Post by: Matt Fortney on July 24, 2007, 06:14:53 AM
Heavy: No Mercy Beat'n
Medium-Hev: Anger
Medium: BWP
Lt./Med: Vibe/Toxic?
As far as drill patterns go I usually will play to the balls strenth. For instance, NMB, heavy roll, good backend. Will then drill it to do so. BWP long and strong, will drill it to do so. Not sure about the Vibe blue or cherry, or the toxic yet...any suggestions?
Pretty sure I've decided to go with the BWP and NMB as the first two. Then I'm going to kind of base the other two on those.
Matt
Post by: chrisleftwich on July 24, 2007, 02:25:16 PM
Heavy Oil: No Mercy Beat'n and going to drill with #1 drilling
Heavy/Med: Anger, pin it down and between both fingers with CG kicked out.
Medium: BWP drilled to go long and strong
Light/Med: Toxic, shined up and drilled exactly the same as anger.
Love all the new hammer stuff.
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Post by: Matt Fortney on July 24, 2007, 02:26:29 PM
Matt
Post by: chrisleftwich on July 24, 2007, 02:28:30 PM
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Post by: Redline on July 24, 2007, 04:07:08 PM
Speaking of the light oil ball...The toxic probably would work, but I would classify it as a true light oil ball. It's probably closer to the BWP in terms of strength (still a great ball)...but i'd lean towards the Vibe.
I'd probably go with
No Mercy Beat'n / No Mercy
Black Widow
Black Widow Pearl / Toxic
Vibe
Spare
Post by: Matt Fortney on July 24, 2007, 05:10:25 PM
Matt
Post by: Redline on July 24, 2007, 05:33:29 PM
Though, you might as well round it out and add 1 extra. My thoughts being is that you have a ball for "Heavy/Med", it would make sense to have another transition ball form "Med/Light"
So an arsenal like this may work better
Heavy:No Mercy / No Mercy Beat'n
Heavy-Medium: Anger / Black Widow
Medium: Black Widow Pearl
Medium-Light: Toxic
Light-Vibe
Spare
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Post by: Leonidas on July 24, 2007, 06:02:47 PM
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Light/Med: Toxic, shined up and drilled exactly the same as anger
No offense, just pure curiosity, how you shine up a ball that already have 4000 + ebonite factory finish?
We have here a bowler that used the BWP and the Toxic with the same drilling. In our house it was like rolling the same ball with different colors. He put the Toxic away after a week, i guess he did not liked the color. Maybe it was our pattern but they roll very similar.
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yes and i like this one also
don't go for a strike, go for a sure spare, we need 5 pins to win
Post by: Derek on July 24, 2007, 07:14:12 PM
quote:quote:
Light/Med: Toxic, shined up and drilled exactly the same as anger
No offense, just pure curiosity, how you shine up a ball that already have 4000 + ebonite factory finish?
We have here a bowler that used the BWP and the Toxic with the same drilling. In our house it was like rolling the same ball with different colors. He put the Toxic away after a week, i guess he did not liked the color. Maybe it was our pattern but they roll very similar.
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yes and i like this one also
don't go for a strike, go for a sure spare, we need 5 pins to win
ebonite extender polish?
Post by: Leonidas on July 24, 2007, 07:26:20 PM
quote:Thank you. I have never try this. Till now, for me polishing a new OOB polished Ball was like killing the ball.
ebonite extender polish?
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yes and i like this one also
don't go for a strike, go for a sure spare, we need 5 pins to win
Post by: chitown on July 25, 2007, 09:06:49 AM
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Post by: BallsDeep on July 25, 2007, 09:47:01 AM
In my opinion you could have the balls that you list, but you'd have to expand your arsenal to 5 or 6 balls to cover everything. Granted with 6 you'd have a wider variety of breakpoint shapes and such to combat a greater variety of shots, but thats up to you.
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Post by: JMORRIS on July 25, 2007, 10:18:46 AM
Heavy: Black Widow
Med: Toxic
Light: Blue Vibe
I'm considering the Anger to give me an earlier look to my Widow.
Post by: Redline on July 25, 2007, 11:18:44 AM
Chitown also makes a good point that the Toxic is strong in terms of overall hook potential. What differes between the two for me is that the Toxic pushes a few feet farther down lane and maintains that length even when the shot breaks down...whereas the black widow pearl starts checking up early.
I use both of them and love both of their reactions. I use the BWP to open, when it starts reading early, I move to the Toxic and move my target back 1-2 boards, or play the same line depending on how bad the lanes are breaking down. Then I have a Cherry Vibe for the last game if needed.
The BWP is strong enough for me that I'm not considering anything stronger at this point.
Either way-Toxic or BWP...they are both great balls with differing but great reactions.