To Everyone,

An Open House event is a way for us to showcase new products, especially our bags.  At this time of year the bowlers are finishing up with leagues and some pro shops tend to slow down and change their hours in preperation for the summer.

The event is designed to allow pro shop operators to come by in the morning bringing all of the local shops to one place so we can have a mini trade show, if you will.  We offer specials to the pro shops and show off what we have coming soon.  

The afternoon session is geared towards the bowlers.  We have on site staff that the bowlers can talk to and special discounts in the pro shop usually.  We try to have a storm or roto staffer on site as well throwing product down the lane demonstrating for the bowlers.  We usually have lots of equipment between our salesmen and staff member that we do allow the bowlers to try out.  

FREE - FREE - FREE

Definitely worth showing up for a few hours.  Bring your gear with you and bowl with us.
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Roger Noordhoek
Vice President
Business Development
Roto Grip, Inc.
888-450-6920
RogerN@rotogrip.com
www.rotogrip.com

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I was able to make the Open House at Bowlerama Lanes in Des Moines, IA on 4/22. Thanks to Jason Guest from Bowlers Connection Pro Shop and Chris Sand from Storm for setting this up. Jason also worked with the bowling center to set up various lanes with light, medium and heavy PBA like shots as well as a couple of versions of the house shot. That really let people put the balls to the test.

If anyone gets the chance to go to one I'd definitely recommend it. Being able to throw balls you're interested in before buying them is a great opportunity and throwing them on different patterns was a nice bonus.

I threw a Cell, Rapid Fire, T-Road solid and Shift and they had just about every ball available to throw, including the Street Rods. I went to find a medium condition solid ball to compliment my Agent and was thinking Rapid Fire or T-Road solid. After throwing both I was not impressed with the Rapid Fire, too skid-snap for me, especially on the tougher shots. The T-Road was a lot smoother for me. I was leaning towards the T-Road solid until I threw a Shift. I hadn't planned on throwing a Shift but it was just sitting on the ball return and no one was throwing it so I thought why not try it. The Shift was amazing. I had it matched up on all the shots except for the dry one and I can't get over how predictable it was and how well it rolled and carried. I'm now rethinking my arsenal because of that.



Edited on 4/23/2008 10:43 PM