C'mon do the test on totally stripped lanes, because we all bowl on that condition all the time. When I get tired of bowling on no oil, I bowl on the 63 foot pattern.....blah blah....
Nick the video looked great to me.... the balls looked like they reacted the same to me, in fact they looked like they reacted just like MY balls, seems like a left some form of the 2-4-8-10 combination every shot last weekend on Shark Pattern.
My Lazer Surgery enhanced views:
Back during plastic and urethane days CG still didn't matter in and of itself. But the CG was the indicator of where the pancake weight block was. This pancake was/is very close to the surface of the ball and with a bigger top weight, moving the CG moved the weight mass, and how this mass wobbled down the lane affected the ball motion. Add on a big freakin X hole, which we used to use 1 1/4 holes regularly, and they used larger than that on Tour at times. I haven't used a hole that big in 3-4 years that I can remember.
Now you have basically two piece balls shell and core. The core is so close to the center of the ball it's measured in hundredths of an inch. This stuff about "core orientation" is bunk too, specially with symmetrical cores. To move the pin 1" you only have to move the core about 1/16 of inch away from center. Look at your ruler to see how small that is. So, in Nick's video, with the pins located in the same place on the two balls, the core position difference is very minimal, not even enough to change the flare patterns on the two test balls. I could see getting a small difference in the flare rings if two strong assymmetrical balls were used, but I could also so understand know difference at all.
"use solid resin balls that'll make the difference show up more" blalalaaahhaa. Both balls will be solid, they will grip the same, hello!
This whole argument doesn't matter to 99.8% of bowlers, the other .2% bowl for a living and are good enough players to take advantage of any differences between RG's and all that other junk.
Get your grip right, make the ball fit right so you can repeat shots, match the surface of the ball to your lane condition, and make your spares.
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