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djcs1204

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Tell me about this ball....
« on: November 17, 2011, 08:53:32 AM »
  I have acquired an Ebonite Striking Motion.  So, what is the deal with this thing, and what can I expect from it?   


 

charlest

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Re: Tell me about this ball....
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2011, 09:53:56 PM »
With its stock surface, it handles medium to medium-heavy oil for the avg revs, avg ball speed bowler with a medium-strong drilling. It is/was designed to go fairly long and make a decently hard turn.
 
Of course, if you have more ball speed than revs, it will have less of a strong backend. 
 
It has a medium-strong asymmetry, so you need to be careful where you put the Mass Bias.
 
This ball was mishandled at the marketing stage. The coverstock that they initially used and sent to all the testers was super-strong and they loved it. By the time it came to do the world wide release, the bean counters got a hold of it and changed the coverstock. Now it's only a normally  fairly strong backend on medium+ oil. I have more revs than ball speed so I find the backend stronger than a Virtual Gravity - so I can hardly use it anywhere.


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