New ball need help on dry lanes

[widowmaker07]

I normaly bowl on a wood lane that is rather dry i just got the black widow pearl and it bites really hard and hooks really early i have moved all over the lanes still its consistent on going brooklyn its a fingertip drilled ball and i think i might be cranking my wrist to hard its a habit with the old house ball this is my first ball that i have had drilled and i was wondering if any one has in suggestions i also have bowled on synthetics with med oil with only slightly better results it still goes brookllyn people were coming too watch me throw brookyln strikes it was embarasing im no great bowler but i would love some help thanks :rolleyes:

[BubbaRay]

Widowmaker, welcome to the Hammer message board. First how did you have the balled drilled ? Did you get it drilled to roll early or have some length to it. Here are a few things you could try to eleviate it going brroklyn.

You should be targeting along the oil line as long as possible to maximize your
room for error. The main thing a player must do first is make sure they are lining up the correct way. Most people will release the ball about 4-8 boards right (right handed player) of their sliding foot. If you are siding left of 15, most likely you are playing in the flat part of the pattern way too long which minimizes your room for error.

KEEP THE INSIDE-OUT SWING PATH TO A MINIMUM!
If your swing is coming from the inside to the outside too much, you will have a launch angle that is too high which will make it very difficult to target along the oil line early enough or long enough. more inside out your swing path is, the more difficult it is to go up the lane. Swing directions that are straighter down the target line will normally be more advantageous on the short patterns


KEEP THE HAND QUIET
Try closeing the hand or try less rotation on the ball. Or try and put more forward roll on the ball.

[hbhammerhead]

i've been playing around with different techniques on dry lanes. my normal release will not last very long at one house i bowl at. they use a light volume of oil and it's a 35ft. pattern. anyways i use a cv drilled fairly weak for dry and i have been throwing my cv like my spare ball with end over end rotation and it goes longer and the cv will hook right into the pocket. i throw at the third arrow (right handed) and that usually strikes, sometimes i move left or right a little depends how it plays. i also try to throw it a little harder than my normal speed to help it get down the lane even more. try that out with the pearl.

[Rowdy]

Some video of you and the shot would be a help here. But off the top of my head,how about polishing up the ball? That'll get it down the lane farther and if you don't like the reaction you can always take the polish back off. Something inexpensive and changeable to start off with before you move into the really costly things.

[widowmaker07]

thank you guys very much for answering my ? the ball hasent really had but probably 10 games on it do you really think polishing is necisary im a newbie to havin anything but a house ball. i think that not rolling my wrist back around and snaping the ball would help me with my length some. the pro shop i went too dident exactly explain how the ball was goin to be set up mainly because unless he put it in laymans terms i wouldent have understood it

[grayfin68]

There are a bunch of different things you can do for dry lanes. For me, it varies and I've had successes and failures with different things I've tried. I face dry lanes pretty much every week during the second shift league on Tuedsay nights, plus I practice often on dry because our house only puts oil down for leagues.

My favorite and most successful technique is moving my feet left and throwing a little harder. I'm not talking about throwing it as hard as I can. I'm talking about adding 1-2 mph more than normal. My normal shot is about 15 mph, so on dry, I try to keep the ball speed over 16. I don't really ever want to throw harder than 17 unless I'm shooting a spare.

The other thing is to switch to a weaker ball. I usually use my Dead Flush on the drier conditions but I can also get away with using my Toxic or BV if I throw hard enough and inside.

Playing a tighter inside line is another good option but you have to be more accurate that way IMO. That requires me to move my feet and target left.