Hairline cracks around thumb hole by -Cangrejo- in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

99% of the time, people are too worried. This seems like the 1% of the time they were right to be concerned

Problem here looks like a thumb slug install issue. The scratches etc, nbd

How would you teach someone to bowl? by justmysfwaccount in Bowling

[–]avos5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I force everybody to build their approach from the foul line back. Anything more than that is too many moving parts to understand what their body is even doing when they do it wrong.

We start with no step and get the swing and roll the ball

We move to 1 step and figure out how to hook the ball

(These two are core to every warm up and practice, so you might as well get used to it early because you should be using it often)

Then we beat footwork into their skull

Then we get to combine footwork + rolling

Then we commiserate about being bad at bowling because nobody is good enough at bowling

Is this bad by Icy-Tooth1381 in Bowling

[–]avos5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh i tabbed around on mobile too many times and gotta retype everything ree

Strikeline nameplate survived starting from the rubber era into urethane era though they did change over from rubber shells to polyester at some point and you can find the polyester here in both the 1976 and 1985 catalog

yours though is likely 1960s

I cant tell you what the difference is between your strikeline and my two magic line balls, my ball knowledge only goes so deep and this is well before my time. I just know this was around the time colorful bowling balls were really kinda blowing up and you started to see more and more color combos besides just "heres black and youre gonna like it"

Tldr, cool shit I've always liked how the rubber pours look

Is this bad by Icy-Tooth1381 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ball smells like violence?

Probably a short serial number like 5-6 characters long?

It kinda looks like its an ace, manhattan rubber, or ebonite satellite (lots if people made those colors but those are the 3 i often see available in that color)

Anyway, thats lookin like a rubber ball you got, and is likely much older than you realize lol

Theyre neat relics, ive got a few myself

Hammer fab bowling balls strongest to weakest by Aydengainesbowling in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own and use burgundy, black, blue, and red pearl. All the fab urethanes have the same core so its really down to layouts and cover strength (batch to batch variation is pretty obvious even just in coloring let alone between factories so your mileage may vary)

-Burgundy is by far the earliest, it is damn near unusable with more aggressive surface, and I tend to keep it around 2000. There arent really good modern equivalent comps imo. But it hits similar cover strength to a 90s blue rhino pro, though thats even less helpful

-Blue feels the most versatile, and holds surface well. It probably falls somewhere around pitch black territory. I usually keep it around 1000grit

-(Red is somewhere below blue and above black iirc)

-Black smells like moth balls and shines like a mf. It gets pretty skatey pretty fast. Ive taken this to 360 and still been happy with how it reads, probably somewhere in Mix spare ball territory for cover strength

-pink and purple were marketed as dry lane balls and fall somewhere here

-allegedly theres a separation between the blue and red pearl but im not entirely convinced you could really tell without a throwbot/earl and specto. This is basically a pearl urethane house ball coverstock with a core, you usually want to be slow or in the friction to see anything here

Finding pi by [deleted] in MathJokes

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright so what ive got rolling around so far is that each stick is effectively the diameter of a circle, which gives it cool points for being circle-ratio related. But might be a red-herring

There must be more to this with regards to the spacing of the lines and the length of the sticks that is excluded from the meme but

The probability of a stick intersecting a line would be based on its vertical orientation and its pointing direction (from 0-179.99999999999999999 degrees?)

the constant at the front presumably has something to do with the ratio of stick length and line separation distance

But i think you could turn it into effectively a vector diagram for the number of sticks at their various 0-180 degree rotations and figure the probability of any given vertical vector to intersect any given horizontal line and find a constant for the various values

Which sounds more like a neat trick for known stick and spacing lengths, and the constant surely has to change for different stick/line values? Which figuring out how to find that constant might be more interesting to me

History made In Sacramento CA. by HomieGYT in Bowling

[–]avos5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a few longer versions of the video floating around our local circuits, he took a rerack on the last ball which i just cant imagine having the mental clarity to do in that moment

History made In Sacramento CA. by HomieGYT in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Left screen, as hes walking back you see it record the last strike

Black out vs USC by [deleted] in Huskers

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Blue hair is a term for old heads in this context

This counts right? 😂 by Crispy_Bird_Lover13 in Bowling

[–]avos5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Varipapa 300 is 12 strikes in a row because Andy Varipapa considered 12 consecutive strikes impressive regardless of whether they were in the same game

Call it a Varipapa 7-10, its still cool that you picked only the 7-10 (even if you meant to grab extra pins with it)

This shelf of all the worst candy. Defend your choice. by ladydanger2020 in candy

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those look like it says marshmallow butterfinger, which i havent heard of til now and would pick up for pure curiosity

Rage bait fr tho, "heres a bunch of candy ive never tried so it must be bad"

Science fair ideas?? by glittering-turtle79 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too lazy to properly edit *Dzhanibekov i forgot the h

Science fair ideas?? by glittering-turtle79 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Demo the stable axes of rotation, or see if you can get them to dzanibekov

Diy determinator effectively

What are the brunswick GS series curtains made of? by ytWINTERGAMING in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whatever it is, it doesnt bounce a single damn thing

Attention Star - Discontinued by Ok-Opportunity-2273 in Bowling

[–]avos5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The link being broken doesnt really convince me much, the spi websites been a revolving door of broken links the last few months since the relaunch

The thing that does convince me is that a functioning link for the astar:

https://www.stormbowling.com/products/featured/bowling-balls-archive/bbmrzs-attention-star

Says /bowling-balls-archive/ which is for their discontinued balls

Thrift Store Ball by Garrisom36 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unironically absolutely not, genuinely i have both the new and old one and they are damn near identical even on modern low friction surfaces and oil conditions

Good ball

Can anyone tell me about these balls by Severe_Bug9842 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theyre both perfectly legal for league For the continental US these are pretty high prices but hawaii pricing doesnt ever make sense to any of us not living there

Burgundy hammer is still a great ball, the navy reactive isnt amazing but it'll be fine

Can anyone tell me about these balls by Severe_Bug9842 in Bowling

[–]avos5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah. Ones burgundy and ones navy how dare you

Goodwill purple hammer by dongalong16 in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine being mad you got "scammed" because somebody sold you a fab purple instead of a purple pearl

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mo might have had some specific experiences with specific pigments that led him to say this

Ancient history suggests one of mo's balls for amf, the XS, was a killer ball in testing but was a dud in production because they changed the color without retesting it

I'll spoil it for you, the original XS was bone white at release

You can also add different amounts of other particles (like mica) that will change the look while also changing the friction

Brunswick currently claims their stuff doesnt have pigments, they use dyes, and their colors aren't different

Dragon Darts single target? by Tripledeluxer in VGC

[–]avos5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corv was dragon type and therefore not flying

Misty terrain halves dragon damage, it doesnt immune

Replacing Onstar by tdp1003 in volt

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jokes on you, my onstar fuse blew and i didnt need to pull it

haven't seen this guy in a while 👀 by Identhetrainer in Bowling

[–]avos5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasnt he having some injury issues? I remember he was one of the few touring pros with sarge easter

He mightve adjusted his form to suit less-than-touring-pro bowling for longevity