Dalen Wrote:
Chrome_CW Wrote:
Having said all of that, I only have a vague idea of what those guys are talking about Dale - they are the bowling equivalent of gearheads - these are the guys who bring 8 different balls every week to bowl with....there can be advantages to it (different balls for different oil conditions(the oil on the lanes tends to break down over the course of an evening)) but most of that is total overkill.
that's what i thought. probably won't ever matter to me.
so do you have to oil your ball, or is the lane itself oiled? serious question.
Lane itself is oiled - and it tends to be less and less oiled the further you go down the lane - that is part of the reason that when someone throws a hook that the ball slides so far down the lane before getting traction and then hooking into the pins. Most of the time it is rather uniform, but on the pro-circuit and in some "sport-shot" leagues they have specific patterns that they lay the oil down in so as to make for a more challenging shot.
Referring back to my earlier comment, when the oil "breaks down" it typically is just being moved by the ball sliding - so a shot that worked early in the evening will often hook earlier as the night progresses.
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