Street racer, your absolutely right about cleaning your equipment, soo many people today see a "high" performance ball and think, oh it will drive my scores up big time, which might be true, but, you still have to clean the oil and dirt off to keep the coverstock from getting clogged. Plus, if you have a ball spinner, it takes like a few minutes to clean your bowling balls and then your ready for the next set, plain and simple. I just get tired of hearing all these "bowlers" rave about a ball then cry like a 2 year old when it stops hooking, well its called getting up off your lazy rear and doing some regular maintenance, like cleaning, some light resurface here and there and the regular polishing. I have a storm erazer blaze and it is almost too much ball on a fresh house shot and to see these people paying 220+ for a ball that hooks then dies, is funny, because you can pick up or buy some mid performance equipment and they hook just as much as the "high" performance stuff does, yet pay a whole lot less for the mid stuff, enough said.
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If your going to bowl...bowl for fun or go home
