*All balls were thrown on ProAnvilane synthetics, oiled 6-6, 23 feet, buffed to 36, medium amount of oil.  Smokin and Classic were also thrown on Laneshield, oiled 4-4, 30 feet, buffed to 40.*

First one I drilled was the Strike Zone.  Drilled it pin over bridge, PSA about 2.5 inches right of my thumb, with a flare reducing weighthole.  It was hook/setting, or rolling out.  I tried it box, polished to 1200, 1500, and 3000, and then 1500 wetsand.  Reacted the best at 3000 polish, it just started getting squirty.  It'd start hooking at the same place no matter what the surface though.  I'm plugging the fingers and moving them left, leaving the thumb the same place, so it will essentially be stacked when I get done with it.  Assymetrics have never reacted well for me if I kick the PSA out, my Time Zone did the same thing.  

Smokin Inferno.  Had a short pin, but I drilled it pin over bridge, and if it had a mass bias marker, it would have been 4.5 inches right of my thumbhole.  Used a flare reducing weighthole, surface is still box.  I had to drill more out of my middle fingerhole to reduce excess fingerweight.  This ball is absolutely beautiful.  The roll is hard to describe, it's a typical Inferno roll, which is a thing to behold.  It rolls very heavy, but it gets great length and has pretty good recovery.  I guess the funny thing is that it never looks like it starts to rev anywhere.  Looks like a plastic ball that hooks.  Either way, I can see this ball almost eclipsing the original Inferno as "the" ball.  I need to get another one now.  

This last one is a tricky animal.  Drilled it pin over ring finger, and drilled right through the PSA for my thumb.  The cg was about 1.5 inches right of the pin to PSA line, so it needed a weighthole, which I added *near* my axis.  I was expecting it to not hook much, but the thing didn't hook AT ALL.  Flared very little, good thing, has a pretty wide footprint too, so that's also a good thing.  Kept moving right, right some more, and then right of the *danger zone* at this house, which is anywhere outside 8 if you're playing straight up the boards.  You'll lose plastic at the arrows if you miss and lay it down too far right in this area.  I ended up with a small swing from 8-5, and it was very smooth off the outside dry, and gave me a very nice reaction.  It got really squirty though, if I didn't really make a good shot, it was a flat 10, or any other combination of the 5-7 and 10 on lighter hits (although I managed to avoid all three at the same time).  I've never left so many 5-7's and 5-10's in my life.  However, I love the way the ball reacts.  Very smooth, easy to read, and jeez it rolls back up well when it catches some dry.  

Next surface for the Smokin and Classic, the Laneshield, conditions as detailed above.  Played the same area on LS as I did on the synthetics, but knew I'd be comfortable from the start.  The people I was bowling with were getting some over under (it's quite a different shot from the synthetic house), so they either had to slow down or move right.  There's a lot more oil outside, and that plays to my strengths.  Played about 20 to 5, and the Smokin really flipped back up.  I started leaving some 10's (pattern, not the ball) so I moved a tad bit right and everything lined back up.  The thing was just blowing right through the pocket, it's an unbelievable ball.  

This is where the Classic went crazy.  Couldn't get it to move on the shorter drier pattern on synthetics (it wasn't burning up, I tried playing the oil, it just definitely wasn't hooking), but on this surface (once the track started to burn a little, and I had to move a couple boards left with my Smokin) it went bonkers.  It was outhooking my Smokin by a good 6 or 7 boards.  I haven't seen this monstrous of a ball since the Raging Red Fuze, and it matched up perfectly.  Very smooth through the heads and mids, started picking up late and had the hardest arc I've ever seen, no joke.  It didn't snap like my Smokin was doing, it flat out drove left.  Pins were shooting everywhere and spinning all over the place, messengers were making two trips across the pindeck, it was unreal.  However, it was more hook than I was wanting to play, so I switched back.  

The jury is still out on the Strike Zone, but the Smokin and Classic will stay in the bag for a loooong time.  I'll be using them both all year long, and will probably wear out my Smokin by the end of the year.  It's gonna be the benchmark go-to ball.  I'll post an update on the Strike Zone when I redrill it and throw it some more.
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