About Bowling Ball Care

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Kenny Shoulars, house pro at Ten Pin Alley in Wilmington, North Carolina. Today we're going to talk about bowling ball care. Years ago it used to be easy because all bowling balls were made out of black, hard rubber so taking care of them was no problem you just wipe them off with a dry rag and you were good. Today's bowling balls, reactive resin balls are highly porous and what they do is when you roll the ball down the lane they get a lot of grit and a lot dirt inside the pores of the bowling ball and you want to make sure you get that out of the bowling ball. What we do is we take the ball and after you get done bowling it's very important to spray a cleaner that's appropriate for the kind of ball you're using and just wipe it down and make sure you do that after each bowling session. And then you put the bowling ball up in your bowling bag. Another thing you want to do is you want to make sure you keep the surface of the bowling ball very, very smooth. If you're bowling on a wooden lane, the ball's going to get a track around it and you want to make sure that track is taken out of the ball so maybe every three or four months you want to take the ball to the pro shop and have them resurface the bowling ball, have the operator resurface the bowling ball. Maybe every 20 games take it to your ball pro shop operator and have them put it on the ball spinner and restore the shine back on the bowling ball like it would be at the factory. Another thing you want to keep your ball in a climate controlled environment. You don't want to put it in the trunk of your car or in your garage because it expands and detracts with the heat and the cold. So the best thing to do if you got a locker at the bowling alley is to store the bowling ball in your locker. And that's the best way to care for a bowling ball."