New pyramid rrbowling shoes

[chrono00]

https://www.bowlingball.com/products/bowling-shoes/pyramid/10497/mens-ra-black-right-handed.html?OrderBy=3&pagenum=2

Any reason to not get these particular ones? Always got dexter shoes before. Current pair is super glue holding half the right shoe together lol

[ALazySavage]

There are only two reasons I would go against this shoe:

(1) If you bowl at a lot of houses/tournaments you would likely want to have the interchangables
(2) If you are someone who wants to bowl in PBA regionals or other PBA related events you will not be allowed to wear them since they don't pay the fee.

[chrono00]

I mostly bowl one house and have only bowled one tournament ever lol so I’d say I’ll be fine in that regard

[hondo]

None that I can think of. Pyramid makes great stuff. Top sellers on their site and on Amazon. I use all of their products and have been totally satisfied.

[hondo]

Pyramid does make a high end shoe with interchangeable soles. I own this pair and have been totally happy with them. I've had them 3 years now and they hold up great and for a fraction of the other high ends shoes out there.

https://www.bowlingball.com/products/bowling-shoes/pyramid/12413/mens-hpx-blackblack-right-handed-new-item.html

[MajorPhoenix]

Do recommend most pyramid stuff. I usually recommend it to my newer bowlers to get them started, as well as anyone who’d like to save a little dough.

[chrono00]

Ordered them last night. Listed for 59 on bowlingball.com but same pair was 10 dollars less on amazon, and still sold through bowlingball.com. So basically if you buy it directly through them instead of amazon your getting screwed lol

[grumpter]

(2) If you are someone who wants to bowl in PBA regionals or other PBA related events you will not be allowed to wear them since they don't pay the fee.

That's a bit odd to me so I went to the PBA site to see if they listed any details on it. The FAQ lists a question of 'What do we have to wear during the tournament' which directs you to rule 13 and 14 of the rulebook with a nifty link that leads you to a PDF that has one sentence... 'The PBA Rulebook will be posted soon'. Well that wasn't helpful.

[bowl1820]

That's a bit odd to me so I went to the PBA site to see if they listed any details on it.

Okay basically it's like this if you have a bowling product and you want it seen on PBA telecasts or at a PBA tournament (advertise it on their shows and such) you have to register it with the PBA first because one of the PBA rules is Products (such as Balls, Shoes, Logos etc.) have to be registered with the PBA to be used in their competitions.

from the PBA FAQ's
What is product registration?
The PBA owns the exclusive right to regulate the use of its name, trademarks and logos. The PBA will provide opportunities, in the form of licensing and sponsorships, for companies to promote and display their products, product names, trademarks and logos to consumers. Companies that desire to take advantage of these opportunities must first register their products with the PBA, so that these products might be cleared for use in PBA competition. A current list of product registered companies can be found here: Product Registered Companies. This list is also posted at every PBA tournament. Basic rules:

1. Competitors may not use any non-registered bowling products in PBA competition.
2. Competitors may not use a non-registered bowling ball in PBA competition. Failure to comply will result in immediate disqualification.
3. Competitors may not display non-registered company names and/or product logos in PBA competition.
4. Competitors may not darken or in any way obstruct any product registered logo


Now that registration costs a bunch of bucks $$$$$ a lot of companies don't want to pay it. That's why you haven't seen LANE #1 balls in a long time on the PBA, They didn't want to pay, so their balls were no longer legal to use and they got kicked to the curb. (Lane #1 is now out of business.)

Last I heard Pyramid was working toward getting their balls on the list at sometime in the future.

[bowl1820]

Pyramid does make a high end shoe with interchangeable soles. I own this pair and have been totally happy with them. I've had them 3 years now and they hold up great and for a fraction of the other high ends shoes out there.

https://www.bowlingball.com/products/bowling-shoes/pyramid/12413/mens-hpx-blackblack-right-handed-new-item.html

The hpx shoes are good they are the tpu-x's that were made for brunswick just rebranded.






















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[grumpter]

Sheesh but about what I expected to see. I'm not a fan of the policy and they lose my respect on that one.

[ALazySavage]

Yeah, it is a little annoying. Since I was throwing a sanded Pyramid Curse (won from this site) as my benchmark ball at the time and had a Jet Blackbird (buddy used to be on staff with them before going to Brunswick) as a spare ball I passed on two PBA regionals in the area since I didn't want to punch up two balls and pay the premium, non-PBA member price.