Side to Side vs. Front to Back

[Mike White]

Mike: What I initially said was, "To illustrate, I was practicing with a couple of friends this morning and one of them, a 220 average house bowler, commented that he really doesn't like to bowl at this particular house (house B) because the lanes are much drier than they are at house A where he prefers to bowl. Here's the issue: house B doesn't use less oil than house A, they put the oil down using a 37' house pattern, rather than a 40' pattern like house A. This results in misses to the right burning up early and not getting back to the pocket, or arriving DOA leaving weak tens, and misses left not finding extra oil like they do on the 40' pattern and hooking through the nose.

The things that I see, time and time again are what I interpret as "facts." Please note that you totally ignored, or just didn't understand that part about misses left not finding extra oil like they do on the 40' pattern.

I saw that section and immediately saw the flaw in it, but somehow didn't comment on it.

You said "house B doesn't use less oil than house A"

And you said "not finding extra oil like they do on the 40' pattern"

You can't have it both ways, if they both put the same amount of oil on the lanes, then there is not any extra oil to be found.

When the bowler playing up the second arrow misses his target left, the ball encounters significantly more oil than when hitting his target.

That is true for both a 40' THS and a 37' THS.

The result is a ball that skates down the lane with very little reaction (aka the frozen rope).

The difference of 3 feet of oil on a frozen rope is insignificant.

The mindset of a bowler capable of averaging 220 on a THS when comparing one house to another is not. "I don't like this one because my bad shots don't work as often"

Good bowlers expect to make good shots. His issue with the 37' house is less of the shots he perceives as good shots work.

Now if you feel that missing his target is a common problem for this bowler, yet somehow he still manages to average 220, then those must be some significantly easy conditions.

[Mike White]

I can see where Rob is coming from. If you are missing left or right you need to be prepared to move with your feet or your ball to correct the shot. Also when lane conditions begin to break down you need to be prepared to change to meet the need. Also I appreciate any advice that will make me less frustrated.

Aslan , 12 BOWLING BALLS wow how does he have time to go through them before the league games are over? I put 2 on the return, my Crux Pearl and my Ride. Rarely will I go to my Taboo Spare ball.

Rob is talking about missing your target left or right.

If you threw the ball well, hit your target, and the ball misses it's intended destination, then an adjustment to the intended path of the ball is needed.

However, if you missed your target, the information you gain from watching the ball doesn't tell you much about what will happen next time when you do hit your target.

The solution to the problem of feeling frustrated requires that you first identify the source of that frustration.

To identify the source requires a large dose of self honesty.

Is your frustration coming from too many shots where you feel you didn't throw the ball as well as you should have?

Is it from too many shots you felt you threw well, that didn't work?

Is it from the idea that since so many shots haven't worked, that you've lost all confidence in what you are supposed to be trying to do?