THS make the average bowler a phenom. When you have to hit a target 50 feet down lane and stay within two boards separates the THS bowlers and the ones who practice on multiple oil patterns.
not listen to my gut and being stubborn and I paid for it.
I bowled in a tourney recently with a very difficult 40 plus feet pattern. I don't know exactly what they had, but it was a difficult pattern. Scores were very low for the whole weekend. I never saw so many gutter balls thrown buy guys who are so used to swinging it from left to right...
anyway, here are a list of things I screwed up for being stubborn and not listening to my gut.
1. After warm ups, my gut told me to move further in with my feet, target 12/13 at the exit point and use a certain ball that was still in my bag. Well after the first game, I finally made that switch. 80 pins difference between the first and second game. In fact, I stayed with that ball for the next squad as well and did okay barely breaking 600 in the last squad.
2. there were several frames when I didn't use my spare ball and paid the price with a hooking ball making its move in the last minute. I missed three single pins due to hooking balls. And these are pins I can use my strike ball with on house shots....2 8 and 9... so sad missing these. YET, I converted 2 4 7 10 and 2 4 10 and 3 7 10 all with my spare ball...... I made stupid choice on those single pins.
3. Then I knew I had to move or adjust, but I was always late making those moves.
On house shots, it's easy to get "lazy" and still convert spares or have good results (strikes) on missed shots outside or inside. it's refreshing to bowl on patterns that lets you pay for it for not being there mentally or just being lazy. Even when I threw a good shot, rolled on the spot I was aiming for, and the ball never made a turn. It wasn't just me, everyone struggled. The margin of error was so tight.
Last edited by fokai73; 03-21-2016 at 01:02 PM.
THS make the average bowler a phenom. When you have to hit a target 50 feet down lane and stay within two boards separates the THS bowlers and the ones who practice on multiple oil patterns.
many bowlers complained about the difficulty of the pattern for this handicap tournament.
With those 200 average bowlers at this event, several were in the 480-550's range. 570 and above was respectable.
Handicap only works when the conditions for the tournament are like the conditions that the averages were established on.Originally Posted by fokai73
A person who throws the ball up the middle isn't negatively effected when the outsides are suddenly flooded.
Maybe the criteria to be considered a phenom needs to change when bowling on a THS.
Just raw scores on easy conditions is not the right criteria.
To see those old timers with slower speed going up 15 and scoring was fun to watch while the younger house bowlers who spray the lanes were leaving so many splits.
where I used to bowl overseas, bowling on difficult patterns is the norm. They laugh when I say I bowl out of the mainland when I visit, or just before we have side action after their leagues. They would have leagues with odd numbers lanes dressed with a short sport pattern and the even lanes with a medium length or long sport pattern. But generally, they use different types of patterns changing the shot every quarter.
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