I asked for an explanation Michael? I believe I said "compared to what?". Exactly when you said compared to what, is when you asked for an explanation, you were asking me to qualify my statement and I believe that I did
I constantly tell others to quote me instead of making up ****. They can't. Yet when I actually do quote something that someone actually posted it is wrong. It just goes to show the mentality on here. The same people day in, day out, making up and saying whatever they want with no-one to question it. Never said what you quoted from my post was wrong, as I said, it is there for all to see, up in lights. I think you are being fairly picky, it isn't some legal argument where the turn of phrase could make a difference. The general gist is you asked me to qualify my statement, I paraphrased what you had posted, big deal, semantics really when the general gist is still the same, in reality, all I was doing in the first place was adding a possible benefit to using the Storm Tropicals as an entry level ball because (and this is fairly well known industry wide) the Storm gear is strong on the backend and is stronger than other brands. I did also say each brand has their own general characteristics and never said Storm was the strongest, just that they were stronger in backend reaction to some other brands. I am not some brainless moron who is on any particular brands bandwagon as you seem to think some people are, I have used many other brands over the years and do study quite a lot of other brands that I see other bowlers use. I am however quite comfortable bowling within the Roto Grip/Storm range of equipment. IMO and it is my opinion, I believe they have the most balanced and widest range of equipment today. Why not have a dig at Dousty too because he went against you as well by saying there are generally no bad balls on the market today?
I am terribly sorry I question the constant drone on here that holds back tenpin bowling.
I am sorry I question the attitude of so many on here that is automatically against anything that may point out where something is going wrong and they don't want to hear it. It is fine to question things as long as you provide a balanced and valid point to question, when you have little knowledge to qualify your original statement that they are rubbish, you are kind of shooting your credibility in the foot. How could anyone tell that a particular brand of ball is 'garbage' from using just one ball from their entire range? And to be honest, there are very few posts IMO where you do actually provide a balanced argument or explain your intent succinctly enough for people to not get their back up about it. You yourself have just sat here being an awesome keyboard warrior because you took exception to me not qualifying myself like the latest edition of the encyclopaedia.
If you lot are in fact those who may be able to do something for the sport then you really need to take a good hard look at yourselves. Do something for the sport instead of your own self interest. Listen to other opinions instead of dismissing them and continuing on the path the sport is on. Or, keep going the way you are and the sport will keep stagnating. There is nothing wrong with the sport that an attitude change wont fix. I may be totally wrong or completely right with my opinion but you as a group need to listen to all opinions to get somewhere. Seriously WTF? I can agree to a point that you will always have people who have a vested self interest in this sport or any sport to be honest, but I can guarantee you, I will take a massive exception if this statement is a thinly veiled address to myself. Be careful in a response if you choose to do so. But I would like you to qualify this further and give examples please. I don't recall many valid points or examples of people trying to improve the sport having their ideas shot down or being dismissed, but that is life in general, happens everywhere. Some of the best ideas have never seen the light of day. Doesn't mean people don't try or have in this case, bowling's best interests at heart.
Oops, sorry again. You didn't want to hear that either. Sorry, I don't follow.
I still say the Grenade is best ball out there at the moment for dry-medium conditions. The Grenade is a great ball for drier conditions or short sport patterns, no one said it wasn't. I use mine quite a bit in league and some tournaments. Where it falls down is when the lanes burn a little in the heads and midlane stripping the energy and backend reaction which can leave you with flat 10s or 7s depending what hand you bowl with. Urethane balls have always had a gradual motion to them, never the skid, roll, snap your neck reaction of today. A polished entry level reactive ball will 9/10 times get through the heads and midlane better everytime, it then just becomes a matter of what backend reaction you require or want. Entry angle becomes important when lanes burn out.
