why not

[JasonNJ]

The performance you get from an entry level is pretty great! If you're just bowling league on a THS I'm not sure why you would even need one of the top of the line balls. But it seems like there's one or two Snap-Locks on every ball return in my current league. Some people like to have the latest and greatest I guess.

Actually because everyone is throwing the latest and greatest I started going in the other direction. I bring urethane and weaker reactive balls because before the end of the first game, the oil is depleted and transition happens so fast.

[Mike White]

Today's balls hook all by themselves with no help needed from the operator.

Does anyone besides Rob believe this to be true?

[2handedsniper]

well the ball will hook if anyone threw it, but it may hook into the gutter!

[billf]

Does anyone besides Rob believe this to be true?

If it was true I wouldn't be able to throw reactive resin straight. Mo Pinel said at a conference that any ball can be thrown straight and it will go straight.

[Amyers]

If it was true I wouldn't be able to throw reactive resin straight. Mo Pinel said at a conference that any ball can be thrown straight and it will go straight.

I think Rob's intent was that modern bowling isn't aided by putting a lot of finger in the ball as we used to many years ago. I will agree that he has simplified this expression to the point that it is misleading to people who don't understand what he is talking about.

[Doghouse Reilly]

I think Rob's intent was that modern bowling isn't aided by putting a lot of finger in the ball as we used to many years ago.

+1 yes Moost of the time when Rob mentioned it, was when someone was talking about using lift or doing something similar.

He was trying to point out that todays balls didn't need the extra "help" like lift to make them hook, liike you had too years ago as you said.

Which is why I think some were always railing agianst reactive balls saying they couldn't control them and had to use only urethane or plastic. They were putting finger in the ball like they did 30 years ago.

[NewToBowling]

If thrown straight with fingers rolling up the back and getting the ball to roll end over end yes it will go straight. But generally if you keep your hand behind the ball and with proper forward motion your hand will naturally rotate (ala hand shake) and that is all it takes to hook with modern balls. I think this is what Rob is getting at.

[RobLV1]

If thrown straight with fingers rolling up the back and getting the ball to roll end over end yes it will go straight. But generally if you keep your hand behind the ball and with proper forward motion your hand will naturally rotate (ala hand shake) and that is all it takes to hook with modern balls. I think this is what Rob is getting at.

Exactly right! In order to get a reactive ball to go straight, a bowler must do something un-natural with the release to prevent the ball from hooking. This is the total reverse of "making it hook," which we don't have to do. It's more like "making it go straight."