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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Carry is where when your ball hits the pocket, or 1-3 or 1-2 depending on what hand you use, and getting a strike. So carry is the % of strikes you get when you hit the pocket.
How can you tell when you have bad carry?
When your bowling and you hit the pocket you leave a weak 10 pin, 7 pin, 5 pin, 4pin, or the 8-10 split. Another thing is when you keep leaving solid or stone pins. What a stone or solid pin is when your ball hits the pocket hard and you leave a pin standing that hasn’t been touched.
How can you get better carry?
There are a few ways to help you carry strikes better. When you start leaving weak pins, slow your ball speed down, rev your ball up, change rotations, change weights or change balls. When you change rotations you should know what release works better. If your release is 11-5 o-clock change it to 10-4 or 9-3 o-clock, this way your ball will drive harder.
For any more questions just mail me at henry*@*phbowling.com
Knowing the lanes you bowl on is key to bowling well.
Every bowling lane is 60ft long and is 40 boards wide. There are arrows about 15ft down the lane, the arrows are 5 boards apart, 5 from the gutter and 5 from the other arrows. The next thing is that the pocket on both sides of the lane is at the 17.5 board. The Boards are added on each side 0-20 and they meet at the head pin with is the 20th board.
OK, now if you’re league bowling and you don’t bowl on any PBA oil patterns, you should know that on any league shot, that the outside part of the lane is dry and the middle is oily. When you’re bowling you should always find out where the dryer part of the lane is.
Now on to the different types of lanes.
Now there are a few different types on lanes out there. There are wood, synthetic, wood synthetic, and guardian.
Wood lanes tend to have higher friction and faster hooking conditions. synthetic lanes will have a smother reaction, but synthetic lanes will also make it much easier to hook the ball. Synthetic lanes are easy to bowl on than wood lanes. Now wood synthetic (WS) lanes can be hard to bowl on. WS is two different lanes put together. The lanes could be the first 30ft could be wood or the other way around, by doing this the lanes make up many different reactions.
I went out and bought the lane #1 Dirty Bomb. The Dirty Bomb, how can i say this, its A BOMB when it hits. The Dirty bomb is the best ball i ever thrown in my life. The Bomb just never seems to let up, it just keeps on hitting hard.
My Favorite part about this Ball is that it hooks, and then it can go straight. Made for Heavy oil lanes this is my ideal ball for any lane condition.
On this film I’m bowling on wood lanes with heavy oil, and carry down. Watch for the Great explosion and the awesome carry.
I Rate this ball 95 out 0f 100 *****
Me bowling in little falls, MN. These are wood lanes that are hard to master and tend to have very different lane conditions from one week to another. it’s hard to avg. over 200 her but i avg a 213.
The first ball i throw is the Track Avenger.
The second ball i throw is the Brunswick Zone Classic. the Zone classic is one of my favorite balls. it’s very ease to rev up and i love to throw this ball hard and fast. It’s a very consistent bowling ball.
The Third ball i thrown is the Hammer Black widow Pearl. The Pearl is very clean threw the front of the lane and has a strong backend.
I Rate the Track Avenger, 86 out 0f 100
I Rate the Brunswick Zone Classic 89 out of 100
and the Hammer Black widow Pearl 91 out of 100
Do High performance bowling balls make a difference in bowling? there are many opinions on this subject. I’ll give you mine.
High performance bowling balls have different coverstocks than mid performance bowling balls. Some of these coverstocksare; Reactive Pearl, C4 solid Reactive, particle, particle pearl. With all these different coverstocks, the high performance balls have more options than the mid performance bowling balls. The coverstock doesn’t make up a bowling ball, it’s the combination of the coverstock and core.
High performance bowling balls do make a difference in a few ways. The first way would be that they give you more options then mid-performance bowling balls. Another way is that in tournaments where the oil patters can be hard a high performance bowling ball will be better then a mid-performance bowling ball.
Mid-performance bowling balls only give you limited options in categories such as length, overall hook, and angle to the pocket, while the high performance bowling balls will give you way more options and different looks at the pocket.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the coverstock of the bowling ball can only last so long. A way to keep your ball hitting hard and reacting the same, time and time again, is to clean your ball or balls after bowling. Another thing is that you can go to a pro shop and ask them to refinish your ball. When your ball gets refinished, they use a special oil remover to get rid of the oil that has soaked into your coverstock.
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