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Hy-road and Mutant Cell sold. Red Zone, Dimension and Nano Pro Pin still available.

Hi Paul, Alas, Mutant Cell just went! I won't be at Nationals. Currently working in Canberra every second week, so enjoying being at home when I can at present. Have PM'd re: Hy-Road. Cheers, Jason

Seismic Solaris Blackout is now sold. I should mention that all this equipment has very low games. I never say a number. (does anyone really count them..?). :) Cheers, Jason

My pleasure. Another very old post, but if you're a drawing kind of guy, this'll make sense. Your Positive Axis Point is the axis or centre of your first rotation. These days, I use an AMF Armadillo to do this much quicker, but very few pro shops have them...

G'Day Bowling Fans, As many of you know, I have way too many bowling balls, so some just have to go. All of these balls (bar one) are first drill with no balance hole. They have all been cleaned after every use and resurfaced using Abralon or Siaair pads on a Haus Resurfacing System. They...

Jeez Neil, the lengths you'll go to to get out of a drinks frame! You're tighter than me! :) Well done boys! Shaun started the next game of league with the front 10 for 288. A 22 bagger and almost back to back 300's. He had another 300 in practice earlier that night with another ball while he...

There's not that much point in sanding a plastic ball, low response cover and usually with a very low diff core. And a trap for young players; You can take a ball out of round pretty easily. And yes, that will stuff it! You'll need a Haus Machine to get it back then, so gently, gently...

Well done Daniel! I was thrilled to receive Dad's text in Cowra on the way home. Dad should share some credit here for cleaning his gear. I'd just christened Daniel "dirty balls" too..! Something for everyone here; Maintain your gear and carry more corner pins. You can work out what carrying...

They're making some good kit. That's an interesting comparison and not far off the mark. I finally worked out just what this ball looks like on the lane when a customer rang me up with her beloved Storm Eraser Ragin' Banshee getting a crack in it. She was after something that rolled just like...

I don't know about a Fire Road on carry down. Almost unbeatable when the fronts go and you need to get left though, as it covers some serious ground at the back - fast. To answer Toon, mid range gear generally doesn't flare as much (medium diff cores). The narrower flares conserve core torque...

Statistics that are manipulated can support anyone's argument. (In a previous role, I provided operational management information analysis at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, but don't in any way claim to be a statistician.) Michael's Q&D analysis looks pretty sound to me at first blush...

Been reading Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people", have we..? :-) No, that would be that great little independent house with timber lanes that haven't been destroyed through neglect and the really good Asian restaurant upstairs where they actually give a flying *%@& about...

Good stuff there Toon! An excellent introduction into laying out a ball and what your pro shop guy is doing drawing all those lines on it!

Hmmm... It takes hours over days to review a ball. First you really need to play with the thing on a couple of conditions, preferably on different surfaces. Then play with releases, angles, the surface. Follow that up with comparable pieces to give some perspective. Sit down, review your notes...

Hell, even I beat one of 'em! :D As Adam Goldberg said to me today, "Not bad for a bloke who doesn't bowl!" Belmo was really on his game. I never saw Dom throw a shot, so can't comment on that, except to say that everyone has a bad one now and then.

Good points, but the one in bold is not always true if you have a high rev rate. For example, Chris Thomas averages more in tournaments than in league. His league house is so walled up that if he misses right, his ball will over-react and miss left and often vice versa. I had a very similar...

The simple answer is "unblock the lanes." Like most simple answers, they don't take into account the complexities of the problems faced. So many houses have had such outright cheating blocked conditions laid for so long that the outside 9 boards of the panels are now glazed. Put oil on that...

I've reflected lately that a typical 10 board blocked lane, sorry house shot. No, not sorry; blocked lane has half each side dedicated to missing outwards with the other half dedicated to missing inwards. Because the drop off in oil concentration is so severe, it's subject to the greatest...

12½ minutes - The average time between signing an "Authority to Leave Freight" letter before heading out, and the courier turning up at your doorstep to drop the box off before you get distracted and make it out the door. Oh well, my washing is hung out and my freight is indoors! (A good...

I just started typing my password as "hahahahahahahaa!" after reading that! Gold! But you're right Michael, as long as folks have fun. :)

It's a pretty handy piece, John. Poured by 900 Global, so easy to drill as well. All the stuff out of their factory (900G, AMF, Lane#1 and Radical) is a pleasure to work with. You have to slug them though. Their fill material between the core and cover is a tad gritty! :)

The Torrid by Radical Bowling utilises the core from the legendary Track Heat, wrapped in a traction mica pearl cover. (I could stop the review right there for some of you, couldn’t I..?) People loved the Heat series and everybody’s had a particle pearl or traction mica pearl ball that was solid...

First off, I’ll say that this is a very good looking ball. Especially if you like blue and pretty. The colours are rich and inviting and that always helps pro shop sales. The Slant HD is a new offering from Phil Cardinale’s Radical Bowling. The ball uses a higher differential version of the...

Entry paid in full via Internet banking. Westpac to Westpac, so you should see it tomorrow. (Fingers crossed.) Sorry I didn't pay sooner, (been a bit busy buying and selling houses!) Looking forward to this one. Cheers, Jason

I second that. The number of people I have helped out of pain which they thought was "normal" is large enough to make me realise that we've lost a lot of players to badly fitting equipment. I must only be seeing the tip of the iceberg. (Not always some driller's fault either - often somebody...