Since getting your own ball drilled to your hand have you used a house ball since?

[NewToBowling]

Just wondering on those occasions you are on vacation visiting family and conversation of bowling comes up. Since you didn't bring your balls with you do you go ahead and just use house balls.

I'll be honest it would be pretty hard since I'm so used to the fit that a custom ball feels it would be awkward to toss a house ball with my approach as I would have to go back to thumbless.

[mc_runner]

Nope. Only time it would be an issue for me is if I flew somewhere, since I almost always have at least 1 ball hanging around in my trunk. However, I'm also not gonna roll in with a 3 ball bag for a fun night of bowling or something... just grab my spare ball and go with it.

Personally I think using a house ball, thrown straight or gripped really tight, etc would really throw off the normal approach next few times out so I'd just avoid it if I could.

[Mike White]

Just wondering on those occasions you are on vacation visiting family and conversation of bowling comes up. Since you didn't bring your balls with you do you go ahead and just use house balls.

I'll be honest it would be pretty hard since I'm so used to the fit that a custom ball feels it would be awkward to toss a house ball with my approach as I would have to go back to thumbless.

Years ago (when having only 1 ball was common) I flew into Green Bay to visit the relatives, and a cousin wanted to go bowling.

For the first game, we both used his ball, but since I beat him with it, he made me use a house ball after that.

[LyalC52]

if they want to see my serious game, or to pot bowl; they will have to wait until I have my gear

other then that, I'm game for house ball and community shoes for a fun night out with friends
swing lube is a must

[HowDoIHookAgain]

Being young, and having my ball drilled only last year, a normal house ball doesn't feel all that weird to me yet. It takes a few shots to figure out what I'm doing, but it's not that hard for me right now. I rarely go bowling on vacation, but if I go bowling with friends, I normally get stuck using a 14 pound house ball (with larger finger holes than I have) so I don't make them feel bad by having a 100-pin difference between our games.

[Amyers]

I can't throw conventional gripped balls at all and never seen an fingertip house all that was a good fit but I rarley go anywhere far that I don't bring my ball and shoes. I'm hooked i usually bowl even on vacation.

[Aslan]

I tried to work on my release by throwing a lower weight house ball thumbless.

and i still keep my old, conventional grip urethane ball in my trunk just in case I make an unplanned bowling stop.

But no, not really.

[NewToBowling]

My in laws are in NC and we visit once a year or so and my MIL enjoys bowling for fun so we usually end up going a few times while we are there. Not sure how it would feel next time as I am used to using my ball and not house balls anymore. Would just have to revert back to thumbless as I don't want to use a ball with large thumb hole where I would start gripping the ball

[rv driver]

I haven't touched a house ball since 1979. If I don't have my own ball with me, I simply don't bowl.

[Hammer]

My wife and I went to visit friends in Moreno Valley, California recently. We all decided to go bowling at an alley in a shopping mall called First Round or something like that. I decided to use a 13 pound house ball and shoes. I knew with a house ball with conventional drilling I would have to play in the dry near the gutter. Would you believe I was able to get some hook out of that ball. I cupped my wrist pretty much and uncapped at the release like I do with my own balls. First game 156 and the next was a 145. Not too bad for bowling there my one and only time with a house ball. I have been bowling for 28 years with fingertip drillings in all of the balls that I use.

[jab5325]

I have to at least have my shoes to bowl--house shoes??? Yuck.

That said, unless I have my shoes, I'm not bowling. My friends understand the issue.

We had a couple of friends visit us last weekend, and we went to the local center. The lanes were pretty burnt up. I started off OK, but once it came time to make moves, I just left it go and goofed around with them. It was a good time--I ended up getting to practice 7s, 4-7s and other weird spares, while they had a great time.

[augoat]

Just wondering on those occasions you are on vacation visiting family and conversation of bowling comes up. Since you didn't bring your balls with you do you go ahead and just use house balls.

I'll be honest it would be pretty hard since I'm so used to the fit that a custom ball feels it would be awkward to toss a house ball with my approach as I would have to go back to thumbless.

Not usually. On a recent trip out of town we unexpectedly went bowling, and I was just goofing around thumbless. After a couple less than good games, I rolled a 175 and 198 to close out the night. That's the only time in the last year since I got a ball custom drilled.

[Jessiewoodard57]

I would be real weird to me .I have not use a conventional grip since I had my first ball drilled 35 years ago.

[NewToBowling]

I have never used a conventional grip. Went from thumbless with house balls to fingertip with custom ball