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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: 2handedrook12 on October 18, 2017, 12:16:41 AM
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What is the most forgotten Storm Ball in the last 15 years to you? Just thought this would be an interesting way to spark conversation about balls that sounded like a good idea but never caught on.
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Pyro. Everyone remembers the Fired Up and Spit Fire. Twin V core with Reactor particle pearl cover. My dad has thrown his for years and it still reacts like new. Rolls great on medium conditions
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I still occasionally use my Trauma ER. (Plus it still smells marvelous!-wild cherry)
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I feel the Phaze is a forgotten ball, even though it may be well deserved. The original batch had its problems and everyone dismissed the ball as bad. Storm eventually got things fixed and the intended ball (subsequent batches) have been heralded by those throwing them.
Too bad the public gave up on it.
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Don't know if the original Shift is very forgotten but it sure was a forgettable ball for me. POS.
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When was the El Niño Gold out?
That was a very forgettable ball imho.
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The other IQ that came out with the tour solid
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The other IQ that came out with the tour solid
That's my personal pick!
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Gravity shift which was the predecessor to the immensely popular Virtual Gravity. More recently the Lucid, a tremendous tournament ball
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Gravity shift which was the predecessor to the immensely popular Virtual Gravity. More recently the Lucid, a tremendous tournament ball
Lucid sure gets mentioned a whole lot in articles and videos from five years back or so.
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The Invasion sure got lost as soon as the VG Nano came out. And I made a ton of money on those bad boys...
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How about the Depth Charge? I always forget about it when people ask me my top 5 or 10 balls of all time, but I don't think I ever had more consistent success than I did with this ball. I once even called my shot with it, struck the first frame, drove by a 9 the second, came back to the table and said, "well, no 300 this game, but 280 will still be nice." I got teased for a bit until I was writing 280 down on the scoresheet at the end of the game.
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What about the Vivid? Seemed to be lost in the Lucid shuffle.
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Firestorm...green one sucked. Black thunder, depth charge and shift
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How about the grand daddy of all Storm balls, the HSP Teal? I knew some guys that had it, and because we didn't know how to deal with reactives yet, they would shoot the lights out for a game or two and then completely lose it and shoot 130.
I guess this predates the 15 year timeline in the header. Don't mind me. Not paying attention.
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Interesting someone mentioned the vivid. Going back about 7 years storm was making AZO balls. One, the area was a tremendous ball that many people ignored because of the price. A friend of mine talked me in to trying one, and I made a boat load of money with it. A couple of years later he told me Storm was using that weight block again in the vivid. He warned me not to try the vivid, but get the pearl ( lucid ) when it came out. He was right, and the lucid became my go to tourney ball on medium to long patterns. What made both the Area and Lucid good was the deceptively stong back end movement. Continuation hadn't become a buzz word yet but these balls had it. Just too much shell for the vivid as it just tamed down to much, too quick.
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!Q anyone?
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The most forgettable Storm balls for me was the Shift (boat anchor) and the Invasion.
It's probably operator error, but I just got tired of trying so many different things to make them work!
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I would have to say all 3 of my personal favorite, simply because they didnt fit that storm hockey stick reaction.
Special Agent
Tour power
Shift
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I agree on the original IQ. A teammate of mine had one for 3 weeks and moved on from it quickly. It was the only one I ever saw.
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I would have to say all 3 of my personal favorite, simply because they didnt fit that storm hockey stick reaction.
Special Agent
Tour power
Shift
Wow never seen anybody say both the Shift and Special Agent were their favorites before. The Shift certainly didn't fit the hockey stick shape because it burned up all its energy about the time it hit the arrows and had nothing for the backend.
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I would have to say all 3 of my personal favorite, simply because they didnt fit that storm hockey stick reaction.
Special Agent
Tour power
Shift
Wow never seen anybody say both the Shift and Special Agent were their favorites before. The Shift certainly didn't fit the hockey stick shape because it burned up all its energy about the time it hit the arrows and had nothing for the backend.
The shift at 1500 grit polish burned up at the arrows for you? I know it was pearl particle, never heard anyone say it burned up. I drilled one up for nationals years ago and smoothed the cover to 2000 grit and shot a respectable 670 before I went to a gravity shift that rolled a lot sooner than the shift. Interesting to say the least.
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I would have to say all 3 of my personal favorite, simply because they didnt fit that storm hockey stick reaction.
Special Agent
Tour power
Shift
Wow never seen anybody say both the Shift and Special Agent were their favorites before. The Shift certainly didn't fit the hockey stick shape because it burned up all its energy about the time it hit the arrows and had nothing for the backend.
The shift at 1500 grit polish burned up at the arrows for you? I know it was pearl particle, never heard anyone say it burned up. I drilled one up for nationals years ago and smoothed the cover to 2000 grit and shot a respectable 670 before I went to a gravity shift that rolled a lot sooner than the shift. Interesting to say the least.
Yep that thing rolled out like a no other ball I have thrown and hit so weak. Bought it to be my primary ball back in the day and at the same time bought a BVP Rampage as a backup and it only took a few weeks until I was throwing the BVP Rampage as my primary ball and the Shift sat in my bag. Eventually that Shift turd cracked in my garage (so glad it was that one) where I was storing both of them during a long layoff but I still roll that BVP Rampage today. Back then Brunswick made as good or better cover stocks (powerkoil was awesome but didn't know back then) than Storm but that would change a little bit after that. From what I understand the Gravity Shift was a much better ball (none of that particle garbage). Its also why I won't buy a nano Storm ball even to this day.
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Easy - Reign-of-Fire
This is the turd that sticks out in my mind the most. I'm a Storm/Roto guy but this ball was even worse then the junk Ebonite put out in the mid-late 2000's. Remember those kids, ball death after 15-20 games! And the Reign-of-Shi....Fire carried/hit worse when it was brand new!
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Storm Prodigy definitely comes to mind when I consider balls that have fallen off the face of the planet. Good riddance I'd say though...
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Fire Road. There's still people waiting for that ball to hook.
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Fire Road. There's still people waiting for that ball to hook.
you win
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Fire Road. There's still people waiting for that ball to hook.
you win
Yes!!!! Lmao
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Most forgotten was the !Q solid...not the tour.
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Man, Storm balls are either legendary or so bad you want to stop drilling their stuff altogether.
Amongst the frenzy of the new balls being released I implore everyone, go to the storm website. Read the descriptions on some balls in this thread. Sound awesome don’t they.........
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Most forgotten was the !Q solid...not the tour.
I mentioned earlier ;) hard to believe that ball shares the same name as one if their best balls
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This is why I ignore the marketing material and call them like I see them . . sounds like Bam Bam writes the descriptions/summaries on the website . .
Man, Storm balls are either legendary or so bad you want to stop drilling their stuff altogether.
Amongst the frenzy of the new balls being released I implore everyone, go to the storm website. Read the descriptions on some balls in this thread. Sound awesome don’t they.........
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Storm Prodigy definitely comes to mind when I consider balls that have fallen off the face of the planet. Good riddance I'd say though...
To this one, I say "WOW!" It's all about match-ups I guess. I have a Storm Prodigy that literally never leaves my bag!! It is my bench mark ball right now, and my....."Get-me-out-of-trouble" ball whenever I'm struggling.
I shot 735, with a 288 game in TNBA regionals with it last year!
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Like so manybaggressive solids the prodigy shell was very difficult to maintain. I shot 300 out of the box with mine and could barely get the 5 pin out a couple of weeks later. Bad core shell matchup for me. That core went much better with an aggressive pearl shell
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Storm Prodigy definitely comes to mind when I consider balls that have fallen off the face of the planet. Good riddance I'd say though...
To this one, I say "WOW!" It's all about match-ups I guess. I have a Storm Prodigy that literally never leaves my bag!! It is my bench mark ball right now, and my....."Get-me-out-of-trouble" ball whenever I'm struggling.
I shot 735, with a 288 game in TNBA regionals with it last year!
My prodigy was killer as well. Anything with r2x etm was good, the second dimension was another Hallmark with that cover.
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Paradigm Passion and the EOX Coverstock.
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EOX is probably the worst cover theyve ever had. Followed closely by Monsoon.
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Trauma Response - ball was a turd for me never reacted well. but I had that at a time where being a ball whore wasn't economically feasible so it stayed in the bag. Got to a tournament where everyone had a terrible look on the lanes. I grabbed the Response out of desperation and low and behold it gave me the best look on the lanes of anyone there and I won the tournament running away.
The damn thing cracked 3 weeks later...
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Paradigm Passion and the EOX Coverstock.
I didn't start bowling 10 pin leagues until I was 28 (15 years ago). First Storm ball I bought was the Charge Pearl. Then the Fear Factor. Third was the Paradigm Passion. I didn't buy another Storm ball until the VG Nano. That Passion just did nothing for me.
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EOX is probably the worst cover theyve ever had. Followed closely by Monsoon.
This was Bobby Hall Sr.'s favorite ball when I was drilling for him. I must have drilled him 30-40 of those balls as they all would eventually crack. Hall Sr. did so well at the Senior US Open one year with 7 of those and a spare ball that Schlem told him to call up Storm and they would send him a case of those Passions anytime he wanted. I was so tired of seeing that ball and I've never thrown one.
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Vertigo
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Take it back!! Monsoon is one of my favorites, I had two Super Charges . .
EOX is probably the worst cover theyve ever had. Followed closely by Monsoon.