What is "track" and how do I read it?

[billf]

After the first roll with my Revenge tonight I looked at the flare. It covered half the ball while the track went completely around it. Given it was the Shark pattern, low volume, I balled down. I still get a ton of flare but not that much. And this was with me attempted to take revs out of the ball ;(

[J Anderson]

it's "Flare" not "Flair"

"Flair" is A natural talent or aptitude; a knack: a flair for interior decorating. 2. Instinctive discernment; keenness: a flair for the exotica. 3. Distinctive elegance or style: served us with flair.

As for


That's not right...
A symmetrical core can flare just like a asymmetrical core can also, How much would depend on the layout and how many rev's you can put on the ball. (The more revolutions you can create, the more flare you will get.)

Most all the sym. core balls out now have 6"-"7" of flare. That's not going to look like a single oil ring!

This is why I'm not a professional proofreader.

Wow I was completely wrong. For some reason I thought it was the asymmetry of the core that caused the ball to precess. So only a ball with a pancake weight block would not flare?

[bowl1820]

So only a ball with a pancake weight block would not flare?

No even a plastic ball with a pancake weight block can flare (Though not a lot, ), depending on how you drill it and the conditions you use it on.

[got_a_300]

That's not right...
A symmetrical core can flare just like a asymmetrical core can also, How much would depend on the layout and how many rev's you can put on the ball. (The more revolutions you can create, the more flare you will get.)

Most all the sym. core balls out now have 6"-"7" of flare. That's not going to look like a single oil ring!

True very true as I have an old Ebonite Evolve that I bought back in 2011 when I first
came back to bowling that has a safety drill on it as I didn't have a PAP established yet
and it has no special drilling or weights done to it more or less a straight up label drill.

It has the symmetrical core that will flare almost as much if not as much as any of my
asymmetrical core balls do unless I take a lot of hand out of it but if I rev it up then it
will flare just like they do and even if I don't rev it up hard it still flares quite a bit.

The only time it doesn't flare a lot is if I take everything off of it and throw it with an end
over end row like you would with a straight spare ball then it may have one or two flare
rings on it.

[Greenday]

As for the effects of where your track is, the higher the track, the more the ball will grip the lane, the harder it will move. For me, my normal track is about 1 1/4" away from the thumb hole. Gives me a strong, controllable hook. When I mess up and roll a ball with a high track, the ball grabs earlier and goes high.