Two-Handed Bowling: Surface Adjustments for Medium Pattern

This provides lots of choices on how to play the lane throughout the block. What we don’t want to do is make a mistake when choosing which grit surface to apply on the bowling ball’s coverstock before we even get out there on the lane.

In this Premium Video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, works on a few of Jackson Hellen’s bowling balls by applying different grit sanding pads to the coverstocks on the bowling balls he will use throughout the block when he bowls on Autobahn.

Idle, Rocket Ship and Phase 2

What we’re going to do is start with a simple finish, 3000 grit on our solid covers. Why do we do this? Well, if we start out with 1000 or 2000 grit and we throw a couple balls in practice and it hooks too early, what then?

Sometimes there’s not a lot we can do. We can possibly speed up, but it won’t match up to the lane the right way. Pohl prefers to go with either a 3000 or 4000 grit to start so you can always go down from there. Bringing a bowling ball coverstock back up to a higher grit is much harder to do especially when you’re trying to throw practice shots in the 10 minutes allotted.

Phase 3

What we did with our hybrid bowling ball, Phase 3, is apply 4000 grit. This provides a nice, even smooth reaction. It’s going to blend out the pattern really well. We’re thinking this one might work well for later transition towards the end of the block.