Have Balls reached a point of (gimmick) OR

[The Mayor]

Every 5 years or so there will be a breakthrough in technology and a ball will come out that will change the way people look at bowling balls. The Danger Zone, Hy-Road, Shift (Virtual Gravity), VG Nano. There was reactive resin then particle then hybrid reactives and now Nano-technology. In a few years someone will come up with another coverstock that reacts differently with the lanes. Maybe a ball that has an additive that reacts one way when it's in oil but doesn't have any effect when it hits the dry back part of the lane. So yes, balls can still have breakthroughs, but more importantly when they do, people understand the game and their equipment better.

[MICHAEL]

I guess a way of knowing if the technology has has improved and exactly how much would be to look at the sanctioned league bowlers! Is there a place that shows the bowlers averages,,,,, if so,,,, can score averages for each year be found? If so it would be easy enough to look at the averages, say from 2000, to 2011, and look at the scores. I am not sure records are even kept... maybe a better way, look at the Pro's. Are the Pro bowlers averages going up at a steady rate? That should be a good way of knowing how much better the balls are getting. But then what do I know,,, I am just hungry for knowledge! Does each year show more 300 games... (( I know other factors would effect that, like decline/incline in number of bowlers)) So maybe it would only work if we
used Pro's! Those figures should be easy enough to get, and is not effected by incline/decline. I am not questioning the fact that there are many remarkable
balls out there! I just wonder if Pro averages prove it to be true, that it shows in the scores they make, OR, has it been about the same for the last 10 years.

[eugene02]

Every 5 years or so there will be a breakthrough in technology and a ball will come out that will change the way people look at bowling balls. The Danger Zone, Hy-Road, Shift (Virtual Gravity), VG Nano. There was reactive resin then particle then hybrid reactives and now Nano-technology. In a few years someone will come up with another coverstock that reacts differently with the lanes. Maybe a ball that has an additive that reacts one way when it's in oil but doesn't have any effect when it hits the dry back part of the lane. So yes, balls can still have breakthroughs, but more importantly when they do, people understand the game and their equipment better.

who knows maybe next time we'll be throwing a 5lb's ball but when it touches the lane, it expands into a 15lb ball.. no one can be too sure what will be coming out.. haha.. will be kinda interesting though..

[MICHAEL]

I think it would be and achievement just getting that machine down the lane without have it go in the gutter!! lol...(

[eugene02]

I think it would be and achievement just getting that machine down the lane without have it go in the gutter!! lol...(

full game without gutter and spare! 300's!!

[MICHAEL]

Call me old school..... but if they get to the point where the tech gets to the point where you stay at home, and use your X box to bowl at a alley in your town, by use of and Android, and he physically bowls for you, through your controler,,,, well...... ITS just gone toooooooo far!! (.... Look at the thread of billf on this site bowling with a house plastic ball 214. What a guy!!!! KING of the PINS!!! WORTH THE time to watch