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Why It-s Almost Impossible to Make a 7-10 Split in Bowling

Why It-s Almost Impossible to Make a 7-10 Split in Bowling

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The dreaded 7-10 split is by many accounts the toughest shot in bowling. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez went to the U. S. Bowling Congress to meet a pro bowler, an engineer, and a robot named Earl, to find out why it's actually Almost Impossible. Read more of Robbie's reporting at WIRED. com: Special thanks to the U. S. Bowling Congress in Arlington, Texas, and the Yerba Buena Bowling Center in San Francisco
Date: 2022-07-06

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Use a light ball like a 6.
Only put 2 finger tips in. Stand all the way to the left and throw it all the way cross lane to the right while lofting it high in the air with as much spin as possible so that the spin kicks in right as you hit the 10. Aim for the left side of the pin so the spin is going with the bounce off the 10 and hit the 7 with the ball.

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So funny story, one of my first times bowling I hit a 7-10 split by simply trying to emulate what they do in the movies. Hit the corner and hope it bounces across the way, and sure enough, it worked. Little did I know what I did back then lol. I think only the couple in the next lane saw while the people in my group were busy talking.
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I don't have any fancy story of getting or seeing some miraculous shot in bowling but I can confidently say when I play with the gutter barrier's up, I almost never hit them but when I play with the gutter barriers down the ball almost always falls into the gutter. Bowling is very much in the mind as it is in the technique.
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Your analysis is flawed. To make the 7-10 you need to bounce the pin off the side of the lane first, then it just grazes the rubber curtain to align with the other pin. You make it sound like it's all about the curtain, but the curtain plays a very small part of the conversation.
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Inaccurate. You don't have to bounce one pin off the machinery although that makes it a lot more likely to get the split. I've seen videos where the bowler hit the edge of the seven or the ten and sent it directly across the lane to hit the other pin - barely. It can be done.
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You have to start on the far side so the ball curves out across the middle and then back and into the back side of the pin so the pin gets knocked sideways and slightly forward. If you go straight at it it's a lot harder because the pin always goes backwards.
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I've only been bowling a couple dozen times. I hit this shot once and didn't realize how insane that is. I missed the 10 pin wide right completely, but the ball bounced back out of the gutter enough to cut the 10 pin straight across the lane into the 7
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Welllll i hardly play and I made it once. You need to make it hit the edge or roll out of the gutter and kinda loop around like it's sonic the hedgehog. It's chance but I'd say 25% of the time you can hit it if you practice. Also spin is key
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One time I literally was with my family and I got a 7-10 split and I just went for one of them. Apparently I hit the back end and it skyrocketed and knocked the other pin down. That was in a clutch round where I was losing 30 points down and won.
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One question: Why isn't the -Three Stooges Split- (5, 7, 10 pins remaining) mentioned at all? It's one I have gotten before in real life bowling, but it's not even given a mention in this video.
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