I don't think the breakpoint changes. It's just a matter of whether or not you have the revs to get the ball to make that sharp of a turn or not.
My break point is almost always...regardless of pattern...right around the 2nd (in) tracer mark (for Brunswick lanes). Sometimes I play more outside and it breaks to the outside of that tracer. Sometimes I play more in the middle and it breaks just inside that tracer. With a solid cover stock or a very abraded ball...maybe it breaks a little before it gets to the tracer. With a pearl/polished...just as it gets beyond the tracer. But the breakpoint never really changes much.
But it's hard to say because styles are so variable. I can't move my feet to the left of 30 and target the 5 or 4 or 3 arrows. I just don't have the revs to get it to come back. I don't think the breakpoint would be any different...it would just be more abrupt/angular. But, like I said...styles vary. I see so many high rev players struggle like nobody's business trying to keep their ball right of the headpin on short patterns (like the Cheetah for instance). Yet...I still miss right and hit light. Because yes, it's "shorter" but that doesn't mean it's "drier". Because the oil volume is heavier and more spread out in the front of that pattern...for me it plays a lot like a THS.
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