How to get rid of the 10 pin or 7 pin. When your a high power player like me you don’t leave to many 10 or 7’s. When you leave a 10 pin there are a few ways to get rid of it, but there are 2 kinds of ten pins, a weak and a ringing. A weak ten pin is when the 6 pin goes around the ten and a weak is where the 6 pin laying in the gutter next the the ten pin.

 When you leave a weak ten pin your ball is hitting to weak or not driving, now you want to slow your ball speed down or change to a higher reactive ball, by doing this your ball will hit harder and drive through the pins.

 When leaving a ringing ten pin your ball is hitting too late in the pocket or your angle to the pocket is too great, so now you want to move your line (where your playing) so your ball hooks a little earlier or so your ball gets a lower angle to the pocket.

The 7 pin is caused by your ball hitting too light in the pocket or hitting really heavy in the pocket. when leaving the weak 7 you want to move so your ball so it will hit or roll harder into the pocket, but if you leave the solid 7 you should speed up your ball or move your line so you have some more oil.

For a lefty just do the opposite .

Knowing the lanes you bowl on is key to bowling well.

Every bowling lane is 60ft long and is 40 boards wide. There are arrows about 15ft down the lane, the arrows are 5 boards apart, 5 from the gutter and 5 from the other arrows. The next thing is that the pocket on both sides of the lane is at the 17.5 board. The Boards are added on each side 0-20 and they meet at the head pin with is the 20th board.

OK, now if you’re league bowling and you don’t bowl on any PBA oil patterns, you should know that on any league shot, that the outside part of the lane is dry and the middle is oily. When you’re bowling you should always find out where the dryer part of the lane is.

Now on to the different types of lanes.
Now there are a few different types on lanes out there. There are wood, synthetic, wood synthetic, and guardian.
Wood lanes tend to have higher friction and faster hooking conditions. synthetic lanes will have a smother reaction, but synthetic lanes will also make it much easier to hook the ball. Synthetic lanes are easy to bowl on than wood lanes. Now wood synthetic (WS) lanes can be hard to bowl on. WS is two different lanes put together. The lanes could be the first 30ft could be wood or the other way around, by doing this the lanes make up many different reactions.