Hammerhead Pearl Review

little updates on the channel, you know what I mean? Spend a little money. Well, at least we know it's not just a lane two problem. What's up, guys? Brunick's back. It's time to introduce the Hammer Hammerhead Pearl. Now, the Hammerhead Pearl has that same spheroid symmetrical core wrapped with HK22 Aggression Pearl. Now, I can't wait to see what this updated version does for

me on the lanes with Spectto 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 Hammerhead Pearl is all about. All right, welcome back everybody. Got a new update for 2026 with the Hammerhead. One of my favorite bowling balls. made my top bowling balls for 2025. If you didn't watch that video, check that out. But now we got Hammerhead Pearl, which gets an upgrade with HK22 aggression

pearl all wrapped around that spheroid symmetrical core. Let's talk about that core. RG 2.481 differential 048. Very simple core design. Really great rolling core for me. Now we got a pearl cover. We're going to get a little bit more backend traction out of it. A little more shape to it. We're going to see. Bowling on Crown Jewel. My favorite house shot. Your favorite house shot. 43 ft. A lot of dry to the outside. A lot of oil in the middle. And we got Spectto running. We're going to start it out. Move it in. We're going to see what this ball is all

about. Let's start it out. Start on 15 with this Onyx yellow silver. Crazy looking. Not too many yellow bowling balls out there anymore, is there? All right, let's uh see what Hammerhead Pearls got. Running, gunning, Rolex wearing, private jet, riding. Woo!

Yeah, that was uh that was an interesting shot, wasn't it? Kind of hit my leg on the down swing, too. First shot is always kind of a train wreck. Yeah, let's try to redo that. First shot's for practice, right? And I hope you guys are liking the new camera angle down lane. When you see it, you'll know little updates on the channel. You know what I mean? Spend a little money.

Well, at least we know it's not just a lane two problem. And if you guys haven't noticed already, I am bowling on lane one. Came in to Brunswick HQ on this fine Sunday morning with a sign that says lane two is broken. So, I went to try to fix it. Couldn't fix it. Most things I can fix. This is going to need an adult. So, doesn't matter what lane I'm on, I'm going to be leaving eight pins apparently. And it hurts even more in slow motion.

Unbelievable. What a year. Perfect. Get it out of there. All right. The lane giveth and the lane taketh away. So leave an eight pin, triple four pin. That's balance, right? So, a pearl ball like hammerhead is probably going to want a little bit more open angle. Now, a pearl ball that's got HK is going to be a little

bit more responsive down lane. I hope cuz I love the Hammerhead. It was one of my favorite bowling balls of the year and in my opinion the best benchmark we had in 2025. My opinion. Don't come for me. I know there's a lot of great bowling balls this year. Last year I should say, but it was the year of control. Moving in the 20. A I missed it. Okay, good sign. I missed it at the bottom.

Just had enough to hit them thin. Watch them spin. Get a little pin action on this lane. I'm liking it. So, uh, next shot I'm going to do less talking. I want to make sure that I grab the heck out of it on the bottom. So, I want to see this ball get back and I want to see it go through the pins. I don't think this is going to be a big old hooking bowling ball. It's going to be for medium lane. It's going to be a medium lane house shot destroyer

there. Oh, get Oh, come on. Dang. If that would have tripped the nine pin like kamicazi it from the back. It was spinning. It almost hit it. Hope you see it on the the slow motion there. But wow. All right. This ball responds pretty quick to the friction there. It's uh seeing it and it's digging in. So, let's uh throw that same shot but maybe get the speed up a little bit. Let's

delay that hook down lane. Oh no. Carrie, Carrie. Well, I think I just have to get out of this zone. This ball's telling me to keep venturing to the left. And that's what we must do. Five boards at a time like we always like to do because we have a routine on this channel and it serves me well. And I hope it serves you well. We put the bowling ball through

the paces. and talk about what I see. And so far, I see this ball is becoming a little bit of a menace when it sees friction. More oil. That thing is responding pretty quick. Now, granted, it is a symmetrical ball. It's only in the 040s for diff, but my eyes are seeing it. I hope you're seeing it, too. Once it starts seeing that

friction, it's responding. It's changing direction. That's what you want to see. It's abrupt quick response where the other one, the hammerhead, was slow response. Let's try it again. I feel like I could just keep aggressive with my speed and just keep throwing it hard.

in the oil. Yeah. Okay. Pinched it in just a little bit. It felt like and wrapped a 10. It's kind of a dramatic 10pin. Wasn't a weak 10. All right. Maybe don't throw it so hard. But still catch it all at the bottom. I want to go through the face. How about that? Just kidding. I don't actually want to go through the face. I just want to see if it'll do it. All right, let's leave a stone nine.

That's a stone nine. Oh, that was almost a stone nine hit though. Woo. Yeah. Seems like the more I get after it, the more it wants to give me on the back end. So, we got to keep moving. That's not enough. Whatever zone that was. Was that 25? Not enough. Let's go into 30. We're going to find the zone eventually. I think this is going to be fine. I can

probably start letting off now in the speed because uh the friction to the right is very well established here. No. And I missed it all in the bottom. Missed it in. Missed it all at the bottom. It's a finicky ball. It's finicky sometimes when you get that pearl skid flippy ball symmetric. I have to be perfect sometimes. That's where I benefit from asymmetric balls. I'm still

what you would consider a speed dominant player for my game. I tend to like some asymmetricals, especially if I'm going to cover more boards from in. I don't have to be as perfect. I get a little bit of benefit from an asymmetrical core for me. That's a better shot. Yes. Ah, yeah. All right. Wrap the tent this time. All right. If I just do that,

soften the speed. A scoch. A scoch is like 0.2 to 0.5. I think we'll be in the zone because right now that zone was good. Just missed the spot. Third time's a charm, right? I think I'm too far in with this ball now. I could be wrong. Let's soften it up.

Almost left us the 78 there up for a second there. Yeah, just soften the speed. Just give it a little bit more time to do what it needs to do, and that's slow down, change direction. Skid flip ball, if it doesn't see it, it's going to see it too late, and that's when you leave some weird stuff. Luckily, it's just been w 10 for me. Luckily, it hasn't been like 248 10 or anything like that. Let's move into 35.

So far, I think 25 was pretty good zone for me with this ball. Perfect shot. I thought that was everything I needed to do. Softer speed around the side of it through the oil. Trying to kept the uh angles a little tighter that four pin. So, I think I'm in the close enough zone there where I can make this work.

Let's try it again. I don't think it's ideal spot, though. I feel like I have to be perfect with the breakpoint spot. A little loft. Oh, beauty. This ball responds really hard. If you give it the time to do it, it's going to come off that spot. So far, my misses have been four pin or if I miss in the bottom or something like that, I'm going to leave a 10 pin.

That's been my miss so far. But I can adjust off of those. I know what I'm doing for the most part. One more shot here, then I think we're going to move back to 25. Oh, that's just let go easy. Come on. Yeah, I am not equipped to play this ball from such an extreme angle. I need about 100 RPMs more. I might go shopping on eBay

for those later and see if I can pick one up last second. Snipe them at the last second. That's the only way to do eBay, right? All right, moving back to 25. Final shot. Cool ball. It is violent on the back end. You just got to get lined up in the right spot to do it. And I think a little straighter was a lot greater. So

that's all for the Hammerhead Pearl. Quite a bit of difference between this one and the original. So I hope you learned a lot. I sure did. I know what I'm getting. When I get a hammerhead pearl, we're getting a lot more backend response, a lot more wicked ball motion, that kind of patented hammer backend motion. So, check out the crew. Memberships are available to you. If nothing else, please subscribe. I really appreciate all your support over the last few years. Talk to you on the next video.