Making Adjustments

[Mike White]

Some of the new oils burn up very fast, particularly on a fresh pattern. You could very well be burning up your line that fast. One of the centers where I bowl, you routinely get two frames before you have to move, then two more frames and you have to move again.

I hate to disagree with the others (LOL), but I think that not adjusting because you didn't throw a perfect shot is a big mistake. If you don't move and you should have, you leave yourself with a big ugly split. If you move when you shouldn't have, you leave yourself with a two pin or a five pin, or a 2-4-5 at worst and then you move back. You didn't strike, but you didn't open either.

Or a 2-10, 2-4-10. 2-4-8-10, 2-4-6-10, or 1-2-4-6-10.

If you are moving because of what others are doing, and they didn't make a bad shot, then sure, adjust on a schedule, but if they aren't near your line, over moving can be just as bad as under moving.

[bobforsaken]

The other aspect of making lateral adjustments is being aware of the angle that you are creating with your shoulders and your hips in your set up. You can use your feet and your target in conjunction with that angle to control the entire lane, but you need to make sure that you are walking straight. In other words, your sliding foot should end up on the same board where you started. If it doesn't, then that angle that you created is negated, and you are once again just dealing with two of the three parts of the lane of which you need to be aware: your laydown point, your spot at the arrows, and your breakpoint.

Funny you should mention that.. I used to walk parallel to my target and push/slide towards my target. Obviously that meant when playing deeper I ran out of room on the approach quickly.. I could stand forty and end up at 25 when targeting the 3rd arrow. The change I made to my game that spawned my new problem was walking straight so I end up on the same board I started. That walking in one direction throwing in another direction made me take a lot off my ball so now I have this new problem of having to adjust more often, or so I think that is the cause. I spoke with another bowler and he mentioned having issues staying to the right of the headpin lately too.. it coincides with the colder onset of weather.. Perhaps that is the reason.