"_________" is an absolute jerk.
That doesn't surprise me about anyone these days.
"Dual angles are complete marketing hype and have no value whatsoever."
This is where it gets funny to me. Even if someone doesn't want to buy into the idea of "this angle will tend to do this," and "this sum of angles lends its self to this" I can understand. Still for mapping layouts from one ball to the next and getting identical results every time, it is perfect. You know that if you drill 50x5"x50 on ten bowling balls they are all identical instead of the old guessing game of "pin up", "pin down" about 5" from your PAP ect ect ect.
I love even more that some companies fight the dual angle idea so hard they went with a modified version using angle, pin to pap, and pin buffer or mb buffer instead. I find it hilarious every time I see it.
40x4x2" buffer or 2" buffer x4x40 is funny I don't care what you say.
"You need to listen to me. I have worked for this company for 20 years, and I have lunch with the guy who owns the company. I don't know and can't tell you any of the Rg's or differentials in any of our equipment because none of it matters".
It is true. Because they change as soon as you put holes in the ball. These characteristics are to make the core cover combo work for the desired/designed ball reaction. I'm not sure if that is what is meant by these comments.
"There is no such thing as mass bias. Stop and think about it. A bowling ball is round, how can it have a mass bias"? I PROMISE he said and meant mass bias, this was NOT a cgnomaddah comment or discussion. We were talking about the 6-3/4 MB location.
That is funny too I don't care who you are. Now if he came back and said PSA instead I could understand and give kudos much more.
In answer to my comment that a particular polished ball I was considering was well known for over/under OOB and needed to have the surface adjusted... "No, that's wrong, you never want to change the surface on a polished ball. You will affect the reaction that it was designed for. If you do not like the OOB of a polished ball, then buy a solid ball in the first place".
This is probably the jerk/d#ck mentioned from the first comment.
After hearing this year's group of comments, I am more convinced than ever that I did the right thing when I stopped buying balls at Nationals many years ago.
This is why I stopped buying and having my stuff drilled at local shops and started learning and doing it myself. If this is the kind of information or lack of information your seeing at a national tournament with some of the "top" people from different manufactures then it goes to show how bad on average the lack of knowledge is in more local shops across the country. Not all, but probably more bad then good. Old thinking and failure to adapt is what leads to the problems listed.
Be good, or be good at it.
Edited by kidlost2000 on 6/15/2011 at 3:16 PM
