The Dreaded Pocket 7-10

[The German Shepherd]

Please help me! I have been leaving pocket 7-10s in my Monday night bowling league and I mean leaving them by the bushel basket full. In the last three weeks total, I have left 7 of them. What am I doing to make these happen like this??? What is the general thinking in regard to leaving them? I was thinking about throwing my equipment in the Delaware river on my way home last night, and then decided that maybe I should go jump in the river myself....but I didn't....

Jay

[tr33frog]

Lately I've been treating them a bit like 10 pins, and moving over 3/4 of a board to my right (I'm right handed), and hitting the same mark. That being said, 7 in a night? I normally want to smash my ball after the second one.

[circlecity]

I left one last night and I think it was because the ball came in at a crazy angle and sent the 1 pin to the left side wall.

[tccstudent]

Please help me! I have been leaving pocket 7-10s in my Monday night bowling league and I mean leaving them by the bushel basket full. In the last three weeks total, I have left 7 of them. What am I doing to make these happen like this??? What is the general thinking in regard to leaving them? I was thinking about throwing my equipment in the Delaware river on my way home last night, and then decided that maybe I should go jump in the river myself....but I didn't....

Jay

Your signature says you throw about 17mph. By throwing this hard you are not allowing the pins a chance to mix it up real well. I have the same problem at times.

[mc_runner]

Have you been throwing the same ball for all of them? Has anything changed with the pattern you're throwing on?

[J Anderson]

Please help me! I have been leaving pocket 7-10s in my Monday night bowling league and I mean leaving them by the bushel basket full. In the last three weeks total, I have left 7 of them. What am I doing to make these happen like this??? What is the general thinking in regard to leaving them? I was thinking about throwing my equipment in the Delaware river on my way home last night, and then decided that maybe I should go jump in the river myself....but I didn't....

Jay

I'm probably the wrong person to try and answer this since I haven't left a lot of these, possibly because I don't hit the pocket often enough to do so.

Assuming the cause isn't a bad rack, I would treat it like a ten pin. If it looks like a flat 10 when it hits, make whatever adjustment you would normally make for that. If it looked like a ringing ten, use that adjustment.

[Mudpuppy]

Move up, move back, move left, move right, slow the ball down a smidge. Small change should fix that. Anytime you get a 7-10 split you threw a good ball. Personally if I throw one I don't change anything on the next ball and it is usually a strike. Obviously that wasn't the case for you.

[Perrin]

I treat them like 10 pin leaves.

I move back(2-3" on the approach) for ringing 10, up for flat 10.

one of the houses I bowl we can watch video replay of the last ball thrown and every time I have left it there I watch the video. In those it alway appears that the 2 and 4 get mixed up and don't take out the 7.

I treat 7 pin only leaves as a 2-1(or 2-2) move left. for me they are almost always the result from coming in high with not enough angle so opening it up a little usually starts knocking them out again.

[MICHAEL]

I treat them like 10 pin leaves.

I move back(2-3" on the approach) for ringing 10, up for flat 10.

one of the houses I bowl we can watch video replay of the last ball thrown and every time I have left it there I watch the video. In those it alway appears that the 2 and 4 get mixed up and don't take out the 7.

I treat 7 pin only leaves as a 2-1(or 2-2) move left. for me they are almost always the result from coming in high with not enough angle so opening it up a little usually starts knocking them out again.

I agree 100 percent! This has made a huge difference in my carry moving up, and back! It's amazing how much of a difference moving back can make on a rinning ten pin.

Before I use to move left a few boards, but it changed the angle to much for my style of bolwling, but staying at the same starting point, and simply moving back in my case 6 inches gives me good carry (most of the time), on the dreaded 10 pin! Don't get many 7 10 at all...once in a blue moon!

[tr33frog]

I agree 100 percent! This has made a huge difference in my carry moving up, and back! It's amazing how much of a difference moving back can make on a rinning ten pin.

Before I use to move left a few boards, but it changed the angle to much for my style of bolwling, but staying at the same starting point, and simply moving back in my case 6 inches gives me good carry (most of the time), on the dreaded 10 pin! Don't get many 7 10 at all...once in a blue moon!

It is interesting, moving back and forth sort of just stopped working for me, and now moving right does. I can't explain why, because it had been working well for me for a long time. I'd leave it or almost leave one, then step back a few inches and carry on, but lately it was just another way to leave a 10 pin. Moving forward, same result.