Dry or Oily Bowling Lanes & Ball Performance

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Hi, I am Ed Kramarcik, PBA member and AMF staff player. I am also a Pro Shop owner of Rip the Rack Pro Shop in Longwood-Orlando. If you would like to check out my website, you can go to www.riptherackbowling.com. What we are going to talk about now is lane conditions, you have oily lanes and you have dry lanes. And the difference on the conditions makes a big difference in your score. So if you come out and bowl and you have your own bowling ball, or you are bowling with a house ball which means you come into the center, you pick up a plastic bowl. Well if the lanes are oily, that lane is not going to grab the lanes, so you need to visit my pro shop or another pro shop, repretable shop where you can pick out the ball that you need to hit the lane conditions. The difference between oily and dry is if you have a plastic ball and you rolled your ball up the lanes and the lanes were oily, there was a lot of oil on the lanes, the lanes were just dressed. We call it dressing, they were just dressed by the mechanic, you came in the center, and you got brand new lane conditions that were just oiled up which is called dressing. So if you used a plastic ball and you rolled it, the ball is going to skid, it is not going to make the corner. Making the corner means – on a tour we call making a corner where the ball is going to curve and hit your 1-3 pockets, it is not going to do that. with a plastic ball, plastic on oil is going to skid, it is going to skid real long, it is not going to hook and you are going to leave a bunch of junk we call it on the tour which is wash outs and a bunch of splits. So what you want to do is you want to use a reactive ball. A reactive ball is going to react to the lane conditions and that is the difference between plastic and reactive. So when you have oil on the lanes, get up on the lane you throw a reactive ball and that ball is going to react to the lane conditions the ball is going to roll, it is going to skid and then it is going to flip. And those are the three fundamentals that you want from a bowling ball you want it to roll, then it is going to go into a skid and then it is going to flip. Plastic is not going to do that, plastic is made for completely dry lanes, it is good for the spare ball if you have a big cranker and you got a lot of hand in the ball and you hook the ball a lot. Well when the lanes are drying up you want to go to your plastic ball for you spares. This way you can be more accurate to hit your spare because if you use a hooking ball the ball is going to hook away on you, so you want to use plastic for your spares and for your full rack, you want to use a reactive resin ball. Reactive resin means the cover stock is reactive and it is going to reactive to the lane conditions and that is how you will bowl a higher score. Thank you and bowl well.

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