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Interesting, my shift is laid out the same way except in reverse because I am left handed.  Oh, and I have small diameter but deep correctional hole to make it legal. It's supposed to make the transition smoooth.

I tried it out today for the first time and the lanes were kind of torched except for a strip of oil around 10-15. I found that the Shift worked quite well standing 35 and laying the ball between the third and fourth arrow looking at around the 10 board at 40 feet.  It cleared the heads and mids and then made a right turn.  For the one game I tried that, I went front five, big four, strike, ringing 7 pin, ringing 7 pin, ringing 7 pin, strike.  So except for the big four that resulted from softer speed, I was in the pocket the entire time.  So it's goes long and turns.  My X-factor, with pin of the center of the fingers, sat in the oil and didn't make the hard turn even though I was ten boards left using the same target.  

Anyway, that's my limited report on the Shift.  I am a tweener with 16-17 mph.  

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The Shift is a great ball to have. My first experience is based from a Shift bowling ball that my proshop has with a turbo switch grip for clients to try out. I saw it for the first time and ask if I can throw it. Since I have turbo switch grips now in my bowling balls. I used my inner thumb grip in the Shift. A friend comes over and says, "Watch out, that ball hooks a lot and I could not control it." So I threw three medium speed shots to observe how it reacts down the lane. It did hooked with a definite sharp turn. So I said to my friend, "I am going to throw a game with the Shift." The layout was with the pin a half an inch to the right of the ring finger and the key about an inch and a half from the thumb. 3 inch pin. Started with the first 8 strikes, thumb did not come out clean in the ninth frame and left the 6 10. Finished with a 278. Throw was standing at the 30 board behind the first row of dots on the approach hitting the 4th arrow towards the breakpoint on 10 board. The lanes were freshly oiled because league was going to play in 30 minutes. I told the proshop employee that I will buy the Shift but only the one they have for testing. He will call the owner see if they will sell it. The answer was no but will have first take when they put it up for sale. Still thinking about getting a new one but it will be after I sell about 10 bowling balls that I have besides my actual arsenal.

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