Mounts Bowling

Yesterday I tood a good chunk of time out of my day to scout the lanes and see how people were playing the lanes I took some video of the Singles event when the oil was broken down and as you'll see in this video I also took some video of the first game of the team event to get a perspective on fresh oil.

Having not bowled on this yet I had some thoughts about how the lanes appeared to be playing based on the shots of others and my analysis of the USBC oil pattern chart I posted yesterday. Take a look at the video for what I was thinking at the time.

USBC Open Team Event - Fresh Oil


Here the link to the fresh oil analysis on YouTube in case the above doesn't work for you.

How I Actually Played The Lanes
I wish I had some video to show as I have for last year at the 2009 USBC Open but I didn't have my lovely wife available to man the video camera.

In any event I started off playing the line that the man in the above video was playing. Considering I have a lot of hand this was not hard. I threw my Brunswick Fury Pearl from the 20 board at the foul line to about 13 at the arros and about 8 at 45 feet and this worked well for practice and into the first game. At this time the ball started checking up high so I switched to my Twisted Fury on the same line. The difference being that my Twisted would skid longer before flipping... unfortunately it wanted to skid too long.

Looking back on it I really could've worked with either ball and made adjustments and been fine the shot was there but I felt that playing my inside up-and-in line, as mapped out on my last post on the USBC Open Oil Pattern, with my urethane ball (14 year old Columbia Beast) would be a good change. After all when the lanes get challenging it's tough to argue with going straighter.

This up and in shot worked really good on the right land and not as great on the left. In fact from the end of the second game to the end of the third I was perfect on the right, all strikes, but left 3 splits on the left. In the end of the third game I switched back to my Fury Pearl just for the left lane (a couple boards inside of where I started the day - about 22 - 14 - 9). This let me carry perfectly and was probably the shot I should've thrown the whole time even though the up and in shot was obviously there for me on the right lane.

Again, I wish I had video but I wasn't about to order a $100 video from the crew on site to do it for me so this will have to do.

I ended up shooting 178 - 182 - 182 for a 542 series. Not that great but this was a great lesson for doubles & singles later today. I will likely start off with my Fury Pearl bowling ball just as I ended the night last night and make it work with a slow controlled arching hook.

I'll post some video of how others were playing the Doubles / Singles event from an earlier squad complete with my thoughts and commentary and then later give a synopsis of how I actually played the lanes and what I thought about them.

Posted by Brian at 2:32 PM