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    Default has anyone bowled a 300 while making lane adjustments?

    You have to miss to know you have to move unless maybe you got a lucky strike? Or did you change a ball and how did you know to do so?
    Has anyone bowled a 300 while moving over a few boards during the game because you saw the ball hook a little too much or too little but hit the same mark?

    I still have too many errant shots that I mistakenly try to read and make an adjustment on but I'm trying to learn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Albundy View Post
    You have to miss to know you have to move unless maybe you got a lucky strike? Or did you change a ball and how did you know to do so?
    Has anyone bowled a 300 while moving over a few boards during the game because you saw the ball hook a little too much or too little but hit the same mark?

    I still have too many errant shots that I mistakenly try to read and make an adjustment on but I'm trying to learn
    A more relevant question would be has anyone bowling a 300 without making lane adjustments. Here's the pros "secret": learn to watch the ball exit the pin deck. The ball should exit directly between the eight pin and the nine pin. If you see the ball start going more towards the eight pin, you are very close to leaving a four pin, and it's time to adjust on your next shot. If you see your ball start exiting more towards the nine pin, you are very close to leaving a weak ten and it's time to adjust. If you can learn to do this, it will do more to improve your bowling than anything else you can learn.

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    Rob, Correct, but this makes the assumption you can see the ball into the pit. I usually have to make the adjustment after a 10
    pin leave. The information in the Shot Adjustment Chart was very helpful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Albundy View Post
    You have to miss to know you have to move unless maybe you got a lucky strike?
    You don't have to have a miss to know to adjust, Like Rob said there's watching where the ball exits the pin deck. There's also watching how the pins fall, changes in your ball motion. All of these are clues and can allow you to adjust before you start to leave something.



    Has anyone bowled a 300 while moving over a few boards during the game because you saw the ball hook a little too much or too little but hit the same mark?
    So to answer this question, Yes many have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RobLV1 View Post
    A more relevant question would be has anyone bowling a 300 without making lane adjustments.
    Rob in a word Yes I have bowled a 300 without making the first kind of adjustment
    as the lanes were so slick I just fired a straight ball rocket at the pocket so I just
    got lucky I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChuckR View Post
    Rob, Correct, but this makes the assumption you can see the ball into the pit. I usually have to make the adjustment after a 10
    pin leave. The information in the Shot Adjustment Chart was very helpful.
    Based on the original question, it's pretty hard to shoot 300 if you wait to leave a ten pin to adjust. Just sayin'...

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    In today's game, I don't see how one can roll perfect without making even the slightest adjustments.

    If you're right handed, your track will get torn up in a hurry, especially if you have others in pretty much the same track.

    For the lefties, you can pretty much make your own track because there are so few of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1VegasBowler View Post

    For the lefties, you can pretty much make your own track because there are so few of them.
    Alway fun to watch when three or more lefties are on the same pair in a tournament,( local, not PBA) and listen to them moan about lane transition.
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    I will usually adjust after a high flush hit. I know that the lane is starting to transition a bit.
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    A 42 ft house shot even lefties shouldn't throw outside of 10 right? The extreme outside is for short patterns. Or can oil get pushed between 5 and 10 from the middle

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