When you bowling sometimes you run into a trouble with your balls not hooking enough cause the lanes are to oily. Now this can be hard to adjust for a new bowler or ever some one that’s been bowling for years. There are ways to get your ball to move on oily shots, but sometimes there is too much oily for any one or any bowling ball.

Say you’re bowling on your league and you’re using one of your balls that are in between your one the hooks the most and the one that doesn’t hook. You’re in warm up and your ball just isn’t hooking back to the pocket and when it does it hits so weak that you leave splits or 7-10s. Say you have a ball speed around 17-18 mph, the first thing you should do is slow you ball speed down say to 15-16 or if your ball still isn’t hooking go even slower till your ball starts hooking, maybe you don’t like to slow down you can always move to the track area on the lanes( the 10^th board on either side of the lane) why do this, it’s because this part of the lane is the most used and will give you the most friction to get your ball hooking. You can throw into that part of the lane or go straight up the 2^nd arrow (which is the 10^th board). Remember the straighter you throw your ball the better chance you have of getting your ball to hook.

            Another thing to do is to go and grad your bowling ball that hooks the most and try to use that. Try everything that I told you earlier, and if that doesn’t help you can always go out and sand your ball so you can get that extra kick to get that ball to hook. When using your strongest ball on heavy oil it will give you the best chance of hooking. Next thing is you can try to get a little extra lift on your bowl and try to get more revolutions (or revs), because more revs more hook.

If you need more help on oily lanes maybe you could go and get a new ball that’s made for heavy oil. After you read this check out my bowling balls for oil blog.

Remember don’t be afraid of trying different things when bowling.

Finding out if the lanes are oily or dry is easy. First thing you should do is play the line you always do, or throw the ball in the same area that you usually. If the ball doesn’t hit the pocket that means the lanes are oily. If your ball hits the pocket high, or goes on the other side of the head pin, the lanes are dry.

Well, when you have a finger tip ball you always wanna put your ring and middle finger in the ball first, then you put your thumb in the ball.

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.