Storm Hyroad 40 Review

[Music] CEO Ronald Hicklet from Creating the Difference. Today we're going to talk about the brand new Storm High Road 40. This ball features the A1S Pearl reactive cover stock. Has the inverted FE2 core shape in it. That core shape has no outer core around it, which means this is a thick shell ball, which also means it's going to have a higher coefficient of restitution, which what that means in layman's terms is it's supposed to transfer the energy from the ball to the pins higher than other bowling balls. It's symmetrical. It has

an RG of 2.57, a differential of 0.046. Because it's symmetrical, there is no mass bias. It's finished with Power Edge, which scans right at 5500. The hardness of this particular bowling ball is 73. The absorption rate is fast. It's laid out 60 by 4 and a half by 30. And we're going to see what the High Road 40 is all about right now. Chris, what do you think about this ball? >> It's green like mint jeulip or something. Green. >> Green like money. >> Not the color, but maybe the

performance. >> All right. Well, let's see. >> Let's see. >> Hyro's one of the bests selling bowling balls of all time. [Music] First shot does not count. And today we're all about making adjustment, not excuses. If you like this shirt, let us know in the comments. If you don't like this shirt, give us an idea for a shirt. It's possible that if you pick your idea, you may win one of the shirts sent to you for free from CTD. 046

differential going to give you about 5 in of flare. This ball isn't going to be a hook monster. It's not designed to be. It's meant to be a more of a mid-range piece. Got it left. Got it left. Yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, so I got a question, right? So you said this one got five inches of flare. So like does the flare make it hook more? Like what what does the flare do? >> Flare technically makes the ball hook

earlier. That can be more if you throw it hard. That can be more if you have a high ball speed or I'm sorry, a lower rev rate. It ends up being the opposite if you're high rev rate. It's actually less hook. It's also less hook if you are faster ball speed. I'm sorry, slower ball speed. If you're slower ball speed and the reason being is because flare basically makes the ball hook earlier. That's what that's it's really its function. It's earlier. Some people can use earlier hook, right? But other people can't use earlier hook or it becomes too early and then becomes forward. So in this case, that's a why

you see a lot of the professional bowlers who have high rev rates, they use lower differential balls. >> Oh, I like that. And that was a flat seven pin, bro. >> I thought it was going to throw a log. It looked like it was trying to come. Oh, >> brutal. >> Yeah, that's all right, though. It's only the second shot. this way.

That's good. This is one of them pieces that you're going to be able to start out with, read the lanes with. It's a high road, bro. It has that high road tendency to it, right? Later in the block, too. Later in the block, we need something a little smoother. Definitely on the continuous side. Come on. Oh,

they don't all strike. So, I liked the opportunity for that one because even though it was left, I thought the ball was going to make it back up. It just pu it pushed like this far too long and that's why it was split. So moved everything a little bit left again. It's coming back. Just a little late. It's going a little too long. So this is a perfect opportunity for me to

adjust the surface. I'm not going to quite yet. But this that that hit right there says adjust the surface. It's too shiny. >> Well, so all right. I got a question then. Right. So, you said the ball going just a little too long, right? But say none of your other balls work and you actually bowling and you can't adjust the surface, like what would you do? >> I'd probably uh put my shoes back in my bag and go home. No. So, I mean, real talk. So, what I would do then is I would adjust the hand here. I'll show you. I'll adjust the

hand position to a more a stronger hand position to create more hook. You can create more hook with your hand. [Music] So you can create more hook, right? That would be the adjustment that I'd have to make here. So essentially, I went from having the ball like this in my hand to having it like this in my hand. And then what I'm doing is I'm just unc cupping the wrist like this to create more RPMs. That's what I'm doing. That creates about 20 to 30 more RPMs

for me off my hand. So, it's enough to be able to create more shape when you need, [Music] but that's also why a lot of the pros can use this ball a lot, right? Like you can you can trick it with your hand, so to speak. You can use uh different ball speeds, which Belmo is really really like he's one of the best ever that can adjust his ball speed. Simo unbelievable

at adjusting their ball speed. And that allows them to stay in balls like this for a much longer time period. >> So like let's say somebody want to learn like how you do some of this stuff like where where do they go >> man? Come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come come on see us over at ctdballing bro. So you know we've got a a website called ctd educationcenter.com and there it's it's basically a website for you to learn how to become a better bowler. We do coaching, we do training. Uh if you want to learn how to hook the ball more, if you want to learn how to just how to uh throw it slower, throw it harder, get more tricks in your bag,

this is a good place to come and get that education. That's exactly what we do here at the building. [Music] I thought it was going to give. I I knew it was coming there, but I thought, well, it's going to fall. But >> hey, I tell you what, man. This something people probably might not know, right? A lot of the tricks that I learned, guess where I learned them at? >> PBA bowling. Watching PBA on TV. >> Right here in this building, man.

>> Oh, they don't know about the old school. Long, long, long time when it was ever Knight Training Center. >> Yeah, I learned them right here in this building. Oh, yeah. So that ball was one board in at the launch and one board left at the break point and it came back. Now the cool thing is I can see that and you can see that too if you were here obviously with the clutch and the spectto that we've got. So you can actually watch the ball

go down the lane and have a tracer follow your ball in real time to see if you threw it the same or not. >> That one had that bomb thing going on when it was going down the lane. >> That's the higher coefficient of restitution. [Music] No restitution needed that time. >> No, sir. No, sir. No, sir. We are over here making adjustments. We are not making excuses,

>> man. Y'all going to get one of them shirts, man. But I'm telling you, if I'm at the tournament, you got that shirt on, and I hear you making excuses, I'm taking it off of you. >> You say you make them take it off. You >> got to take it off. Oh, no nickels. >> No nickels. No nickels. All right, let's uh let's go left. Take some hand out of it. Actually, I can probably go left and

do kind of do close to my normal release and you're probably going to be just fine. Now, going the other way is going to be trouble, right? If I move way way in and try to slow hook it, it probably not going to come back because it'll go too long. But out there, I think you can make that work just fine. >> But you bagged off that one, right? >> I did. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, >> I did. >> Uh-oh.

>> There we go. There we go. All right, let's get the lights back on and adjust the surface. That was the restitution. Rest restitution. All right. Road 40 back on it. All right, let's see now. Same release. Little extra hook. See what happens.

First shot doesn't count, but looks good. Yeah. Yeah. So, this one it's now just more hook, right? Which some balls end up being earlier and roll forward. This is not that ball. This ball is earlier, but it's just way more hook. That, my friends, is a good thing.

Oh, >> no. 710. No 710 here. No, >> that's Bruce Willis. >> Bruce Willis? >> Yes. Came back with a vengeance. >> He tried it again. He tried it. You knew, huh? You can tell >> that boy said fool me once. Just JCole.

>> Fool me can't be fooled again. >> Can't be fooled again. >> Oh, High Road 40 making them trip forward. You got more information now about that brand new Storm High Road 40. Go to our website ctbbing.com. Pick one of these up. you know, we look at the back end at our specs, at our metrics, and it's interesting because a lot of you watch the video, but you don't subscribe to the channel. So, if you do us a favor, hit the subscribe

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