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[Trex]

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Joined about a year ago, just now started posting in the forum.

About me:
started a long time ago, and After bowling for about two years and learning how to hook the ball, I finally ended up teamed up with a Pro bowler in a Pro Am one year. He bowled a 786 series and I bowled a 900 series.

We only came in 4th place but I won $250 so I was happy

The response from fellow bowlers was so bad as they were angry that after I had learned to hook the ball I was bowling better than most of them & they gave all the credit to my balls and no credit to me for learning how to adjust and how to use these new hook balls!!! I finally got disgusted and quit bowling!!

After a 10 year break my wife and I started bowling again as a means of physical exercise, and we now once again enjoy bowling. I spent a bunch of money building a new ball arsenal only to find my old balls hook more than any of the new balls I have bought in the last three years....So I am a little annoyed by that because in reality my new equipment should be better..or so I would have thought!!

That's about it.....

[PSBA10]

I know that USBC has changed some of the specifications for bowling balls in the last few years. They are attempting to reduce the "strength" of a modern bowling ball and put the emphasis back on shot making. Beginning in April of 2009 USBC required all balls to have a maximum surface porosity and roughness. In July 2010 USBC tightened up the radius of gyration spec.

Perhaps your new bowling balls were manufactured after the new requirements were in place, where it was more or less open season when your old balls were manufactured. That would explain why the old balls hook more than the new ones. Most bowlers don't have the luxury of using equipment from the late 90's. Anything they had from that era has already been used up and is long gone, and can't be replaced.