Roto Grip Rubicon UC3 Review

wow that hooked a lot does that count zilch welcome back to jr pro shop vids today we are reviewing the new rubicon uc3 from roto grip so you may be wondering why do we not have the original rubicon and the rubicon you see two here well

it's because this ball is a urethane bowling ball cool right so today we're going to compare it to the storm fast pitch one of storm's best urethanes and jung's favorite urethane so this rubicon uc3 features the same rondura core found in the original and the uc-2 and the cover is the tourethane pearl coverstock so that means it's a urethane but also a pearl cover stock paired with the rondura core which is asymmetrical to say the least this is not a very usual

combo an asym core with a pearl urethane cover stock it'll be really interesting to see out there my expectation because it's a pearl cover stock i believe it will hook later down the lane and hook a little bit more due to its asymmetrical core i think it might hook a little bit more than the fast pitch and i'm really curious to see what its motion is like down late it might even be able to compare with the purple hammer be interesting today we're bowling on two different patterns first off it is 42 foot carbon a 10 to 1 house shot

super easy dry on the outside a lot of oil in the middle but not specifically meant for urethane bowling balls and to show off these balls true power we are throwing on 36 foot pegasus pegasus has a four to one ratio a challenge pattern it's pretty hard i would say but jung can definitely do it because pro bowler before we head out on the lanes make sure to check out shop.jrproshop.com buy our new merch it's really nice now let's see what jung has to do on the

lanes [Music] hello everyone welcome back to jr pro shop vids jungle here got the new rubicon uc-3 asymmetrical urethane ball [Music] something you don't really see too often so this is going to be really interesting if you watch some of the rubicon vids before they're reactive

they hook a lot they're in the hp 3 in line so really aggressive bowling balls so we got that core wrapped around with a urethane cover so let's see how it goes house shot here we're going to play a little bit further to the right uh let's try and hit 12 here at the euros [Music] wow that hooked a lot wow i did miss a little bit right there got it to the dry a little bit early so let's try and hit my mark this time 12 keep it in the oil a little bit longer but i can already tell this ball hooks a ton for being a urethane okay we're going to line up in

the same spot here and try and hit 12 instead of 10. wow that has some pretty sick continuation for a urethane ball holy that is something you don't really see at all usually urethane is really early really smooth and has nothing much down lane but this thing hooks down late okay let's move a couple boards to the left and still try and get it to that spot there down lane see if i can recover this is a house shot though so

really dry on the outside [Music] okay not a bad shot but as you can see just a little bit more oil and it doesn't quite pick up enough so you definitely do need a really dry board for the right let's try it again let's try that same shot but i'll slow the ball speed down [Music] just a little bit left there at the break point but that ball really picked up and continued through the pins really

nice i am so surprised by this this is crazy it's like that perfect ball that we've all been missing between urethane and reactive right it's such a big gap there so we're trying to trick balls with layouts and stuff but this ball is really nice try that shot again get a little bit further right [Music] yeah a little steep through the front there which means got the ball to the right a little too early hit it back hit the head pin just uh not enough not enough boards covered so with that let's uh throw the fast pitch here

[Music] this has been the urethane ball that i've been using all the time this hooks a little bit more than the pitch black so it gives me a little bit more play let's go same line as the first shot [Music] yeah see that just early and then nothing down lane that's what urethane's supposed to do that's what urethane does so that definitely hooks maybe four or five boards less than the uc3 already i can see so let's

move a couple boards to the right and let's get to the dry a little bit quicker [Music] yeah i see that it just has nothing there's lots of oil in the middle you get it to the right the fast pitch doesn't really have much the uc3 will hook though same spot as i just do the fast [Music] pitch that ball has way more hook potential it's crazy flares a lot got that uc two and one core the rubicon

core yeah that hooks a fast pitch by a ton all right let's see if we can get to the oil a little bit and slow hook it let's see if it hooks see if it comes back around the corner 22 with the feet so we get out to five [Music] wow that came back all the way from there that's crazy man the fast pitch won't even try so i'm not even gonna bother let's go again from there that was awesome [Music]

all right i thought that was really good off the hand just missed a little bit left into the oil you can see it just did not make the corner even though it's uh asymmetric core really strong still need those dry boards still needs to pick up in the dry still allergic to oil a little bit we'll throw the fast pitch on that line and uh just show you how much less it hooks really tough to swing your thing same line with the fast pitch probably get three off the right here let's go really slow [Music] zilch nothing all right let's head over to the short pattern where these balls are built for

all right just past the halfway point in the vid with jungle and the uc3 a really strong asymmetrical urethane ball here i think it'll really fill that gap between my fast pitch and a reactive ball right in there because sometimes the urethane isn't enough reactive is a little bit too much so let me know down in the comments what you do to fill that gap personally i try and trick layouts on balls like an iq tour short pin uh throw a little bit more ball speed and kind of figure things out that way but let me know down in the comments what you do and maybe we can all learn

all right we're over here on the short pattern pegasus 36 feet this pattern is where these urethane balls are really going to shine so we got the fast pitch uc3 from the health shot we know the uc3 hooks about five to six boards more so let's take that into account and we'll start with the uc3 here we want our break point to be around five ten eleven at the arrows and get it out to five here [Music] that falls nuts i've never had a urethane ball do that but then again i haven't thrown a purple so who knows that ball really

continuous down lane where the other urethanes just aren't okay going right into the fast pitch here i'm gonna move five boards right right away standing on seven so this is gonna be around seven at the arrows up to five this should be good for the fast pitch [Music] not a bad shot just do it a hair quick you can see the difference in reaction right away fast switch definitely earlier smoother way less hook just throw that again turn up the pocket and we'll throw the uc3 right on top of it

[Music] yeah even if i slowed it down a touch there still has trouble getting back to the headpin so let's bump two boards more to the right with the fast pitch should be really good exactly what i've been seeing out of the fast pitch basically the only earth thing i use you have to go straight down the boards with it so strong go straight down six here [Music] all right move two boards there to the

right really good reaction triple four you can tell like five six seven boards maybe weaker than the uc3 craziness and let's go brooklyn just for comparison purposes [Music] right i may have missed the hair to the right there i just checked up brooklyn through the nose [Applause] a lot of hook down lane okay let's get back to the happy zone here with the uc3 [Music]

wow such a good sign rolling into just got to round it just a hair just to not quite hook enough to go flush but still got there got a strike let's just slow it down a touch i think this is the right spot [Music] does that count i don't know does that count but as you can see ball reaction wise really sharp continuous for a urethane piece let's move a couple left and slow hook it out to the ditch

really gotta slow it down here [Music] just a little too deport don't really want to be going left to right as a righty with urethane in my opinion anyways creator is greater with these balls [Music] okay that red perfectly a little earlier than the last shot but still really continuous straighter

is greater i think that was nice let's do that again [Music] really good hard and straight really confident let's try and get this one up to one board standing on 15 let's try and hit one [Music] that ball is dirty all right let's go have a chat in the shop all right we're back from the lanes throwing urethane we bowled on a house

shot and a short pattern we did the house shot first but what i saw of this ball was very surprising i was able to swing the ball from left to right and it was able to turn the corner down in the back end and make that move into the pocket that i didn't think urethane had that asymmetric rubicon core uh this ball is really really strong down lane like four or five boards stronger than i thought it would be i threw a few shots further right on the house pattern up the dry boards and this ball just hit the lane and took off left so so strong so i had to keep moving left into the

oil and i was really surprised how far left i could get and the ball made it all the way back to the pocket five six seven boards stronger than the fast pitch here i really really like the fast pitch it comes with me everywhere every tournament no matter what the lanes are what the pattern is just just in case and it's really predictable really smooth really early and i know exactly what it's going to do and this ball out hooked it by five to six boards easy i was really really surprised over on the short pattern fast pitch looked much much better on the short because you really have to play straight and you

really need lots of drive boards down lane rather than to the right fast pitch looked great we got going up five six and it just made that early continuous smooth move into the pocket and the rubicon uc3 was much more angular down lane and definitely covered more boards so i had to up my ball speed if i wanted to play the same kind of line or if i wanted to throw it the same i definitely needed to move five or six boards to the left and pitch it to the right with that being said i think this ball really does fill a gap in my arsenal between the fast pitch and say my iq tour which i drilled with a short pin to try

and emulate something like this for when my urethane ball isn't enough and something like the idle or the iq tour pin up is too much so i tried to drill a short pin iq chewer just to have another look on the short and something just isn't quite right this ball fills that gap for me and i'm super super happy i've been trying for years to fill that gap just experimenting different layouts different balls everything nothing seemed to quite fit it as good as this one so with all that being said i would definitely recommend this ball to people who bowl lots of tournaments and come

across a variety of lane conditions and also someone with a high rev rate because on the house pattern some of the high rev ray can definitely get some use out of this where a reactive ball might be too violent off the drive boards to the right this ball is really going to smooth that out and still have enough down lane so that you can strike carry a lot yeah so this ball will make my tournament bag if i'm bowling on shorter conditions or maybe short medium like 38 37 all the way down to like 34 35 feet we'll bring the fast pitch and the rubicon uc3 two completely different looks with urethane i think that's

something that i've really been missing in my bag especially later in the tournament on a short pattern when the fast pitch gets a little bit lazy down lane the fronts are kind of losing their oil and it's getting carried down to the back end and the fast pitch just looking a little lazy a little dead i think that the uc3 will be absolutely perfect recommend this ball for high rev rates like i said two handers for sure and i'm pretty curious to see what this does against the purple hammer so simon jimu just asked me what i think it would do against the purple hammer i think it would hook a little bit later

and be a little bit more continuous kind of like the old purple hammers where the new ones are much earlier and much flatter off the spot so i think this kind of looks like an older purple hammer just my opinion but maybe we'll experiment with that just to wrap it up here guys don't forget our question down in the comments what have you been doing to fill the gap between your urethane ball like pitch black fast pitch and your reactive ball i know there's definitely lots of different options what you can do let me know down in the comments really interesting to see what you guys came up with don't forget to like subscribe and stay tuned for our next vid

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