Well week one of the PBA Experience League came and went. Wow, what a difference! We started with the Viper bowling pattrn. I saw guys that bowled at my home alley with 210+ avg. shoot around 140-150. I have a league avg. of 183 and ended up with a 148 for the first night over 4 games.(139,166,141,147 ugh!) I just put ScotchBrite to the Shift, as suggested by others, to give it a little more midlane read. I thought I would start with that and tried my normal swing in practice. No margin of error! So, I stayed with the Shift, took a lot of the crank out of my delivery and threw a narrow inside line. I threw a lot of 9's and was hit or miss on the spares. I did that and improved through the second game. Then it That line started to break down fast. I switched to my Paradigm and moved a little deeper inside. I wasn't adjusting quick enough throughout the third and fourth games, but I caght up with the lanes at the end of each game with marks in the 8th and ninth and at least a strike to start off the 10th. All-in-all it was damn fun and we took all 9, 2 pts. per game and 1 pt. overall. Two weeks on each of the five patterns,, so every second week is going to be a position round. We'll see what next week brings us.

Well, it's been a while since I last posted, so I thought I would put something new up here.  The last night of league bowling was a disaster. I found out that I need to work on a sober game.  Didn't drink and relax because I was starting a new job on Monday and I bowled a world-of-crap away from my average. Still using the Shift and its still hitting light with no real drive in med. oil.  I'm gonna give it a gray ScotchBrite-ing, as suggested by others, and see what that does. If that doesn't seem to do the trick were gonna give the Pro-Shop guy another go at-it. This time he'll have to get my PAP instead of label drilling the ball. Summer PBA Experience league is coming and I would like to get my ducks in a row. Gonna try a run of bowling this evening and be back to report on the results sometime soon. Any body else have trouble with a weak Shift? Let me know, drop me line, or throw me a clue or a tip on improvements. Later.