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Ball Review


NO HOLES BARRED


BY VERNON PETERSON { Vernon.Peterson@kegel.net }


12 New Balls, and Memories of ‘Big Jack’ Kordusky


THE HEAT IS ON.As the weather warms up, we have 12 new bowling balls to consider for your arsenal — new ones to complement one another, as well as a few to fill in their company’s line. And we even tested a couple of urethanes.


As the USBC Open Championships winds down in El Paso, Texas, we’re finding that we were


correct in discussing how flat and tough the patterns were, as the scores are drastically lower compared to those in Reno last year. Challenging lane conditions make you a better bowler, and make you focus on your spare game a little harder. Check out the reviews that follow to see which balls may fit your game on the USBC Open patterns. I would like to dedicate this column to Big Jack Kordusky, who passed away as we were writing this


month’s reviews. He touched the lives of many bowlers across the country — from New Jersey to Las Vegas to Florida. He was one of my biggest supporters when I took over this column last year, and he was one my biggest fans on the lanes, as well as a great friend. Big Jack will be missed around the bowling world.


THE TESTING:We once again tapped the talents of Terrance Reeves (a.k.a. “T”), a PBA Tour exempt player during the 2008-09 season. “T” has a rev rate around 400-rpm, and throws the ball around 18.5-mph. His axis is 4 1/2 over and zero up, and we used a 50/5/35 layout (5x4x3 in the VLS system). This is a pin-up layout for him, to see what kind of ball reaction he would get for our reviews. I used the same layout I have used for all reviewed balls thus far: 60/4.5/40 (VLS: 4.5x3.5x3). We threw each ball more than 30 times on three patterns: USBC Open Doubles/Singles, Kegel Stone Street (a heavier volume recreational pattern), and a 39-ft. lighter volume house pattern. We use CATS on each shot to track and keep records of our ball paths. We do all of our testing at the Ke- gel Training Center in Lake Wales, Fla., home of the flattest lanes on Earth. This month, the lanes were conditioned with Defense-S, using the Kegel Lane Walker. Defense-S is close to Kegel’s Ice conditioner, but breaks down so we can see a little more transition when testing on it. We also use the Jayhawk ball scanner, which provides the surface roughness (RA) of a ball and the surface’s average true original finish out of the box after the factory process.


From the June issue of Bowlers Journal International.


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