What to Look for When Buying a Bowling Ball

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Kenny Shoulars, house pro at Ten Pin Alley at Wilmington, North Carolina and today we're going to talk about what to look for when buying a bowling ball. The first thing you want to consider is exactly how much bowling ball you can afford and also exactly what your skill level is. It doesn't make sense if you are a 120 average bowler to buy a $250 bowling ball. So in a case like that and you are just learning to bowl then you probably want to select one of the lower end polyester balls and that would be really good to learn the basics with. If you are a higher average bowler around 200 or exceed 200 then you'll want to look at one of the higher end bowling balls. These start around $180 and go on up to about $240. A lot is determined exactly what you're looking for at this bowling ball and that is what kind of lanes you're going to be bowling on. Are you going to be bowling on wooden lanes or synthetic lanes? How hard do you throw the ball, how heavy the bowling ball is and what your skill level is and all those combined with information that you get from your pro shop operator will help you decide exactly when you go to looking for a new bowling ball and that's what we look for when we are looking for a bowling ball."