would suggest starting more right to begin with so you have room to move left.

[Greenday]

Ten pin by far. It's the only one (For a righty anyway) that you can get such a solid pocket shot and still leave that pin.

[americantrotter]

Head Pin. LOL

But other than that 10 pin.

[I suck at bowling]

I would suggest starting more right to begin with so you have room to move left.

Thats a part of my game I haven't quite figured out yet, but once I learn to play straighter I think my game will improve a lot.

[75lockwood]

I agree with the head pin LOL whats more demoralizing than not hitting the head pin?

[I suck at bowling]

I agree with the head pin LOL whats more demoralizing than not hitting the head pin?

I was referring to pocket leaves, but I should have said that, lol.

[J Anderson]

For right-handers its probably a toss up between a ringing ten pin and a stone eight. Either one of these will look like it should be a strike as the ball enters the pocket. Since the flat ten is usually considered as being cause by hitting too light my vote is for the eight.

Not that we should really let a nine drop demoralize us, leaving a single pin when we've thought that we made a good shot is going to cause some sort of emotional reaction. The trick is to deal with that emotion while the ball is coming back, and then be completely focused on making the spare. By the way I think this is much easier for those of us who started bowling before the "Strike in a Box" era.