From: king@ssvax.gte.com (Larry King)
Subject: Re: Well...here's my final tally on the ProHook Extreme..
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:44:03 GMT

William Walker (wrwalke@ddn-wms.nmi.com) wrote:
: 
: somehow i remember opinions like this rampant about '82 or so when
: AMF *stunned* the bowling world with this new cover material called
: (gasp) urethane...  The same thing probably happened in the early
: sixties when brunswick introduced the evil orb of plastic.
: 

  I never began using urethane until about 1987 or so because the person
I had coaching me told me that if I could bowl with a white dot or
yellow dot I could do bowl with anything.  I think that really helped
because when I did jump to urethane (purple angle I believe) it really
opened up.  It was at that point that I saw what urethane did for
bowling.  (Of course short oil didn't hurt either).  Maybe some day I
will have to invest in one of the "new" balls just to see what it does.
I still have to say I am happy with a legend yellow dot, purple hammer,
and blue hammer.  If the "new" equipment does actually hit harder than
these do then I would almost think they were packing explosives.

: 
: i love these amateurs with pro's equipment...  they are fun pickin's
: at pot games.  i would match aki damme or even steve harter against
: any local with big balls (just a pun  8-).  fortunately the pba does
: make attractive equipment offers to members to keep the scales
: balanced.
: 
: in '87 i shot a 298 with a purple angle, a 298 with a white dot,
: and an 819 set with a black knight.  four others on my pair for
: the 819 were throwing the latest in "killer" bowling balls, red
: hammers, and (shudder) blue angles.  they snickered when after two
: practice shots i buried my pearl hammer in the bag.  
: 
: i had found that the normal "stand left throw right" house shot was 
: a bit burned in the heads, and knew with all that porous urethane, 
: it would soon be completely gone.  i pulled out my track axis black
: knight (glorified white dot).  it was basically 0 weighted, 1/4
: finger, no side, no top.  i found enough head oil on 5-7 to get the ball
: down through the heads where it could ride the carry down "funnel"
: to the pocket.  the more the other wannabe's burned out their shot,
: the more they built up mine.
: 
: i shot a (4 pin in the 4th) 279, (9 pin in the 8th) 279, and a (first 
: nine, early thumb bucket, so pissed i didn't really shoot at it) 261.  
: 

I would have to guess that if you have the ability to bowl that well
with the hard stuff then today's equipment must put you up there just a
few more notches.  I was talking with another bowler recently and we
were talking about how the conditions today actually make some of the
older balls work well again.  He was telling me how he pulled an ole
slate u-dot out of the cobwebs (3 years of non-use) and it worked great.
Before hurthing my hand I had pulled out an old yellow angle (please no
flames, hurling debris, or small nuclear warheads) and actually was
pleased with the way it worked.  Maybe the new stuff does make the 1 day
a week bowler happier but listening to what most people are saying, just
getting a good rolling ball and a beer and we can have fun.
 
: 
: cheers.
: bill.
: -- 

Thanks for the input Bill.  Keep the scores going...

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Larry King
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