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REVOLUTIONS PS

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Super Trooper...What's up?
« on: May 25, 2004, 05:56:39 AM »
I had no idea that these Trooper balls were entry level or whatever they call it...is the Super Trooper like a modern day Beast?

Does anyone have a link to a pic that shows what the ball looks like in real life?  I have found a few pics but none of them look alike so I don't know what it looks like.

 

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Re: Super Trooper...What's up?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2004, 09:20:13 PM »
My teamate throws one and its for dry lanes, but it does hook alot on the back end with good carry. Blockbuster usually has good pics. He works at a proshop and he says it's one of the best ball for the price.

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Re: Super Trooper...What's up?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2004, 10:21:34 PM »
Here's the picture and the core and all official stats from the Columbia website. (Don't you have the manufacturer's websites saved as bookmarks or favorites for reference purposes on your PC?)

http://www.columbia300.com/gear/balls.cfm?bid=172

It could be considered a modern Beast; well, more what the Beast became, not what it was originally, because it was introduced as a strong ball.

The ST has a polished solid (AFAIK) Super-Flex coverstock with a medium-low RG core with very small Rg differential for minimal flare.  Kind of a control ball with length but early revs (low-ish RG).

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Re: Super Trooper...What's up?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2004, 11:37:07 AM »
First thanks for the replies.

To Charlest:  Naturally I frequent the manufacturer's sites but I can assure you that the picture on the Columbia website is not what the ball actually looks like.  I have spoken to one person over the phone (a distributor) and he told me that it was a purple swirl kind of color but that the most of the pictures of it are not very accurate.

Sooner or later I will bring one into the shop and see for myself I suppose.  I just wish that the manufacturers could come up with a way to show what the balls really are going to look like on the marketing material.  It isn't very often that the balls look like they are advertised...not that it's really important but it is a selling point for some.


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Re: Super Trooper...What's up?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2004, 02:32:52 PM »
I have had this ball for about 2 weeks now.  The ball is alomst exactly as pictured on the Columbia site.  Purple and black swirl.  Reaction is good.  Much stronger than I had anticipated.  I have above average hand and this ball is for me is for drier mediums to med dry.  I CANNOT use this ball on dry lanes or dry mids starts up too soon (low RG).  Mine is drilled 4 1/2 by 5. 3" pin with the pin about 1/8" below my ring finger.

Jeff S.

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Re: Super Trooper...What's up?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2004, 03:00:18 PM »
quote:
First thanks for the replies.

To Charlest:  Naturally I frequent the manufacturer's sites but I can assure you that the picture on the Columbia website is not what the ball actually looks like.  I have spoken to one person over the phone (a distributor) and he told me that it was a purple swirl kind of color but that the most of the pictures of it are not very accurate.


Rev PS,

I think you may be losing sight of the fact that many of these swirls are actually because people are mixing the different components together. Even by machine, they cannot get the exact mixture to look the same every time. There is going to a small to large degrees of variability in the final look of many of these balls.

We may love one mixture and hate the next. I'm afraid you just not going to get the same picture perfect look every time. It was that way in the 1960s when the polyester balls first came out and the White Dots had some beautiful swrils; it was that way when the first resin pearls came out: some were just better looking than others. Some just looked better to some people, while others looked better to other people.


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