I am a medium speed, medium rev, left handed bowler who tends to play the 10 board and out. My Reign of Fire has a 2.5” pin and is drilled with the neutral pin, an inch or so above the fingers. I also polished my RoF before I drilled it. You’re probably asking, why not buy a Reign? I do not like Cinnamon so I decided to buy the solid RoF and polish it.

Due to where I like to play the lane, I need a ball with good length that won’t burn up in the heads and midlane. The RoF worked very well in this respect. I got considerable length with plenty of backend movement. I could not use this ball on higher volume or longer patterns, but it works very well on shorter patterns and house patterns where stronger balls, like the Virtual Energy, were simply too much.

While I got a fairly consistent reaction most of the time, there were instances where the RoF seemed to die at the breakpoint. This ball reacts very quickly to friction but sometimes would skid past that point because of its lack of midlane reaction. Although, other bowlers I know who have this ball (factory surface) say they get a surprising amount of midlane from a ball they bought for a skid/flip reaction. Overall this is a good ball.

Nick Rich