Roto Grip NOMAD DAGGER Review

[John Brodersen]

 

Ball specs – 15 lbs 2 oz, 2.96 top weight, 2 ¾ inch pin.

 

The Nomad Dagger was drilled identical to a Nomad solid that I love the reaction of.  Using the dual angle method the layout is a 4 ¾ inch pin, 50-degree drill angle and a 70-degree VAL angle.  An x-hole was needed and drilled at the intersection of the VAL line and a line drawn from the grip center through the CG to the VAL line.  This would be approximately a P 2.5 hole.  Using Storm’s layout terminology the layout would be 4 ¾  by 4 by 4 ¼ .  The cover was left OOB. 

 

The Nomad Dagger is a great compliment to the Nomad solid.  The two balls are identical except that the Dagger has a hybrid cover stock.  This cover stock change allows the Dagger to be cleaner and longer through the fronts with a more angular move off the friction down lane than the Nomad solid.

 

The Nomad Dagger adds another distinct ball motion to the Roto Grip Sword line.  If you haven’t thrown a Nomad it’s definitely time to try one.

 

John Brodersen

[Rick Mitchell]

Nomad Dagger review #1

My specs: left hander, 230 plus average 3 & 5/8th and 1/16th up, 17+ plus ball speed ,bowl in several leagues in 2 counties and bowl in about every tournament locally and state and nationwide.

Layout recommendation from Mike Sinek: 60x5x65, pin to the right and lower side of middle finger, box condition and no additional weight or P-hole. Simply incredible hooking power in the back end of the lane. Stronger then a Rogue Cell overall and fits very nicely into the Nomad line, but I think a much cleaner reaction then a Nomad Pearl, which for me tends to be long and snappy. Roll an 809 series in after only practicing 4 games, did take it up to step it thru the pads to 4000AB to clean up the coverstock a little more and even look cleaner and stronger after 20 games.