So I purchased a couple new bowling balls recently, and got them drilled and all that great fun. The two bowling balls were the Storm Gravity Shift, and the Storm Spit Fire. The Gravity Shift was drilled in a 5 x 4 layout, and the Spit Fire was drilled Leverage. These two balls create quite the pair, with strong backend, and smooth arcing hook.

Gravity Shift

The gravity shift has nice axis migration, causing a really strong roll through the pocket, however it needs some lighter oil than my alley uses to grip the lane.

Spit Fire

The Spit Fire is phenomenal. This thing hits hard and hooks beautifully, and it reads the lanes so well. I couldn't believe how amazing this ball hits. It is a strong strong powerful ball. Probably the best ball I have ever used. Not to mention it is very controllable even in the heavy oil house shot that my lane uses. Defeinitely a winning ball produced by Storm.

For my second outing a week and a half ago, I did much better, having a 3 game average of 193. Which is a big improvement over the first outing. My high game for the day was a 234. I changed the position of my pinky from bent under, to straight out which helped fix a lot of my axis tilt and axis rotation problems, and gave an overall more consistent reaction on the lane. I also fiddled with the tape some more, and found a real nice medium, that works well for me. Next up on my to do list is working on my form. It's rather dismal, and I am going to try switching to a 5 step, to help in the process.

Until next time,

Ernest