Best Balls for the Hall(s)
Posted: November 13th, 2018, 2:16 pm
First, let me say that I own too many bowling balls, but I haven't found a good way FOR ME to thin the herd. I have danced around addressing this problem in various ways over time. And, yes, I have been given good advise on how I might go about doing so. I took everything out of the garage, off the shelf, etc., and my arsenal is as follows:
Radical: Guru Mighty, Xeno, Ridiculous-ASYM, Score, Rave
Storm/Roto Grip: Marvel-S, Disturbed, Rising Star, Super Natural
Columbia: Nitrous, White Dot
Pyramid: Pathogen Plague
I am a stroker who throws about 15 MPH off the hand, A/T about 8.5 degrees, A/R about 50 degrees, and Revs about 250+. I play outside, up the track, and inside to about the 25-board.
I bowl at two different centers. Center1 is a high friction, high-walled, 24 mL, 40-foot THS. Center2 is a low friction, high-walled, 21 mL, 40-foot THS. The topography in center2 is more suspect than in Center1. In both centers, I bowl on mixed leagues whose players are all over the landscape in skill level and equipment. And, as a result, my scoring can be all over the place, and the same ball may match up well one week, and be a complete dud the next week due to seasonal variations and league team make up.
This exercise, if you choose to participate, is to create a 3-ball arsenal (a pair and the spare) for each center knowing that no arsenal is going to be great every week. For this exercise, I want to ignore layouts and assume OOB surfaces (as if we are buying new balls but actually using my current collection), and how to use the pairings for game 1, game 2, and game 3. If you must suggest a 4-ball arsenal, suggest surface changes, or include your thoughts on layouts – that's OK, too.
For myself, I have read the BTM reviews and narrowed my choices down to 5 balls that I rotate, but haven't settled on pairs for each center that I like consistently. But too much analysis paralysis is clouding my judgment, and you may come up with a recipe I hadn't considered.
Thanks in advance.
Radical: Guru Mighty, Xeno, Ridiculous-ASYM, Score, Rave
Storm/Roto Grip: Marvel-S, Disturbed, Rising Star, Super Natural
Columbia: Nitrous, White Dot
Pyramid: Pathogen Plague
I am a stroker who throws about 15 MPH off the hand, A/T about 8.5 degrees, A/R about 50 degrees, and Revs about 250+. I play outside, up the track, and inside to about the 25-board.
I bowl at two different centers. Center1 is a high friction, high-walled, 24 mL, 40-foot THS. Center2 is a low friction, high-walled, 21 mL, 40-foot THS. The topography in center2 is more suspect than in Center1. In both centers, I bowl on mixed leagues whose players are all over the landscape in skill level and equipment. And, as a result, my scoring can be all over the place, and the same ball may match up well one week, and be a complete dud the next week due to seasonal variations and league team make up.
This exercise, if you choose to participate, is to create a 3-ball arsenal (a pair and the spare) for each center knowing that no arsenal is going to be great every week. For this exercise, I want to ignore layouts and assume OOB surfaces (as if we are buying new balls but actually using my current collection), and how to use the pairings for game 1, game 2, and game 3. If you must suggest a 4-ball arsenal, suggest surface changes, or include your thoughts on layouts – that's OK, too.
For myself, I have read the BTM reviews and narrowed my choices down to 5 balls that I rotate, but haven't settled on pairs for each center that I like consistently. But too much analysis paralysis is clouding my judgment, and you may come up with a recipe I hadn't considered.
Thanks in advance.