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notsohotshot

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BREAK PRL ON PBA SHOT
« on: April 30, 2008, 02:14:45 AM »
How is the Break Prl ball going to do on the Pba patterns? Is it going to be too skid snappy or just plain hook too much? Opinions please!!!
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Gene J Kanak

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Re: BREAK PRL ON PBA SHOT
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2008, 10:32:59 AM »
Well, I'll jump in before the flamethrowers come your way.

To be honest, there is no way to say how any one ball is going to react on the PBA patterns. Each of those patterns plays very differently depending upon the type of lane surface, age of lane surface, type of conditioner being applied, conditioning machine, and number of bowlers per lane, ball drilling, and surface prep being used. Still, I'll do my best to give you a general idea here.

The Break Pearl is designed to be something of a skid-flip reactive pearl. Usually, that type of reaction does not serve a bowler all that well on PBA patterns unless the lanes really wear in and open up. From my experience, most of the PBA patterns are best attacked with equipment that is laid out and prepared to read the midlane and offer predictability on the backend. That is not to say that you can't use flippy gear; it just means that you'll usually want to tame it down a bit with drilling/prep or use more forward roll to get the ball to read sooner.

Again, this is just my opinion. I'm sure there are more knowledgeable players who can add more to this.

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shelley

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Re: BREAK PRL ON PBA SHOT
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2008, 10:41:35 AM »
As Gene said, it depends on more than just "bowling on PBA patterns".  Probably it wouldn't be a good choice for, say, the Cheetah pattern.  There's simply too much friction too early.  The ball would probably jump left and take out the 7-pin.

On the Shark pattern, which can sometimes be played with very skid-flip, late reacting equipment (not much room for ball reaction, so cram as much movement into the last 15' as you can).  Pete Weber and Doug Kent were doing that two years on the Shark pattern at the Etonic Championship.

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