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Top 5 Selling Bowling Balls: May 2024

Posted Jun 4, 2024 In: Bowling Balls | Hammer | Storm | Top Sellers

Featured Image As we enter June, for many of us, school’s out, warmer weather is here. It’s time for summer bowling! May was an incredible month for bowling ball sales here at Bowling.com, and as promised, we’re taking a look at all the customer favorite bowling balls from this past month! There are some familiar balls, like the Hammer Black Widow 3.0, the Storm Phaze II, and the Hammer Effect, but we have a couple of new contenders as well! So let’s get started with an exciting ball, May’s top seller, the new Hammer Arctic Vibe!..

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Top Selling Bowling Balls: April, 2024

Posted May 9, 2024 In: Bowling Balls | Hammer | MOTIV | Storm | Top Sellers

Featured Image April was a great month at Bowling.com, so we decided to recap which bowling balls were customer favorites this past month! We have to start off with a massively popular upper mid-performance ball, the Black Widow 3.0 Solid from Hammer...

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RG Values and Their Meanings

Posted May 2, 2024 In: Bowling Terms | Bowling Tips

Featured Image Now we all know that bowling balls have different weight blocks and different coverstocks to give them their own personal reaction. Now with these different materials and shapes, we get RG Values. What does RG stand for? Well RG means Radius of Gyration. (1) USBC defines RG of a bowling ball as a measurement in inches and is the distance from the axis of rotation at which the total mass of a body might be concentrated without changing its moment of inertia. Think of it like a Football. It can spin happily end over end or as a spiral. It will take longer to make one rotation at the same speed end over end than it will to rotate as a spiral, because the Radius of the end over end axis is longer than the spiral axis. So this means the end over end axis is the High RG plane and the spiral axis is the Low RG plane. The difference in those two axis RG values gives you your Differential. When you see the RG number on a ball advertised they are giving you the Low RG plane number. Now Differential is the driving force that causes track flare...

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Dominant NEW Ball: Motiv Evoke

Posted Mar 28, 2024 In: Bowling Balls | Bowlingball | MOTIV

Featured Image If you’re looking for a seemingly unfair advantage over your opponents (and your friends), you’ve found it in the Motiv Evoke! The Evoke is a high-performance BEAST that will dominate medium to heavy oil on the lanes. It’s a must-have weapon in any serious bowler’s arsenal...

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Bowling Ball Coverstocks & How They Perform!

Posted Mar 27, 2024 In: Bowling Balls | Bowling Tips | Brunswick | Coach's Corner | Columbia | DV8 | Hammer | MOTIV | Storm

Featured Image With all the bowling balls that are listed on the market, how do you choose what may work for you? We will try to break down some of the simple aspects to look for in just the bowling ball coverstock that will help your game out. First, let us mention that Five Main types of coverstocks are used in today's game. Plastic, Urethane, Pearl, Hybrid, and Solid are the common names for them. Each section of this post will break down a different type of coverstock so you can find the one(s) that are right for your bowling style...

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