Thursday, September 13, 2007

Bowling Highlights Column 9-14-07

Visionary Website
Visionary Controls Quality & Performance Of Their Equipment

Visionary Bowling Products was started in the beginning of 1997 at their plant in St. Louis, Missouri.
Although Visionary has only been around for the past 10 years, the research and development team at Visionary include a chemist, chemical engineer, mechanical engineer, production manager, and a machinist with over 95 years of combined experience in manufacturing high performance bowling balls.
John Wonders Sr. created the original "Hammer" bowling balls in the early 80's and manufacturing high quality bowling balls has been in the family ever since.
In 1997, with extensive knowledge base and experience, the next generation of Wonders (Jim, Jason and Josh) decided to start Visionary.
Unlike some other bowling ball companies, they manufacture all of their performance balls from start to finish. By doing all of the work themselves, they are able to control and maintain the quality and performance of their equipment.
Many companies do random inspections, but at Visionary every ball is checked individually for hardness, roundness, weight, top weight, pin placement, and overall quality. If it's not right, it doesn't leave the factory.
Their goal is to produce a well rounded line of equipment that will allow any bowler the ability to use at least one Visionary ball with great success, no matter what style of bowling they have, or what conditions they are bowling on. Instead of releasing a new ball every month just to have something new, they look at where they have a void in their product line.
They then research and do extensive testing to make sure that the new ball performs as desired, and is significantly different than the other balls in their line. They don't want to have multiple balls that react the same or similar enough that you can't tell the difference, and as a result they don't release a lot of new balls each year - But the ones they do produce are essential to filling out their product line.
Everyone's sure to find a Visionary ball that matches their game - from the very versatile mid-price OGRE line, to their extremely exotic high performance IMMORTAL line, and everything in between (GRYPHON, CENTAUR, & AMB lines).
To find out more information about Visionary's bowling balls, accessories, test staff program or just see all the success bowlers have had in their Honor Score sections visit http://www.visionarybowling.com/

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