airhawk

Came across a interesting bowling forum and would like to share with you guys.

Part 1 -

Before building an arsenal you need to figure out what you are building an arsenal for: League or house patterns, travel league or multiple houses, Tournament bowling, or Sport/PBA pattern leagues or tournaments.

For a regular house shot league you will need 4 balls:

1. A Heavy oil ball for when the machine goes nuts and puts down a flood, it happens. Suggested balls to use: Cell, Buzzbomb, black Widow bite, Special Agent or Attitude shift or Passion, or Columbia resurgence, MoRich LevRG. Brunswick Twisted Fury.

2. Benchmark ball. This is an everyday ball used for most medium conditions. Suggested balls: Columbia Rival or momentum, Any of the Nv series from Ebonite, Hammer Black Widow, or Toxic, Lane#1 Super Nova, MoRich NsaneLevRG, Storm Secret Agent, or Rapid Fire, Legends/LaneMasters Black Pearl. Brunswick Fury Pearl

3. Dry Lane ball for when you show up and the lane oiling machine is broken. Suggested balls to use: Columbia Jazz, Ebonite Bash, Hammer Vibe, Lane #1 Supernova xp or Liberator, Legends/Lanemasters Hornet, Brunswick Groove DryR or Power Groove.

4. Spare ball DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT ONE.


Part 2 -

balls to add for a Travel League.

1. Aggressive Pearl to cut through carrydown and open up a shot.
Columbia Momentum, Ebonite Raid or Clash, Hammer Black Widow Pearl or doom, Storm Gravity Shift, Legends/lanemasters the buzz.

2. A different drill pattern on your benchmark ball. If you drilled it with the pin above the fingers drill another one with the pin below the fingers and shine it, or try shining the other one and dulling this one. The reason for a different drilling of the same ball is when you go to some houses you hit the pocket, but just can't seem to carry, switching to the same ball with a different pattern and or different surface may help put 10 in the pit.

Additional or optional balls for PBA patterns. There is a difference between PBA Experience league shots and the actual patterns in houses that don't own the proper lane oiling equipment, so look out for that. The proper machine is either red, or black and says sanction technology on it. If not you probably are just getting what the lane man interprets the pattern to be.

The key to PBA Patterns is not necessarily equipment, but proper Execution and delivery. By that I mean you can have success with the wrong ball in your hand as long as you are throwing it right.

With that in mind I will do my best to tell you what seems to work and what types of players seem to do best on each pattern.

Shark: the longest pattern. Lately the pros seem to be playing it from outside with low pin aggressive equipment and end over end low side rotation release this is after burning open a hole in the pattern around the 5 board. To do the job of burning a hole in the pattern you need an aggressive ball dulled to at least 320, keep in mind this is not the ball you will be playing the shot with, but also keep in mind you don't get a half hour of practice to burn a hole in the pattern like they do on tv so I would suggest a high pin aggressive ball with a high flare drilling and 500 abralon finish that you could use until the 5th frame or so, then change to the low pin 5 to 5 1/2 inch pin to pap aggressive ball with 2000 abralon finish to go the rest of the way.

High Rev players have success playing inside lines on the shark start off by burning a hole going up the 10 board and moving in and playing to the hook spot you just created the key is to increase the side rotation as you move in deeper and avoid crossing the playing area of those playing outside of you because their carrydown will cause your shot to hang.

Scorpion Pattern. Plays simillar to a house pattern with the break point between 6 and 9 just don't drift left or right of that at the break point or you will pay a stiff penalty. Your aggressive ball will work until the oil breaks down then your benchmark ball will take over from there.

Chameleon Pattern. High Revers will have success playing from deep inside out to the 7 to 9 board with the pin over fingers benchmark ball, straight players will have success going up the second arrow out to 6 or 7 with one or the other benchmark balls either pin over or under fingers which ever carries.

Viper pattern. Plays great end over end up the second arrow with a shiny weak ball, pin under the fingers to keep it from burning out too quickly. Lefties seem to rule on this pattern this year so righties take a tip and play hard and straight up the outside.

Cheetah pattern. Seems to be playing harder this year and doesn't seem to be scoring as high as last year.I am not sure what the deal is I have not had the chance to bowl on it. It seems that you don't need to be out on the gutter like last year and seems to play close to the viper but with a sharper break point so a lower pin and duller surface in the viper ball might work with an end over end release.

Sport shots all that matters is how long the pattern is that tells you straight away what ball to use longer = more aggressive and higher pin shorter = shiny and lower pin. If you are having problems with the ball being too jumpy at the breakpoint use a duller piece of equipment if the ball is not turning the corner use a shiny coverstock.

jackson

Nv series from Ebonite also for Heavy oil... i ask before

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pureswallow

how come nothing about inferno series or zone haha

jackson

now Brunswick balls abit not same as last time, now Brunswick make by Maxico

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airhawk

Think the bowler is not a big ebonite fan

airhawk

Really ? Man, thinking if i would get a twisted fury

Does it affect the ball from where it's produced ? Got QA right

jackson

hahah you wrong, ebonite got 3 family like Track, Hammer and Columbia... total is 4 together...
now the best Storm and Ebonite...

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airhawk

diff bowlers have diff fondness for their bowling balls manufacturer. So far only have a brunswick and ebonite.

Think the forum bowler for the above, is speaking from his experience.

pureswallow

haha but the inferno series are good what haha(:

jackson

sweat... in master league i saw alot using storm and ebonite and hammer, but brunswick less...

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airhawk

Agreed, inferno series is nice.

Wondering what is the best bowling ball in the inferno series. Think got around 10 for the inferno series introduced.

airhawk

true true, didn't see much brunswick for big tournaments. So far only see that Parker Bohn uses brunswick twisted fury.

pureswallow

actually youth league got a lot of brunswick haha!

er inferno got alot haha

inferno
raging inferno
radical
absolute
ultimate
original
total
smoking
scorching
great
pba inferno

haha a lot

jackson

that why brunswick balls make by maxico...

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jackson

ya the old balls better now, maxico...

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BIBIPETPET

inferno series also quite good balls too. I like the impact when playing high pocket.

Rapid Fire, RXS300, Twisted Fury, Black Widow Bite II, Zone Plastic Ball, Viz-a-ball

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