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digitard

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New ball came today
« on: February 23, 2005, 07:01:46 AM »
Ahhh.. my new 14# REAL DEAL came today (Thanks to Buddies sickly fast shipping).  Cant wait to swing by the local pro-shop and have it drilled before the weekend.  

I've been waiting for this thing like a kid before Xmas since last week.  I had to adapt my entire style to bowl with my current ball (I was always play left, shoot right, hook in type player), but my current ball has the reaction of a slip-n-slide so I had to start playing right and throwing off the 2nd arrow just to get it in the pocket with any type of pin action.  

Now I'm looking forward to adapting back to my old style of throwing which was just mroe natural, and fluid to me.

Let ya know how it does.
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digitard

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Re: New ball came today
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2005, 06:19:02 PM »
I ran home at lunch, well drove, and picked it up from the office before they closed.  No blemishes on the ball, etc.  Threw it in my bag and going to have it drilled tomorrow or Friday and throw a game before work to see how it handles.  I may have it sanded, but not sure Im' going to try it 'stock' first and then go from there.
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RevLefty

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Re: New ball came today
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2005, 06:41:09 PM »
I traded some pro shop kid for a real deal with about 200 games on it and this ball does nothing and i love it.  But i have seen fresh ones and they hook out of this world, I think the kid is wet behind the ears in the prosohop and he used sand papaer to resurface this ball and messed the particles in it.  But it hits like no other plus i was needing a ball that did nothing on toast and this did that for me.
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slicko

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Re: New ball came today
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2005, 06:12:01 AM »
I'm jealous!! can't wait to get my hands on one of those. Attending a hammer demo day this weekend, so getting to throw some hammers I don't possess should hold me over until mine comes in.
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digitard

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Re: New ball came today
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2005, 02:27:13 PM »
Got it drilled today.  Threw a few games... man I suck...lol.

I'm having trouble adapting to having a naturally larger hook so I might get a coach cause years of one form is making it hard for me to adapt to another.

Otherwise the ball is amazing.  Anytime I hit the pocket it was a X.  My other ball had a tendancy to hit it like running into a wall and leave the 7 or 10 pin.  This just blew the pins apart like it was some grudge.

I cant wait to get the motion down like I need to.  Excellent ball.
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digitard

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Re: New ball came today
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2005, 05:58:12 PM »
Okay,
  Being I had to completely change my style from start point, how I threw it/etc.  I did pretty good with it, and man the ball gets some great pin action.

I threw a 213, 204 and then a 180 cause I tore my finger in a grip cause a small cut that I 'thought' was healed wasnt.  Its a great ball.  

I cant wait to get some more time on the lanes and fine tune my delivery and so forth to get the ball really working.  I'm thinking about getting a coach to help with that because th ball works excellent just the whole 'old habits die hard' thing is messing up a few shots.

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