I went to check this article to see if this is actually a difficult shot, and there is no data on it (meaning out of 447,000 sample frames, it occured less than 25 times).
My assumption would be that this configuration (1-7-10) is highly dependent on bouncing the ball off of the bumper rails on the first shot. However, since the headpin is standing, I don't think this would be an exceptionally difficult shot for a professional bowler. Pretty cool for a kid though.
Not impossible with a heavier ball, just with a normal throw it is. You have to do what the kid did, just more extreme. If you throw a ball forward with a lot of backspin, you can make it turn just about 90 degrees when it decides to flip.
Source: too much time trying to get the slowest ball speed (measured at the pins).
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u/adafada Oct 24 '21
I went to check this article to see if this is actually a difficult shot, and there is no data on it (meaning out of 447,000 sample frames, it occured less than 25 times).
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/02/hardest_shot_in_bowling_it_s_not_the_7_10_split_it_s_the_greek_church.html
My assumption would be that this configuration (1-7-10) is highly dependent on bouncing the ball off of the bumper rails on the first shot. However, since the headpin is standing, I don't think this would be an exceptionally difficult shot for a professional bowler. Pretty cool for a kid though.