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Ric Clint

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Super Sonic
« on: August 22, 2004, 01:30:11 PM »
BTM gives this ball a 16 backend rating!!!

Wow!!! But yet some of the reviews say this ball is more rounded on the backend and that the BOOM has a more angular backend snap... so what do you all think? Which one has more backend snap (or backend movement)?



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Jeffrevs

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Re: Super Sonic
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2004, 07:49:09 AM »
Ric,
Haven't thrown both yet, but yes, it's what I would expect....the Super is a polished solid, and the core if actually the Sonic core upsided down if you look at it, plus, the added side-puck.

So, I'd say sure, the SS is more rounded, covering more boards "total" w/ a higher diff, but the Boom, with the slightly lower diff and pearl cover will go a little longer and pop a little better (more angular) on the back.....
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charlest

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Re: Super Sonic
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2004, 08:13:22 AM »
Ric,

I'd say that BTM tested on too short an oil pattern with too clean a backend. YOu can't take the results of every test done by BTM as the word of God handed down from on high. You've got to balance BTM's test results with BJI's (Bowlers' Journal INternational), with everyone's amatuer tests, with comments from people of ballreviews, with what your eyes see local bowlers doing.

While the Super Sonic is no doubt a strong ball for medium light oil conditions (as stated by Roto-Grip themselves), it is also a solid resin (usually meaning: earlier hook than a pearl resin and less backend that a pearl resin) and I wonder about that backend number as that is one of the highest that BTM has ever given out. Numbers are a good measure of balls' relative positioning of one against the other. AND one other thing, don't forget that BTM's backend figure is one bowler's experience (their tweener) with one ball, drilled one way (stacked leverage).  The length number is also derived the same way, AS FAR AS I RECALL.
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Jeffrevs

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Re: Super Sonic
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2004, 07:13:34 AM »
as much as I like the BTM itself, I do also love to glance over their reviews but I read them very subjectively....and final "thoughts" are in MY hands..

My Super gets punched today......just going w/ a simply 4.5x3.5 and we'll see what happens......
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Ric Clint

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Re: Super Sonic
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2004, 05:13:11 AM »
Jeff,

Please reply back here with your findings about the Super Sonic after you get it drilled today.

Thanks!



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Jeffrevs

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Re: Super Sonic
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2004, 07:56:49 AM »
Ric, when I throw it I'll either post here, or start a thread as a "super-mini review"
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