Do you have more fun with heavy oil or medium oil balls?

[Ball99999]

Heavy oil/high performance balls or medium oil/medium coverstocks, possibly older high performance coverstocks..

Now that I have experience with heavy oil balls and how they create constant traction, I like my medium oil balls better. For broken down lanes they make a bigger turn at the end.

The commercials always make the high performance balls seem more fun though.

[Zothen]

If I get fresh oil THS I like to use my Defiant or Bullwhip SE! If it's broken down lanes or a light/medium oil I like to use my beserk,508A or Shout. If I want a real challenge,i'll whip out my neXus Solid and see if I can keep it on the lane.

Zothen

[noeymc]

i can use my hammer on any lane thanks to my ball speed if light oil i move left if heavy move right

[GoodGorilla]

I shoot better scores throwing strait, but wide arcing is real fun to do, but is less accurate and powerful.

[75lockwood]

More fun? no, I don't bowl in heavy oil at this point, so buying a high performance ball that i wouldn't use would be pointless..

[MICHAEL]

Having had my only 3 700 plus games lately with medium oil ball, The Marauder, including my last one 749 last Monday! I have to say medium oil ball by DV!! Sometimes more is not better!! LOlL

[scottymoney]

I have fun bowling! Who cares what equipment you are using? This is like asking if I have more fun eating chocolate ice cream over vanilla ice cream........
If equipment dictates the fun factor, I guess it is time to pick something else to do. Obviously equipment can help you bowl better but in the end you have to use it correctly.
This post seems to be pointless as so far everyone who has posted has pointed out it is about your style and lane conditions rather than the actual ball.

[Ball99999]

Well then all posts are pointless aren't they?
But no, ball type definitely makes a big difference and yes it is a big part of the fun for me.

And yah, it has to do with lane conditions that was the point.

[scottymoney]

No your original post subject is "Do you have more fun with heavy oil or medium oil balls?" Where in that subject does it mention lane conditions? You have a big problem if certain balls are fun for you. Enjoy the game of bowling not the balls of bowling.

[GoodGorilla]

No your original post subject is "Do you have more fun with heavy oil or medium oil balls?" Where in that subject does it mention lane conditions? You have a big problem if certain balls are fun for you. Enjoy the game of bowling not the balls of bowling.

Not to pick sides, but when I read the title I also interpreted it as what conditions I would use them under. Sure, I could use the wrong ball for the wrong condition, but it could still be fun. However, it seems you interpreted the title literally. The title as it reads is a little ambiguous, yeah.

[scottymoney]

Sorry I won't literally read posts anymore. I just read the word "balls" 4 times in his opening post and saw the word lanes once (referring to when they break down). I don't want to start an argument but I can't interpret lane conditions when it is never mentioned as part of the post to begin with. I see guys throwing heavy oil balls all the time in my league and we have no where near heavy oil conditions. So to interpret lane conditions is far fetched. But I now know where I side and am done posting on silly topics.

[MICHAEL]

Personally , I will only play with my own balls! It doesn’t matter which one, they each have their own unique feel, and purpose!

[GoodGorilla]

Sorry I won't literally read posts anymore. I just read the word "balls" 4 times in his opening post and saw the word lanes once (referring to when they break down). I don't want to start an argument but I can't interpret lane conditions when it is never mentioned as part of the post to begin with. I see guys throwing heavy oil balls all the time in my league and we have no where near heavy oil conditions. So to interpret lane conditions is far fetched. But I now know where I side and am done posting on silly topics.

You still read those posts? I stopped days ago.

[Ball99999]

No your original post subject is "Do you have more fun with heavy oil or medium oil balls?" Where in that subject does it mention lane conditions? You have a big problem if certain balls are fun for you. Enjoy the game of bowling not the balls of bowling.

... medium oil... or heavy oil..

anyway I don't think just because YOU think it shouldn't be about the equipment that everyone should. How many people get excited as all hell when they get new top of the line golf clubs?

[Brother_jd]

I only have one ball, so I have fun with whatever condition is laid out on the lane.

[AZBowla]

... medium oil... or heavy oil..

anyway I don't think just because YOU think it shouldn't be about the equipment that everyone should. How many people get excited as all hell when they get new top of the line golf clubs?

I'd say sure, lots of people get excited when they buy top of the line golf clubs only to then experience somewhat of a letdown when all those dollars spent doesn't magically become a stellar golf game. Same goes with bowling balls. I've been guilty of it myself - I blamed my low scores on the ball I was using and not my lack of consistency and knowledge of the fundamentals. So I went out and spent some serious coin (well for me anyway) on a new ball only to see my score actually go DOWN at first. Now that I've taken the time to go back to basics, my score is on it's way back up in a big way and now that new ball is starting to become very useful and effective.

Just like buying a Ferrari won't make me Mario Andretti, buying a heavy oil hook monster bowling ball isn't going to make me Norm Duke. But I can become a great bowler like Duke or any of the other pros if I take the same time they have taken to work on a good solid game and build on it from there. I think the equipment gets way too much blame when someone's game isn't where they want it to be. If they hold the ball out to their side in their stance, wander all over the approach during their swing and lob the ball all over the lane when they throw it, the ball is not the problem.

[GoodGorilla]

I'd say sure, lots of people get excited when they buy top of the line golf clubs only to then experience somewhat of a letdown when all those dollars spent doesn't magically become a stellar golf game. Same goes with bowling balls. I've been guilty of it myself - I blamed my low scores on the ball I was using and not my lack of consistency and knowledge of the fundamentals. So I went out and spent some serious coin (well for me anyway) on a new ball only to see my score actually go DOWN at first. Now that I've taken the time to go back to basics, my score is on it's way back up in a big way and now that new ball is starting to become very useful and effective.

Just like buying a Ferrari won't make me Mario Andretti, buying a heavy oil hook monster bowling ball isn't going to make me Norm Duke. But I can become a great bowler like Duke or any of the other pros if I take the same time they have taken to work on a good solid game and build on it from there. I think the equipment gets way too much blame when someone's game isn't where they want it to be. If they hold the ball out to their side in their stance, wander all over the approach during their swing and lob the ball all over the lane when they throw it, the ball is not the problem.

I am still personally adapting to using the right tool for the right job. What has helped me very much is trying to imagine my balls as different golf clubs. Like my heavy oil ball is like a sand wedge, I kind of think of the sharp hooking pattern kind of like how the iron on the club is the most tilted. I am not going to use my sand wedge off of the tee like when the lanes are dry. The ideologies may not be totally compatible, but it prevents me from using the wrong ball because I really want to throw the ball a specific way when the lane won't have it.

[billf]

A common misconception that every bowler I've met has made it; if it will hook good in oil, it will hook like crazy when it gets dry. I have also learned that to use the heavy balls during league I had to lose a lot of axis rotation. With full speed, revs and rotation they would, at best, cross over and that was when hooking the whole lane. Right tool for the job.