The area on the ball from one inch inside the midplane to a line from the bowlers PAP to the Ring finger and from the PAP to the equator, in which the Pin of a ball can be placed safely without the track and holes interfering with one another.
1) The process of applying an abrasive to alter the surface of the ball so it will grab the lanes sooner and hook both earlier and more. To be legal, the entire surface of the ball must be sanded in the same manner.
2) The process of resurfacing wood lanes, typically done during the off season, once every few years.
A system of doubles play where the two bowlers on each team play alternate shots throughout the game. The only time one of the pair ever completes a frame on his/her own is when scoring a strike.
Refers to the portion of the bowling ball's path in which the velocity of the contact point on the ball is greater than zero and the ball is therefore actually not rolling but is instead sliding down the lane.
If a player has a lot of side roll or if the lanes are very slick up front and dry in the back part of the lane the ball slides a long way down the lane and then breaks loose hooking very, very sharply in the back part of the lane.
An old European target sport, from which Ten-pin bowling and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom the game remains a very popular pub sport in England and Wales, though it tends to be found in particular regions, not nation-wide.
A plastic or urethane cylinder used because of its smooth consistent surface that is inserted and glued into a drilled hole in the ball. It is then drilled where your normal thumb hole would be.
A ball path that does have a sharp, defined breakpoint. However, when referring to the actual break point, the term snap is often used as a quantifying term.
A semi-roller that tracks very low on the ball, so low that in some cases you can see the thumb hole appear to be stationary as the ball revolves on the lane to the pins.
A semi-roller that tracks very low on the ball, so low that in some cases you can see the thumb hole appear to be stationary as the ball revolves on the lane to the pins.
Various combination of pins standing after a first throw where one or more pins has been knocked down creating a space between standing pins and thus a harder spare to make. (4-5, 5-6, 4-7, 6-10, 7-10, 4-6-7-10, etc.)
In the 1970's, Don McCune, a PBA player, discovered that if you soaked a ball with a solvent (Methyl Ethyl Ketone) it made the surface of hard polyester balls softer, resulting in more hook and higher scores. He won several events that year; the PBA and ABC ultimately banned this practice and initiated a standard for the hardness of a ball.
Consists of leagues and tournament that are conducted on challenging lane conditions. The program, in its most basic form, is an opportunity for all bowlers to determine their true skills in such areas as accuracy, consistency, the ability to read lanes, and spare shooting skills to have success rather than rely on today's high-tech equipment or forgiving lane patterns to achieve high honor awards.
A defined rolling action of a bowling ball as it travels down the lane. On oily conditions, a stable ball rolls better than an unstable ball which ultimately skids too far. On dryer conditions, an unstable ball rolls better than a stable ball which rolls too quickly.
1) Three consecutive games in a series that increase by one pin each game.
2) A type of competition that ends an event whereby the lowest seeded player among those remaining plays against the next higher seed, with the winner advancing to face the next higher seed; this continues until the championship is decided against the number one seeded player or team.
3) A portable device with steps, a hinged supporting frame, usually topped with a small platform, and is never put away by Sheldon.
The cleaning and removal of back end oil that has been carried down after the normal lane condition has been applied and many games bowled on the lanes. A stripped lane surface is dry and prone to hook; this should be done along with the conditioning process after each league to keep a consistent lane condition.
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