Author Topic: Particle Power Grooves coming back? (Read 1972 times)

difiCa · « **on:** October 15, 2007, 08:07:47 PM »

I don't know whether this is a well known fact, a slip from Brunswick or just a mistake, but check out the description of the Groove line under the Brunswick comparison chart (http://www.brunswickbowling.com/uploads/UB/Ci/UBCipk7g87-Xwoo5o9bHPg/Brunswick-Ball-Comparision-Chart-June07.pdf):

Your first performance ball - Plastic slips, Groove grips. Ready to start hooking the ball?
Move up from Plastic to Particle, Reactive and Urethane coverstock technology. Get in the Groove!

This isn't mentioned anywhere else in the Brunswick website but here. Hopefully it isn't just a mistake.

shelley · « **Reply #1 on:** October 16, 2007, 09:57:07 AM »

Probably the guy who made the chart didn't update the Groove blurb at the bottom since there are still Power Grooves on the chart. There's no information available on the black/purple solid either, and it doesn't make sense that it would have the same specs as the pearls when the surface and coverstock are different.

I have a black PG, it was my first reactive ball. Maybe it's that I've gotten significantly better from when I first got it but that ball was kind of a turd for me.

SH

WSUstroker · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2007, 10:10:46 AM »

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Probably the guy who made the chart didn't update the Groove blurb at the bottom since there are still Power Grooves on the chart. There's no information available on the black/purple solid either, and it doesn't make sense that it would have the same specs as the pearls when the surface and coverstock are different.

I have a black PG, it was my first reactive ball. Maybe it's that I've gotten significantly better from when I first got it but that ball was kind of a turd for me.

SH

Shelley, Brunswick has once already produced a solid power groove and it's been discontinued for quite some time now. Same stats as the pearl version, just different coverstock. There is a huge difference in reaction of the two. I don't currently use my pearl, but the solid reactive is a great ball for medium/light.

IIRC, the black power groove was a particle solid, not reactive solid.
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shelley · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2007, 10:13:32 AM »

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Shelley, Brunswick has once already produced a solid power groove and it's been discontinued for quite some time now. Same stats as the pearl version, just different coverstock. There is a huge difference in reaction of the two. I don't currently use my pearl, but the solid reactive is a great ball for medium/light.

What stats were the same? Core numbers? Sure. But as you said, the reactions were different and the hook, length, and backend numbers should reflect that, as should the reaction graph.

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IIRC, the black power groove was a particle solid, not reactive solid.

Yeah, but nobody talks about what their first particle ball was. It was my first non-plastic ball. And it is reactive, the particles are added to the reactive base. I still have it, it's got about 500 games on it. If someone wanted it, I'd send it for shipping. 14#.

SH

WSUstroker · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2007, 10:16:22 AM »

Yes, the core stats were the same for both the pearl and solid power grooves I had/have. As for the new ball chart, who knows what the deal is. Are the new solid power grooves available yet?
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Dan Chambers
www.absolutebowling.com

shelley · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2007, 10:26:19 AM »

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um....thats EXACTLY what a particle coverstock is, particles added to the reactive base. look it up.

Umm...read it again. It's "EXACTLY what a particle coverstock is" because it's "exactly" what I wrote.

SH

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