I'll give you that in subbing this maybe outside of your control but I still bowl a lot of my leagues that are 5 man teams and they are higher end leagues so everyone is taking practice shots and still get 3 shots in on each lane in 10 minutes. Some of it maybe outside of your control but you have to ask did I arrive early get my drinks have my shoes on and ball on the rack basically everything I need completed before practice starts? My main point really wasn't that you weren't trying to warm up just that may have been the reason for the need to make the initial move. Mines the opposite I find I need to move further in quickly if I don't get warmed up good as I tend to be getting around the ball better on ball 8 than I was on ball 4Seven players...5-15 minutes of practice taking turns...there is only so much warm-up time available. Sometimes I get lucky and there is 15 minutes and I'm one of only 2 bowlers warming up...but there are also nights I get there late...trying to get my shoes on...get my equipment ready...and I don't even get a warm-up...especially when subbing...where you get asked to sub after the team realizes 1-2 players aren't showing up.
Realize...I'm not saying you're wrong...but bowling advice, in order to be useful, has to be applicable to what a bowler is going to see on league night. IDEALLY...we could talk about all kinds of things related to practice, balls, conditions...but if you show up on league night with 2 balls, get 2 practice shots on each lane, and are bowling on lanes that get the backends cleaned twice a month...whats the point? It's "correct" advice...but non-applicable to 92% of bowlers.
Lines don't magically tighten without moving the break point moving your feet 1 board without changing your target is a 1/2 board adjustment down the lane. Yes the line is tighter but it's tighter by moving the break point right in this instance by an additional 1/2 board thus 8.5. A 2 boards with the feet and 1 with the eyes move right would move your break point by 1.5 boards to the right.If I was at a breakpoint of 9...and I move 1:2 right...now I'm at a breakpoint of 8, but with a slightly tighter line. No?
You are correct this break point is now at 7 but you started out with a pretty flat line to begin with even on your initial line there is no real movement to the right of the ball it's a pretty straight line down the lane you've now moved your eyes 2 boards right and your feet 4 boards right this becomes important read on.Again, another 1:2 right now moves the breakpoint target to 7...and further straightens out the line. And that move was ONLY to account for the surface issues on the Innovate which is a ball that has been going much longer...not as smooth a transition from the Reax Pearl at 4000.
Now this is where your not thinking about the actual setup of the lanes and the effect of your movements. Lets start with your shot shape I think we can agree your starting position is pretty flat your line is straight down the lane or close to it. Now you move 4 boards right with your feet an 2 with your eyes what happens to the shape of your shot? it's not constant it changes and it goes from straight to inverted. Now lets imagine the shape of the oil pattern most THS patterns are Christmas tree shaped so the farther left your ball is and the earlier it gets to that point the longer the oil pattern plays so now we are longer in the oil. On most THS patterns the farther left the ball is the heavier the oil pattern is in number of units so now if your ball is traveling right to left down the lane the ball is actually traversing more oil in length and volume.In that example...not possible. There is no such thing as "higher concentrations of oil" anywhere I've bowled except Vegas. And in Vegas...I still was hooking into the pocket...just more of an "up and in" shot between 1st and 2nd arrows...versus between 2nd and 3rd arrows. The ONLY time I've ever had to throw left (direction) at the pocket (versus hooking) is if we're talking about carrydown from open/cosmic/ glow bowling where the lanes just have essentially oil smeared all the way down the lane through the backends...not something I've encountered in league play.
Add on to this simple human nature if any part of our ball hits close to anywhere near our target (especially 40 ft down the lane where we can't see as well) we tend to think we hit our target forgetting the fact that the ball is 1.5 boards wide. If you are truly at 7 there is a gap between the ball and the marker down the lane. I think I've already established by your moves the ball should be farther right than at the break point than what it is and a ball that should be at 7 your thinking should be at 9 and then human nature is kicking in by looking at the ball my guess on those shots you think carry down the middle of the ball is probably at 10 or even 11 but your mind shows the edge of the ball at 9 so you think it's ok. Take a ball like your Innovate a weaker ball with a lot of polish now traveling through longer and higher volume oil that your trying to help get to the pocket because you don't have full confidence in and it misses right at the pins and your like whoa carry down. You change to the Scandal Pearl a ball you do have confidence in one it handles the oil better even if it is in that higher/longer area and since you believe in it the natural tendency is to be a little more free with the swing and miracle carry down solved.
Well I read the article by Suzie a while back but I can't remember enough about it to debate it but in simple THS bowling I think you might be better served by simplifying. Move right for hook move left to keep your line. Moves right 1:1 to move the break point right once you've found the hook on the lane move 2-1 left keeping the simple breakpoint where the hook is. DO this at least until it doesn't work if you know a break point of 9 works why do you want to test out 10 or 8 virgin territory? If that doesn't work then try your more unusual moves. It'll keep you from starting with a line that straight and ending up with one that is traveling left across the lane. You'll have less washouts, better carry, and low and behold carry down will disappear.I've seen and heard of ALL kinds of moves right and left. Like I said, the moves and adjustments I tend to make are based on two factors:
1) The adjustments I was taught by Missy Parkin. She actually has an adjustment spreadsheet/worksheet that gives you lateral moves based on certain leaves. It's GREATLY helped in my adjustments. Before being taught about the adjustments I SHOULD make...I was all over the place trying to adjust.
2) I sometimes make small moves...half board boves....1:1s right...vertical targeting chagnes...little things to help depending on well the ball is hitting the pocket...even I'm technically striking. These aren't moves that have been "taught"...these are moves that I'm trying to perfect and are based on actual experience and stuff I've read. Suzie Minshew's article in BTM actually introduced me to the concept of vertical targeting changes.
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