" The Crisis is upon us friends. Our sport is in trouble. Many of you that love the sport, as I do, will look at the Crisis like a friend who is in trouble and needs our help. We must not shrink from the task before us, we should welcome it. It is our generation that has been called to the challenge. If not now, when? If not us, who?"
- John Davis, Founder of Kegel
thecrisis
John described the Crisis as the destruction of the balance between bowling balls and oil patterns. More aggressive balls require more oil - more oil requires more aggressive balls.
Oil volumes in many events now exceed 30 ml per lane, with oil patterns transitioning at unprecedented pace and magnitude. 'Matching up' and 'who you follow' have become the dominant factors in bowling competition.
John Davis's one-word description of the Crisis: Chaos
The SKILLenvironment
By reducing as many variables as possible, we have isolated skill and execution as the dominant factors in success and failure.
STEP 1
We used technology to create a bowling ball with significantly reduced capacity to flare and absorb oil.
STEP 2
We reduced the importance of 'who you follow' by significantly reducing oil transition. All of our patterns use less than 9 mL of oil.
SKILL3.02
Radius of Gyration: 2.67
Hardness: 80 - 82
Oil Absorption: Little to 0
Differential Radius of Gyration: 0.006
