As some of you might have noticed I have added a picture of the Complete NV on my site. I bought this ball about 2 weeks ago and man do I love it. As with all the NV balls in the NV line they really don't show what they can really do until they build up an oil track in the ball. I have been struggling to get a 600 for a while now actually I hadn't had one for about a month. Some of that was due to my knee, but something was telling me that it wasn't all my knee. Tony Reyes had a one day sale and I decided to pick up a new ball. I didn't really need one all my balls seemed to be working fine but I got such a great deal that I just went ahead and bought a Complete NV. I was a little hesitant because I was not that impressed with the NVS but I loved my Total NV so much that I decided to by one anyway. And boy am I glad I did. Since I got this ball I haven't shot anything under 650, and I have been stringing strikes like there was no tomorrow. In the last three series I have bowled a 242 and 256 and a 266, for the other games I haven't shot anything under 200. And because of this new ball I have gotten a lot of my confidence back which I think was a big part of the problem with bowling lately. I still haven't bowled a 300 but I have a feeling it is on its way. I know I am a big Columbia fan and I don't see any way I will stop loving Columbia 300 but the NV Balls that Ebonite has come out with are really fantastic. Way to go Ebonite, and please keep on making those NV's.

Well I had league last night and my knee held up pretty well. I had a little pain in the second game but it went away in the third game. As for my bowling, I started off well with a 9 spare in the first which was a solid 8 pin and then strung out the next 6 strikes. But in the 8th and 10th frame left two nasty splits, one that was pretty much unmakable for a lefty and a 6 7 10 split, which I just missed by a hair. The other split was a 3 7 9 split. Got the 3 9 but couldn't get the pin to come out of the pit to get the 7. Finished up with a 219 which is a pretty good game but it should have been a lot better. The next game I fell apart. The lane broke down and I made a mistake of changing balls and not hand positions first. Normally changing balls works for me but not tonight. The ball I went to was just not strong enough to make it back from where I was throwing it and was two strong if I moved left. I changed in the 9th frame back to my original ball and flatten my hand and left a solid 9 in the 9th and struck out in the 10th for a lousy 168. But I came back in the third game with a 201 by going back to the ball I went to in the second game. And the lanes were broken down enough for me to play where I wanted to play. Ended up with a 588, should have been a lot better. The ball that I was using most of the night was the Complete NV and when they say it leaves a lot of solid 8 and 9 they weren't kidding. In one of the games I left one solid 8 and two solid 9s. The solid 8s I can maybe understand but those darn solid 9s or the solid 8s for you righty's just don't make sense to me. It looks like to me it is a perfect shot just the pins don't do what they are supposed to do. Maybe a bad rack who knows. But it definitely sucks when you leave them. I will try to post later. Good luck and good bowling.