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READY TO BLAST OFF: Click on the play button to view Team USA Assistant Coach Kim Terrell-Kearney explain an alternative approach to washouts.


The inherent problem with this is


“The benefi t of using a plastic ball for spares, whether it is for the 10 pin or anything else, is that you take the lane out of play.”


that you need to be lined up prop- erly on the lane to make that shot. Obviously, you’re already not lined up properly by the fact that you’ve left the washout to start with! Now you have to make a double


adjustment to pick up the spare. First, you have to fi gure out what you needed to do to get your strike ball to the pocket. Then you have to hope you make the right ad- justment to get the ball to break early. That holds true when us- ing your strike ball for any spare. It requires that you are lined up. The benefi t of using a plas-


tic ball for spares, whether it is for the 10 pin or anything else,


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is that you take the lane out of play. For me, it’s pretty univer- sal from pattern to pattern. Still, even after I started us-


ing a plastic ball for spares, I shot the washout from the right, as tradition dictated. About four years ago, Team


USA coach Rod Ross introduced a new concept to junior Team USA at training camp. His argument was that taking a parallel line to the washout increases the surface of the head pin and allows greater margin for error. Rod always makes the analogy of shooting pool. If the head pin was the object ball and the 10 pin was the corner pocket, you’d never shoot it from the right


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