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Title: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: clintdaley on April 19, 2005, 03:41:08 AM
Open post to the Track followers:

4 Ball Arsenal

Yes, I know it may be difficult (it is for me), but, if you were faced with only bringing 4 balls to league/tournament/practice/whatever else, what would be the 4 Track balls you currently own that you would bring. Doesn’t need to be in current line, you can use any discontinued balls as well.

Here is mine-

GP2-Heavy
Xception-Mediums
Hexplosion- Light medium
Heat(new remake)-Drier

I think I could cover almost anything I see outside of the Sahara……

Clint

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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: C-G ProShop-Carl on April 19, 2005, 11:54:51 AM
Clint,

This is what I currently see me taking to a tournament if I could only take 4:

Heavy: GP2
Mediums: Arsenal Aggressive (still have to get a new one)
Med/Light: Xception
Dry: Heat

I have a really difficult time not including the Slash in there, but those will fill my needs nicely.

-EX-
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: BackToBasics on April 19, 2005, 12:24:22 PM
Here's mine:

Heavy/Medium-Heavy: Arsenal Agressive.  Little scotchbrite will help it cover heavy
Medium: Xception
Mediums-Medium-Light:  2 Heats.  One drilled strong, the other weak.
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Turbo Grips 2-N-1 Staff
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: O-Zone on April 19, 2005, 12:34:07 PM
Here's mine-

Rule GP2 for any heavy/long pattern
Slash for medium/heavy patterns with some (15-18') backends
Xception for most mediums
Crunch Time for lighter mediums (if I increased speed)

I have to admit that I have better options on dry conditions, but Track products seem to carry better and hook more in the real heavy stuff for me.  Excellent equipment!
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: VBP-Dustin on April 19, 2005, 12:44:20 PM
if they would re release the pearl stomp i could go back to my aresnal of all pearl stomps again and  i will tell you if you scuff the pearl stomp and put a strong drill on its great but   cant find any new box and im lovin my brunswick too much to change
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: bighook69 on April 19, 2005, 02:26:57 PM
heavy, Arsenal Aggressive sanded down to 400 grit
medium, Arsenal Angular
dry, eXception polished to 3200 grit

back-up ball, Slash
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Rev_O on April 19, 2005, 02:27:07 PM
if i had to choose only 4, they would be:

Heavy=RULE
Medium=ARSENAL ANGULAR
Med/light= FREAK A ZOID
Dry= HEAT
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Leftyhi-trak on April 20, 2005, 07:19:44 AM
GP2,Slash,Exception, TBD by future release or sugar ray boxing glove ball.

Slash and the Freak-a-Zoid would be interchangeable.
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Wylie on April 20, 2005, 07:22:50 AM
Gp2 - Heavy
Freak-A-Zoid - Med - Med/Heavy
Highly polished Rule - Med - Med/Light
Dry Heat - Light
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: DP3 on April 20, 2005, 12:34:08 PM
In our area and in my collegiate tournaments there's not really a need for a top to bottom type arsenal, but more of a need for equipment that complements each other and that you can transition to and from since we hardly see the extremes.  In a case of 4 balls I'd go with

Med-Heavy(fresh): Slash(4x4 w x/hole)
Med/Heavy w/Carrydown(transition ball): Arsenal Aggressive(4x2 w/ x-hole)
Med-Light: Polished Slash(5 1/2 x 5 no xh)
Med-Light transition ball: Heat Remake(5 x 4 w/ x-hole inside VAL to smoothen out the breakpoint)
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: The great one on April 20, 2005, 01:14:23 PM
Easy...
Oil- Heat
Med- Heat
Med Light- Heat
Dry- Heat

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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Ernie McCracken on April 20, 2005, 02:00:35 PM
Xception, Rule, Phenom Unleashed, and Dry Heat.
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: hotshot187 on April 20, 2005, 11:02:04 PM
Here's what I would take:

Heavy - GP2
Medium/Heavy - Aggressive
Medium - Angular
Dry- Heat

Never really like the reaction out of my Xception. Love my Reaction I get from my Angular.
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: The SuperHitMan on April 20, 2005, 11:32:05 PM
If I had to choose

Track Assassin
Track VooDoo
Track Xception
Track Slash
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: dw23 on April 21, 2005, 03:53:25 PM
At this moment I would have to say;

GP2
Phenom
FAZ
Crunch Time

Haven't drilled my Heat yet. It will probably take the place of my Crunch Time.
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: icetink on April 21, 2005, 06:13:48 PM
This will sound silly, but I think it would work pretty well!:
Heavy:  Slash @ 400-grit
Medium/Heavy: Slash OOB
Medium: Slash with Magic Shine
Light: Slash with Clean N' Polish or Delayed Reaction

What I would want would be:
Heavy: GP2
Medium/Heavy: Rule
Medium: Xception
Light: Heat

What I have:
Heavy: Animal
Medium/Heavy: Rule
Medium: Freak-A-Zoid (or Rule with Clean N' Polish)
Light: NONE
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: DP3 on April 22, 2005, 12:38:35 PM
An all Slash arsenal....yummy!

I just got a fully plugged Critical Mass in mint condition.  I can't wait to drill that baby up, it's one of my all time favorites.  I love my Slash so much in oil, I want to get another and go 5 1/2 pin to PAP and a nice coat of Ebonite Factory Finish Polish(what would be the track product equivalent?) to get me through the start of most league conditions.
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: BackToBasics on April 22, 2005, 01:07:58 PM
DP3:

It's been a long time since I used Ebonite's Factory Finish, but I would say Magic Shine would be the closest.  I like MS a little better because it keeps the agressiveness of the ball intact.
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Turbo Grips 2-N-1 Staff
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Rev_O on April 22, 2005, 02:12:02 PM
good stuff, Magic Shine and Clean & Dull!!!
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Rev_O on April 22, 2005, 02:12:02 PM
good stuff, Magic Shine and Clean & Dull!!!
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Bowlnrd on April 22, 2005, 02:27:09 PM
I would have:

Gp2 for heavy long oil
Rule medium
Xception med broken in
hexplosion heavily polished dry
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: ashzero on April 22, 2005, 06:05:07 PM
short pattern/squeaky clean backend - xception
flood - animal @ 200 grit
carrydown - ez money @ 400 grit
and a spare ball.
Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Brickguy221 on April 23, 2005, 11:49:05 AM
quote:
If I had to choose

Track Assassin
Track VooDoo
Track Xception
Track Slash

 

SuperHitMan, You won't get far with the Assassin in oil. I believe most people will agree with me on the GP2 or the Arsenal Aggressive as being much better choices.

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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: rhinotec on April 23, 2005, 10:47:36 PM
Heavy: Mutant
Med-Heavy: Slash
Medium: Revmaster
Dry: Dry Heat or Heat(remake)

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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: Honestly on April 26, 2005, 03:00:22 PM
GP2
Slash
FAZ
Heat
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: clintdaley on April 26, 2005, 03:04:25 PM
Thanks to everyone for replying...I have enjoyed reading all of your posts...even if you B's spammed it
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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: srlunatic on April 26, 2005, 08:18:03 PM
I am going to hijack this thread a bit...

I am creating a Track ABC/USBC/Team USA arsenal...4 balls..

Here is what I have...:-))))))

Slash....3 3/8 X 5..box condition..(for the longer patterns..)
Exception...5 X 4...(pin centered over bridge - MB inch right of thumb)
Heat....(haven't drilled yet)
Hexplosion...(haven't drilled yet)

Thinking:
Heat....4 x 4...control type ball
Hexplosion 5 X 3 or so...something long with arc on the dry stuff..(like Team USA short pattern..)

Have a Sheer Havoc that isn't punch that may go in this somewhere....

What do you think??

Mike

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Title: Re: Pick your 4 ball Track Arsenal
Post by: fishnic on April 26, 2005, 08:31:33 PM
my arsenal is: im pretty track loyal but that sonic x is a damn good ball
gp2
rule
xception
sonic x

my ideal all track arsenal would be:
gp2
slash
xception
hexplosion
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