Okay, I've been putting off writing this just because I'm getting lazy in my old age. You post that you had a pretty good look at the third arrow, but you didn't use it even though YOU SHOT 136 IN GAME 3!!?!! How bad does it have to get before you abandon your comfort zone? With 5 lefties on the pair, you need to adjust like a right-hander. Back in the day (70's and 80's) we were all looking for friction because balls were very weak and lane surfaces were wood. Lefties either had it real good or real bad depending on how much friction they could find on the outside. Today, with strong balls and synthetic lanes, we are looking just as hard for oil as we used to look for friction. Every shot that is thrown with a reactive ball takes oil off of the lane. A few years ago, Gold Coach Joe Slowinski wrote and article about El Dorado and El Diablo. El Dorado is the good friction that brings the ball into the pocket. El Diablo is the bad friction that robs the ball of its energy, leaving it unable to get back to the pocket. At some point during play, particularly when several players are playing in the same area, we start to see a "Y" shape at the end of the pattern where shots missed outside can't make it back to the pocket, and shots missed inside dive through the nose leaving horrendous splits. Sloinski's words of wisdom; "The question is, when you see the "Y", why are you still playing there?"
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