A perfect game is achieved by knowing how to make the right moves at the right time, not just repeating shots. Kegel has a very wide variety of oil patterns. Check out their Library. The background colors and the road figures represent the level of difficulty for the series. Other than Kegel, the PBA is one of the most challenging bowling tournaments and rankings worldwide so knowing their oil patterns is always a benefit. View Pattern Image. Knowing the pattern distance can help determine where the ball needs to be when it reacts toward the pocket.
Example: The lane is covered by 41ft. Okay, what does this mean? The result you get is where your ball needs to be when it breaks toward the pocket in this case, the 10 Board. Other than only the basic Rule of 31 mentioned above, there are other things that you have to look at when bowling. Have you ever missed your target by boards to the left or right but still got a strike? Probably you did. The reason you still strike is that there is a lot of oil in the middle part of the lane and very little on the outside part.
If you are a right-handed bowler and miss your mark to the left, the extra oil toward the middle of the lane helps the ball hold position and not hook too much. Others require very little information to use your ball to string together lots of marks. For those outside the bowling world looking to get started, house patterns are the way to go. Often used at recreational bowling alleys around the world, house oil patterns are designed to help beginner bowlers find the pins and get on the board.
House patterns vary from alley to alley, but the general idea is very much the same — more oil down the middle of the lane, less oil to the side.
This helps inexperienced players track the ball to the pin pocket much easier. It also helps bowlers find a target that works for them and stay with it.
More oil in the middle means more action going towards the sweet spot of the pins. It also helps wilder bowlers with a greater margin for error when it comes to off-throws. When you read an article or articles which provide tips for beginning bowlers, the advice is usually given with a standard house pattern in mind. With added oil volume in the middle of the lane and less to the sides, recreational bowling alleys can serve a wider variety of bowlers with all different types of skill sets.
When these alleys host tournaments, they may alter the oil patterns to capture the attention and ire of more experienced players. However, the vast majority of alleys use house patterns on their lanes to keep the game friendly for kids, killer bowlers, and everyone in between.
Every time you play a game of bowling, oil pattern length, oil pattern distance, and other oil variables alter user experience in significant ways. Oil is extremely important to the game. Originally oil was put on the lane to protect the lane surface. Without oil, your bowling ball would hit the lane, begin sparking, leave a burn mark and explode in the gutter. OK, it wouldn't be that bad, but it would hook too much and make the game nearly unplayable.
You need oil to help control how much your ball hooks and to help you strike consistently. We've established the fact there is oil on the lane, but how does it get there?
Each center has a "lane machine" that is used to put the oil on the lane. The center mechanic programs a specific pattern into the machine, telling it how much oil to put down and where to put it.
Oil isn't spread evenly across the lane. Typically, there is much more oil in the middle of the lane than on the outside. The chances are that if you are interested in bowling you have, at one point or another, seen a bowling alley.
Be it through personal experience or perhaps on TV, you have taken in the bowling ball, the pins, the lane dimensions , and the competitive but friendly atmosphere. As weird as it may sound, have you taken in the shine and sheen that seems to radiate off the wooden boards, glowing with a well-polished sparkle?
But the next time you do happen across a bowling alley, maybe stop and actually take in the well-oiled floor, because believe it or not, a lot of work goes into that gorgeous shine! Believe it or not, there are a variety of reasons bowling alley owners slather their maple and pine boards with the oiled slick. Without the oil, many balls would not roll as far, create skid or burn marks on the woodwork and bowlers would be at a greater chance of injury.
When you are bowling the aim of the game is usually to get as many strikes as possible, thus earning more points and bragging rights. Note: Because of angles, right handed bowlers aim for the pocket and left-handed bowlers go for the pocket. The first step in understanding oil patterns is knowing that all patterns are NOT created equally.
Oil patterns can vary from place to place, depending on what the center mechanic has programmed the lane machine to do. These machines can be programmed to use a variety of oil patterns and depending on which pattern is selected they will then drift down the length of the lane, following their programming on where to put the oil down and how much of it put in one place.
Because of this variation, the two key things to look at while trying to understand your current oil pattern is the length of the pattern as well as the volume of oil used per unit. Typically, the oil pattern has the oil lightly coating the outside of the lane while the middle of the lane is more saturated. Now that you know all bowling oil patterns are not created equal, the next step in your journey is knowing how to figure out the oil pattern you are currently bowling against.
If it is not posted, you can also ask an employee or owner for said sheet, or get the name of the pattern to find the information you need online.
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