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.

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