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[Fitzy]

Ok! I am a RH bowler, I have played for a few years now - 3rd year back after 11 year break (5th year in total) - I HAVE NOT ONCE SPARED A 2-8-10!!! Anyways I have a fair idea on how to spare almost all leaves - even though I still have trouble on *Cough* some - but for a right hander what is the "physics"/"geometry"/"trigonometry" [pick the correct usage - never been good at this stuff] on spareing it. I have always just brought out the plastic done a backup bowl and hoped for the best. Is the "better" way to attempt a "almost" pocket shot on the 2 (as though I am sparing the 2-8 sleeper) and hope a pin bounces off the LHS wall and hits the 10?? I don't see hitting the LHS of the 2 pin so the 2 pin takes out the 10 will work because the ball veers off to the left and misses the eight! Oh yeah I do finger tip bowl rather than straight bowling.
I know I "should" just take the sleeper, but, if I was going to attempt to spare it what is the "shot"??
Help!!!!

 

[RobbieB]

I've made it three times, twice with a really light hit on the 2 pin, which bounced off the wall into the 8 then took out the 10, and once with a shot that barely nicked the 2 going away, which came off the RH wall into the 10 which rolled into the 8. Throwing backup with resin is probably the highest percentage shot.

 

[Tiger]

Only spared it once, ever.
Made it up the Coast (Burnie I think) over ten years ago by shooting a backup ball down the left side of the lane, sending the 2-pin around the 10-pin, 2-pin lightly clips the 10 as it goes around it, sending it sideways into the 8-pin.

Very, very rarely leave the 2-8-10 though so never get much of chance to practise shooting it.

 

[}-Adam-{]

Have spared it the same ways as robbie has but, i hav also bounced the 10 back up onto both the 2 and 8, just depends what center you are at for that to work

 

[Easy Tiger]

I have spared this at least 10 times. I bowl two handed, therefore I throw a few revs. This helps with pin mix etc. You obviously may struggle to do this since you bowl one handed.. but my best chance of picking it up with how I bowl is to move 3-5 boards left of my strike shot, and throw it pretty much dead straight at the 2pin, hoping to get some reaction before it hits the 2 flush, hence taking the sleeper, and giving me a good chance of taking the 10 with the 2.

I've spared the 2-4-8-10 to stay in a masters tournament, so I guess it's just not as hard for me as for others. Having said that, you could probably put the leave up for me 20 times and there's a good chance I wouldn't pick up one of them, so you have to get a bit of luck too.

PS - I leave it more often than I'd like to.. I get a bit of practice at it!