Brunswick Combat Hybrid Review

We have plenty of balls that ricochet off that spot. We have plenty of balls that go sideways. And obviously the intent here with the cover stock choice is smooth. That's what we want. Yeah. Yeah. What's up, guys? Brunick's back. Time to introduce the Brunswick Combat Hybrid. Now, the Combat Hybrid has that Rampart asymmetrical core wrapped with Alpha

Premiere hybrid cover. I can't wait to see what this one does on the lanes for me with Spectto running, of course. But before we get to that, please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. Now, let's see what Combat Hybrid is all about. All right, it's time to talk about the followup from the original Combat, the Combat Hybrid. Very exciting, very cool looking fourcolor bowling ball. NonHK22. Different little approach here. Let's talk about that Rampart asymmetric core

that's in there. The RG is 2502 differential 051 with an intermediate of 019. And that Alfred Premiere hybrid finish 500 2000 should be no problem for my favorite house pattern. We're going to talk about bowling on Crown Jewel 43T. Whole lot of oil in the middle, not a lot to the outside. So, we're gonna see what this ball is all about. Got Spectre running. We're going to start it out. Move it in. Let's see what this ball does. Yeah.

Interesting that we don't have HK on a premier ball like this. This got that dynamic core 2 in it from the Quantum. Got a lot of technology to it. There's uh always a process to how we pick covers and how we match up. I'm sure HK was on the menu, but this probably fit just right being non-HK base. Yeah, a lot smoother from the first shot. You can always tell a lot from that. But

that first combat, super flippy. One of the flippiest bowling balls we've ever made. That sweep motion on the back. Now we needed something a little bit different, right? Not as much or as smooth, I don't know, or maybe smoother as a hypnotize, but something that kind of fits in that range, but just right in the middle of everything on an island. Let's try it again. Not that many green bowling balls out there. And this has got two colors of green in there. Green and lime.

What do you say? Oh my. Now, how did that strike? Wow. I'm hoping for a more old school look. That smoother roll, that smoother progression through the zones there. I got that one a little bit slower and a little bit more direct. Should have 410. To be honest, that was not a great shot, but I struck. All right, let's try one more shot there.

Now that we got an idea of uh how I'm going to throw it today and an idea of how I'm going to get it off my hand. Okay. This could be a benchmark asymmetric dream right here. Something that's not going to over respond. Something you can play the straighter zones with. I mean, I struck all three times. All different kinds of strikes. We had a light mixer

Wall-E. We had the trip four down from the bowling gods. And then we had an oldfashioned strikeroo right down Broadway. So let's move five. Let's get into 20 now. And I think a zone like this based on what I saw there, this could be payday for the combat hybrid. A

not enough for the messenger. Yeah, this is going to be one of the more smoother tractioning bowling balls where it's not going to be a ball that you want to probably cross too many boards with. It's something you blend out patterns. And already like I don't feel like I have to overthrow this ball. You know, you get a duller ball like this, even hybrid, you feel like, oh, I got to throw it hard. It's asymmetric. It's got to flare a lot. Sometimes you just need to relax. Don't overthrow it. Let the ball tell you what you need to do. That's it. You

always got to listen. Get up. Yeah. Okay. Good correction there. A little bit of an overcorrection. That's okay. Now I have the two ideas in my head. What happened with the first one? Throwing it what I felt was harder. That one's slowing it down. Give it some time to hook. And boy did it. But it didn't do it in a way where it was like, "Oh man, that thing just jumped on me." It

was It made its move and then it rolled up. All right, let's try to dial this one in now. There. That's it. doesn't take me very long to learn. The tendencies of a bowling ball are going to be right out there. It's up to you to interpret them. So, right now, I'm seeing a ball that heavy rolling wants to kind of blend out the wet dry

and it wants to roll a little more forward and be more control. So, what usually happens when I move in on a ball like that is I don't have to throw it as hard. I need to give it some time to work and see the lane. So, we're going to move five again. We're going to get in 25. And this zone right here. I think if I open my angles up, I got to be not aggressive with the speed. Like that.

Yes. We're dialed in. Dialed in with it. This is a great zone. That's exactly what I wanted to see. Sometimes when you go away from the pocket with a smoother ball, you're not sure if it's going to get back through the pins. That one did it. It didn't like go over eight pin or anything like that, but it rolled up. Had a more of a tendency to go forward and be smoother, and that's good. We have plenty of balls that ricochet

off that spot. We have plenty of balls that go sideways. And obviously the intent here with the cover stock choice is smooth. That's what we want. Yeah. Yeah. I can foresee this being a ball where you can play further out on on a sport pattern, even like a short pattern when you want something to kind of blend out that wet dry, especially on short, playing closer to the gutter.

For the speed dominant players, you could definitely do that. For the rev dominant players and you want to control pattern by hooking around it some, it's kind of what I'm showing off right now. I kind of get it to the spot and not be dramatic off that back end. Oh, I missed it inh. Not a great shot there. But hey, if we want to call that an area check, let's

call it an area check. Uh, I failed. How about that? I wanted to hold the pocket there. Didn't happen. That's okay. But we learned quite a bit in that zone, didn't we? Let's move into another zone. Let's get into 30. Now, let's see how I feel after a shot or two here. Whether I'm going to be okay with opening my angles or if it's just laboring getting back up the hill. Hold.

Why not carry? It's not looking like I want to play that fall back shot even with a little bit more open angle. I got to get the angles even open further. Get it away from the pocket cuz this is still an aggressive ball where it hooks more in the mid. So, I need to get it right of the pocket a little bit earlier than I think I would want to typically because it's not going to go as far down the lane before it starts.

What do you say? Yeah. Okay. Little too rolly, I think, to play open angles. It's got the motor, the tires, they're gripping. That's it. It wants to roll forward. I think I could probably trick it. Let's try to trick it, I think. And what I mean by that is I'm going to get on the side of it more to see if I can get at the tip and get back up that hill and get back to the pins. But generally on a ball like this, I think straighter is greater,

this is a ball you start with, not necessarily one you finish with. All right, that's around the side of it more. Yeah. Okay. So you can trick it, which just leads me to that conclusion that if you're more rev dominant and you can open your angles, you're going to be able to control a lot of patterns with it. Then if you're speed dominant, shut them down, play them straighter, and control the pattern that way. Either way, it works great. Let's go into the last zone. Let's go into 35.

What do you say, combat? Do we need to trick it more? I think we're going to have to. Great shot. Just got to get it started. If you don't get it started, you're going to wrap 10 with this ball or flat 10. Maybe messenger. I could probably try to produce that kind of shot, but I'm going to try to not trick it at the bottom and see if I get 10 ppin. I think

that's what we're going to do. If I just kind of throw it normal and not try to be so much on the side. Oh, that's going to hook. Cancel that. It rolls up. I just got to get it going away from the pocket a little bit more. That's it. Ball like that. If you get it started up, no matter how you trick it, I guess it's going to go through the pins. Maybe that's the trick. Maybe that's the next video. How never to leave a 10pin. Just

try to leave a 10 pin. You'll never leave a 10 pin, right? All right, let's open the angles up. Let's really go away from it and watch this ball kind of roll forward on it. You dirty dog. Least you could have done is slap it when you went by. That's what I'm talking about, right? The ball uses all of its energy digging in the mid. Rolls a little more forward. Still hits hard but just didn't go through the pins

right because you came behind the head pin. It's used all its energy in the mid and it comes in half pocket like that. So, let's move back right. We're going to go back to 20. That 15 was pretty good. I can play him straighter for sure. I feel like I have to force it in this pattern. So, I'm going to go back to 20. Play it a little bit straighter. More down and in, as they say. and use speed and the cover strength to kind of make it roll up.

Wonderful. Just absolutely demolishes pins when you straighten it up. Play to the strength of the ball. Not every ball has to work from coast to coast. Sometimes bowling balls work better in certain zones. And that's exactly what I saw from the brand new Combat Hybrid from Brunswick. Hope you learned a whole lot. I sure did. Please subscribe and also check out the crew. Memberships are available to you. Till the next video, talk to you guys soon. See you.