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jonah300

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CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« on: April 11, 2009, 03:26:02 PM »
So i wanna made this post because i have one doubt in my mind. i know we are talking about one of the best phisical games out there...but i have seen him compete when he was an amateur bowling in team usa and he used to hook the whole lane in every tournament...then when he went pro he changed to straighter its greater,he always say that there is a big difference bowling amateur than professional...when you bowl pro you need to controle your break point as a must so he almost always is playing the hook and stop so what i want to know is...columbia equipment its better for this king of game than maybe storm that has a skid flip reaction trade mark???...what i want to know is i know he can throw anything (he averaged like 278 in the round of 8 with a plastic ball)but i a m trying to make the same transition to bowl amateur international tournaments and now trying to test skills in the tour,so what could be better than trying to do what the best bowler on earth did,so if i want to begin to control my breakpoint and not having a skid snap reaction should i quit throwing storm (that brand always worked best fot me beacuse i used to put a lot in the ball so storm always worked great fo me) because right now with these pshisical adjustements in my release and tempo,i am beggining to see that i lose my breakpoint often (i mean my ball skids when it supossed to roll)...so please any advices will be great...i know at this level its not the arrow its the indian...but we all know that patrick allen after his player of the year award in 2005-06,signed with track and didnt make a round of 32 in 10 events and then he switched to ebonite again and win back to back tittles in the first week...so i know sometimes some brands matchup better with some bowlers
thank a lot for takin time to read this and sory from my english i am from argentina
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Hamburglar

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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2009, 07:37:56 AM »
One important thing to remember...it isn't the equipment, its the bowler.  And if you're not Chris Barnes and/or don't have Chris Barnes' ability, then, well...


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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2009, 01:33:58 PM »
i mean you can still use storm, just start drilling some stuff pin down and keep surfaces low. Carolyn Dorin-Ballard told me that basically nobody on tour uses polished stuff, and if they do its got a low grit under it.
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Im so glad people are brainwashed to think that TRACK sucks. And its even funnier when im carrying with my TRACK ball and they're going flat ten with their OTHER BRANDS ball.

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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2009, 11:14:24 PM »
I've seen some somewhat shiny stuff on TV but I agree it's probably not a true polish.  It mostly looks like the ball was just scuffed, look at some of Bill O'Neill's, Wes Malott's, and Pete Weber's stuff.  The pieces they use come to mind.

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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2009, 11:25:22 PM »
Chris Barnes is throwing the ball a lot different than even last year!

Columbia has good lane but so do many Storm pieces.

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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 11:33:44 PM »
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Carolyn Dorin-Ballard told me that basically nobody on tour uses polished stuff, and if they do its got a low grit under it.
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Eventhough most dont see the oil volumes they see on tour, surface prep is definitely an overlooked factor with many people.
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Re: CHIRS BARNES...GREAT WITH EVERYTHING?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 12:03:54 AM »
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Carolyn Dorin-Ballard told me that basically nobody on tour uses polished stuff, and if they do its got a low grit under it.
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Eventhough most dont see the oil volumes they see on tour, surface prep is definitely an overlooked factor with many people.
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"USBC is concerned that technology has overtaken player skill in determining success in the sport of bowling"

Edited on 4/12/2009 11:34 PM
yea so true that can change whether you carry or not, whether you have area or not, and multiple other things.
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Im so glad people are brainwashed to think that TRACK sucks. And its even funnier when im carrying with my TRACK ball and they're going flat ten with their OTHER BRANDS ball.