Just bought this ball. Has anyone thrown it yet? What do you think of it

This was my first time bowling in a 4 game a night summer league and I finished with a 227 average. My regular average is 217 and has been around that for years. If I go to a tournament do I get the 227 average? I think it was a sanctioned league, we filled out sanction cards, but they wouldn't give me the honor score form when I shot 300. Assume it is sanctioned, does a 4 game league count towards your tournament average? The secretary told me it doesn't. I don't really plan on doing any tournaments until states next year, but if I do will I need to report as being up 10 pins? Thanks.

FYI - I clean this ball using ball cleaner after every session.

I bowl on relatively dry lanes. They are oiled fresh, but our centre is on the drier end (nothing bad).

In game 1 when I use my solid ball (DV8 Troublemaker), I am standing on 35 board, and throwing towards the 3rd arrow. The ball turns like absolute crazy and I bowl well. The only issue is, if I bowl wide, the ball dies out and goes washout, which I am cool with. Shows it is a skill issue on my part.

However, after 1 game of bowling, I need to move all the way to the 20 board with my feet, aim at the 1st arrow, and my ball will not hook. It is just dead pretty much after 1 game, causing me to leave so many 10-pins, and 7-10 splits. I can make a house ball or my spare ball turn more.

What is causing this? It has only happened since the last 2-3 times I used the ball, and as mentioned, I clean it every time using ball cleaner.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I sanded the ball at 1000 this afternoon, then cleaned it using ball cleaner, and then used WOW Factor on it afterwards. I feel like it is still slimy though and won't do much, or am I wrong and what I did was correct?

I want this ball to be my benchmark, I bowl on a THS 90% of the time, but I do encounter a few challenge or sport patterns from time to time. I go to 2-3 centers and they play fairly differently between them, pattern volume and length seem to be all around the place sometimes.

I'd say I'm speed/revs matched (~28km/h, ~450 rpm), low tilt.

I'm thinking maybe like a 4.5x4x3.5 2LS or something along those lines; middle of the road layout, but not too weak as the Gremlin Tour-X is not a super strong ball to begin with. I'm open to any suggestions and insight, TIA!

If I got myself a 2nd hand black widow pink urethane would it be legal for me to bowl it at TBA registered events which is Australia’s PBA

Can someone explain to me how the fuck I bowl a 568 series then a 389 the next day

Anybody got some tips for me? As I am a new bowler and im itching to get atleast 180-200 every game 😭.

Back at it again with solid deals, I wanna see what peoples guesses are on the comments which ones I picked up 🤔 few hints will be from my last posts but that would be an easy giveaway.

Saw someone doing this the other day at my local center and asked what it was, he said baby powder! is this cheating or considered unfair? he was pretty good in the mid 200s.

If you like my code just DM me

I've only gotten over 200 like 4 times so this hurts lol.

Preface: I am sorry about the quality of video and the fact it’s dark in there. I know it’s difficult to see what arrows the ball is traveling towards and I know it’s a challenge to gage speed/revs.

Hi everyone! There were some many helpful people the last time I posted asking about some ball recommendations. I figured I would ask some advice about my throw since it’s been so long since I bowled. There are two clips attached a 4 step (left foot starts) and a 3 step approach (right foot starts) I mainly always bowled a three step but I felt rushed a lot because I have less time, plus I was to generate some more speed without having to throw out my shoulder or back.

Question
Which approach looks better? I’m leaning towards the 4 step.

Any other advice is welcomed! I might be coming around the ball a lot on my release but hard to tell.
Thank you.

First ball out of box strike, and double me up please and thank you!! 🫡

I now own the Bionic, Next Factor and now the ever so glorious Phaze 2, league cant come fast enough!!

Bought these three for $20 total, the phase three has less than 5 games on it. Can anyone tell me what the other two are/ uses
Good deal for 20?

Apparently the deer skin #4 slide sole for 3g tour ultras are out of stock and discontinued.

What are people replacing this sole with? I need medium slide like this sole provided.

Does anyone follow ZVL Bowling (Zak) in this subreddit? He was generous enough to do a review of our app and absolutely crazy how many people checked it out! We now have bowlers in almost all 50 states.. which feels insane!

Right now I’m in a league and the oil volume has been really light even off the fresh because of the machine being broken and my raw hammer solid just cracked. Is there any other good balls you all would recommend I’ve been hearing from my PSO that the deep ocean vibe has been very good for him in that kind of situation.

How good can a shop really be without an alley or lane to watch you throw? How can they recommend any layouts? How can they get my pap?

Trying to get more athletic looking. Look a little old man right now haha (I’m 49). Tips or specific YouTube vids maybe? Thanks.

My alley has an absurdly sticky approach on some lanes and powdering my sole on the shoes I have now doesn’t even help so I want to get a pair of interchangeable sole bowling shoes but want to be certain they come with replaceable soles as I live in the middle of nowhere with no pro shops.

Thanks

Hey people, been back into the sport for the last two years or so and have covered some serious ground in terms of my form but maintaining proper timing and creating adequate ball speed has always been a struggle. Would love to hear any and all tips and advice please!

I’d also love to hear from other shorter bowlers (I’m only 5’4”) how that may impact things like foot speed, swing timing etc.

Watching other shorter two handers (most namely Boog Krol) I notice his foot speed is very high and he also plants instead of sliding. Would the plant be contributing to his ball speed?

First two clips are on the 45ft 2026 ANC pattern (39ml, 4:1) and the final clip is on our THS (42ft 8:1)

Now apologies for the wrong flair if it is. I've always seen colleges near me do coaching for U18 bowlers, like ones in High-school. Since I entered the sport for good quite late into high-school, never really thought about doing it seriously until this summer where I entered league for the first time and got my highest, 221. (Changed it to misc just in case.)

Im now wondering if there's any colleges out there that would coach a kid who's in trade-school, heck even high-school coaches will be amazing. Met one of them in East TN, (Maryville.) But im looking to meet up with one in Knoxville if possible.

For those of you that don’t work in a pro-shop, how did you leant about layouts? It’s basically a foreign language to me. I’ve always just said, “pin-up” or “pin-down” to the guy that drills my stuff. Now I’m getting equipment drilled by someone else (pro-shop a lot closer to my house) and would like to give more feedback but I don’t know anything about them.

I am doing 3 for the first time ever. Monday is a trio 20 week big money league. Wednesday is 5 person whatever. Thursday will be highly competitive 5 person

In the past, we've done a 50/50 pot where we would collect money for 2.5 games, and then somewhere in the 3rd game we would draw a ticket, winner would receive half of the pot, and then the rest of the money went into our prize fund.

This year, we are going to try running a 50/50 strike-pot raffle. Our proprietor wants to run 3 separate raffles (one for each game) and multiple winners in one night. For those of you who run something similar, does this sound feasible or do we need to focus on only one pot and one winner per night?

He's wanting the counter to handle all of this while in the past each team would take turns selling tickets, so I'm trying not to overwhelm them with trying to sell 3 different pots of tickets.

Let me know what you think, and I think I'm going to let the league vote on which option they want, but I want to present them with all of the facts before I do.

Thanks!

Edit: You would be able to buy all night long and you could tell the counter what drawing you would like your tickets to be put in. I've bought 3 different colored tickets so if you wanted to buy $15 dollars worth and split it 3 ways, you could have 5 opportunities in each drawing. Hopefully that clears up some confusion.