So this was my expression when my g/f bought me the ball for V-day... I've seen that the ball is good on dry lanes and I told my g/f that I'd like to have the ball as a nice back up to my Widow.  Well of course everyone knows the widow makes a huge mid lane move (for strokers) and is pretty uncontrollable on drier surfaces, So I decided to throw the Vibe for the first time and that thing went way right and then snapped back to the pocket like a ball I've never thrown before.  I just wanted to see what other people think of the Vibe and to see if anyone else has experience with it on lanes that are a little wetter?  I was hoping to have this ball as a 10 pin killer but it still breaks too much on the back end of the lane, anyone got any ideas on a decent spare ball?

Hammer Tuff for spares.

Which Vibe did you get?  I've heard the blue is more skip snap and the purple has more of an arc reaction.

Whoops...Thanks for correcting me.

I actually like having a reactive ball for a spare ball because I do throw a hooking spare ball and have a VERY hard time throwing the ball straight without rotation.  Believe it or not but my old setup (years ago) was the Brunswick Detonator as my heavy oil ball and the Reactive Ebonite 8 ball.  the combo worked amazing for house and tourney bowling.  ohh last night using the vibe as a spare ball on the first 2 games and then switching and using it as my first ball the last 2 games fairly nice.  I rolled 191 first game, 195 second game, then 211 and 229 to end the night.  overall the ball does skid and snap much harder than I'm used to, the blackwidow just plows through midlane oil.  I love the new vibe but the black widow will always be the one... ohh btw, my g/f bought it for me b/c she thought it was "pretty"  (blue ball)

So I used the Vibe on fresh oil today and it did exactly what I wanted/expected.  it had a bit of back end but went much straighter than the blackwidow.  i did a little experiment and threw at the 10 pin with both the BW and VIBE.. BW hooked too hard and missed, Vibe.. dead on the money.  no more 10 pin misses for me :-)
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yeah you are right.. the first night i used the ball the lanes were very dry and i used this for my first shot ball and it worked very nicely.  i think I'll pick up a plastic ball to throw as a spare on fried lanes.  I actually need to bake the BW soon too, anyone know how to do this properly? maybe 120 degrees in the oven and let it sit for a few hours?
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