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Impending Doom

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First impression - Grip-It
« on: May 09, 2014, 10:50:13 AM »
I am in no way ready to give a full review, since I only have like 2 games on the ball, and I was throwing it like garbage due to my back being all out of whack, and so on and so on, but here it goes.

I laid my Grip-It out with a 2 inch pin to pap with a hole a bit down from my pap. Missing from my bag was a heavy rolling lower flaring piece. I can get in real trouble when I have lots of wet dry. Wet is very wet, dry is friction city. Can't dump it enough to stand in the dry all night, and can't get up the back of it enough to smooth it out with my hand.

The colors of this ball makes it very easy to read any transition, and the hybrid S64 is great for the house shots. It's not going to be a ball for the floods, but your medium to heavy house shots with some friction will do this ball well.

Due to me laying the core down, it rolled very early. Earlier than anything else in my bag, Darkness included. The great thing about this ball for me was it's ability to lay off after making the turn. Take a urethane reaction, enhance it, and add great hitting power. Due to the nature of the layout, I can't really go left to right with it, but when you want to close up your angles and just bump the dry, or control the end of the pattern, I don't have a better ball in the bag. This is going to complement my Sure Thing very well.

With a longer pin to pap and some surface adjustments, I could see this ball being much more useful on the house shots. I drilled it for a specific purpose, and feel like it will fit very well. I am bowling on a heavy house shot this summer, and feel like this will be one of the first balls out of the bag to read the pattern with.