PBA

            The Pba is the Professional Bowlers Association and its where the best in the world meet to see if they have what it takes to be the best. The pba has a new thing they call the world series of bowling where 250 bowling can take on the world. Unlike the pba’s normal format where there are player already exempt and other have to go throw a per tornament qualifer round before they can enter the main event, but in the world series dosent have exempt players. The WSFB(world series of bowling) has all 250 player all have to qualify together. This year there has been a lot internation bowler that have made there make at the WSFB.

            The PBA has made history by seeing tom Daugherty shooting the lowest game ever on TV with a 100, and also players winning there first time on tour. Not only is the pba a place to make money its also a place to become a better bowl and to see if you have what it takes to be the best. 

            The top 31 tour titlest are as follow and the last title they have won.

47 Titles
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (USBC Masters – 2/14/10)
43 Titles
Earl Anthony (USBC Masters – 5/12/84)
35 Titles
Pete Weber (Lumber Liquidators Marathon Open – 4/4/10)
34 Titles
Mark Roth (IOF Foresters Open – 4/15/95) 
33 Titles
Norm Duke (Cheetah Championship – 8/13/09)
32 Titles
Parker Bohn III (Cheetah Championship – 12/07/08)
30 Titles
Dick Weber (King Louie Open – 2/19/77)
29 Titles
Mike Aulby (Silicon Valley Open – 1/21/01)
26 Titles
Don Johnson (Midas Open – 2/12/77)
25 Titles
Brian Voss (Bayer Don & Paula Carter Mixed Doubles – 2/21/10)
22 Titles
Marshall Holman (Ebonite Classic – 10/15/96)
20 Titles
Dick Ritger (AMF Magicscore Open – 2/3/79)
Wayne Webb (Bud Light Championship – 4/12/97)
19 Titles
Amleto Monacelli (Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Open – 2/13/05)
18 Titles
Nelson Burton Jr. (Angle Open – 2/11/84)
Dave Davis (Fresno Open – 7/3/78)
Billy Hardwick (Monro-Matic Open 4/10/76)
Dave Soutar (Syracuse Open – 11/9/82)
17 Titles
Carmen Salvino (Miller High Life Classic – 1/6/79)
15 Titles
Steve Cook (Cleveland Open – 3/21/92)
Jason Couch (Motel 6 Classic – 1/28/07)
14 Titles
Mike Durbin (Quaker State Open – 1/26/85)
Dave Husted (National/Senior Doubles – 1/15/00)
Johnny Petraglia (PBA National Championship – 3/29/80)
Jim Stefanich (Denver Open – 1/24/76)
13 Titles
Bill Allen (Newark Open – 9/22/1968)
Patrick Allen (Dydo Japan Cup – 4/25/09)
Del Ballard Jr. (PBAA U.S. Open – 4/10/93)
Tommy Jones (Dydo Japan Cup – 4/25/10)
Randy Pedersen (PBA Pepsi Open – 11/24/02)
Wayne Zahn (Showboat Invitational – 1/17/76

When looking for bowling ball to buy there are a few thing to look for but I’ll give you a list of bowling ball that far made for heavier oil. Now we will start with storm, now storm has a few balls out that are going to be good for oil.

The storm Invasion, Virtual Gravity, there newest one coming out Virtual Gravity Nano, and the storm Marvel.

Lane #1 Pink Panther, Time Bomb, and Time Bomb Black Fire

Hammer The Taboo, Jigsaw Corner, Jigsaw Trap, and Infection.

Ebonite The Mission, Mission 2.0, Mission Domination, Vital Energy and Vital Sign.

Track the 916 All Terrain, 715C, 715T and the 718A

Roto Grip The Theory, Infinite Theory, Mutant Cell, and Rogue Cell

Brunswick the Wicked Siege, Evil Siege, C-(System) 4.5, and  C-(System) alpha max,

Columbia 300 the Pure Physics, and World Beater.

Lane Master the Black Diamond, Black Diamond Reactive, and Terminator Ressurection.

900 Global the Bank, and Bank Pearl.

Seismic bowling the Aftermath

Motiv the GT1 and SR2

That is my list of bowling balls that will help you bowl on oily lanes. If your going to bowl on oily lanes you’re going to want to drill your ball up to be aggressive.

When you bowling sometimes you run into a trouble with your balls not hooking enough cause the lanes are to oily. Now this can be hard to adjust for a new bowler or ever some one that’s been bowling for years. There are ways to get your ball to move on oily shots, but sometimes there is too much oily for any one or any bowling ball.

Say you’re bowling on your league and you’re using one of your balls that are in between your one the hooks the most and the one that doesn’t hook. You’re in warm up and your ball just isn’t hooking back to the pocket and when it does it hits so weak that you leave splits or 7-10s. Say you have a ball speed around 17-18 mph, the first thing you should do is slow you ball speed down say to 15-16 or if your ball still isn’t hooking go even slower till your ball starts hooking, maybe you don’t like to slow down you can always move to the track area on the lanes( the 10^th board on either side of the lane) why do this, it’s because this part of the lane is the most used and will give you the most friction to get your ball hooking. You can throw into that part of the lane or go straight up the 2^nd arrow (which is the 10^th board). Remember the straighter you throw your ball the better chance you have of getting your ball to hook.

            Another thing to do is to go and grad your bowling ball that hooks the most and try to use that. Try everything that I told you earlier, and if that doesn’t help you can always go out and sand your ball so you can get that extra kick to get that ball to hook. When using your strongest ball on heavy oil it will give you the best chance of hooking. Next thing is you can try to get a little extra lift on your bowl and try to get more revolutions (or revs), because more revs more hook.

If you need more help on oily lanes maybe you could go and get a new ball that’s made for heavy oil. After you read this check out my bowling balls for oil blog.

Remember don’t be afraid of trying different things when bowling.

Sanding or polishing a ball will give your ball a different reaction on the lanes and maybe help you when you get in to trouble, ill better explain these steps on sanding and polishing.

1.       First we will start with sanding a ball. The reasons for sanding a ball could be that your ball is scratched making your ball less consistent, another way is you want your ball to hook more down the lane. The reason you sand a ball during league is that your ball isn’t hooking enough and you need some extra power so you go to your bag a pull out a piece of sand paper, now it really matters what kind of sand paper you use. 180 grit will remove the deepest Scratches, 360 grit removing deep scratches, 500 grit will remove medium scratches, 2000 grit will give you a mild luster with texture underneath and for 4000 girt high luster with smooth texture. So when using sand paper, 500 girt is the most common one used on bowling balls, while 180 and 360 grits are to low and 2000 and 4000 grits are for polishing balls.
2. So take a towel and place the sand paper in the middle, we do this because it won’t make a mess when your sanding, then you take your ball and place it on the paper. Now you start rubbing the ball like your trying to clean it make sure you get the entire ball sanded, it should only take a few minutes to complete this job. After sanding you will see your ball hook more and arch more as well.
3. This task of sanding your bowling balls should not be taken lightly cause one wrong more can cause your ball to react different, so if you don’t want to risk doing it yourself you can all ways take your ball to your pro shop and they will sand your ball for you.

Now ill explain how to polish your ball and what the advanage of doing it is. There are a few ways of polishing your bowling ball, one is to go and buy some rub on polish or sand your ball.

1. The first way and the easiest way are to go to your pro shop and have them polish your ball for you. The next way is to go out and find some ball polisher and do it yourself. All you have to do is rub your ball down with the polisher and you will be set.

If your ball is hooking too much and you need something that goes a little longer you would need a pearl bowling ball, but instead of buying a new ball you could just take your bowling ball that is a solid or was a pearl and give it a nice polish. By polishing your ball you take your ball that has a lot of friction on the lanes, and tone it down cause a polish ball is smother and will slide more because it can’t grip the lane as much making this method vital for dryer lanes, or for high rev bowlers. But polishing your ball will not last forever, by polishing your ball you’re getting rid of all the makes and scratches on the cover stock. Now when your pro shop polishes your ball they take 1000-2000 grit sand paper and sand your ball till smooth and shiny.

Remember once you sand or polish your ball it will be a while till its back to normal.

When bowling on your league you sometimes find it hard to keep your ball from hooking too much or to less. If you’re a bowler like me with a high rev rate (my rev rate is 550) you need to find a speed to throw. Now I bowl league at many different places and you must find a speed to keep your ball on track. Now I bowl at little falls MN, and that has a dryer house shot, so when I’m bowling I use my ball that hooks a lot I will throw anywhere between 18-20, but when I bowl on a oilier shot I tend to slow it down to 16-18 mph. when you have a high rev rate you will need to throw at higher speeds or you will need to get less reactive balls. On the other hand if you throw that ball slow with a lower rev rate you will need to throw a higher reactive ball.

            Your rev rate will determine what balls you will throw and your ball speed will tell you the same thing, but when finding out what works better that will have to be you that decides that, because every one throws a little different. So when you have a high rev rate you normally throw fast and a lower rev rate you would throw slower.

There are a few questions in bowling that are hard to answer and some that are easy, when bowling is it better to have more length or better to have less length. The answer is not an easy one, it’s a long road to find out what’s better but I have a few easy steps to help you find out what’s better for your game. Let’s start by asking what kind of lanes you bowl on wood, synthetic, or something in between. Next is do you bowl league, sport league or tournaments. Last is are the lanes dry, oily, long, short, or flat. Let’s start by saying when bowling remember that some balls are made to go long and some aren’t like pearls go longer then solids. Why do ball go long and some don’t, well solids are designed to create friction so they can still hook on oily lanes, where pearls are designed to have less friction and to store energy  so when the ball hits the dry to have a nice reaction off that dry. So if your bowling with solid ball that is drilled to hook early you might get it trouble by leaving taps (pins left when hitting the pocket). The reason this happens is cause when a ball is drilled to hook early on dryer lanes its cause the ball will hook early and after that the ball is done hooking and goes into a roll or a roll out phase, so when hitting the pocket you might leave a ten pin (for righties) that’s cause the ball will deflect having the 6 pin lay in the channel or go around the ten. So if your ball rolls out early that makes your carry worse, why when a ball rolls out it means it’s done hooking and making the ball defect instead of hooking threw the pocked.  So you might want to change ball to something drilled to go longer. This is where pearls come in. when using pearls they will go longer and hit harder on dryer lanes, so instead of leaving ten pins you will have better Carrie. Why dose pearl Carrie better on dry lanes, it’s cause when solids hook earlier then pearls they use their energy up before getting to the pocket, where pearls will go past the front part of the lane before hooking, cause pearls go long they don’t tend to roll out, which makes your carry better cause all of the energy that pearls save.

            Now if you bowling on oily lanes that are long (like 40-44ft long) with a solid ball drilled to hook early you might see your ball arch as the ball goes down the lane and when the ball hits the pocket it’s still rolling. Why is this, well its cause when there is more oil a ball like a solid will have more energy when it hits that pocket cause oil makes the balls go down the lane without hooking but the reason is oil making a higher friction ball like a solid go longer before hooking. So if you would throw a pearl down the lane on the same oily shot you might see wash outs, buckets, or weak tens. Why is this, its cause unlike dryer lanes the pearls will go longer so if you have a 42” shot your pearl might blow past that with a ton of energy left but there won’t be enough lane for the ball to hook then, making the ball go to long and not hook.

            Maybe you bowl on a shot that’s not oily and that’s not dry, then what do you do. Well if your bowling and your using a pearl and you are leaving pocket seven pins or maybe pocket 7-10s, this means your ball is going too far down the lane before hitting the pocket, how does that happen, well when your ball goes to long and hits the pocket it might look good but when your ball hits the pocket at the angle it has a lot of energy left so it will roll threw the pocket, but when the ball rolls threw the 1-3(for righties) it will not deflect as much causing the six pin to go around the ten and the five to go behind or in front of the seven pin. So if you would change to a solid your ball would hook early, and hit the pocket at the right angle. Maybe it’s the other way around, your using a solid and your leaving a lot of four pins and haven a hard time keeping the ball in the pocket cause your ball is hooking too much, if you would go to a pearl your ball would go farther down the lane making it easier to hit the pocket.

                      When bowling sometimes your ball just seems to be dead, which mean that when your ball hits the pocket it hits weak and leaving pocket 7 pins 10 pins, and maybe even the 5 pin. When bowling on a house shot on your league the shot is always the same, so why is your ball not hooking like it was. Well when bowling on a house shot oil is put out on the lanes, more in the middle less on the outside. With the new balls coming out today they will soak up oil and dry the lane up after every shot you throw, unlike in the past with plastic ball they push the oil down the lane. After your ball is use more and more your ball will hook less cause the ball will become oil soak, (Which means your ball is full of oil) say your ball is made for heavy oil and is drilled to go along with a sharp break point. So if your ball is goes longer then is use to, or your ball doesn’t break sharply when going down the lane and is making an arch that mean your ball has soaked up a lot of oil.

            There are a few ways of fixing this problem and preventing this from happening to fast. First step is to go to your local proshop or go online and buy some ball cleaners like Kegel No-Sweat Hand Cleaner, Lane Master Pure Clean, PowerHouse Ball Cleaner, or the Lane #1 Secret Sauce. After using your own ball cleaner it will not get all the oil out of your ball but it will get enough oil out or the cover stock, but cleaners can’t get the oil the soaked deep into the cover stock. When the oil soaks deep into the cover stock cleaners or sanding won’t even help so you got to go one more step. The next step is the bake your bowling ball, when baking a bowling ball it involves placing the bowling ball in an oven on low heat, when the ball is in the oven it will oozes, and push the oil out on the surface of the ball, which when this happens you wipe the oil off the surface, till the oil stops oozing from the ball. This method might take a while but will not damage your ball, when you’re done baking your ball it should be back to normal.

            Some urethanes will bleed oil, and other won’t. You’ll need to experiment on your own to determine if any of your urethane bowling balls work well under this procedure. WARNING!! DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BAKE A PLASTIC OR POLYESTER BOWLING BALL. Plastics can warp under relatively low heat and ruin your bowling ball…do NOT bake your plastic bowling ball! Plastic and polyester bowling balls do not regularly soak up any oil due to their hard composition anyway so baking, even if possible, will have no effect.

Procedure to bake a bowling ball:

I. Recommended materials:  Step one get a clean terry cloth towels (lots of them, at least half a dozen is recommended).

Step two is getting some rubbing alcohol or your favorite RR cleaning solution.

Step three is getting an oven thermometer.

Step four get a roll of tin foil or an aluminum pie pan.

The last step is an oven.

II. Procedure:

        1. Preheat the oven to 200F (warm setting)…use your thermometer to ensure the oven temp is no more than plus or minus 5 degrees from this temp.  Adjust accordingly.

        2. Once the oven has reached the proper temperature, use tin foil to form a “cup” to set the bowling ball on while it’s in the oven or use a pie pan to set the ball on.  This prevents the ball from rolling around in the oven and the hot metal rails from contacting the surface of the ball.       

        3. Place the ball in the pan or tin foil “cup” in the oven (making sure that the ball doesn’t contact the heating elements on the top of the stove), and close the door.  Wait about one minute and open the door.  Observe the ball and if the ball becomes “shiny” or gets a “wet” look, the oil is starting to bleed.

        4. Take a couple of dry towels and remove the ball from the oven and, working quickly, wipe the surface of the ball off with the alcohol or RR cleaning solution.  You must work quickly because the oil will quickly be absorbed back into the ball as the ball cools.

   5. Return the ball to the oven and repeat step 4 until the ball no longer bleeds oil.  Be warned that depending on the condition of the ball, you may have to repeat this procedure 7 or 8 times before all of the oil is removed.

               The other method and last is to washy your ball in the dish washer, the thing behind this is that it doesn’t take as much time as baking and when you place the ball in the washer put on the lower rack and when the hot water hits the ball it pushes the oil out and the water washes the oil off the ball. I have used this method many times and I have seen great results. But it’s up to you.

               The only way to slow down the affect of your ball soaking up to much oil is to wipe your ball off after every shot and this will slow down this affect.

How to get rid of the 10 pin or 7 pin. When your a high power player like me you don’t leave to many 10 or 7′s. When you leave a 10 pin there are a few ways to get rid of it, but there are 2 kinds of ten pins, a weak and a ringing. A weak ten pin is when the 6 pin goes around the ten and a weak is where the 6 pin laying in the gutter next the the ten pin.

 When you leave a weak ten pin your ball is hitting to weak or not driving, now you want to slow your ball speed down or change to a higher reactive ball, by doing this your ball will hit harder and drive through the pins.

 When leaving a ringing ten pin your ball is hitting too late in the pocket or your angle to the pocket is too great, so now you want to move your line (where your playing) so your ball hooks a little earlier or so your ball gets a lower angle to the pocket.

The 7 pin is caused by your ball hitting too light in the pocket or hitting really heavy in the pocket. when leaving the weak 7 you want to move so your ball so it will hit or roll harder into the pocket, but if you leave the solid 7 you should speed up your ball or move your line so you have some more oil.

For a lefty just do the opposite .

The New Power from Lane #1, the Dynamo. This ball is another monster from lane #1 this ball can be hooked or thrown straight very easley. 

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In the Video im throwing my first Cobalt bomb pearl this ball is set up for a ton of length, watch as you can is the great carrie.

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In this video in bowling with the track Tantrum, This ball is a mid to light oil ball.

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In this video I’m bowling with 3 of lane #1 best,

The Agent Orange is a great ball it has a 500 grit surface with a double core, this ball is a monster.

The Cobalt Bomb Pearl is my favorite ball from lane #1, with ball has a strong back end with great hitting power.

The Chain-Saw has the most backend of any lane #1 balls, if you need lenght i sugest getting this ball.

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When drilling a ball you want to know your pin like how long is your pin. with a pin placement you wanna place the pin where the ball with give you the best feel, but you wanna check out the specs of the ball,

 for example i buy a Lane 1 cobalt  bomb pearl, with a 1.5 inch pin, i drilled the pin in between the finger because i know that gives me the most control but buy putting the pin there it took alot of hook off the ball and gave it backend, i bought another coblat and drilled it under my ring finger and that gave me alot more hook over all.

  So when you drill a ball try to drill it so you get a good feel on the ball, for you beginers out there.

In videos coming soon i will be throwing two new cobalt bombs, 15lbs each, with different pins placements and using the same pins. I will be showing the difference in pin placements on a bowling balls.

 If you wanna see me throw a bowling ball that you wanna buy, just leave a comment and ill try to make a video of it so you can see it before you get it. Thanks

Sanding a bowling ball gives any ball more hook.  You can sand any bowling ball you want to in order to gain more hook.

Sanding a particle bowling ball will have less length and will have a stronger, or more hook to it.

Sanding a reactive bowling ball will just increase the hook potential.