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How it all Began....

By: Karl Ramonas

I still remember sitting in my buddy Chuck's Pro-Shop in Wisconsin with every manufacturer's ball catalog open in front of me, looking for a couple of balls with a different reaction for my bag

I had books all over the place, sheets falling out, and a pad of paper with cryptic notes and page numbers scribbled on it. I was thinking to myself, there MUST be a better way.

Being a programmer by profession, I went home and spent a week extracting all the ball information from the manufacturer websites, and put it in an excel spreadsheet, this way I could just sort them by RG and Differentials, and find what I was looking for quicker.

That little spreadsheet became quite a hit, friends at the pro-shop were soon looking at it to find equipment for themselves.

 


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Columbia Pure Physics
Written by Karl Ramonas   

Pure Physics front

Pure Physics Core

Every once in a great while, a bowling ball manufacturer comes out with a ball that really changes the game. Columbia is one of the manufacturers, who over the last several years, has remained relatively quiet. Although their lineup always contained decent reacting equipment, they never really had a "Great" ball in their lineup.

That time has come to an end, and now Columbia has come out with a ball that I believe will be this years "Blockbuster".

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