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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: earlyrolling on May 23, 2017, 01:46:48 AM
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I was perusing balls online recently looking for a ball with a pearl cover and a tall, skinnier core, for a more true skid-flip motion. The only ball I saw that fit that bill was the yet-to-be-released Honeybadger. Why are all the cores these days fat, pudgy things?
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I was perusing balls online recently looking for a ball with a pearl cover and a tall, skinnier core, for a more true skid-flip motion. The only ball I saw that fit that bill was the yet-to-be-released Honeybadger. Why are all the cores these days fat, pudgy things?
Fat pudgy things lend themselves to lower rg ratings, and those tend to make the ball smoother and "rollier" than tall cores do. Smoother and "rollier" lends itself to predictability, which many bowlers prefer over the skid/snap reaction you can get with higher RG ratings.
The ballcos make whatever they think will sell in bigger numbers. Right now, it looks like fat, pudgy cored things are in fashion for the most part.
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The low RG cores rev up easier than the taller ones, which is usually a safe bet with the masses.
I'd say that my Quantum Fire Pearl would qualify for what you describe, it doesn't rev up as easily, and thus saves a bunch of energy for the last half of the lane.
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There aren't too many nowadays. As much as I like low rg cores, on house shots taller and/or light bulb shaped cores have been money for me.
My recommendation would be to look at light bulb shaped cores and also cores that are wider at the top and get skinnier at the bottom
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With that core shape, I like the Boosts out of what's in production right now. I have a pearl drilled 5*35 with no hole and it gets down the lane just fine. If you could find one, the reactive Hypes were great cores too.
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I'd like to see the Pitch Core with a reactive cover.
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I would think the Paradox series from Track would be what your seeking. I dont know if they are going to be discontinued or not but they have the taller I-core.
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I believe the Freestyle and Freestyle Rush from Motiv fits the bill too. Not sure how strong of a ball you're looking for though.
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Just get a Hy-Road Pearl. Shapes on the lane like the style of core you're looking at and it's a pearl.
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Higher RG + Pearl can easily translate into a ball that can be sensitive to oil.
The Brunswick Fanatic is one of the flippiest balls that I've thrown. Its a high RG/higher diff pearl that even as a pin down is too much for me at the breakpoint on most patterns.
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For hell of it listing the highest RG pearl balls I found in my 30 sec search (not an exhaustive list but fairly complete).
Storm Street Fight 2.62
900 Global Desert Hook 2.61
Jet Pilot 2.6
Motiv Freestyle Rush 2.6
Motiv Primal Impulse 2.6
Columbia 300 Deep Freeze 2.59
Motiv Ascent Apex 2.59
Motiv Ascent Apex Pink/Green Pearl 2.59
Motiv Ascent Pearl 2.59
Motiv Freestyle 2.59
Motiv Recon RX1 Silver 2.59
Roto Grip Unhinged 2.58
Storm Joy Ride 2.58
Storm Wise Man 2.58
Track 400A Special Edition 2.58
Track Tour X 2.58
Brunswick Strike King 2.578
900 Global Wisdom Red/Silver 2.571
900 Global Desert Ops 2.57
900 Global Rip It 2.57
Radical Slant HD 2.57
Roto Grip Bandit 2.57
Roto Grip Loco Pearl 2.57
Roto Grip Scream 2.57
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If you can get a Jet Pilot, do it. It's basically a 900 Global Link and that weight block is the bomb on the friction.
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On the plus side, I just found a new way to describe myself on a dating profile: "Low RG". That's way more appealing than calling myself a "fat, pudgy thing." Thanks! ;D
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Just a thought, but in recent times, the shape of the core seem to have much less to do with the ball's reaction than it used to. I've seen plenty of tall, "thin" cored balls have a smooth reaction, plus I've seen plenty of round-ish cored balls have a flippy reaction.
While the standard still holds, "70% of a ball's reaction is determined by the coverstock/surface", other than the bowler,'s portion of the "blame" for the ball's reaction, a ball always equals cover + core. Besides that, one can always influence the ball's designed-in reaction by using drillings, including pin-PAP distances, VAL angle and Drilling angle, as well as the surface preparation.
So, in summary, I'd worry more about the basic design of the ball + your own style of bowling much more than I'd worry about the shape of the core.
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Thanks all for the feedback. I had assumed that taller cores would naturally allow a ball to retain more energy than a fat, pudgy core (all else being the same). Was looking for a pearl that would work well playing tight deep on a medium volume, long pattern so ball would tip (with quick transition layout) with enough angle to carry.
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> Was looking for a pearl that would work well playing tight deep on a medium volume, long pattern so ball would tip (with quick transition layout) with enough angle to carry.
Granted its pricey but for a symmetric pearl few balls go deeper and turn harder than a Scandal Pearl (medium to heavy oil conditions). Being a symmetric core in theory its break point should be a bit easier to control than say a Snap Lock (disclaimer personally never thrown a Snap Lock, but pretty much it along with the Tyrant Pearl are the ultimate skid flip balls for medium to heavy oil). As an earlier poster said maybe the Quantum Fire (medium conditions specialist) is something to look into as well (though that ball is pricey as well). If looking at mid cost stuff awful tough to beat some of the storm balls imho especially for medium and THS conditions.
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Another ball that would work is a Dark Matter. Get them on clearance now too!