About

The Paddock App goes through the same thought process that you, as a Pro Shop Professional, would go through to determine a Dual Angle Layout for yourself or your customers. Positioning the sliders to match the type of reaction and ball motion that you desire the layout to have, the Paddock will calculate a Dual Angle Layout to help achieve the selected options. The Paddock is not designed to replace your knowledge or experience. It is designed to help you be more efficient.

If you are familiar with Dual Angle Layouts, as most Pro Shop Professionals are, you will notice that the Paddock App does not give you any "earth shattering" knowledge that you don't already know. The Paddock App compiles the information about Dual Angle Layout Theory (ie: Angle Sums, Angle Ratios, how the angles change reaction, how the angle sums change transition time, how pin distance changes ball roll motion) and does the brain work for you. I developed the Paddock over the course of 8 months and had all my algorithms and calculations verified by a Bowler, who is a Pro Shop Professional with an Advanced Degree in Mathematics. There are quite a few Pro Shops around the world using the Paddock for themselves and their customers. 


The Paddock App has 9 sections.

Suggest a Layout function

With this function you can manually enter lane pattern parameters or select from 60 pre loaded lane patterns. This function will give you a suggestion of what type of ball construction that might work for you on the selected lane pattern. The suggested ball characteristics will be listed in the following order of importance. 1.) RG, 2.) Differential, 3.) Core Shape, 4.) Cover Material, 5.) Cover Strength. There will be times when the suggested ball does not exist, when this happens you follow the order of importance and select a ball that matches the closest. This function also suggests the Layout Parameters that might work for you based on the selected pattern. One thing you might notice is that the suggested ball construction and layout might be in a completely different direction than what you were thinking. Being outside the box is not a bad place to be. 

Create a Layout function

With this function you enter the desired layout parameters, adjust the slider for the bowler's Axis Tilt angle and Axis of Rotation angle, and the Paddock calculates the Dual Angle Layout. The layout parameters are Reaction Shape (what your eye will see, across the lane, right to left or left to right), Transition Time (this is how quickly do you want the core to help slow the ball down, or "tip"), and Ball Roll Motion (this is what you want to see as the ball approaches the pins and go through the pins).

Find Axis Tilt function

With this function you can enter the distance across the first flare ring and the function will calculate the degree of Axis Tilt.  This measurement can be used to fine tune the layouts using the Create a Layout function. Lower Axis Tilt bowlers typically need layouts that retain Axis Tilt, while Higher Axis Tilt bowlers typically need layouts that lose Axis Tilt quicker.

Calculate Ball Speed function

Ball Speed off your hand, Launch Speed, is important. Knowing this helps you select the proper Transition (Axis Migration) for the layout that you are creating.  Transition is how fast the Axis Migrates as the ball rotates down the lane.  Faster Launch speeds need to use faster transition settings. Slower Launch speeds need to use slower Transition settings. 

No Thumb Layouts

With this function you can create layouts for No Thumb and/or 2 Handed Bowlers using the PAL method developed by Mo Pinel and Mikey Pinel.

Convert a Layout function

This function was added for those who use the Pin Buffer layout notation and want to be able to convert that to Dual Angle Layout notation. You enter the Pin to Pap distance, the PSA to PIN distance, and Pin Buffer distance and the Paddock calculates the Dual Angle Layout equivalent.

Analyze a Layout function

This function allows the user to enter the Dual Angle Layout numbers and receive a summary of what the entered layout will do.

My Bag

This function allows the user to create a virtual bowling ball on their phone to store the information about each bowling ball they own.

Session Notes

This function allows the user to create notes for each bowling session.