richl,

It's an aggresive solid reactive, but if you are throwing it quite fast on heavy oil, I don't know if anything will be strong enough.

EVERY ball needs to find SOME friction before it will travel in the direction of it's rotation. Learn to slow it down a bit when it's slick and the lane can "open up" for you.


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Lane Carter, Strike Zone Pro Shops - Salt Lake City, Utah
Brunswick Pro Shop Staff
www.brunswickbowling.com

Yes, the cover is very strong and wrapped around a good core. I tried several different cover preps, the best I found was 1000 Abralon. I find at 1000 the ball is quite versatile. The layout is 4.5 from my pap, pin up with CG swung and 3/4 X 2 1/2 weight hole 2 1/4 down from my PAP. This layout and cover prep allows me to play the ball int he oil on a fresh house shot. Reads the end of the patter well, if I miss right it reads the friction and hooks out of the house. Good work horse ball...you will certainly find a lot of use from it.

Fran

tizzle,
I agree in principle...it's absolutely true if he is speed dominant he is going to have difficulty on oil with getting the ball to read. My response was to highlight what I'm seeing for reaction from the MaxxX Zone. One possibility might be to go with an early drilling to help the ball read the lane earlier, try the MaxxX out of box and perhaps add some surface. The best bet is to work on the physical game to get the rev rate and speed to complement (read match) one another.

Richl:
Here are a couple of thoughts that may help you. First, lower the ball a little in your stance. That is often enough of an adjustment for most people. Changing the height of the ball is an easy way to adjust ball speed.

If the above does not work...most of the time excessive ball speed comes from throwing the ball from your shoulder. It's often referred to as "msucleing" the ball. The idea is that you need to completely relax your arm throughout your swing. Think of a baseball pitcher...they do not tense up the muscles in their arm when the throw a baseball. His arm is loose while maintaining appropriate pressure on the baseball. ...same thing with a bowling ball...relax the arm but, maintain your grip pressure and strong wrist pressure. Walk by your ball during the swing and allow the ball to swing your arm through the swing. The ball will be its heaviest at the bottom of your swing. this is where most people grab the ball. resist allowing your arm and fingers to tense up. Remember...we don't throw a bowling ball we roll it.

Hope that helps.
Fran

I finally got to throw the ball on saturday,man does this bad boy hook!!

The lanes were so oily that my brother who carries a 213 average could only get the ball to hook maybe 3 boards and everyone else was complaining of the oil being so heavy.

I was throwing my normal 18 to 19 mph ball with low revs and that thing was hooking very nice and just crushing the pins!(well if I hit my mark)

I had to contact the front desk 3 times from dead wood in the lane that is how much reaction the ball had.(I can't remember the last time I had that kind of pin action!)

I am still trying to slow the ball down and put more revs on it but from what I can tell this is going to be my #1 ball!!

rich

Has anyone thrown this on longer PBA patterns or other sport-compliant patterns?  Interested to hear feedback.  I'm looking at this and the Virtual Gravity but am afraid the VG may be too angular for many sport patterns...