Reactive Bowling Ball Rolls Like Urethane? NU Blue Hammer First Look w/Matt Russo 

This ball looks interesting for sure. Hammer makes one of the best balls ever, the Purple Hammer, and because some people complain and think it's boring to watch the PBA bans it. Kudos to Hammer for still putting out great equipment!

For all of us bowlers, who are not pro status I bought this ball, and it is GREAT. First 200 game with this ball. I have a 185, average. So this ball reaction is really great.

Love the old masking units and set-up! way more personality!

Good stuff matt, can't wait to see it out on tour and league play

Great content guys!

Good stuff Mike. This NU Blue Hammer looks awesome and being lefty this is high on the Santa Claus list!

Great Job making look so good would love to win never do but be nice for a old man to win lol 63 still throwing strong lol

Nice video good luck

what is the full dual angle layout for this piece?

Here was the best part of the video: "Gotta be confident as the husband Mike."

what is the 2LS layout of your ball. Thank you for your demo

Do we know if this is a reactive coverstock? Not too much info on their official website. Also watched other people review this ball and seems like nobody is really sure what material this coverstock is except that its not urethane lol

Because it's technically not Urethane, it doesn't have to meet the hardness rule or does it? Awesome job!

I am buying two

Link for Matt's channel doesn't work

Ball is GREAT for high rev bowlers who still like playing right like myself. 220 average bowler

I think they should have kept purple and called it the NU PURPLE HAMMER.

How in the world was this ball not called the FU (Faux Urethane) Blue Hammer? Hammer could have given the new urethane rules a big FU. Sadly, an opportunity missed...

Black hammer is coming boys! Urethane is back!!!!!!

Banning urethane balls below 78 hardness is a bad idea and hurts the most talented bowlers the most. If you have over 400 RPM rev rate, it puts you at a disadvantage because a reactive ball will hook off the lanes. This rule mainly helps sub-400 rev rate bowlers because they can still use reactive balls much softer than 78 hardness effectively. This new urethane ball rule limits the arsenal of the elite bowler and forces them to use balls that are not as ideal for their game. I'm estimating that this soft urethane ball ban could shave 10-20 pins off an elite bowler's average. I don't think it's a good idea to make rules to hurt or help certain types of bowlers. I don't like reactive balls because they hook too much off the dry spot, even budget reactive balls. Also because the NU is a reactive ball, it requires more maintenance because the ball absorbs oil and will hook less as you bowl more with it. The best thing about urethane is that oil absorption rate is very low, so the ball reaction stays pretty much the same from game 1 to game 100. Rather than ban urethane balls below 78 hardness, they should have allowed those balls to be used. Eventually all PBA bowlers would have figured out a soft urethane is the BEST BALL and everyone would start using them, which would make an arbitrary ban unnecessary.

Hammer ads??? First the 3 envy ball video now the “new” not urethane?

This guy would be screwed without this ball

that rule change is all about money.... forcing PBA players to use the latest and greatest on TV to spark ball sales for league bowlers.

I thinks thats not reactive ball.

You should have gotten a bowler. The two hand chuckers dont count.

Peter puffer