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With a Radical-ly different layout to my Reax Version 2, the pearl version is outstandingly smoother (as well as being so very purple!) I wish I'd used a longer pin to PAP in the layout of this ball. Cést la vie. Even so, it's an impressive piece. It'll be a house shot monster with a stronger...

Gold! I stand corrected. Thanks Roysa!

(Read this in your best Stephen Fry accent...) Also, through the use of the word "troll", did you perhaps mean, "trawl"? :-) If not, then please enlighten us as to which meaning of "troll" to which you refer. I do hope you mean the definition referring to giants who dwell in caves in...

Sad news indeed. Thanks for letting us know, Amanda.

Congratulations Jason. You are in very rare company now to have won rookie of the year and player of the year. Off the top of my head, only Mike Aulby comes to mind with both trophies. There's any number of superlatives that would be appropriate to describe just what an achievement this is...

Too true Geoff. I heard some pretty amusing tales. Who'd have thought that TBA would knock back a lane sanction just because they were all out of level? You lot must be a bunch of pedants! :p And yes, the lane surface at Tggeranong is well... buggered. I used to bowl there every week and...

Thanks John. I've drilled some great gear this year and this one is probably the best of the bunch. Cheers, Jason

Hmmm... Another good reason for no 900 is that so many centres have "interesting" topography. With no regular resurfacing, synthetics get knocked out of plane after a while and it can be a longer while until anyone checks it, let alone does something. Ask the guys in Tuggeranong about what went...

G'Day Bowling Fans! This could be the best ball I've drilled this year. The Reax Version 2 can be stroked up the lane on the fresh and when the head oil gets depleted, you can get left with it and follow it in all night. From what I've seen, there is nowhere too far left with the Reax Version 2...

I was fortunate enough to be about filming a review when this was on and Aldo kindly asked me to play. John Velo had told me the XGames format was a blast, so I was in. Where a 10 frame game is often slow to open, this format is all out war from the very first ball! :-) It was great fun...

By the way, your opening question contains a pretty bad piece of grammar. Try "Why can people not..." to open. Cheers, Jason :-D

Brenton and John have put it nicely. But maybe folks are doing their bit to improve the appalling loss of vocabulary, syntax, spelling, reading and comprehension skills so patently evident in society today! (Hope that's concise enough...)

But seriously, I'll take a look when I get back to Bathurst. Thanks John!

Well... There is that approach too! I have been known to alter the shot I committed to mid-approach. Must be my Piscean nature! :-)

You rang..?

Now I just need to practice.

I'll target around the arrows, making adjustments on the fly longitudinally. Usually no further than the far end of the splice and no closer than about 12ft, as the change in perspective seems massive beyond that. I use three point targeting with quiet eye. (Look it up, but don't get to hung up...

P.s. look up bowling balance line drill and bowling one step drill. Lots of good resources out there.

G'Day! Good advice from roysa and Geoff. Like Geoff says, there's lots of variables here, but three things I can recommend that improve my balance immensely are letting the ball swing my arm, moving up the approach a bit like roysa says to slow my feet and imagining keeping my head steady...

Hahahaha! Cool. I was such a Rubik's cube nerd as a kid! You had to buy the original though. The mechanism was so much smoother! Speaking of which, those cubes in the vids must be lubed with Krytech or something. They spin like bearings!

Sorry Roysa! Thanks Andrew! Had a bit on of late!

So many bowling balls have gone to a watery grave! :)

A very quick comparison video of these three balls on the same lane, in the same session. Note the midlane reactions. These are very different balls! Quick notes: The Solaris Platinum is in box finish, 4½" pin to PAP. The Raging Bull Stampede (5" pin to PAP, 4" MB to PAP) with polish is now...

G’Day Bowling Fans! Platinum - rarer than gold and very useful stuff to boot. In the next 4 minutes, you’ll learn a lot about the new Seismic Solaris Platinum, it’s also very useful and being from Seismic, something out of the ordinary. Check out how many ways this handsome ball can be...

Plenty! It's a WOW kind of ball, John! It got back a number of times from places I thought it wouldn't.