me personally, I almost never pearl equipment on fresh flat patterns.  They carry the oil down so fast and make the shot ubber tight.  I tend to go with the medium to medium-high diff solids to control the breakpoint until the shot opens up.
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I even thought of polishing the Invasion to see if that would help. The other guy that was on the pair with me was using and Invasion also and it just hooked all day for him. We were close in speed and rev also.

With my new balls that I am getting I am not going to have any of them drilled strong just to see if that helps out. It just gets annoying watching someone use the same ball as myself and it just works great.

When you say little axis, do you mean tilt?  little to no tilt means you need the ball to retain its energy for a good skid-hook-roll phase.  Polishing the Invasion would be the quickest, and cheapest way to help it retain more energy.  

The next alternative is to plug and redrill weaker or go with lower end equipment.  IMO, the best thing to do, though time consuming is to increase your tilt(open the hand up some).  Until recently, I could really only use low end equipment on any pattern, even the PBAX patterns.  

One night recently messing around, I tried a few shots with my hand "broken" instead of the moderate cup I used to do.  I immediately was able to move 10 boards right because of the increase of skid.  The midlane read and back end were not sacrificed. Try it in practice one day.

Lastly, keep in mind that you still have to follow through or it will do nothing but skid.


Oh, the question about pearls.  I for one love pearls, and some of them are quite strong.  The prodigy for one is an extremely aggressive pearl that is stronger front to back for me than the Gravity.
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Edited on 6/25/2010 7:31 PM

The polish should help. I had the same problem with my original Jigsaw. Out of the box it is slightly dull and for me it grabbed early and was flat on the backends. Our house shot on average is medium oil. When I added polish to it, the ball became a hooking beast. Much cleaner through the fronts then really started to grab and hook on the backends.

For me, most bowling balls that are dull out of the box don't roll well for me. I usually adjust the surface with a little polish to get it through the heads and pickup on the backends. I have also taken a little surface to pearlized balls to help get them into a roll a little sooner on oilier lanes.

With your rev rate the one thing you usually don't want is an aggressive ball drilled too aggressive. It can cause the ball to burn up all of its energy and do nothing.(been there done that)

On average I fond myself using mostly pearlized bowling balls for the usually house shot I face and most tournaments. I also take a variety just incase.
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