Just punched a Pursuit and Pursuit S. Will try them in league tomorrow night and post my opinion of them on Friday. One guy in town shot back to back 279's with his Pursuit last night. Ball was rolling great for him.

iwould have to disagree with the statement ebonite is lagging. since the release of the mission i have had 10 honor scores with the newer ebonite stuff. i would suggest the cyclone if the other ebonite balls are to strong for your game.

I will admit first of all, I have not had much success throwing Ebonite branded balls, but I do love my Clear Wolf spare ball though, lol. The reason I mention that is while I am not a huge fan of that line, I didn't want this to seem as just a bash Ebonite post.

 

My concern over these new releases, really has nothing to do with the ball itself. I was looking at the Ebonite website, and reading the material on the Pursuit and Pursuit-S. I like the basic idea of these balls. So I wanted to download the drill sheets to see how I might be able to tweak the drillings to fit my game and what do I get, the generic Asymmetrical Drill Sheet that Ebonite has included for how many years now. Now I know that your Pro Shop should have the knowledge to make these balls work for all bowlers, as advertised by Ebonite. But not all Pro Shops are equal. I would think if Ebonite put all the time and effort into the design and marketing of these balls, that they would have taken the time to put together a better drill sheet that can help Pro Shops and bowlers determine the best layouts for them. I am no ball driller, but I like to examine the drill sheets, ball specs, and core information to help me determine which balls in the future I think may work for my game. And this way I have an understanding of why my Pro Shop is telling me this is the drilling they think will work. Most of the time, I'd say 90% of the time I agree with his assessment, but there are few times where I offer a small tweak of their idea and we discuss that. What Ebonite has done, it seems to me, it put all this on the Pro Shop and bowlers have to hope that their driller is experienced enough to make the right calls instead of taking the time to put together a more complete, albeit more complex drill sheet, to complement this new idea they are marketing in these balls.

 

Just MHO.

Complete,

     I do understand the basics of the Dual Angle method of drilling, just enough to be dangerous, lol. And I know that since this was developed by Mo Pinel, a company like Ebonite won't put it on their drill sheets. I guess I was just expecting more. The advertising states about how through drilling you can create the perfect ball for every style of bowler. So I had hoped they would have shown how you can create this through the drilling. Something like if you put a balance hole in area A it will increase flare decrease length, if you put it in area B it will increase length, decrease flare, etc. Just so that you can see how the changes take place, and you as the bowler can understand why your Pro Shop is suggesting the drilling they are.

 

But then again I am also wanting people to quit whining about the price of bowling balls, and the fact that the USBC Open is never in the East, so I have a lot of big expectations, lol.

dhc invitation after the japan cup, mika & tj both used the pursuit

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Siu Bing on 2/12/2012 at 11:49 PM

Matt,

    That's fine for some folks. I have been lucky that I have always been able to find very good pro shops/drillers. But not everyone is so lucky. You are asking a lot of some pro shops and Ebonite isn't giving them any information to help them use these new balls like they are designed. While it may be information overload to some customers, wouldn't you rather have that then having the balls flop because driller don't know how to properly lay out the balls to garner the advantages they give? Besides, the 90% of customers you speak about probably would never even look at the drill sheet anyway.  

Would that happen to be you Mr Pursel? Haven't talked to you since you were with Track. What's been going on?