I've heard it's the next ball after the Mythic Jackal so I'd expect late April.

I'm hearing that, with all of the issues with urethane the Blue Tank has been pushed back to August.

Interesting. Especially with the new Venom showing up on TV with EJ today

The new ball EJ threw on TV today is the release following the Mythic Jackal.

After that I couldn't tell you, and there hasn't been anything official on why, but the Blue Tank has been pushed indefinitely, when we get information that we are allowed to share i'll pass it along.

EJ was throwing a Coral Venom (or Venom Coral) until the last game, when he switched to the Venom Shock.

Smallwood was throwing a Blue Tank in the opener. From what I hear he was killing everything with it this week. Smallwood looked great on the show but Sterner had a terrible look on the left lane and it torpedoed their chances. Much better look this time than when Wesley Low used it on the Players telecast.

I have made as much fun as anyone about Big Bowling, but admit that their ball looked good in Kent's hand. And their website has improved...some.

Quote from: milorafferty on March 07, 2022, 10:31:48 AM

I have made as much fun as anyone about Big Bowling, but admit that their ball looked good in Kent's hand. And their website has improved...some.

Kent’s ball looked good because he was piping it up the shim so it didn’t have time to puke at the pocket and flat ten lol. I have never understood why anyone pays the premium for balls from these tiny companies like Big Bowling or Swag when you get far better reactions at a similar price from main stream manufacturers.

I can't disagree with that! 


I was just trying to be fair as I gave the supporters here of BIG Bowling a lot of shit when they first started out. Not that I think they will survive, but the brand had a good day at least.


As for price, on the BIG Bowling website, the prices are similar or lower than Storms balls.


But I'm still not buying one...

Quote from: milorafferty on March 07, 2022, 10:31:48 AM

I have made as much fun as anyone about Big Bowling, but admit that their ball looked good in Kent's hand. And their website has improved...some.

Kent’s ball looked good because he was piping it up the shim so it didn’t have time to puke at the pocket and flat ten lol. I have never understood why anyone pays the premium for balls from these tiny companies like Big Bowling or Swag when you get far better reactions at a similar price from main stream manufacturers.

I don't own balls from either company, but I did own Visionary and Lane #1 gear back in the day. There are a couple of Cal Bowling balls that I might try at some point because I'm curious, though.

The bigger point is I'm not going to crap all over small companies, because I want them all to be successful and I want the sport to grow. It's not good for the sport if we just got down to, say, B7 and SPI.

Visionary is sort of my prime example of that. From about 1999-2006, Visionary made some of the most unique pieces you could buy. Urethane with a real core? They made a couple. Big-engine pearl asyms? Check (and take a look sometime at the core in a Radical Spy and tell me it doesn't owe at least a tip of its cap to the AMB cores Visionary had). Particle something-or-other ball that was usable on a surprisingly wide range of conditions? Here's your Granite Gargoyle.

I understand if most people want to stick to a single manufacturer and I don't blame them; 90%+ of my stuff is SPI these days. But I was happy to see BIG get a win on the board nonetheless. Long may they run.