As I mentioned in another post today, I received my World Class Particle from allstarbowling-Joe today and I immediately took off for my pro shop to get it drilled.
First, I want to put the 14# won't work with Legends/Lanemaster balls rumor to rest as that is a myth. The L/LM 14# balls work and they "HIT" and hit hard believe me. First let me say that my initial scores weren't that great as I have been working on some changes in my mechanics and stuck with that approach today rather than bowl for score. Still I shot 789 for 4 games which was good for me compared to how I bowled this past season.
The ball has a 3" Pin and weighed 14-3 with 3 oz of top weight before drilling. Per Galen's instructions, I drilled it 3 1/2 x 3 with the Pin beside and at the bottom edge of the RF line. Weight hole towards thumb quardant on the VAL. Ball was drilled by Donnie Cassel at Heritage Lanes in Oklahoma City. Lanes were Brunswick Avlin Synthetic Lanes. They hadn't been oiled since yesterday afternoon. The oil was worn down to light in the heads with some carry down. Even with this, I was able to play one of my favorite lines of around the 12 board with the ball going out to the area of the 8 board and the ball unbelievably got cleanly thru the heads with a hard arc back to the pocket. I never dreamed it would get thru the heads in the condition they were in.
I was going to quit after 3 games and they started oiling the lanes, so I decided to stay & bowl one more game. I threw my first ball where I was throwing it on the drier lanes figuring it wouldn't get back to pocket and that I would have to move right some. To my amazement, the ball still made it back to the pocket. I never changed my line for that game. The only difference between that game and the 3 before they oiled is that on the fresh oil, I probably had a couple more feet of length and a sharper-harder arcing ball back to the pocket.
On both conditions, I had strikes on hits that I seldom if ever carry a strike on plus the strikes that were supposed to be strikes. I was amazed at some hits where it looked like the 10 pin was going to stand and some how the 6 pin would kick it out every time. My only problem with those 4 games is that I missed 12 spares or an average of 3 a game and I still almost averaged 200. I am just amazed at all of the strikes I was getting. Hope it wasn't beginners luck....lol
Can't wait to get back to the lanes and try this ball some more as well as try it in the wood lane house.
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Brick
Edited on 8/3/2006 8:19 AM
