If you look at the videos mike was throwing a 930T shiny with a pin left of his middle finger around 7 inches from axis to get it down lane before it started flaring. Mike only had the balls a day and didn't have time to experiment or talk to me about the layouts he used. I have drilled several in testing and have used everything from delayed reaction on them to 360 grit.
The ball is very versatile in its drillings and what it will do with different surfaces.
Any ball is subject to the drill pattern and surface prep. Mike's were too shiny with the pin too far from axis on what they were bowling on. If he had hit the ball with 2000 to knock some of the polish off you would have seen a lot different reaction and he would have had some area. Most of the staffers are trying to help people understand the new product so you can make an informed decision about it. We are a nich company that is in the process of regaining our market share so you will not see our balls in every proshop.
Most league bowlers don't know that a good percent of proshops have contracts with a bowling company to stock their product and can only give a small part of its shelf space to other companies. Sometimes that means that they can't carry certain companies balls at all because it states that in their contract. The reason they do this is for discounts on all their product so they can make more profit.
I have tested every manufacture's balls in the last year and I can state that the 930T is a bigger ball than the Virtual Gravity for a fact. The reason that Storm dominated the shows on tour is because there was almost no oil on tour last year and their coverstocks are the weakest of any major manufacturer.
Storm makes some really good product and I liked several of the balls I tested but I think our product is superior that is why I am on Track Staff.
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