Roto Grip Idol Helios Review

oh that looked perfect welcome back to jr pro shop vids today we have jungle throwing the new idol helios so i swear i've seen this color on a bowling ball before i realize looks a lot like a house ball eight pounds

really excited to see this ball review for those of you who don't know the idol is junk's favorite ball of all time and it's one of my favorites too so if he makes the ball look good i might have one of these helios coming my way so the helios here has the same icon core found in all the other idle balls but this ball here has a brand new cover stock in the extreme tracks solid reactive cover so because of the brand new blend i'm expecting it to hook a little bit earlier and maybe just a touch more overall when compared to the original

idle here so for a fair comparison both of these balls are laid out the same 65 by 5 by 25 this is jung's standard layout for all symmetrical balls so we should get a really really good comparison we have two patterns for jung today the first one 42 foot carbon we use it quite often it's 10 to 1 ratio super easy very similar to your regular house shot i expect these balls to be really really good on the fresh especially on the house shot jung's gonna be able to miss right have the ball hooked back miss left have a little

bit of hold so i think these are really great benchmark balls and i'm excited to see how they roll so on the other lane we have 40 foot mercury a challenge pattern so a little bit more difficult again i think these balls are gonna be really really good on the fresh and i'm excited to see how jung kind of controls his break point and the shape of the ball down lane i think that's enough talking for me let's head out onto the lanes and see what these balls really do [Music] [Applause] [Music]

what's up everyone jungle is back brand new idle helios from roto grip [Music] uh going to replace the idle i'm assuming solid cover nice bright orange it's actually brighter in person than it is on on the computer screen so i kind of like that we're gonna blow in the house shot here first uh really dry on the outside oily in the middle uh probably something this ball

is going to look really good on so let's test it out first shot let's stand on 28 here and 17 18 at the arrows out to about 10. yeah that ball is really good i think it's stronger than the original idol for sure just based on a couple shots i've thrown in warm up and whatnot i missed a hair left there held its line really good went through the pins really strong so let's stay in the same spot there and get it out to the right a little bit more let's see what happens 28 let's hit

17 or 16 here again really good shot just uh wrap the 10. we're just going to slow it down a touch on the last shot left the tent in there these kind of balls like the symmetric solids probably really good on health shots because they they do blend out that high ratio of 10 to 1 12 to 1. yeah much better move a little bit right and gas the speed up a bit let's see if

we can maintain that really nice shape into the pins much earlier than the original idle i think the magenta so we're going to catch the drive boards a little bit earlier so we're going to have to amp the speed up here all right not bad hit my mark we're just gonna have to gas the speed a little bit more to hold its line since we're hitting the dry boards a little earlier really liking the solid color can't go wrong with that all right a little bit more speed

yeah since it touches the dry a little bit sooner just a little bit flatter off the spot probably not the ideal place to play on this pattern let's go five more to the right ultrasonic speed yeah it still maintains its shape pretty nice actually hitting the drive boards a little bit sooner definitely good when you're playing on house shots play all over the lane blend the pattern out pretty nice all right let's go back to the original line original idle [Music]

brought back to box it's got a zillion games on but uh still reacts really good [Music] wow definitely later and sharper the new idol is definitely earlier and smoother for sure let's fill the original idol again we're just going to move two boards to the left though original idol is definitely stronger

down lane brand new idol brand new cover stock made by roto grip feel like it's a little bit stronger than the original idle therefore you get a little bit earlier roll a little bit smoother roll you're able to play a little bit further right with it let's throw this on the same line i just struck with the idle and let's see if it can corner down lane as well [Music] yeah it definitely is smoother i missed left with that one just a hair and it went dead flush like the idle which i got a little bit further right and it definitely had a little bit more kick

down lane so very very similar but i can tell the new cover stocks a little bit earlier a little bit smoother rolling much better for the fresher conditions all right let's go five more to the left and let's see how it performs [Music] yeah definitely doesn't have enough gas to get back from there so let's uh slow it down a touch and increase the axis rotation get around a little bit more have a corner down lane

even with a little bit slower speed on the increased axe rotation still just a little bit light from there so i think this is a perfect spot for the original really good i even throw that one a little bit hard and it still made the corner so if you have an idle it's getting really old lots of use the new oil is gonna fit right in there all right five more left the slow wheel see if we can hook down

almost not quick so if you're getting super deep super left gotta make the big swing out i definitely gotta change balls okay same line with the original idol we are now standing on 40. yeah definitely more kick down lane with the idle all right let's head over to the challenge shop mercury all right halfway through the vid question time with jungle since we're throwing the idols i want to know who's your idol bowling pba any sport doesn't matter any

person me personally i grew up liking chris barnes a really smooth player was on tv a lot and that's what i looked up to that's who i tried to model my game after so let me know down in the comments who's your idol all right we just got finished pulling on the house shot over there saw how the ball reacted really nice really even and smooth let's take it to something a little bit more difficult 40 foot mercury pattern i think these balls really shine on so i'm gonna start a little bit further right on mercury than i did on the health shot just because the oil is a little bit evenly spread out a little bit more across the lane so

let's start on 23. [Music] pretty lucky there trip four nine probably just a little bit too far right to start pretty good shot though let's move uh two boards to the left with my feet excellent ball for the fresh just reads that midline really well strong cover stock won't overreact in the back end right all right two boards left let's try and hit the same break point there around nine ten [Music]

that looked perfect excellent ball to start on the pressure let's go over the idle original so we know from the uh house shot over there this ball hooks a little bit later and a little bit sharper down lane see how it does in the same spot challenge pattern all right so it's going to react a little differently [Music] just a little bit further down lane than the new one so the new idle can definitely replace your old one if it's getting all beat up get a new piece right in the middle of your bag benchmark wall idle phase two kind of deal this will do it all right let's go

three boards to the left [Music] that was one of the great things about that original idol you know you could use it on the fresh play pretty straight and then you can move way left with it and it was really versatile the helios is a little bit earlier a little bit smoother so it's not going to get as far left as you could have with the original idle but really close [Music] fall down man good shot though just

reads that touch earlier i think the uh helios would probably be the ball to use on this shot if i were to bolt for score all right so we know these balls look really good in the middle of the lane kind of a little baby swing at the break point around 10. uh let's go way right let's go up five here on the mercury and see how it goes up five i said i better hit five wow that picked up really early i'm gonna have to uh get behind the back of it at the release point and throw a little bit harder [Music]

really nice response to hand position change and speed changes gonna be a really nice ball to play further right with straighter angles not too much of a swing right face it's not going to have that crazy back end that you need and you play way inside and left but if you're going to play straight needle ball is really controllable this ball is good all right that's up five let's go up ten [Music] really good so i would say if i were to play straight i would use the helios if i were to play in and try and hook it a lot i would use the original idle just the weaker cover a little bit more back

end so with that being said let's move way left 35 slow hook [Music] oh that looked pretty good actually i think we gotta go a little bit further in order for it to not look that great so let's keep going [Music] yeah a pretty decent shot and you can

see it left a 10-pin just a little bit too smooth from way inside there let's look at the original on that line i think it should strike no problem [Music] yeah just that touch more back end really helps the carry percentage from way inside left like that definitely a limit with the helios going left but going right straight really good really good [Music]

let's go to the shop all right everyone we're back from the lanes throwing the new idol helios against the trusty old magenta original idol and definitely just what we expected the new idol just a little bit stronger cover so it rolls a little bit earlier definitely smoother down on the back end much much easier to control the fresh conditions on the house pattern and on the challenge pattern 40 foot mercury so definitely a little bit of a difference but not too much as if you want to replace your original idle with the new one

you can definitely get a really similar shape out of it maybe just have to do a slightly different layout really really good really really close and i think this ball is going to be really really popular so on the house shot which contains a lot of oil in the middle of the lane and really dry boards on the outside lane you really want to control the way it hooks when it hits the dry too early and when you keep it in the oil too long so you want that little bit of mist room there and this ball really controls that nice when you get to the dry it doesn't overreact and when you miss left into the oil it's got enough left in it that

it will hook down lane and still hit the pocket for you so if you're bowling on lots of hose shots you're bowling easy conditions and you just want a ball that is going to work on that this is the ball the original idle this was also a really good hoe shot ball just a little bit longer down lane and a little bit sharper than the helios here so in conclusion both balls really good for house shots just a slightly different shape down lane a little bit smoother a little bit flatter and a little bit more sharp more continuous then we move over to the challenge shot 40 foot mercury since that pattern is a little bit more

difficult the shape that you need to create down lane is a little bit more difficult the helios here was really good i was able to stay a little bit further right and amp the ball speed up and keep it online and it went through the pins really nice as i got further and further left it still looked okay but there became a point where when i got too far left i started leaving week tens and the ball just wasn't getting through the pins too great and that's where this idle came in just a little bit sharper down lane and goes through the pins just a little bit better from being way inside left if i'm going to go to a tournament i'm going to bring both

this is going to be the first one out of my bag and this will be the second and with all that being said this ball is really early rolling really smooth predictable so definitely a good ball for the fresh solid cover stock and it's not going to do anything too crazy on you but when the lanes start to transition the oil starts to evaporate move around then you want to get into something that's a little bit longer and a little bit sharper down lane so maybe like the idle pearl or something like that in conclusion if you have an old idol that's all beat up and you can't find a new one the new idol is going to

be really close you might have to change the layout just a touch to get the exact same shape but otherwise really close bowling ball and you if you like the idol you're gonna like the helios here tie everything together uh definitely a really good benchmark ball it's gonna fit right in the middle of your bag it's gonna be nice and strong early rolling piece you're gonna have balls that hook less you're gonna have balls that hook sharper and you're gonna have balls of hook more so just a really good benchmark right in the middle of your bag great ball for all patterns and i will definitely be bringing it to tournaments i'm gonna drill a pin down

one and see how that rolls but the pin up one here definitely really really nice on fresh conditions personally for me i really love the idle as everybody knows i really love this ball solid color and the solid cover really suits my eye so definitely did not disappoint me here don't forget our question down in the comments who is your idol it can be any person who inspires you and for me growing up that was chris barnes bowling on tv i really wanted to emulate him so let us know down in the comments like subscribe stay tuned for our next vid everyone [Music]

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