What was everyone's first "high performance" ball and did you know anything about the ball or all of the variables in bowling when you selected this ball?? I was your typical "give me a ball that hooks and drill it to hook the most" first time buyer. My first "high performance" ball was my Brunswick Zone Pro Azure. I knew nothing of the ball or what lane conditions it was made for or even the conditions I was throwing on. I just liked it because of the color and because Brunswick was familiar to me. So what was your ball and the story behind it??
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My first non-plastic and fingertipped ball was the Ebonite Turbo which I loved.  When reactive was introduced my first real hooking ball was the Columbia Pro Hook.  What's funny is that my 2 year old Turbo out hooked the Pro Hook at the time.
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I guess I'll have to say yellow dot. Average went up like crazy but I switched to finger tip at the same time.

Next ball, black u-dot. Took my girl friend to proshop buy her a starter ball and ended up buying the u-dot also. Unfortunatly the drilling sucked. That ball tore up my thumb every 3 games.

My first high performance ball was the El Nino.  After trying a urethane Shadow, and Super Beast, I thought the El Nino was the greatest ball ever made, lol.  Did I care that I bought it off the internet, and it came with a 6 inch pin, what's a pin or CG?  It still worked pretty good though, shot my first 700 in practice with it, then bought an Azure Pro Zone, and then it just went from there.

my first high performance ball was the Dick Weber Five Star!Rumor was the ball was made to the exact circumference limit with active rubber!Whoo boy I got an extra board with that baby.
Bob
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