Brunswick Crown 78U Review

Urethane is kind of in its own class, right? Throw another shot here. I do like being out in the gutter. Come on. Dangerous. That is dangerous for me. Not because I'm going to get in trouble, but because my confidence is going to go sky high. What's up, guys? Brunswick's back. It's time to introduce the Crown

78U. Now, the Crown 78U is a urethane ball 78 hardness with that tiered hexagon symmetrical core. Finally, a symmetrical urethane with a little bit of motor in it. So, I can't wait to see what this does in the lanes for me with Spektro running, of course. But, before we get to all that, please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. Now, let's see what Crown 78U does out on the lanes. All right. End of the year, we're December,

and we're dropping a bombshell on everybody. New urethane, tour season's coming up. You know they like to have plenty of urethane options. And so far, Black Hammer for the last few years has been the number one out there on tour. Now, another option, 78U. It's got that tiered hexagon core. We're going to take a look at the numbers there cuz they have changed slightly due to the urethane cover. So, the RG slightly changed, raised a little bit to 2.549.

Differential bumped up a point 046. So, when you switch urethane versus resin covers, the gravity of that all changes, so they have to make some minor modifications to balance the weight, and get the total weights in check so that they can go ahead and make production. That's it. It's way above my pay grade. That's all I know. That's all I can tell you about it. So, urethane cover 78 hardness, and it's finished 500 1,000. So, this isn't going to be your typical review where I try it out in all different angles. I'm going to try to

focus this more on a urethane type look. So, let's start it out. Moving in, I got Spektro running. Let's Let's do this, right? I'm just going to start with my 15 zone like I normally do. We're going to see if this thing hooks like crazy the first shot. What a cool looking ball. Two color urethane, nice blend. Like I got like a purple and a black. Looks awesome. Let's see what it does first shot. Always hooks a lot on the first shot.

Anybody who's ever had a urethane ball knows and can attest to it is that the first shot you throw with it, you could pretty much throw it out. Don't worry about what it did. Just get it off your hand, get some oil on the cover cuz the first one's always going to hook a lot. And then as we go, oh, that's what we've been looking. This is one thing that Now, granted, I love Purple Hammer more than everything. I love Black Hammer, all that stuff. One thing you could not really get out of it unless you drilled like a 16 pounder and you had like a 500 rev rate was getting

this kind of flare. I don't throw that kind of rev rate as some of the pros to get it, but look what I can get out of this. Track flare. Now, is that going to benefit a urethane ball? Some say yes, some say no, but it's a different option. So, when the Pink Black Widow came out urethane, that thing flared a whole lot, had that big gas mask core in their A sim. Might have been a little overkill for most. This one, right in the middle. Let's try it again. Now, see if we throw that same shot,

if it still back ends hard like that or what. Yeah, see? Now, it mellowed out on the back. That's always what you get with urethane. Is the first shot just gone. Second shot tames in, and then it starts developing in what the ball is actually going to be for you. Urethane is controllable. You want it to dig in, and look at that. Now, obviously it takes a lot of the oil

off the front. People say, "Oh, it's going to carry down more." No. Urethane does not carry down oil any faster than a resin ball does. I'll die on that hill. Now, let's try it again. Maybe I'll make a small move right. Let's just move like two right off of that. >> [snorts] >> We'll keep inching towards the gutter. That'll be the plan. Oh.

Let's keep inching. Crazy how it goes from hook hook hook to no no no. By the way, I'm bowling on Crown Jewel, my favorite house shot. And there's a big puddle there. As I go away from the pocket with this ball, you see what just happened. Shoo! Smooth sailing. So, what's always important with urethane bowling balls? And I've said this in all the videos I've ever done is you got to get them started. You can't rely on the back end motion of a urethane ball because you're

probably not going to carry at that point. Or you're just going to leave some weird stuff, buckets, washouts, all that nasty stuff. So, you got to get parallel with the lane, start it up in the friction, and let it walk into the pocket. So, let's do that. Let's move out to 10. Let's keep getting closer and closer. Now, when I'm in competition, I like playing on the gutter with urethane. I like to see that ball start up soon, and get the most angle to the pocket.

Look at that. It doesn't have to be dramatic. It really doesn't. Now, the reason why you play it further out with urethane is because that entry angle we talked about. If you start it in the track and you play it like right up to the track, then you're probably going to leave a lot of flat 10s. That's just how it is for righty. You're going to leave flat 10s. You got to get closer to the friction to create more angle into the pocket and driving force. You want that ball not to go half pocket. If anything, you want to line up so that you either go flush or light mixer. That

half pocket kind of mixer hit, that's what you want. Let's do that again. I want to throw one more shot here on 10, and then see if we can't inch out to the right, and throw more speed. Hook. So far, it's looking really good. There's not a lot of craziness going on with this one. It's heavy rolling. I can see it flaring, but I don't see it like

doing anything erratic. Sometimes when you get a ball that flares too much with urethane, it just tends to get a little bit twitchy. Is that a word? Is that a good word? It just kind of either wants to hook or it just gets lazy. Seems like it wants to, but it doesn't do it. Or it starts up way too soon. I'm going to move two. I'm going to go out to like eight, and just keep shutting down these angles, getting out closer to the gutter. Sound good? Of course it sounds good. I love urethane videos.

Oh, okay. Got the hit on the 10. That's what I'm talking about. That might have been just a little bit too much half pocket. That would have been like a flat hit. I want to hit it just a little bit lighter than that if I'm going to be aiming there, but ultimately, I want to go high flush. But, if I can get that light mixer hit, I talk about that a lot too with urethane is you got to get that carry. You got to be able to get that spot where the ball just kind of hits that spot, mixes them up, on to the next frame. Like clockwork. All right, couple more shots. I'm still

on eight, by the way. Terrible rack. The five pin's way off spot in there. Eight pin time? Probably eight pin time. That's gutter. That's gutter. Hook. That ball That pin might be broken. I don't know. All right, so that tells me this ball is not going to dig in super early. I'm setting it down right in the friction, so I can probably dial the speed down a little bit, maybe get the hand involved a little bit.

I don't really try to hit it too hard or get around the side of it too much when I'm playing these outside angles cuz I don't want the ball to come off sideways. I don't want it to hit that friction. All right, I'm going to move to like six. Six board. Yeah. Let's just get uh Let's just get it into the lane. Yeah? Oh, hello. That's in the lane. Woohoo. Okay. Shutting them down quite a bit.

I could probably get my eyes right a little bit more towards the gutter. I was kind of pointed at it. I knew kind of I was in trouble from the start there. When you play that kind of high risk high reward shot out there, >> [snorts] >> you better be sure you got some hold and you got some hook to the right of you. Let's try it again. Those eyes little more right. Throw that same shot. Come on.

That is dangerous for me. Not because I'm going to get in trouble, but because my confidence is going to go sky high. When I got that look close to the gutter, and I can just stay out there cuz most people, let's face it, are going to be scared to play out there. And if you're in a tournament or whatever, they're going to be away from you. It's never going to affect you. You're out there all by your own. You know, like Nationals. Doubles [snorts] and singles out by the gutter. Nobody was out there with me. Yeah.

Once you get comfortable in this zone and you have that hold and you got that hook to the right, you can do a lot of damage out here. That's around the hand. Oh, oh. Come on. Ah, got the pin going the wrong way there. I might be a little too close to the gutter, but I might not. Maybe I need to go further out. Maybe I'm going to move a couple more boards and just keep inching. Let's move out to like four boards. And throw a couple shots and we'll wrap

up. My eyes are probably around four. I'm going to drift a little bit left, I would imagine, but let's keep that speed up and aggressive. Hook. Yep. It rolls different than the Black Hammer, Purple Hammer. I can see it kind of changing its axis and I drilled this the same. You know, normally with a ball that's 040 I'm not going to drill it with a 4-in pin if it's resin, but

for your thing's sake and there might be a comparison later, I don't know, but I just wanted to see how much different if you drill them the same. Obviously, I want apples to apples. Urethane is kind of in its own class, right? So, another shot here. I do like being out in the gutter. That's way out on the gutter. Get it. Yes. That's that light mixer hit. That's why you use speed,

your rotation, and the friction on the lane to your benefit. So, is that my favorite spot on the lane? I mean, we've kind of done this review quite a bit different and I always do the urethane ones different. So, I'm not going to mess around moving all the different zones and kind of getting way left cuz I'm never going to play that. I don't recommend you ever play that. So, I'm going to move back left just a little bit. Not much. Maybe like back to like eight, nine, somewhere in there. And uh just throw one more shot here.

I'm going to relax the speed a little bit to let it do its thing cuz this ball's very predictable. Rolls heavy, but not overkill. Ah, see? Can't end on that note, can we? 10 pins, I tell you. Once you get away from the pocket. The one thing I did notice on this ball is it's held its surface dang well. So, it's not shining up. It's not

overloading with oil. The cover feels good. And so, let's throw one more shot. I'm going to move back right and I use my speed, use the friction on the lane to my benefit here. Let's end this with a crunchy one, yeah? Ha, okay. Not crunchy, but we'll take that. Wally shot with urethane all day. I always tend to find that kind of carry aggravates your

opponents the most. Especially in this day and age of just powerful strikes and messengers. Give me the Wally all day. Carry percentage way up through the roof for me. So, that's it for the Crown 78U. Urethane coming back on the market this year. You thought we weren't? Surprise. Merry Christmas. So, that's all. Check out the crew. Memberships are available to you and also the merch on Inside Bowling. Check it out. If nothing else, please subscribe. Trying to get to 40K by the end of the year. It's going to

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