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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: stormed1 on October 25, 2019, 12:31:21 PM
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WWRD 12/13/19
Phaze III
COLOR: Obsidian/Jade/Orchid
FRAGRANCE: Grapevine
COVERSTOCK: R3Sâ„¢ Hybrid Reactive
CORE: Velocityâ„¢
FINISH: 1500-grit Polished
REACTION: Medium Length w/ Backend
LANE CONDITION: Medium to Heavy
WEIGHTS: 12-16 lbs.
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Happy early Christmas to me.
I've stuck with the Brunswick brands for the most part but I want this
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I am ready to order
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That's a great color scheme for a ball.
Question! What's the difference between R2X and R3S covers? R2X always treated me well, but I've never thrown R3S anything.
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@ SVstar34,
LOL! I feel you on this one.
I am a Storm, Roto Grip, and Radical fan. And I am just as excited as anyone when they all release new equipment. However, due to the fact that I can’t afford to buy every single ball that comes our way, I have to pick and choose carefully when it comes to the new stuff.
It also helps me and my pockets that my admiration for Radical is slowly diminishing because they are not as “innovative†as they used to be now that they are under Big B’s umbrella. But my other favorites, Storm and Roto Grip are starting to cause me some “issuesâ€. LOL! :D
On release day for the Gravity Evolve and All Road, they announce the PHASE 3!! WHAT?!! Come on man! I haven’t even gotten the chance to go to the pro shop to put my hands on the Evolve and you do this to me! LOL. And to top it off, Roto Grip announces the Wild Streak and the MVP Pearl!
Since I loved the Wreck-Em, the MVP Pearl has my name all over it! I can’t do the Wild Streak because those “nugget†balls like the Hy-Roads and the old Ceramicore balls never really worked for me. But dang, five good balls in less than two months?!... How does a man choose?...
Wisely, my friend. Choose wisely. LMAO!
(That Big B. Prism Hybrid looks good, too. Too bad I can’t use them all. :D)
I sure feel sorry for the staffers… LOL! :D
Dueces!
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That's a great color scheme for a ball.
Question! What's the difference between R2X and R3S covers? R2X always treated me well, but I've never thrown R3S anything.
Intense balls had R3S. R3S is stronger but not a lot I don't think. Anyway seen a newer chart with SPEC at top but this isn't a bad one - http://www.bowlingboards.com/threads/19901-Storm-Core-and-Cover-strength-chart
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This ball has to happen for me. Very interested.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1BXehCUBXY
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Wow, did you read the $%^&* comments on youTube? "Soft transition", "not going thru the pins"... Unreal. I see a stroker coming back from 7 and exiting thru the 8 pin... We must not be looking at the same ball.
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I’m horny and my trousers are around my ankles.
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I’m horny and my trousers are around my ankles.
Someone needs to show Storm this thread. Consumer confidence is high on this release compared to the SPEC covered balls.
Not saying the SPEC balls don't have their place but this looks like a money maker
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Whats a SPEC ball?
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Any of the Storm balls with the new SPEC coverstock. Crux Prime and Pro Motion currently....
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And the Gravity Evolve has the Spec cover too.
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A shiny ball with a big sym core is going to be better on a house shot than a smooth solid on a house shot??? You don't say . . maybe Storm should just discontinue the IQ Tour and all their solid non-house shot balls and just release stuff that goes 45 feet and turns sideways!
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A shiny ball with a big sym core is going to be better on a house shot than a smooth solid on a house shot??? You don't say . . maybe Storm should just discontinue the IQ Tour and all their solid non-house shot balls and just release stuff that goes 45 feet and turns sideways!
I totally get where you're coming from, but they could use another strong, flippy hybrid in the premier for the people that want a boomy premier ball. #RIPIntenseFire
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A shiny ball with a big sym core is going to be better on a house shot than a smooth solid on a house shot??? You don't say . . maybe Storm should just discontinue the IQ Tour and all their solid non-house shot balls and just release stuff that goes 45 feet and turns sideways!
I think my words got a little misconstrued with comments after mine since I wasnt very specific.
The Phaze 3 looks like the "typical" Storm release of recent times where we'll see this ball everywhere.
Unfortunately, the SPEC cover hasn't been that impressive to me. The ProMotion has definitely looked the best of the bunch to my eyes. it looks to fit in between the Phaze 2 and IQ Tour, where if you didn't have either of those it'd be a great benchmark option.
Personally bowling mostly sport league and tournaments, I could see myself covering majority of conditions with 4 balls.
Sure Lock/Halo Vision
Phaze 2
Phaze 3
IQ Tour
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A shiny ball with a big sym core is going to be better on a house shot than a smooth solid on a house shot??? You don't say . . maybe Storm should just discontinue the IQ Tour and all their solid non-house shot balls and just release stuff that goes 45 feet and turns sideways!
I think my words got a little misconstrued with comments after mine since I wasnt very specific.
The Phaze 3 looks like the "typical" Storm release of recent times where we'll see this ball everywhere.
Unfortunately, the SPEC cover hasn't been that impressive to me. The ProMotion has definitely looked the best of the bunch to my eyes. it looks to fit in between the Phaze 2 and IQ Tour, where if you didn't have either of those it'd be a great benchmark option.
Personally bowling mostly sport league and tournaments, I could see myself covering majority of conditions with 4 balls.
Sure Lock/Halo Vision
Phaze 2
Phaze 3
IQ Tour
Incomplete.......there’s no idol pearl or hyroad pearl
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Incomplete.......there’s no idol pearl or hyroad pearl
I dont matchup with the HyRoad (inverted Fe2) core for whatever reason. Had a Hyroad Pearl and didn't like it. Give me the booster core from the Rocket series.
I'd probably go with the MVP or MVP Pearl at this moment.
The 4 I listed are just based on what I've used the most the past couple of years on tougher conditions
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The entire line has gotten really early and smooth. The two strongest shiny balls we have right now are the Astro and IQ Emerald, so yeah, Chad knows what needs to happen now. BUT there's also the tried and true stuff that isn't going anywhere like the Hyroad, Phaze 2, IQ Tour, etc., and the idea is that newer stuff is going to create more of a difference inside each individual line so they can allow the older stuff to breathe and exist in a space of its own instead of directly replacing and discontinuing stuff. This has all been set up. Phaze 3 replaces nothing, so nothing has to go. Next Premier line ball is definitely going to be a strong, flippier shiny ball. We're due for a hybrid, but the PhysiX is still going strong and it would be a real shame to release something too close to it and nudge it out, but we also have a pretty angular ball in the Astro. R3S Hybrid PhysiX or maybe even a new Lock, but whatever comes out won't be like anything else in the line. We'll get back to some stronger more angular stuff, but all the stuff that's already there will be able to stay there.
Plus there's also some consideration there in not stepping on the toes of the other company's stuff. Roto has some big wheels in their line right now with the MVP, the upcoming MVP Pearl, the Idol Pearl, and the Halo Pearl. They're paying attention, trust me.
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I see the SPEC non-love.... but i see a lot of people using them. Some are polished, some are strokers playing deep swinging from deep in the oil on a THS, but i see them out there....