Hammer Purple Pearl Urethane Review

hallelujah we finally test the hammer purple pearl urethane or the purple hammer as it's known if you like what we do follow us on facebook instagram youtube don't forget to subscribe and check us out on patreon is it weird that we took this long to test this ball perhaps i mean it's a situation where firstly the ball's been around for a while and secondly since i don't personally throw urethane often anymore i don't go out of my way to buy these

balls for reviews there was also a time where the ebi balls were discontinued and the cost on the open market was pretty much ridiculous i know there's been a you know and continues to be i would say demand for the purple hammer and what i cannot personally do is give you context to how this particular brunswick version compares to the original hammer ebi version but i guess at this point it doesn't really matter since this is what's available so let's get into it what i see right away is the purple hammer is the more direct type shape

like any urethane ball for the most part you want to waste as little energy on side to side motion to allow it to hit down lane and carry in a way it's it's going to wind up being easier to talk about this ball relative to other urethane balls but shootout will be coming up the pearl in the urethane definitely adds a touch of push as compared to a solid urethane it will be clearer when we do that comparison video while this is a urethane ball that you expect to read early it still needs friction to respond i would say so and i

was able to get to the pocket going up seven eight a little further left and there's too much friction too early um you know urethane still reads relatively early right and this is a i would say a you know typical urethane in that it's pretty pretty easy to break the reaction what i mean is on a cliff shot as soon as you move the ball to the high volume side of the cliff the ball can easily go 60 feet if you're not careful but what i really liked is playing the direct shot

from there i had the light hit working high flush as well as the frozen rope which is really that miss in on a house shot and that really worked well you can ask this ball to move down lane but you definitely have to manipulate you know via speed and axis rotation more so you know more so than you would with a reactive ball otherwise you will get deflection uh in a way i was a little surprised that could get into the third arrow and make it work without tremendous difficulty but again that's you know

slowing it down a bit from a two-handed standpoint as you would expect the purple hammer is a great ball for my two-handed game it's obvious i'm sort of rev dominant style with medium speed since i'm crossing lots of volume getting it down lane isn't extremely difficult again that with that you know cliff type of shape but the smooth motion and response down lane really gives me great control and a wide open pocket i can wheel it away out to

the friction and get it to come back but with that urethane control versus that sort of uncontrollable really hard you know snap of reactive resin the thing i did notice is the reaction softened substantially as the test progressed to the point that i actually had to move five boards left that's to find the pocket again but what was fun was to be able to to play way more direct as a two-hander and not have to be on say like the badger pattern to do it

the good thing is i got the reaction back when i moved left it wasn't like i moved left and urethane puked like you know like it can do since you're draining more energy with more friction you know and i would say typically you don't want to go straighter once you've opened up but the shot was gone and i had no choice and so anyway it looked quite good final thoughts i would say the bottom line is i can see why urethane lovers like this ball it is on the

what i would say quote lesser side of urethane strength while remaining relatively versatile lesser meaning it offers a slightly cleaner longer look than your solid urethane shape and that change is enough to allow a bit more stored energy because it does have limited flare it does seem to sort of lengthen the pattern um as you throw it there's really no denying that um we saw it after about two games uh three games even worse i did have to move back left as i mentioned to pick up earlier friction to

get to the pocket but because of the cleaner look i was able to get it dry to drive [Music]