I have found that a high flush pocket hit rarely leaves a 10-pin but a square in the 1-3 shot often does. There are two ways to attack this problem. First, practice shooting your 10-pin shots. I do this at my local lanes by throwing my 1st ball at the 10-pin. If it goes in the gutter, adjust slightly and throw the 2nd ball of that frame at the standing 10-pin. If it hits the 10-pin, I switch to my strike ball and throw a shot at the pocket. I mostly use a Brunswick Rhino or a Hammer Nu Blu. Both work well, depending on the oil pattern. Repeat this for every frame of that practice game. You will become better at hitting the 10-pin and will be less frustrated by seeing it still standing after what looks like a pretty good shot. Second, I find that for me an under the ball grip works best and is most accurate, so I never come around the ball. Coming around the ball with my hand adds hook and revolutions to the ball but at the expense of not being as reproducible a shot as remaining under the ball and lifting up through it. My shot is more consistent with this kind of release and hits plenty hard enough to knock them all down. I usually have a ball speed of 12.5-13.5 mph on my strike balls and up to 14.5 mph on my 14-lb. plastic spare ball. This works for me and while it is slower than I used to bowl, it is definitely more accurate, especially on spares and splits. I've bowled in leagues for more than 50 years, so have a lot of experience. I also watch the pros on YT by watching the videos of the pros in tournaments. Search for "year pba bowling", where you put in the number of the year that you want to watch. A full list of tournaments will come up and you can choose which tournament you want to watch. I just watch them in order and view that entire year over several days. Lots of these were recorded from the late 1970s up through current matches and are well worth watching how the pros get such high scores. I average in the mid-190s with occasional mid-600s for a 3-game series. Highest score was a 755 series in 2019. I'm 75 years old and still swingin' a 15-lb. ball. None of the crankers I knew are still bowling at this age, mostly due to arm, wrist, or shoulder issues that prevent them from bowling. So take care of yourself and keep on rollin' that bowling ball.
When you're getting the ringing 10 the easiest way to fix it is where ever you're eye targeting just look @ 1-2" closer to yourself which will keep your ball on same line but it will touch the friction a pinch sooner causing it to roll forward alil more at the pocket. BOOM Strike ;)
Sorry, don’t understand what you mean by too quick off the spot, or didn’t have enough time to slow down & get in the proper spot. Does that mean it finished too hard at the end ? Thank you
Last week went to practice last game i left two 7-10s flush pocket hit. Then i belive 3 7 and 10 pins. The rest of the game strikes. I did start changing angles. I was mad though i felt like it should of been a 300 flush hits all but one lucky brooklyn
If you leave the corner pin maybe once or twice I wouldn't change anything. When you start randomly moving over dropping the ball in different places and all that you're just going to make things worse. What works for me is simply moving my feet forward about 4 in everything else stays the same.
@@harrypoyo4314 Most people will tell you that surface is not the best idea in a house shot league since you'll burn up the heads and your track area pretty quickly. I'd probably let your strong stuff get lane shined for league, it'll make you move a lot less and make your backends more predictable.
Good information. I like pearl bowling balls. Now I know why!
I have found that a high flush pocket hit rarely leaves a 10-pin but a square in the 1-3 shot often does. There are two ways to attack this problem. First, practice shooting your
10-pin shots. I do this at my local lanes by throwing my 1st ball at the 10-pin. If it goes in the gutter, adjust slightly and throw the 2nd ball of that frame at the standing 10-pin.
If it hits the 10-pin, I switch to my strike ball and throw a shot at the pocket. I mostly use a Brunswick Rhino or a Hammer Nu Blu. Both work well, depending on the oil pattern.
Repeat this for every frame of that practice game. You will become better at hitting the 10-pin and will be less frustrated by seeing it still standing after what looks like a pretty
good shot. Second, I find that for me an under the ball grip works best and is most accurate, so I never come around the ball. Coming around the ball with my hand adds hook
and revolutions to the ball but at the expense of not being as reproducible a shot as remaining under the ball and lifting up through it. My shot is more consistent with this kind
of release and hits plenty hard enough to knock them all down. I usually have a ball speed of 12.5-13.5 mph on my strike balls and up to 14.5 mph on my 14-lb. plastic spare ball.
This works for me and while it is slower than I used to bowl, it is definitely more accurate, especially on spares and splits. I've bowled in leagues for more than 50 years, so have
a lot of experience. I also watch the pros on YT by watching the videos of the pros in tournaments. Search for "year pba bowling", where you put in the number of the year that
you want to watch. A full list of tournaments will come up and you can choose which tournament you want to watch. I just watch them in order and view that entire year over
several days. Lots of these were recorded from the late 1970s up through current matches and are well worth watching how the pros get such high scores. I average in the
mid-190s with occasional mid-600s for a 3-game series. Highest score was a 755 series in 2019. I'm 75 years old and still swingin' a 15-lb. ball. None of the crankers I knew
are still bowling at this age, mostly due to arm, wrist, or shoulder issues that prevent them from bowling. So take care of yourself and keep on rollin' that bowling ball.
When you're getting the ringing 10 the easiest way to fix it is where ever you're eye targeting just look @ 1-2" closer to yourself which will keep your ball on same line but it will touch the friction a pinch sooner causing it to roll forward alil more at the pocket. BOOM Strike ;)
Thank you
Boy I leave lots of ten pins for both reasons. Adjust and adjust some more, always moving. 😁
Sorry, don’t understand what you mean by too quick off the spot, or didn’t have enough time to slow down & get in the proper spot. Does that mean it finished too hard at the end ?
Thank you
Last week went to practice last game i left two 7-10s flush pocket hit. Then i belive 3 7 and 10 pins. The rest of the game strikes. I did start changing angles. I was mad though i felt like it should of been a 300 flush hits all but one lucky brooklyn
If you leave the corner pin maybe once or twice I wouldn't change anything. When you start randomly moving over dropping the ball in different places and all that you're just going to make things worse. What works for me is simply moving my feet forward about 4 in everything else stays the same.
When I make an adjustment to avoid leaving the 10 I leave the 7, the best way to avoid this is by not bowling!!! You’re welcome!!!
What if there's a lot of carry down when there are a few bowlers using urethane on a house shot?
Ball up to something like a asym solid and move right. Treat it like a long pattern.
@@fireteam_ unfortunately that night, I just had an upper mid sym pearl with 2000 surface coz that's my 1st go to ball in the league..
But i will keep that in mind.. thanks
@@harrypoyo4314 Most people will tell you that surface is not the best idea in a house shot league since you'll burn up the heads and your track area pretty quickly. I'd probably let your strong stuff get lane shined for league, it'll make you move a lot less and make your backends more predictable.
@@fireteam_ will do that.. thanks
I don't have that problem maybe 1 every other game
Why do you tuck your pinkie finger?
Creates more hook and revolutions