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marauder181

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Ball for a Straight Bowler
« on: November 19, 2008, 01:02:12 AM »
My friend was buying a new ball for herself.  She throws a straight ball, and not very hard. (around 11 mph)

She will not have fingertip grips in the ball.  What type of ball should she get?  A normal straightball or possibly an unagressive ball that may help her hit the pocket a little more flushly?
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ucumin2

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Re: Ball for a Straight Bowler
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2008, 12:25:57 PM »
There are few ball out there that would help her. Ebonite bash, tornado, columbia jazz , scout, tropical storm, hammer vibes just 2 name few. Depends on the money you want 2 spend and color she wants.
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Dan Belcher

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Re: Ball for a Straight Bowler
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2008, 12:59:36 PM »
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I don't believe in those 'dry-lane' balls anymore.  If you are bowling on a dry-lane you are bowling on some prehistoric lane.  I have only bowled on wood once in the past 5+ years and that was at a state tournament LOL.

1) Try bowling in another part of the country.  I see wood lanes in two out of the three houses I bowl in each week, and I saw ancient wood lanes in the tournament I bowled last week, and will see older wood lanes this weekend in another tournament.  They start heavily oiled and finish bone friggin' dry if you put enough games on them.

2) What if you have a lower ball speed?  Dry lane balls sure would come in handy then, right?

3) Bowling second or third shift in a tournament when they don't reoil between blocks can give you some seriously dry lanes.  Yes, you can stand really deep inside and throw a stronger ball, but if you suck at swinging the lane (like me), it's better to use a weaker ball and move right.  Thankfully I'm seriously speed dominant and almost never see dry lanes, so I don't even have anything weaker than a Spit Fire aside from my spare ball.  However, I sure could have used a weakly-drilled, polish Tropical this weekend in the state tournament.  I spent half the time throwing plastic because everything else was hooking at the arrows...
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KingofKings696

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Re: Ball for a Straight Bowler
« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2008, 04:08:19 PM »
So your saying a xxxl is an inferior piece because it is plastic? Yet it has one of the better cores on the market IMO. Lastly on PBA patterns I was carrying better with this plastic piece than most were with the heavy hooking blow pins through the roof balls.
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