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    Default How to know my specs

    I really wish I knew how to find my ball speed, Rev rate, rotation etc. Buying balls and drilling would eventually cost less if I knew these things and quite possibly make me a better bowler. I'm familiar with with the tape method and counting rotations and counting from release to arrows while using a certain equation but how accurate can that really be?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bowlingfan92 View Post
    I really wish I knew how to find my ball speed, Rev rate, rotation etc. Buying balls and drilling would eventually cost less if I knew these things and quite possibly make me a better bowler. I'm familiar with with the tape method and counting rotations and counting from release to arrows while using a certain equation but how accurate can that really be?
    Here's a video with the basic's

    How to find a bowler's PAP, ball speed, rev rate, axis rotation and axis tilt.



    As for how accurate the tape method is, unless you have access to a C.A.T. System or the Ebonite Bowler ID system.

    It's accurate enough for something you can do yourself at the lanes and is a widely used and excepted method to find your stats.
    Last edited by bowl1820; 11-25-2016 at 10:40 PM.

    Right handed Stroker, high track ,about 13 degree axis tilt. PAP is located 5 9/16” over 1 3/4” up.Speed ave. about 14 mph at the pins. Medium rev’s.High Game 300, High series 798

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    lol I look up at the score and it tells me my speed, have no clue if it's accurate....I can throw real hard at a 10 pin and throw a normal strike ball and it's still in the 12 mph area. So I really do not trust it...
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    Never trust the ball speeds on the screens. They usually are never right.

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    great video, have to get some of them tools...
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