Roto Grip RST X-1 Review

what's up everybody j.r rehman back again coming to you from classic lanes here in rochester hills michigan home of mrb classic pro shop and i feel like it's been quite some time it's been what at least a week and a half since i've actually posted a video uh and i haven't posted a ball review in a while drilled a bunch of bowling balls over the last couple of days a lot of the new ones but today we're going to take a look first at that new roto grip ball the uh what is it even called the rx or just the x1 rst but you guys know what i'm talking about that green and

black looking ball it's got a pretty standard five inch pin layout it is 55 by five by uh by 45 i believe uh puts that pin just above my bridge maybe an inch higher cg kick just a little bit with the mass bias right next to the thumb in a pretty strong position but we're gonna take it out here on a typical lead condition here in a minute stay tuned

[Music] so [Music] all right so we're going to take a look at this rstx1 um like i said it's 55 by 5 by 45 so it does just put the pin right up here above the

middle finger uh cg is kicked just a little bit the mass bias right next to the thumb so we're going to try and get back to the basics throw some straighter shots and this time i'm going to start straight i'm going to start at that 8 9 10 range see if it'll hold its line through there and just keep moving left so i did a really good job there and i threw this ball a couple of times as i was getting loose

just to make sure i knew what was uh that i could actually throw the ball because i haven't thrown the ball in like a week and a half so um but i'm gonna try to make these videos just a little bit quicker instead of them being you know 13 14 minutes i'm gonna try to keep them right around that 10 minute range i'm gonna throw a few shots in each area rather than moving left so quick i've had some recommendations of our requests of people wanting to see some straighter angles

now what i really like about this ball is i like the way it actually gets around uh off of the middle part of the lane so it really tries to pick up the middle of the lane and continue oh good job buddy push the reset button for me just don't push it anymore okay good job so this ball is really reading the middle lane really well um because it is a duller cover so it's going to read so the question will be how does it do further left so now i'm gonna go a couple more boards to the right i'm gonna try to get to

that six seven and see if it hooks immediately yeah it looks pretty early you know and a lot of that is just because of how much dry there is over there we are on a leak pattern so you're going to see nothing but dry boards to that right part because they try to give you as much free hook to the right as you can so that's okay that makes sense now i'm sure i could get it to the pocket from there if i really back out of my hand so if i

just take some hand out of it and just really knuckle it through there i can get it to not hook that's for sure so let's see if i can throw one more knuckle a little bit straighter i mean that was i had to have taken 100 rpm off that one we're gonna try all of them buddy we're

gonna get them all going down the lane here in a minute if i can get this ball back there it is yeah that one took a while to come back all right let's try that again i'm going to move my feet even further right now i'm just gonna try and do that same really low rev knuckler yeah so you can see if you want it to go straight it's definitely going to go

straight so that's good news if i want to hook it i'm pretty sure i can hook it and you've seen what it did those first couple of shots playing 8 9 10. so we're gonna move left now not yet we don't want that one yet buddy this ball's taking a while to come back i'm not really sure why it keeps taking so long all right so now let's get over to that 15. 14 15 range

okay so put the reverie back on nice and rolly and get it to go through the pins pretty easily so i really like the way this ball is rolling i really like the way it's reading the middle of the lane that middle of the lane is the key it's always the key if we can get it to read the middle lane and not be stupid down lane and not be too early it's always going to be a good versatile ball it's going to allow you to play any part of the lane you want it just may be really slow coming back in the ball return for some reason he keeps doing that all right we're going to try this again

now that we're not interrupted hopefully the ball comes back a little bit better so we're gonna make three in one see what happens oh bad balance but it still ride the lane properly i'm really curious what this ball is gonna continue to do as i go left because it's reading the middle lane super well i'm hoping it still continues to do that but then still goes through the pins as i go left

because right now this ball is looking like it's really good playing straighter and even in the middle of the lane but as i get left a fourth arrow what's gonna happen so now let's get right around that fourth arrow start to get my hand around it a little bit that's actually a good sign now no matter what even though it got six and it overhooked that's

still a pretty good sign because it reads the middle of the lane and you watch it have that strength going through the pins so let me see if i can just keep going left and see how about how much better it does this is going to be three and one off of that shot so it should be good

yeah that's a good sign very good sign still wants to have the strength down lane to get through the pins so that's really good really really good all right keep going left if i can get it back now it's being slow again darn it so remember what i said about the video not being 13 14 minutes long i might be lying because the ball returns taking so long

well i am just destined to not do reviews again geez louise i'm just going to throw a ball down there [Music] ah there it is now it comes back of course geez unbelievable that was the zenith by the way if you wanted to see how that ball rolls that review is coming up

get rid of that let's try this again maybe this ball is too small or too big or something i don't know right i'm gonna go three more left another three in one see what happens yeah that might be too steep now yep too steep now so i gotta stop going so three and ones are a little too much now so i'm gonna have to shut that back down

let's hope this ball comes back a little quicker this one came back quick so that's good all right so three in one was a little too much there throwing it right so i gotta start shutting my angle down a little bit but it's floating through the front pretty well i'm surprised by that

yeah and it wants to go through the pins we got a winner here now if i'm going to replace something what am i going to replace in my bag because i don't really have a solid piece or at least a dull piece that is clean and still good down lane i don't even remember it's been a while since i bowled so remembering what's in my bag is difficult i'm gonna keep going left try to get to that fifth arrow area now

yeah i think we got a winner here i think you're going to see this ball used an awful lot the problem is is now it's coming out when there's nothing to bowl tournament-wise as far as the pba goes so you're not going to see a lot of the tour guys using it on tour stuff right now because there's nothing to bowl and by the time the new year comes there's going to be all kinds of other new bowling balls but maybe it'll be a special enough bowling ball that they will you know still use it i'm gonna keep going left again

tuck my pinky this time and see what happens [Laughter] yeah you guys are going to want this one you're really going to want this one i mean because i can do whatever i want with it i can throw it how i want i can make it do what i want real responsive to what my hand does and that's always it's always a good sign

and when you see a bad bowl i'm not necessarily a bad bowling ball but when you see a ball that struggles it's because it it either wants to read the front too much or it wants to read down lane too much and it doesn't read the middle this one reads the middle perfectly start inching back and go back right a little bit more man and it trips a four pin game over

right there you go so there's that new roto grip ball that r x why do i keep saying want to say r but it's the x1 x star one uh rs one something like that you know what it is you can see the picture of the ball here somewhere um but you obviously i don't even have to tell you how good this thing is this actually read the middle of the line properly did all the right things in the middle like i said before if it reads too early or it reads too late generally that's not very good sign it's usually that's it means it's either good for playing straight or it's good for playing way in there's never really any in between this is going to allow you to do both you saw

how i could float it through all the burn to the right even though there's so much there's so much dry i could take enough hand out of it and make it not hook so i probably could have sat there and adjusted it a little bit more but you saw how good it was as i started to go left and continue to go left this thing just let me do whatever i wanted so this ball is going to find its way in my bag i'm going to have to go through my bag and figure out which ones i'm going to start replacing because i do have some balls i have quite a few games in them now so we're going to replace them you know what i would bet you probably that bloody ocean that that's what this ball reminds me of is that bloody ocean because it reads the

middle lane it's still sharp enough down lane so uh maybe that's the ball to replace because the bloody ocean's got some games on it now until i can drill another one until they send me another one that's probably what i'll do but this will be good because i don't the bloody ocean i couldn't use in the pva events you can use any of the lane masters legends all that stuff you can use those on anything other than pba so this would be good replacement for that when i need that type of a reaction that's all i got for you today make sure to comment like subscribe if you think these ball reviews are good please share them make sure you get them out there as much as you can

trying to spread the word as much as we possibly can and make sure to go check out the podcast over at anchor dot fm slash i don't even want to say slash but it's it's uh the ltc bowling show so links in the description you can go get yours over one of these bowling balls over at bowler x.com link in the description for that as well it's going to be a pre-order for this because they're not quite out yet but that's all i got for you until next time see you guys later take care