Motiv Shadow Tank Review

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to say something without saying something, but we got the new tank shadow that's mixed with purple and black. I think we know the two most infamous urethane light bowling balls. Even though it's not urethane, right? It's micro cell polymer. Super sciency name. But 78 hardness or 79. I think like Ron Hicklin tested and said 79, but we got to see, man. We got a short pattern out here and we got a house shot. So, of

course, we're going to start on the short pattern. Um, and then we're going to get get a little warmed up before I have any critiques of the ball. Um, so yeah, man. I'm very very curious. Again, very opao time. And uh, if you read the shirt, it's how I feel about all of it. But, you know, we ain't got to talk too much else about that. Oh, layout is again a 4 inch pin. Same same angle. So 60 by 60 by 4 by 30. Uh typically, you know, you can even drill this stronger,

right? Probably 3 and 1/2 in pin. But I didn't want to deviate too far from my norm because all the other urethanes are still 60x 4 and 1/2 by 30. So, but yeah. So, we're going to start with this just this video. Then we're going to follow it up with the video that everybody wants to see, which is the purple hammer and the black hammer. Where does this ball fall in line with that? So yeah, man. Let's get to it. But hit that like, subscribe, get over to cool to get all the latest jerseys, pullovers, the season starting to change. Just go take advantage. Get to it, guys. Um, and

Bulgemart, they have everything. So links below, use the links, hit the description, and it's going to show you all the info. And then the shammis. I forgot. Shammies on deck. Go ahead and get the new ones. Grab them. Thank me later. So, let's get to the lanes. All right. So, let's see what we get here. Again, not going to comment a whole lot. Want to get this ball like, you know, again, the first shots always hook a ton, but I think this is uh PBA

back. So, 37 ft. So, again, really short again. First shot. Not a crazy amount of flare. And I will like throw a couple shots

with the uh red hammer or the not the red hammer, the IQ tour um 78 and the black hammer in this video just to give you a preview and then just cuz I do need a baseline like that help me understand what I'm seeing. Okay. I ain't really hit up on it yet.

You see that? Jeez Louise. That was That was insane. Oh, so I'm really so I really ramped the speed up on that one and definitely went straighter, which I've seen that happen with any urethane ball. So, but that was quite intriguing. Hopefully, it's starting to tame down a little bit and you know, whether you're

stretching the pattern or again a ball just getting a little oil on the cover. Oh, whoops. It's also what you get. So, again, I'm going go ahead throw the black hammer. Um, just again, just about two shots just not to completely give the next video away, but I know that's that question you want answered. So, again, first shot always hooks. So, in this case, it doesn't really count.

Yo yo yo yo. Throw the purple the tank shadow. Okay, that's what I was expecting, right? Just smooth, controllable, you know, and again, I can keep, you know, going further right and I think we're going to be fine. I'm going to pick the black hammer up >> after this shot.

Oh yeah, that's this is intriguing. This is intriguing, man. And so again, I missed it to the right to where all that friction where I've seen this ball really change direction. Again, I missed in and then hit some oil right and it sat, which is I think the optimal, you know, thing for your thing. You miss in, it holds, you know, get a little to the right, it still has enough to hook back. Now, this looks like a

hold all my impressions. I'm trying to hold them a little bit because I'm trying to see if this is going to continue. So, back to >> you know, you got to spend, you know, hours trying to get the oil off the urethane. All right, let's try another one. Okay. Okay.

All right. Black hammer just did some work right there. Go a little more to the ditch. So the ditch is like really hooking. It just is. So I still got to give it a little angle. I think that's what I've seen so far, you know. Yeah. So again, both balls have done

that, right? If I throw it out there early, too early, it just cross over. And the cover, again, the cover just doesn't feel like urethane. Like, urethane has like a certain like texture to it that I just don't feel it on this one. Man, that I'm trying not to get left right. That's

my urge. But we going to get left just so I I got to see now. Like this ball is really responding. And I definitely can, you know, power this ball kind of through the spot uh and stay to the right. And I think that's where most people will be, you know, trying to use this ball instead of swinging a whole lane. So, moving to what is it about 23 24 on my feet and still going to try to get this ball out and see if it shapes

like pretty early. So, all right. So, I got super lucky. So, let me slow my speed down a little a lot. Yeah. So, no, you can't do that. I'm going to throw

the black hammer from there just to confirm the suspicion. It's not in play, but I'm pretty sure it's not in place. Do the same thing. All right. Like I didn't get that nearly as far to the right. So, let's try that with the tank. You know, we got to try it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I don't know.

All right. So, again, not going to try to get this to the ditch and come back, but a little bit to the left of that. So, probably again around 10. Pretty strong hand position. Didn't get as far wide as I wanted to, but y'all saw that. Just again, this is not the way to use urethane at all. It is not. I do have a video idea that hopefully my man Scott can come on. He

uses urethane a lot. I think him and my guy Nathan, uh you've seen him on some of the uh the league the league nights. He used your thing pretty well, much better than myself. And I think they can really help and give some tips, right, to how to effectively use it, right? Surface, when to loft, when not to loft the ball. Um, because that's a big thing with these urethanes, uh, to stay online as long as possible. Doing what I'm doing is really not conducive to scoring, especially when you have multiple people using urethane, pushing oil down to not what you really want.

So, yeah. So, but this purple I mean this tank the shadow is interesting to say the least. I'm going to do one more and then we're going to get back to what we how we should be playing the lanes which is much further to the right. Yeah. So that one Yeah. Threw it out there. A lot of speed. So you would just again be to the right.

Don't be trying to swing this ball. You can if you like really good with your speed, right? Like being really nice to it at the bottom. And you see see some PBA guys, you know, do that with urethane. I'm liking this one much better than I did the what was the the red one that was recently out. I can't remember the name of it. But that one, y'all could

have kept that one. This one, this one doesn't suck. Like for real. You know, urethane sometimes sucks, but you know, this is not urethane. So, y'all feel me? You feel me? So, again, moving much further, right, hopefully stretching the pattern a little bit. So, I'm going try to do a full game. Like, why not? while I got you here.

Ah, maybe a little too hard. Uh, hopefully it smooths out and cuz initially I was hooking ah a little too much. So, let's see. Let's pick this up. If I have brought my spare ball in, I would have threw my spare ball like

that. But we don't. So, my camera died on me like within that first um second shot. So, um of the full game. So, now we're going to shoot that full game again, guys. Yes, we are. All right. So again, I saw a lot of good things, but I want you guys to see it, too. So, we're going to shoot this together. Uh, the lane is kind of stretched out a little bit, so I've seen a lot smoother

ball reaction. Soon as I say that, then it does that. So, I don't know. But yes, [Music] so let's see again. Can we shoot a high score here? Start off again. These two strikes

move left. I don't know why I did that. My brain and and my feet ain't communicate. Ah, if I backed the ball a little bit, I might have had a chance, but let's go. Missed that one. Let's do some striking now. I'll move my feet closer to like 15 at the dots. I might move further because I typically drift and walk a little left. So, I might go to 10.

That's what I'm going to do. I'm going step on 10 and I'll probably get closer to like 15 at the foul line. [Music] All right. So, speed. Speed just like on all urethanes, like I think I mentioned that before. Um, it's very critical, right? How fast are you going in relation to again how the the lane is breaking down, the pattern breaking down? So, I think I need to be a little bit slower now.

If I had my spare ball, I would be using my spare ball. So, be nice and smooth. Oh, just too I caught it a little too good. Just a little bit. Make your spares. Make your spares, kids. Let me not try to go as crazy with

the hand. Miss the left. Help. That's what we want to see from urethane. Let's see if I miss right. Another hook. Yeah. Feet on like 15.

I'm grabbing like a mint full of it. I probably don't need to do that. Ball seem to be hooking plenty. Like long as I stay in that this realm should be fine. I don't need to, you know, tiger tiger grip this ball like that. But again, definitely liking this one a lot more than the red one. All right. 15.

Oh, I caught it a lot again. Lay off. Yeah, just caught it like crazy. Sad sad story. that sword. So again, struggling to get the corner out, but that's more of an inconsistency on me. Um, again, once the game is over, we will throw back the black hammer and a purple hammer for a couple shots just

so we can see. But like I said, the pattern is definitely stretched. And this ball can use some more surface. Looking almost, you know, shiny now, which you know, most of your thing, you hit it with 360. You need 360, son. Oh, this game is legal. You know, y'all saw the nine pin drop. My guy in the back, Scott Anderson, he's like, nine pin fell. Well, I think that hurts my chances of striking, but you know, I don't know. What do I know? Help

me. It did. A nine pin being out helped. I struck. I should make I should need need a shirt. Nine pins suck. I'll leave a lot of nine pins. A lot of eight pins. Hey. Hey, again, way better than the red one. Bro, if you was fighting to get the red one, go ahead and ditch that one and then get this purple one. The purple and black, it probably got something to do

with the colors, man. Purple and black just it worked. Oh, lost it a little bit at the bottom. Lost it a little bit at the bottom. full game. There you have it. 190 195 didn't set the world on fire. I don't claim to throw urethane well, but like I

said before, going to have some guys that do throw urethane very very well on the channel and they should be able to help us, you know, improve our urethane game because you need to help. I need the help. We all need to help. I don't think gear's really going anywhere, even though they keep changing all these rules and stuff. But again, I'm not a PBA guy, so it doesn't hurt me one way or the other. though. But oh, one more, then we're going to pick out the black hammered.

Lay. That's what you want. Uh for to lay. Sit there. Sit there, buddy. All right. Get some more black hammer. I expect the black hammer to hook more. I do. I 100% do. [Music] Yep. Good old black hammer. I don't

think nobody touching that ball. Just personally like I not touching it. But again, Motive has an option that makes their staff competitive. Got to throw another one after that first shot. Oh, that's nothing. Oh, wow. So, this is going to hook a mile. So, don't really pay attention to this first shot cuz literally all of them hooked a mile.

So, again, let's see what it does like these next three shots. Again, fresh surface, so it's going to hook a lot. High flush. So, this has the biggest core out of this group, so it should stand up the quickest in theory. So, but like I said, the Black Hammer did very similar activity. So did the the tank, the new shadow. Like when it's fresh

service, they just hook a lot. So it's just again what does it do when it get some oil on it? Why you see like when you go on tour people have like four black hammers or four IQ Tour 78s. So they got fresh surface, fresh service and fresh surface. And so I have traditionally liked this ball because it's earlier, but it just

again all depends on who you are on the pair with, how are you breaking it down. But yeah, so far this definitely feels like the quickest or the earliest ball like reading reading the lane. All right, let's see if this tacky some of the oil getting on this cover helps lay. So now I can parallel all the way to the right now and it should, you know, arc off of it no problem. Yeah,

it's like all the covers they settle in. Oh. Don't let me throw it like super bad. Super bad. All right, I'm going to throw one more shot, then we'll get back to the tank and then we're going to wrap this video up cuz that's not what this is about. Oh goodness. That ball is literally hook off the

hand. Yeah, that's interesting. So, let's pick up the tank. We're going to talk about that for a little bit. Then we going to get out of here, man. They have a good amount of shots to help make some decisions and hopefully again we'll have some some other good folks on and they can explain what they see as well. So, and it maybe it has something to do with the other two being like pearls and the IQ2 being a solid. Maybe that's

something to do with I don't know. I'm no chemist or scientist. Cuz if I had to guess, this is a pearl. Like it has a a shimmer to it. It looks like a pearl. But I could be wrong. I don't know what's on the box. All the information is on the screen. Oh, again I'm appreciating the shape of

this and I honestly feel like this has again a chance to make the bag or have another option when I'm facing some short stuff when I'm doing my weekend warrior activities. So again, not horrible. It is a pearl. Okay, thank you sir. So they did confirm it's a pearl cuz I like a pearl. Oh, when you get too clean, it floats. But

that's it. Oh, my bad. Purple hammer. I'm going to throw purple hammer just like two, three times and then we out. So, this is all the controversy is right here. This little thing, this little old thing, man, causing so many problems in the bowling world. Yeah, that that there's a reason. There's a reason this it's legal technically, but hey, this you know.

Hey, that was my first shot. You know, all first shots don't count. That split the 89 though. That That did. I ain't going to lie. Hey man, I'm telling you, I'd be mad too if I was the other company. I ain't going to lie to you. Like, hey, what are they doing? They holding this chemistry hostage, man. Cuz that's that look like reactive. Hey, this is just being, you know, all

jokes. I can have fun, man. You know, none of these people pay me, you know, to throw the ball ball. So, I can just have some fun here cuz this is this is absurd. That's that that is cheating, man. I ain't going to lie, man. All the other ones don't do nothing like that. It is just that just haha. Like, come on. That ain't fair. But I'm I'm here to tell you, life isn't

fair either. So, I mean, I wasn't blessed to be, you know, 6'8. I can't go look and be mad at everybody that's taller than me. But this is comical. I'm not going to lie to you. >> Oh, and I cooked it around it, too. Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah. In short, there's a reason why these bowls have been made to be, you know, harder balls. So, I think, yeah, you

pull out the pitch black, right? We'll see a lot more shape as well. But, uh, I ain't bring that with me. For the balls that don't hook, this is this is a fair option. So, there you have it, guys. I appreciate you as always. I'm not selling this, right? This is just my my guy Shock makes shirts. Uh, your thing sucks, man. Y'all know. And yeah, good thing the motor ball isn't

urine. It's micro cell polymer scientific name. But appreciate you guys. Like, subscribe. Links for everything is nice and below. >> I'mma keep it moving. Put the music up. I'mma keep them grooving. You sleeping on me, just keep snoozing. I'm so locked in right