Judging Your Bowling Technique on a Short Oil Pattern

Okay. Lindsay, we lined you up on the long pattern. We found a couple of different balls that would kind of give you some shots to the pocket. Some gave you a little bit more room. Now we're going to switch to the left lane here. We're going to pull in a shorter pattern. So we know generally on a shorter pattern, we'd probably want to be a little farther to the right, but I want you once again to use that benchmark bowling ball, get lined up, once you feel comfortable with that benchmark bowling ball, or if we can get lined up, let's make a quick ball change, but let's throw a few shots with that benchmark bowling ball and go from there. Okay. Okay, notice we got, we made a little move. We move left to give us, give us to the pocket. So we've got a good shot to the pocket there. Let's throw a couple of shots just to see what kind of variances we get like we saw in the long pattern. Okay, Lindsay, that's great. So we throw in three different shots. One struck, one was right, and one went left and we noticed we don't have a lot of room for error with this ball. So on a short pattern, not much distance of oil so the ball wants to hook really quickly. So tell me what would be your thought process in making a change here? At this point, I would probably change to a weaker bowling ball, just because of my rev rate and access rotation is higher than I would say the average person. And I'd probably go to something along the lines of a tropical breeze wipe out or a pitch-black. Okay. So let's make a ball change here and kind of see where we're going. Okay. I want you to notice patterns, very touchy the short patterns like this are often pretty tricky little patterns. So we feel like we've got to get to a little bit weaker bowling ball. So we're going to go making a little adjustment here and we're going to switch to a ball that goes a little farther down the lane and try to see if we can stay in about the same spot. Okay. So Lindsay, we've thrown some shots on the short pattern and originally we always think on a short pattern that we're going to use balls that are always maybe a little bit weaker urethane, which we tried that, we had a couple of good reactions and looks with that. But we noticed that this pattern, we know where we want to exit the pattern somewhere around five, but we noticed that this pattern had more volume to it, which you, as a coach, you can recognize that, hey we have to use a ball that's a little bit more aggressive. So we noticed that we shifted from the urethane ball of a pitch-black and we went to a pearlized reactive, because we were trying to keep it on the straighter line through the front of the lane so that we use its energy down line. So as you, as a bowler, what would you be looking for right there? I talked a little bit about it, but you tell me what you would see At this point. I would probably try to go to a more solid ball because I feel as though that the pearlized reaction is too wet, dry. And I mean that if I get it to the right it doesn't hook enough on the backend. I try to straighten out my angles through the front and it goes face, goes high. So at that point I'd probably go to something designed, drilled, weaker off my PAP and a more of a solid ball. So I can stay straighter and have more of a smoother arc on the backend. Excellent. So once again this is the player understanding herself, but the communication back and forth between the player and the coach. So the coach sees one thing, the player sees another. So that's really good that, you know Lindsey is a very high level player. So she sees this really quickly, but you as a coach or player need to recognize this as yourself as well too. So it's a really good way to, you know, kind of understand that relationship between the player and coach and lining them up on that pattern the short versus the long. So I think we had some really good ideas and really good answers here today, gives you, as a coach or player a better understanding of what's going on in the lane. So today we saw a couple of different things. We talked about finding that PAP, understanding the bowler understanding what's going on, on the lane. We had a couple of different patterns. We had Lindsey on a long pattern and Lindsey on a short pattern the long pattern of that 42 foot pattern. We got her in a more around 10, 11, 12 because we know on that Kegel rule; 31, 42 minus 31, 11 should be about where she was exiting. We noticed that she started with that benchmark bowling ball and then kind of had a not a much room for error. So we switched her to more aggressive ball and gave her a little bit more room. So understanding what the transitions were going to happen during that time she was going to be bowling on that, on that pattern. So now she had a game plan. You as a coach need to have that game plan to that player because half of that battle is understanding when the lane's changing and what I should be switching to because we know bowlers like to tend to stay in that same ball, a little too long. So understanding what's going on, what's changing in the lane and making adaptations to it. And then we saw in the short pattern where we had to play farther to the right and stay straighter up the lane trying to use the urethane ball because we want to stay closer to that, more direct up the lane, which was good but we noticed there was more volume in the pattern. So we still needed to stay to the right, but we needed to use a ball that was little bit more aggressive. She talked about a solid reactive. So knowing the arsenal that the player has and knowing that we need to make these adjustments and make the moves to the right part of the lane is very crucial to the coach and the player. We mapped those axes out, so we could see what happens is the ball is traveling down the lane. The player gets a chance to read that bowling ball reaction. And we'll talk a little bit more about that in future segments. But once again, this was really trying to get lined up on the lane between the player, understanding the player the coach, understanding what's going on and the player. So a great section for you as a coach, as a player to understand lane conditions, to understand balls and when we should use them.