Re: Bowling Ball (was: Re: (Fwd) Re: Cookies and Mercs)

[Erikawful@aol.com]

Poster: Erikawful@aol.com

blackbow@mindspring.com writes:
>  And yes, I actually participated in this.  So did Sir Kane.  I don't
>  remember if any other Atlantians did.  It was at GW (IV? V?).  The idea was
>  to hit the bowling ball squarely 3 times:  once with what you considered
>  "barely" good, once "good", and once with everything you had.  Also, the
>  idea was to tell the guy doing the measuring what you considered your shot
>  to be on a 10 scale; i.e., the "barely" good being a 2 or whatever, the
>  "good" being a 5, and the "all" being an 8 or 9.  Or 10, logically. :)
>  
>  Regards,
>  
>  Jonathan Blackbow
>  Clan O'Shannon

Sir Pieter uses two different techniques, depending on whether the apparatus
is being used for data gathering (what you describe above) or calibration.
There, he was gathering data for a statistical consensus on what "good",
"marginal", and "excessive" are.

The training system has the same ball on a post, but calibration circles are
chalked on the ground at the distances he's determined are averages for the
three blow levels. The TI article also had some variance in circle depending
on ball weight available.

Erich 
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