For those of you with the Solid, what surface do you use have on it and what patterns has it been successful on for you? Mine's at OOB and so far, except for house shots, it seems to be a little too over/under. I've used it on two sport patterns so far and I don't know what they were. I can't begin to guess how long the first one was, but the second one was probably medium in length. I played on that one in my sport league for two weeks now. The first week I tried using it for the whole set and it just didn't work out, pretty much no room for error. Last week I used another ball playing outside the first three games, and the fourth game I couldn't carry the 10 anymore.
The outside broke down a decent amount, and once I had to move in a certain amount(4 boards from where I was standing in game one) the carry wasn't there. So I switched the my Avalanche Solid around the middle of the game(seeing as how it's pretty responsive to friction, I thought it'd bump nicely off the dry area). For some reason I couldn't get lined up again and it didn't respond to the friction the way I wanted, so I ended up fighting over/under. I played some games afterwards and never really got lined up with it still, but it seemed like I would have had to move in some and keep the breakpoint around 7-8 as opposed to 5-6 where it was earlier.
Anyways, just wondering if more people have better success with some surface or a decent amount of surface with a low polish, etc. My layout is 70 x 2 1/2" x 50. I get a decent midlane read and a hard arc out of this ball.
