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    Default Picked up a split and almost 2nd (4-6-7-10)

    So last night 10th frame of game 2 left a 6-8-10. Targeted the 10 (I'm a lefty) and picked it up. Pretty tough for a lefty. Later left a 4-6-7-10. Targeted the 7 and made the 4, 7, and 10. The 10 hit the side and fell into the 6 but it only wobbled. To pick up one of those in a night is pretty cool. I almost made both. Last summer I made the 7-9 split too. Wish I could be that accurate (or lucky) more often
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    Nice! Luck aside, that takes skill to make a shot like that. Me? I'm just happy if I make a mini-split, haha. Great job, dude.

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    Quote Originally Posted by J Daisy View Post
    Nice! Luck aside, that takes skill to make a shot like that. Me? I'm just happy if I make a mini-split, haha. Great job, dude.
    Funny thing is I have been horrible at mini splits
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    Quote Originally Posted by boatman37 View Post
    Funny thing is I have been horrible at mini splits
    I just usually try to bowl right between the pins if I can. That usually works for me. One reason why I love my arrow-straight plastic ball, haha.

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    2 weeks in a row 2 of my teammates put their ball right between the 3-10 without touching either. Pretty hard to do that...lol. I actually made my last 2 2-7's (I'm a lefty) but I had only been about 1/5 this year before that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by J Daisy View Post
    I just usually try to bowl right between the pins if I can. That usually works for me. One reason why I love my arrow-straight plastic ball, haha.
    Daisy....you love the straight plastic ball. How's it coming with the reactive ball you got recently? If you posted anything I might have missed it. Update us please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by boatman37 View Post
    So last night 10th frame of game 2 left a 6-8-10. Targeted the 10 (I'm a lefty) and picked it up. Pretty tough for a lefty. Later left a 4-6-7-10. Targeted the 7 and made the 4, 7, and 10. The 10 hit the side and fell into the 6 but it only wobbled. To pick up one of those in a night is pretty cool. I almost made both. Last summer I made the 7-9 split too. Wish I could be that accurate (or lucky) more often
    Both leaves are the result of the ball hooking too hard. It's great that you made such good attempts to pick them up, but the question should be why did you leave them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobLV1 View Post
    Both leaves are the result of the ball hooking too hard. It's great that you made such good attempts to pick them up, but the question should be why did you leave them?
    Yeah they both throw the same ball for strikes and spares except the 10 pin. Other than that they use their strike ball. Pretty much the same delivery and release too. The one throws a fairly straight ball anyway that he angles from the gutter to the pocket. The other has a fairly straight ball with a big hook at the end. He flattens his hand out a little for spares but does use his primary ball.

    Why I left them? Wish I knew...lol. If you saw my scores I struggled till game 3. Ball was perfect in warmups then started coming in light. Made a small adjustment and finished game 1 in the 160s. Had 2 opens and both were 1-3-6-10. Game 2 nothing worked. Hit light, hit high, too many opens, just horrible. Had 3 splits that game (picked up the 6-8-10 in the 10th of that game and left the 4-6-7-10 in the fill.) and left a pocket 7-10 in the 7th. tried different balls, different lines, etc. Just couldn't get anything going. Game 3 was a whole new game...lol. 213. Only had 1 open and it was another 4-6-7-10. I rarely leave splits so not sure. I think I might have had too much entry angle? I was using the new Squatch pearl and tried the BWG. Maybe I should have tried the Conspiracy? Not sure but got pretty frustrated. Maybe it was me. I did notice I seemed to be getting more lift a few times as I could feel a 'soreness' in my ring fingertip that I don't get when I don't lift too hard. Been trying to work on that and don't think I did it at all in game 3
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    Quote Originally Posted by boatman37 View Post
    Why I left them? Wish I knew...lol. Game 2 nothing worked. Hit light, hit high, too many opens, just horrible. Had 3 splits that game (picked up the 6-8-10 in the 10th of that game and left the 4-6-7-10 in the fill.) and left a pocket 7-10 in the 7th. tried different balls, different lines, etc.
    Let me guess: you never moved more than three boards to the right. "Hit high" (too much friction), and "left a pocket 7-10 int the 7th" (even more friction; ball burning up). If you want to score in 2019, you have to start thinking like it's 2019, not 1980. You need oil to save the energy for the pocket, not friction so that you can feel good about yourself because the ball hooks! I'm sorry to sound so brutal, but I feel your frustration, and see your adversity to changing the things that you've believed for so many years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobLV1 View Post
    Let me guess: you never moved more than three boards to the right. "Hit high" (too much friction), and "left a pocket 7-10 int the 7th" (even more friction; ball burning up). If you want to score in 2019, you have to start thinking like it's 2019, not 1980. You need oil to save the energy for the pocket, not friction so that you can feel good about yourself because the ball hooks! I'm sorry to sound so brutal, but I feel your frustration, and see your adversity to changing the things that you've believed for so many years.
    Actually I did move in to the 15 board and that ball went right through the nose. Can't remember what the leave was but after that one I went back to the 6 board. In hindsight I probably should have stayed there and adjusted to it. One of my problems is not being able to figure this out at the center. After I get home and think about it I start thinking about it and wonder why I didn't try this or that. Oddly, in the summer league we rotated out every 3 weeks but I went down even on my off week. I would watch my teammates and tell them what I saw and how I would adjust and alot of times it worked but when my mind is wrapped up in what I'm doing it doesn't come to me.

    EDIT: I do remember a few talking about how dry the lanes were the other night. To me, where I play, they usually are fairly dry so I don't pick up on it as much.
    Last edited by boatman37; 10-05-2019 at 09:33 PM.
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