Well, when you have a finger tip ball you always wanna put your ring and middle finger in the ball first, then you put your thumb in the ball.

Bowling ball weights, the weight of your ball does matter. The max weight is 16lbs and the min is 6lbs. With a 16 pound ball you wont get as much hook as you would get with a 14lbs ball. A 16lbs ball will drive harder into the pins getting better carry, but if you have a high rev rate like me then you wouldn’t really want to throw a heavy ball; instead i throw a 15lbs ball. The lightest reactive ball is only 10 pounds and that ball will hook but it wont even get you half of the carry that a heavy ball will have.

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.