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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

New Surroundings, New Options | Bowling This Month


Article Contents

  • 1. Nook pins: the fundamentals
    • 1.1. Flat corners
    • 1.2. Wrapped corners
    • 1.3. My private expertise
  • 2. Nook pins on home patterns
    • 2.1. The wrapped 10 pin lure
    • 2.2. Changes for the flat 10
    • 2.3. Messengers and the flat 10
  • 3. Nook pins on sport photographs
    • 3.1. Wrapped 10s and 180 video games
    • 3.2. What to do about it?
    • 3.3. Flat corners on flat patterns
  • 4. Conclusion

Let me begin off this month’s article by stating how fortunate I really feel to be again writing for BTM. I stepped away from writing for some time, and I’m thrilled to be again placing pen to paper and offering readers with insights from my experiences on and off the lanes around the globe.

This month, we’re going to discuss nook pins. We’ll talk about why we’re leaving them in several environments and what we are able to do to get them to begin falling. Nook pins have been the nemesis of bowlers for many years!

Earlier than we start, we should deal with the primary subject: are you bowling on a home sample or a sport sample? You may assume, “What does that must do with a nook pin? It’s the identical pin whatever the oil.” That is the place most bowlers get it incorrect and the place a special mindset comes into play. The sample you’re bowling on may be very a lot an element when making your changes to the nook pin.

Nook pins: the fundamentals

On account of how briskly bowling ball expertise has superior, pocket hits have grow to be extra frequent for the common bowler, however we nonetheless want to concentrate to what occurs when the ball doesn’t strike. With that in thoughts, let’s begin by discussing the distinction between a flat and wrapped nook pin.

Flat corners

A flat nook pin happens when the bowling ball loses its power earlier than it hits the pocket, inflicting the 6 pin (the 4 pin for lefthanders) to put flat within the gutter subsequent to the accompanying nook pin.

This was a quite common depart for a few years earlier than bowling ball expertise superior and helped bowlers create extra entry angle. Nonetheless, bowling ball coverstocks in in the present day’s recreation have surpassed the expertise in oils. It’s now frequent {that a} extremely aggressive bowling ball can depart extra flat nook pins in the present day as a result of it has …



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