Blog - Bowling Education — Oil Patterns

Thanks for all of the support. I had 32 shares and over 300 likes. I think it’s safe to say you all would like to hear about reading lane graphs. I went to the Detroit Cup last weekend and did a seminar on reading lane graphs and lane play before the event started. Because of the great reception, I thought it would make for a good blog. Let me preface this by saying there are many, many patterns and as technology advances, there will be more to come. This is a general overview of how to read a lane graph,...

This past week I had the opportunity to work at one of bowling’s most grueling events — The U.S. Open.  This event had competitors scared of the unknown oil pattern. Which proved to be very challenging and competitive. If you want help understanding a lane graph like this and how to play it, visit our website.  We offer a Lane Pattern Analysis Service.Special procedures were done by Kegel and the USBC to ensure that the lanes were flat.  This made them fair for competition.I worked on behalf of the PBA with the Xtraframe team alongside Mike Jakubowski and Jef Goodger....