When bowling on your league you sometimes find it hard to keep your ball from hooking too much or to less. If you’re a bowler like me with a high rev rate (my rev rate is 550) you need to find a speed to throw. Now I bowl league at many different places and you must find a speed to keep your ball on track. Now I bowl at little falls MN, and that has a dryer house shot, so when I’m bowling I use my ball that hooks a lot I will throw anywhere between 18-20, but when I bowl on a oilier shot I tend to slow it down to 16-18 mph. when you have a high rev rate you will need to throw at higher speeds or you will need to get less reactive balls. On the other hand if you throw that ball slow with a lower rev rate you will need to throw a higher reactive ball.

            Your rev rate will determine what balls you will throw and your ball speed will tell you the same thing, but when finding out what works better that will have to be you that decides that, because every one throws a little different. So when you have a high rev rate you normally throw fast and a lower rev rate you would throw slower.

Pin Placement is a very important thing that helps your ball pretty much do any thing.

Where do you want your pin placement at?????

For Oily lanes you want the pin far away from your track. (your track is the part where the ball rolls on the lane)
In the picture below it shows for a righty where you want your pin, where the pin=p and your track=T. Now if you have a high rev rate and you want extra length on the ball get closer to your track, but make sure not to get to close to it. You would want the pin to be above the fingers or if you want length and a smooth roll on it you would want it below your fingers.

The higher the pin the sharper the reaction and the lower the smoother the reaction.

When the lane conditions become oily there are a few ways to handle it. You can move your feet and throw straight up the first arrow. If you still leave weak pins like the 5, 7,10,2-8, then this means your ball can’t handle the oil. What you do is go and sand your ball, sanding is where you make the surface of your ball more reactive to the lane. You can sand your ball yourself if you wanted to, all you need is some sand paper. The finer the paper the more your ball will hook. After sanding your ball will have more back end and a better reaction.