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bowl1820
10-27-2012, 08:01 PM
The ball went through the traditional skid, hook and roll phases, but then began to backup and fade to the right.

http://usbcongress.http.internapcdn.net/usbcongress/bowl/equipandspecs/videos/StaticWeightVideo.wmv

This from the 2011 Static Weights Study

Davec13
10-27-2012, 08:24 PM
That was interesting. Do you know what ball that was by chance?

bowl1820
10-27-2012, 08:35 PM
That was interesting. Do you know what ball that was by chance?

From what I read the balls they tested were ones specially made for them to run the tests with. It's not a off the shelf ball.

Davec13
10-27-2012, 08:45 PM
So they were just prototype core designs tests then?

bowl1820
10-27-2012, 08:49 PM
So they were just prototype core designs tests then?

No they were tests for the static weight study. The ball wasn't made to do that, they discovered it in the study.

Read here:
http://usbcongress.http.internapcdn.net/usbcongress/bowl/equipandspecs/pdfs/2011StaticWeightsStudy.pdf

Davec13
10-27-2012, 09:02 PM
That was an interesting read. I liked the damaged ball at the end. I bowl with above ground returns, that could be a fun night if the balls would jump off the return at any point. ;)

Mike White
10-27-2012, 09:20 PM
The ball went through the traditional skid, hook and roll phases, but then began to backup and fade to the right.

http://usbcongress.http.internapcdn.net/usbcongress/bowl/equipandspecs/videos/StaticWeightVideo.wmv

This from the 2011 Static Weights Study

This is like the study that determined that peanut butter causes cancer.
Feed a lab rat enough peanut butter, and bad things will happen.

Here they had a ball with so much side weight that it jumped the track in the ball return.

bowl1820
10-27-2012, 09:31 PM
This is like the study that determined that peanut butter causes cancer.
Feed a lab rat enough peanut butter, and bad things will happen.

Here they had a ball with so much side weight that it jumped the track in the ball return.

I think that was point they were trying to make.

"that if the current USBC static weight limits were eliminated or increased, the typical three-phase motion
of bowling balls as they travel down a lane (skid, hook, then roll) would be significantly altered.
A fourth phase of unpredictable motion begins to occur that would cause problems for bowlers
and pro shop operators leading to an undesirable effect on the lanes"

Brother_jd
10-27-2012, 10:29 PM
if i could just get my ball to do that for some 10 pins.

bowl1820
10-27-2012, 10:35 PM
if i could just get my ball to do that for some 10 pins.

if you read study they mention that, they don't you to be able to do it.

AngeloPD
10-28-2012, 02:49 AM
can anyone embed the video? i cant seem to watch it on my mac

Mike White
10-28-2012, 09:38 AM
can anyone embed the video? i cant seem to watch it on my mac

It worked fine on my mac.... well it fired up VMware, WinXP, and finally Media player... but it worked.

bowl1820
10-28-2012, 10:02 AM
can anyone embed the video? i cant seem to watch it on my mac


Download the Mac version of VLC media player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

AngeloPD
10-28-2012, 02:07 PM
thanks for the link bowl1820! got it to work