Wednesday Night League - Us Open/Cheetah patterns

So yesterday in the pba experience league, they oiled the left lane in the cheetah pattern, and the right lane using the us open pattern. See my last post about the open pattern for the conditions. The cheetah "has the most friction" of all the patterns. It is only 36 feet and doesnt have all that much oil on the middle part of the lane. It forces you to make your break point right near the gutter(1-5 board) so its really tough because that is almost to close for comfort.
So my first game I was having a really tough time keeping my break point near the gutter on the cheetah. I tried flattening out my ball, throwing it harder, everything. What ended up working for me was just flattening my shot on the open pattern, and throwing my normal release on the cheetah.
So from the second game on, i played straight up the 10 board on the open pattern, and then about 12 to 3/4 on the cheetah. If i could hit my mark, it would strike. On my second game, every ball except for 2 that i threw on the open pattern struck. that was about as good as i got.
I shot 154, 169, 164, 144. I know its not good, but there is some improvement there from last week. About 100 pins total. Next week will be the Cheetah on both sides. I think I will try using the ultra that night and see what happens.

Wednesday Night League - US Open Pattern

So if you dont know, i joined a pba experience league. The league takes us through the 5 oil patterns used on the tour plus the us open pattern. This week was the US Open pattern, 40 feet of flat oil. I had no idea what to expect really, the only thing I knew was it was going to be very challenging. Wow...
So I started off by throwing the ultra zone. During practice, i tried throwing straight down the 8 which seemed to hit the pocket ok. that bad part is if i missed by a couple boards right, it would just slide and slide and slide. I really had to take the thought out of my head that if i missed right, it would recover. So i tried 3 different lines that game. i ended up shooting a 92. yep... splits galore. I learned that if i missed by 2 boards left or right, i would miss the head pin.
Second game i picked up the storm t road that michael gave me. It is drilled pin high as opposed to pin low like the ultra. It worked so much better on that pattern. My second game was a 127 :).
We moved pairs and that shot was way burnt out compared to the first pair. i got a 173. then the last game was a 135 or something.
we are bowling the us open pattern on one lane next week, but I never want to bowl on it again. It just makes you realize how much you depend on a league style pattern.