Expert: Russ King - 6/1/2007

Question
Does the Tropical Storm Ball have Pros and cons?If there are,what are the Pros and cons?

Answer
The Tropical Storm is a harder less hooking reactive 3 piece ball.It is a nice back up to a high reactive high reactive ball. As the hooking one starts hooking too much, you can break out the SWtorm & move a few boards right with your feet & shoot the same line.The Storm will work great on dry scorched lanes.If your a stroker, it may work well as a spare ball.I don't think you will be able to hook it around trees even on scorched lanes but, it will do fine on a 15 to 5 line with some fingers.All Reactives skid aq bunch on oil & hook a bunch on dry snapping off the dry bump.If you dull up the surface , you get a more even arc trip to the pocket.
Reactives should be allways in a conytoled temp. No leaving it in the trunk of your car in the heat. The ball WILL ceack in the heat.
A 3 piece block is a plate weight block set just below the shell with the other 2 are sgell & core.The 3 piece goes longer down the lane before turning into the pocket.It is better for a controlled condition & a tuff spotty shot where full control is a must where a softer ball will run away on you & get you in trouble.And with the colors on the Tropical, you will never have to look very hard on the ball return for it.