Coverstock: EOX Pearl Reactive

Weight Block: RAD+

Ball Color: Silver/Gold/Purple

Ball Finish: 1500-grit Polish

Radius of Gyration: 2.48 (Low)

Differential: .055 (High)

Durometer: 74-76

Flare Potential: 6" Plus (High)

Fragrance: Concentration - Aromatherapy

Recommended Lane Condition: Medium-Heavy Oil

Description: The way we think, live, work and dream--this is our Paradigm.
A highly refined, versatile new coverstock made from a special blend of the purest materials. EOX Pearl Reactive generates more consistent friction to enhance performance and reliability.
With a Mass Bias of .025 on the "Y" axis, the RAD+ Core finds its preferred spin axis in an incredible 5 seconds!

Benefits:
- Strong Midlane Motion
- Forceful Change of Direction
- Unrivaled Backend Reaction
- Superior Entry/Exit Angle

Simply Amazing...Had this drilled to a 4x4 as instructed by Storms diagrams...I am a lefty that has a high rev rate and throws the ball about 17mph...The conditions were initially heavy oil and this ball just ate the lane up....When it turned the corner it turned hard and hit the pocket with explosive force....But be careful cuz I dried up the lane and the ball hooks a lot...Ive gotten some Jersey strikes when I threw the ball over board 35 and deep so it hooks a lot

Had this ball for over a month now (20 games)...and this ball is very well suited for my arsenal.  
Drill Specs:
Pin: Above and in between fingers.
CG:  Kicked out at 5 o'clock from pin 6" down
Weight hole:  2" at 3 o'clock from cg
PAP:  2 inches down from CG at 5 o'clock.
Surface:  sanded the ball with the 1000 pad

I have been a once a week bowler for about 2 months now.  Got this ball because I was struggling getting my other equipment to react soon enough.  This ball definitely reacts soon enough for me.  However, I bowl on AMF HPL 9000 synthetics and I have trouble getting this ball to react consistently downlane when I try to stroke it from 12 out to 6 or 17 out to 10 depending on the oil  pattern.  This ball suits well for me playing a power game.  Throwing straight down 8 or 9 with about a 17mph ball speed and a 20 foot loft.  This ball hits extremely hard and loud.  This ball knows how to kick the back row out pretty much every time.  

The interesting thing about this ball I discovered at the pro-am for the pba in Mechanicsburg last week was that I could use this ball all three games playing straight down 11 on the pro-anvilane lanes.  When the lanes did get a little dry in the third game I moved two boards in and slowed the speed down and stroked it a little better.  At my home house, the lanes dry out starting at the end of the first game.  Since I have trouble stroking this I just switch balls and move in and put this ball in the bag. I do have the appropiate equipment to switch for the drier lanes so it is not a big deal for me.  

This ball defintiely serves its purpose for what I got it for.  I have since improved my first game average from 202 to 211 in the matter of 5 weeks with a 268 as the highest game and 218 as the lowest first game.  

This ball is another awesome ball by storm, keep it coming storm!!!  I love the smell on this ball too!!!   Definitely a 10 out of 10 for what I use this ball for.      

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Seven basic mottos of bowling:
1)Versatility leads to greatness
2)Be a man, stand up for yourself, blame the balls or the lanes
3)When you get a lucky strike, flex the big muscles of steel
4)Always have a deadeye approach to spares
5)Always have a backup plan
6)When you bowl bad and someone that wasn't there asked you how you did, just say i was bowling with a hot chick, so i bowled bad
7)Sex and bowling do go together somehow

Ball specs: 16 lbs.
2 - 3" PIN
3 oz. TW

The ball's drilled with the Pin under the ring finger and CG kicked out.  At first i was not impressed at all.  The ball would go too long and not make the recovery back.  After almost thinking about selling it, I wet sanded it to 800 and it's like a completely different ball.  Clears the heads very nicely and is very aggressive on the backends.  There was just too much shine out of the box.  But now after the shine is off, I like it a lot and it hits like a truck.

at first the paradigm was a strong ball i had it drilled using layout 4c in the PSA guide book, used it in my league on tuesday night. on synthetic lanes with med-heavy amount of oil, this ball performed no where near my expectations. the polish on the ball made it look like i was throwing a plastic ball most of the night, even worse after 9 games of use it cracked right down the middle fo the cg. i was using an xfactor ace and now with this ball being useless im dropping storm and im going to go pick up a brunswick..... do not buy a paradigm,paradigm passion of the epx T1 the coverstocks will crack

You guys arent the only one with the ball cracking. I know 4 guys that have this ball, 1 guy has 3 of em. Out of 6 balls, everyone of them cracked. Before they cracked they all loved their ball. 1 guy even threw a 300 game/804 series with it. Heard alot of priase but also heard alot of cover stock problems.
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Mike Zadler
NE Lake County IL
Brunswick Equipment
Sanctioned Highs:
775 Series/288 Game
Sanctioned average (2004/2005)
194

I felt in love with this ball when I first tested this ball out in the league I shot 176 200 and 251 627 series with that ball finished strong 3rd game with 6 strikes in a row. This ball was drilled 5 from my PAP and 2 from the RAD+ to my PAP and 2 Inch Pin Buffer the ball reaction was a hook, snap, and set drilling and axis hole was on my PAP. As I was saying using a hole on your PAP, with less positive side weight(possibly neg. side) will help towards achieving a hook set reaction. I had thumb issues but I fixed it last game I used my fingers without worrying about the thumb and that was my biggest adjustment I had to make by the 3rd game. I've bowled very well with this type of drilling overall in leagues last one I had it was 14 months ago from my first Ultimate Inferno drilled Heavy Oil 1L and axis drill on my PAP I hope I can keep it behind from me and move on.

Predictability- Grade A+- reads the lanes very well without overreacting on the backend without that dynamic transition.

Coverstock- Grade A+- coverstock is reliable and does not die out as other bowling balls do.

Midlane- Grade A+- reads the fronts good because the RAD+ is in the strong position.

Backend- Grade A+- has the backend that I need to endure inconstent transition and hit of the over and under reaction.

Overall- Grade A+- this is one of the strongest and reliable balls out there on the market today I like this ball I never had a problem with this ball give it a try today. This is our Paradigm. I use this ball for medium conditions with fresh backends. DO NOT USE FOR DRY OTHERWISE ENERGY COULD BURN UP TOO QUICK CAUSING A U TURN FAST OR NOT MUCH BACKEND!
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8 Frames and a cracked bridge.  3 games and change cracking from ring finger to axis.  but i still love the ball.