Ebonite Playmaker X Video Ball Review

The Ebonite Playmaker X is now available, here are the specs on this ball:

COLOR Black/Purple/Silver Pearl
REACTION Stong Mid-lane with Good Backend
COVER STOCK GB 10.7
CORE VII
Length: 24 (scale of 1-50)
Hook Potential: 39 (scale of 1-50)

The Playmaker combines two of the most popular features of recent history, the core of the VII and the cover of The One… The Playmaker is a pearlized version of the Gamebreaker. The Playmaker will provide greater length out of the box vs. the Gamebreaker while still providing a strong mid-lane roll with backend continuation.

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Remote Controlled Bowling Ball Video

Here is a funny video showing off a bowling ball that you can control from a remote. Now will this make the game harder or easier? To me it seems like a fun novility item, especially for cosmic bowling. Take a look at the Remote Controlled Bowling Ball and let me know what you think below.

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Bowling Games Being Blogged Today June 23, 2008

Wii bowling a strike with Washington seniors

Seniors at a retirement community in the suburbs of Washington have joined the video game craze, rolling spares and strikes every Tuesday on the virtual lanes of the Wii gaming console. An AFPTV report.

Re: Bowling video games

Wii bowling that’s included in WiiSport isn’t bad if you just wanna kick back with some friends, but it’s soooo easy…you don’t even have to move your arm if you can flick your wrist hard enough [This is a content summary only. …

Bowling Solitaire

SoloQuest and Bowling Solitaire are just some of the most popular one player solitaire card games. It is a game designed as a solitaire card game “where a red 9 is not placed on a black 10?. It uses standard playing cards to simulate a …

Great games for the Nintendo Wii: A New Generation is born

In Wii Sports, the controllers are used like a tennis racket, a golf club, a bowling ball launcher, and even boxing gloves. This game is fantastic fun for all ages and ages got people of the couch and moving. …

PBA Bowling Mobile Video Game

The bowling video game comes from meager beginnings. Many bowling games in the past included a lane, a ball, and frontal view of the pins. You had two controls, the speed control, and the accuracy control. …

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Ingredients for a Good Bowling Arm Swing

Arm swing direction is important because it allows you to hit your target consistently and project to your bowling balls break point. Professionals and top amateurs keep their arm swing in what is known as the pro groove.

USBC Coaching advocates keeping the swing in line with the shoulder joint of your bowling arm, varying left or right by at most only four inches.

Top players will consistently keep the ball in the groove. They may tuck their arm swing in slightly when coming forward from their backswing. This allows them to have stronger leverage and hand position at the point of release.

Regardless of your skill level, you can improve your bowling scores at MyBowlingCoach.com where you’ll have 24/7 access to video and audio coaching sessions tailored to your skill level.

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Santa Elf Bowling 7 Online Download

You can download Santa Elf Bowling right now here at: Yahoo! Games

Game Description:

Lace up your best pair of bowling shoes and polish your shiny Christmas ball for the wackiest adventure yet! The elves are up to n…

Lace up your best pair of bowling shoes and polish your shiny Christmas ball for the wackiest adventure yet! The elves are up to no good and Santa needs your help to show those crazy elves what the true meaning of ’strike’ is. It’s quirky, hilarious bowling fun just in time for the holiday season!

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Is it Called a Bowling Lane or Alley?

Although they may sound similar, a bowling lane and a bowling alley are different things. A bowling alley, consisting of several parts, is the space used for bowling. One of those parts, and probably the most important, is the bowling lane.

A bowling lane is the long plane where a bowling ball rolls towards the pins. Usually, the lane consists of long wooden boards. These boards are joined together to form a lane 75 feet long and 3.5 feet wide. The wooden plane is very smooth. Bowling lane constructors smooth each wooden board before and after they connect them together. Afterwards, they put smoothing chemicals on the surface of the lane, and also use polishing techniques. The lane also has measurements on its surface, indicated with paint.

Beside the lane, on both sides, are the gutters. When a player manages to put his or her ball in the gutter, the shit is considered a miss. Gutters are 60 feet in length, beginning from the foul line to the pins. They are usually made of rubber or plastic. Just outside the gutters are the borders which separate one bowling lane from another.

At the end of the lane, facing the player is the bowling wall. The bowling wall is where the logo of the bowling center and other advertisements are placed. Just behind this wall is the bowling machine, one of the most important parts of a bowling alley.

The bowling machine places and rearranges the pins as well as retrieving and returning the ball back to the player. While the bowling machine is automatic, it is still supervised by a bowling center personnel. After every shot, the bowling machine returns the ball to the player on the other end of the lane via kinetic energy, through a tunnel. A ball-sorting mechanism is at the end of the tunnel and it sorts the balls that are being returned by the machine.

Finally, the scores are placed on monitors located above the lanes so the players can see them clearly. The scores are updated automatically via a computer, which calculates the scores based on the number of pins hit and still standing.

The game data is calculated by a computer and displayed on monitors located above the lane for the players to see. The players also have seats and a table at the end of the bowling alley. A rack with extra bowling balls is usually placed beside the seats.

Want to learn more about bowling alley equipment…

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MoRich N’Sane LevRg Bowling Ball Review

Taking Angularity to an all new level by
making the strongest core in history even stronger and wrapping it around our all new RDX Pearl cover, ‘Nsane LevRG offers the most Radical, Dynamic, and eXplosive backend reaction
ever seen in the bowling world!

Reviews of the MoRick nSane LevRg:

In all honesty, people who have a lot a hand shouldn’t buy this ball unless they can afford to just use it on specific shots. It is an aggressive ball and I had it drilled aggressive, just to have something different in my bag. But it starts to early (on house shots), and by the time it gets to the pins, it loses energy and leaves a lot of 10 pins. I shoot 240’s the first game and the second game which is the transition game, it’s all ten pins and I barely break a deuce. Don’t get me wrong I do like the ball, but it’s a conditional ball, at least from what I can see. High rev players I would drill this ball to go long and save the energy for the backend, on the other hand I’ve watched a couple guys in my league who are strokers do very well with this ball and shoot some honour scores. All in all I wouldn’t put my money on this ball if you’re a high rev player unless you can afford to use a few balls for different shots. Not a bad ball, but I’ve seen better.

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Hammer Black Widow Bite Bowling Ball Review

Review on the Black Widow Bite from Hammer:

Featuring the High Mass Bias Gas Mask Core with Flip Block and new Violent Bite Reactive coverstock, the Black Widow Bite is what we moderately call ‘aggressive’. The Black Widow Bite expands the performance offerings in the Black Widow series by offering a stronger hook motion with more aggressive backend. Take that as a warning.

Here are some online reviews on the Hammer Black Widow Bite Ball:

Hammer Bowling’s Black Widow Bite is a Black Widow on steroids. The only thing that has changed on this ball compared to the original Black Widow is the coverstock and oh boy what a change it is. Compared to the Black Widow, the Bite needs a lot more oil. If you have a lot of hand and are bowling in a house with a lot of friction, you will have to play way inside in order to keep this ball from burning up in the front and make little to no movement in the back. For those that do not really get a lot on the ball, this ball will work for you anywhere. My Bite is drilled with the pin above the bridge, cg kicked and the MB 3 inches to the left of my thumb (I’m left handed) with a weight hole. While using this ball on the typical house shot in the track, it tended to be way over under for me, if I got it outside too quick it burned up and if I missed in, it would u-turn in the back. In order for this ball to do what it is intended to do I had to move inside with it and open up the lane. Once I got inside, I had the world, I could miss out and it’d make it back and if I missed in, I had the more push than I could imagine. Once I got to the right part of the lane I couldn’t put it down. Over all, this ball is stronger than what it is made out to be since it is similar looking to its predecessor. Make no mistake if this ball is drilled to strong, if the center you bowl at tends to hook up front or a combo of both, this ball will not make the turn it is suppose to because it is burning up not because it doesn’t hook.

I already returned my Black Widow Bite because of a crack and asked for a Twisted Fury instead. WOW the Twisted is awesome, the Bite did just that for me it bites and not in a hooking way. Did not like the roll. I still like Hammer but I like my Black Widow. Save your money on the Bite.

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Ebonite Complete NV Ball Review

Here are the detailed specs on the Ebonite Complete NV Ball:

Coverstock: Traxion Reactive 0.45
Weight Block: Spike Symmetric Mass Bias Version 1B
Ball Color: Purple/Blue/Silver Pearl
Mass Bias Rating: 0.022
Length: 23
Hook: 48
RG Differential: 0.043 (Medium) on a scale of .000-.080 Low Flare-High Flare
RG Average: 2.51 (Low) on a scale of 2.43-2.80 Very Low-High Break Point
Recommended Lane Conditions: Medium to Heavy Oil Conditions
Description: It’s Complete NV. And no wonder. This ball performs even in high oil conditions. That’s because its new Traxion Reactive coverstock and Spike Core, Version 1B work in tandem to bring better performance in the backend. So get one. Have it drilled to your specs and watch it perform. Then check out the looks you get.

Here are some user reviews we found on the Complete NV:

I know that no one is supposed to have this ball but our distributor had their seminar and handed them out anyway to some of use after the reps left. Worldwide release, what are they releasing, a Harry Potter book. Anyway, I drilled the Complete NV up like my other NV’s so I could compare them against each other. Don’t look for too much of a difference. It’s just OK. It looks like they just turned out another ball, you would be much better off just buying something a little less expensive. The price of the ball also is going up a few dollars, why, I guess because they think they can. See ya Ebonite. You need to “read” the handwriting on the wall.

I got this ball drilled going out on a limb because I haven’t liked or had success with good ol’Ebonite since the TPC Warrior, but this thing out hooks any pearl I have ever thrown. I got the recommended long n’ strong layout and that is exactly what it does. I bowled with it after my 3 game league was over and could barely keep it in the pocket, it wants to HOOK. I would recommend this ball to anyone as long as they want it to go really long and take a huge turn towards the pocket. My Resurgence has a similar drilling and close to the same surface (shined up close to the nv)and this complete nv out hooks it by feet, not boards..I’ve only shot 3 games with it and its ball motion alone may get ebonite more of my business in the future.

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