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michael.willis9

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being the first in your area to throw a ball...
« on: August 26, 2019, 01:48:41 PM »
is anyone else like me in the sense that they like throwing equipment that others aren't throwing in their center or area?

I ask this because i got some good ball advice from Impending Doom(beetlejuice effect will take place and i see him responding to this post within an hour) and got an After Dark Pearl because i needed a smooth low end ball.  and I've had a lot of success with it, to the point where two people got it since they liked the way i rolled it.  Well since then, a 900 Global rep took over running the bowling alley and now it seems like everyone is throwing 900 global, along with storm and roto due to the in house pro shop sponsorship.  plus we have a handful of hammer and motiv guys.

Well, i'm looking for a "benchmark" ball, hate the term but thats the category i'm looking at. something symmetrical, either pearl or hybrid, and there's great options like the ordnance pearl and the white hot badger, the idol pearl and the emerald IQ, and the pink black widow(i know its an assym but it's still in that category of what i'm looking at) are all great balls but they're becoming all too common.


its got me looking at the MVP by brunswick, Prowler or Night Prowler by DV8 and the Squatch by Radical as possible options.

but is anyone else out there like this?  PS i have my Hyroad Live which nobody probably in southern California even has, and i love it that way

 

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Re: being the first in your area to throw a ball...
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2019, 11:45:08 PM »
I get what you mean OP. I turned a lot of heads with the Orange/Yellow Boost, OG Respect, and Wipe Out. But there are also those balls like the Hy-Roads, IQ Tours, Crux Prime, Idols that are thrown everywhere for a reason. Some of them make you feel like you are giving away pins by not having them. I remember the first person I saw using a Frantic. Soon after people watching him have a good game with it, they were everywhere.
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Re: being the first in your area to throw a ball...
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2019, 05:38:24 PM »
I ended up with the squatch. Good combination of nationally popular but not locally.