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pegleg42090

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Bowling Balls
« on: May 19, 2008, 06:36:46 AM »
This is something that has been on my mind recently. I went to a tournament recently and noticed that the bowlers at the tournament were using a lot of new balls. Then, I saw a few bowlers here and there pulling out some discontinued resin pieces and scoring fine with them. Some urethane might have been used as well, but I can't confirm that. With that being said, are we just spoon feeding the ball companies money when they release all of these new bowling balls? They must lick their chops when Ball Expo comes around. I think that I'm going to try and keep the balls that I have for now, and just maintain them. IMHO, are the companies really making bowling balls so much better each time they come out? I guess that's for us to decide when we get lured into buying them. DISCUSS
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charlest

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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 03:26:27 PM »
No, new balls are not the best every time, but then neither are old balls.

If Brunswick only made the Danger Zone and Hammer only made the Black Hammer, how long would they remain in business?

There are great balls made that few people buy so the company has to stop making them and try to make a new one that people will buy. It's not how good the ball is or how pretty it is, it's how many people buy them that is the only reason to continue making any ball.

Bowlings balls are an evolutionary product. Revolutions, like the resin coverstock, are few and FAR between. Even asymmetric/mass bias cores took a long time to become a standard product. Brunswick once made a video to explain how there could not be and there was not any difference added to a bowling ball's reaction by an asymmetric core, yet they made the first, the Phantom and they are now "on the bandwagon". SO asymmetric cores were strictly an evolutionary modification.


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