I bowl in a practice league as well, and since we have a coach I'm working to tweek my game from start to finish, and in this case I'm not looking at my scores as I am working on the adjustments to my game, including ball reaction.
The coach has been working on all facets, and the first thing we worked on was my approach. He felt that I needed to use my legs a lot more than I had been, and I have been moved back a couple of feet so I can get a longer final step and slide.
He noticed right away that I was using a Marshall Holman approach and he felt that there were two modifications needed. 1) Go longer with the approach and 2) Start by bending at the waist and then once I get moving, bend the knees. Once I did that, we found that my short arm swing became a little longer, but it created more power and revs. And the break point has stayed consistent as well.
I recently de-oiled my Vandal and Thug Unruly, and yesterday I went and bowled some of my 30 free practice games I earned during the winter season and really tested my game, and what I found out, was, I was able to open up the lanes a bit more and not have any change in my break point.
What also helped were 2 very clean balls. The Vandal and Thug Unruly were hitting stronger to have more pins scattering. And the Thug Unruly was back to its old big hook potential. (I'm still glad I never got the Grudge..lol)
While this was a good test for the THS, I'll know more when I bowl on the Scorpion pattern on Wednesday using the Vintage Danger Zone.
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