I have been with Ebo for many years and have just made the decision to drop them completely. Although they fit my game to a T I am sick and tired of buying thr to four of the same balls every year. 6 weeks is the max I can get. I now own two perfectly great looking TNVs that turned into twig or spare balls. Cant get them to hook more than 5 boards. Every Ebo I have had in the last 10 years has been the same and I just cannot justify spending this much money anymore.

 The reaction is fanatstic and the carry is excellent for the first 15 to 20 games. Then it's all over. I just pulled mine out tonight after a thorough soaking, cleaning, resurfacing using all the recommended techniques. Even used the powerhouse factory finish. End result.....targeting the 5 board all night and just barely carrying the rack. Anything closely resembling moving inside, even attempting a track shot would result in missing the headpin on the right.

  Don't bother giving me the lectures on the cleaning and upkeep cuz nobody takes better care of their equipment than I do. Period. Ebo is done, Hammer will be my next test.




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I also forgot to mention that I have seen some loss of reaction in almost every ball I have owned over time. I think that storm has been the worst for me. When I first started buying bowling balls storm was all I bought and I recently quit buying them because they lost too much reaction for me. With any storm also I have to get the coverstock brought back to stock finish around every 9 games or it just wants to puke out on me. I would take ebo over storm any day. The domination was really bad for that to me.

I also loved my original TNV so much I had to get a new one so I just did the other day.

This is too funny, I used to own a ebonite wildcat, before it crack all over the place, and that ball hooked. I own storm now, and my first ball was a blaze and that ball probably has over like 170 games on it and it is still reacting like when I first got it. I tried the hot water bath and got nothing out of it, just because of me cleaning after every time I bowl with it..hehe!! People want big hooking balls, it's the coverstock that does most of it, because it is what comes into contact with the lane surface. Just like the formula one racing tires, look how those grip, but they wear out fast. Just like the new coverstocks of todays equipment, ya they hook and their aggressive, but their going to wear out faster. Bottom line is people are just to lazy to clean their equipment and if you clean it and clean it and it still does not work, then I question the cleaner you are using, I use reacta shine on all my shiny balls and that stuff works, basically using a liquid based cleaner will only remove dirt, not repolish the ball surface, and with how porous the coverstocks today are, not keeping enough polish on the ball suface itself, will inturn break down the coverstock that much quicker resulting in less n less hook potential.
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