I am with lane1lefty on this one....

I had been throwing all Storm balls because it became very easy to predict what the new balls would do based on previous experience with covers and cores.

I knew I would like the Erase It because I liked the Eraser. The ER was a great addition after I had the Trauma. I didn't care for the Recovery or the Response...

I see it as having a coach there bowling with you in the tourney...if the cores or covers are similar, you can get a pretty good idea about exactly what the ball is going to do before I throw it even once.

I also agree with Chazman. I am using Lane 1 balls now because of the same reason I buy Wrangler jeans. They fit me. Wrangler jeans fit my fat thighs and Lane 1 balls fit my game.

Another reason is that they are one of the few manufacturers right now that are not constantly messing with things. The core geometry is all similar so the reactions are similar but the different covers generate the different reactions.

Splitcity brings up one other reason.....from a customer standpoint....it tends to be a whole lot less risky to stick with a brand you have thrown and are familiar with than it is to shell out the cash on something you are totally in the dark on. Get that chicken and snowpeas because it is safe.... heheheheh

I think this is the reason why many of the smaller companies have not caught on. In many cases people are nont willing to go out on a limb and try something different.
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why not stick with a company is my question.

my favorite company right now is Hammer. I like Visionary and Lane 1. all of three of them are easy to make a 6 ball lineup from. so why do I need to mix them up?

with all the different cores and shells out there finding a good matchup is key. Picking ball to fit one after another is easy buy core shape. if you like arcing symmetrical cores you can mix them up. but since coverstocks still account for most of the reaction it's harder to line balls up.

Now mixing could be good thing if you want 2 skid/snap and 2 arcing balls. and One company is know for arcing coverstocks and the other is know for skid/snap. that would be the only reason to not go with one company , IMO.

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i've thrown nothing but brunswick since 1995 and wouldn't use anything else. i used hammer and columbia before that and they didn't seem to match up to my game and style. i've received some much appreciated help from brunswick r&d staffers tom tomaras and rick benoit. i've also received some advise on equipment selection from chris barnes and parker bohn III. there has never been a better time to throw brunswick equipment than right now.

Too bad there is not some way to conceal the identity of a ball without altering its characteristics. Then you could have a test, with many bowlers throwing many balls, drilled to their specifications and see if the company producing the balls actually makes any difference.

I'll bet that nobody could tell which company made which ball, other than guessing!

By the way, in this discussion, we tend to forget that some companies manufacture all the balls for some of the other companies. Does this make a difference? One would assume that a company would design a ball, issue the specs out to bid and select the lowest qualified bidder to manufacture the balls according to the buyers specs. That's the way business operates. Is the manufacturing of bowling balls somehow different in that the actual manufacturer somehow influences the actual products? Hmmmmmmmm?

But since we cannot conceal the identity of each ball, we will just have to go by the posts in this thread and believe what we choose.
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