Roto Grip Hustle Wine Review

i never thought i would ask whether or not a bowling ball would pair better with beef or chicken or maybe fish but i think it's time we find out let's get into it going on you guys welcome to 10 pin life my name is ben and in this video we are going to be talking about the roto grip hustle wine if you are a big fan of bowling please be sure to like this video share it with your friends and also hit that subscribe button down below before we get started i want to throw a big shout out to the guys at

striking edge pro shop dale and rhino are awesome to work with so if you are in need of a new fit new ball anything in the central wisconsin area please be sure to give them a call i have their contact information in a link down below so the hustle wine it is one of the newest hp1 releases from roto grip featuring the tried and true hustle core but also the vtc pearl cover stock so starting in the middle we have the hustle core the numbers on this core have stayed the same since its release of a 253 rg and an o30 differential moving to the outer shell of the ball we

have the vtc pearl cover stock and interesting about this is the fact that it is the exact same cover stock that was used on the hustle wrap but in the darker the deep wine red color being that it is an hp one ball it is gonna fall in a similar category to let's say an electrify or a burner pearl one of the lower end type bowling balls that's relatively simple in its technology and really meant for when lanes start to dry out when i think about balls that are in this category this lower end or simple technology type of category i really

think that it has its place but it's not something that really has maybe a lot of shelf appeal or isn't going to sell a lot of units but it's also something that a lot of guys probably need especially if you're going out and pulling tournaments historically these types of bowling balls have actually been the ones that a lot of guys reference when they're talking about kind of what saved their blocks or what really helped them get through when the going got tough and the lanes got very difficult because when they have these lower performance type balls you don't have to open your angles up a ton you

can shut them down because it's not going to overhook overreact and you're able to just get into the pocket maybe not carry everything but you're going to get there and you're going to be close you're going to leave a lot of single pins you're going to leave about a makable spares versus trying to cover a lot of boards looking for a 250 look you're able to keep it in front of you and look for a 210 a 220 look and just keep yourself moving forward in a block where you really need to grind another optimized setting that i've seen for balls that are like this is for your low rev type players who really don't like to move left so if you have individuals

who really just prefer to play up the boards especially on house shots and just keep their game nice and simple when they get into bigger bowling balls balls that have bigger cores stronger covers that sort of thing it forces them left and when you're a lower rev type player i think a lot of pro shop guys think to themselves that they need more ball to be able to get up into the pocket but on many house shots what happens is their ball just fries and it doesn't hook because it's just dead in the front part of the lane not because the ball doesn't have potential but because it's used all of its potential an hp one ball like this or any lower

performance ball is gonna be able to get through a lot of that friction and save some energy for the person that maybe doesn't have a lot of hand and still gets through pins before the ball completely rolls out and dies another interesting thing about this release that i found pretty intriguing is that this is the 10th hustle that rotogrip has released they've been doing them in groups of two or three with having a solid cover stock and a pro cover stock or mixing a hybrid in there from time to time but in kind of bunches of two or three and this is the 10th iteration of

a ball using this hustle core with a different cover stock on it so initially when i thought about doing this video the question that i wanted to answer was why did they make this ball why did they release this ball same core same cover as a different bowling ball just a different color what is the intention behind releasing this ball at the time that they did was it a line filler were they trying to just replace the wrap with maybe something that's got that deeper color so it read the lane a little bit sooner but it's going to be a small difference most guys aren't going to see or is it actually going to have a substantially

different shape than the other stuff that is in the lower tier of that line how does it shape up against say an electrify or against a burn or pearl when they're really going to be in a similar category and also how does it compare to say some of the bigger pearls like the zen which has been one of the most successful balls of the last year and a half or so so rather than speculate let's go out to the lanes let's see what it's got [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

[Music] oh i got that way right all right burnt up house shot we're gonna stand about 28 here trying to get her to about eight or so down lane nah that didn't get quite right enough just kind of hung let's see if we can actually hit our spot here

roll the out of that one so far three pretty bad shots to be honest but you'll have that it's bowling right i've gotten nine three times on three not great shots so that's a good sign we're gonna move a couple more right also because i think i might just be a little bit too far left we're gonna about 25 here all right actually threw it good that time gonna move one back left here 26

same zone here there it is like i said though this is only burned up house shot and i really didn't give that away at all but it was not afraid to get off of it once it actually got to the end of the pattern which is awesome super clean too i mean that didn't see anything same thing here got that one way right here there we go now we're tuned in let's get around it let's try that let's get

around a little bit we're going to move back to two more send it right oh that got a mile right that was interesting heck that was pretty cool actually honestly if it's gonna come squealing back like that let's use some shape okay don't was it right but i can absolutely give that ball business at the bottom i mean those are two shots where i have absolutely wrenched on them let's get a benchmark

here we are going to throw the hustle ink probably the most popular hustle ball that was ever made we're going to stay in the same spot trying to do the same thing see what it does so that picked up as we would all expect quite a bit sooner nothing terribly surprising about that shape a little bit stronger front to back solid cover let's go to the daddy here we're gonna throw the zen see what it does on the same spot as well

way slower that was a great illustration of the difference of what differential can do super continuous once it saw kind of where that friction was you can really start to see a pickup but it's also pearl so i got through it pretty good on something this ride probably wouldn't throw the zen all that much honestly we'd have to get so far left you just angles get so steep let's try the honey badger revival this ball has been great on freaking everything for me illustration of asymmetry it's really nice to have four balls that you kind of

know what they're gonna do and they do what the book says they're supposed to do now let's go back to the wine four balls that are probably going to go with me to my next tournament honestly to be honest i blinked on that i didn't see golden only download we're gonna play some different zones now we kind of know where it wants to be i'm going to move eight right did we get up the back of it just push it down the lane a bit

definitely saw where it wanted to hook and it did it but it still kind of just laid there and waited for the right spot every shot i've known with this ball thus far i have given the business and so far it looks pretty good we're gonna move five more right see if we can get through it nope that tried so hard to get there a little bit too much benchmark shots we're about 28 with my feet four left off of that move our feet up a little bit too

i probably got some more to go off of that so it's 32 let's go three more low 35 that is about the limit right there i mean that's hp one ball hitting fifth arrow let's see what the zen does from in there wow lots rounder i'm gonna throw that one more time but i'm gonna do something different with my hand when i kind of slow roll it not quite give it away as

much yeah you have one that is just about getting in and kind of wheeling on it letting that axis rotation really work in the hustle line because the lower differential means it won't quit versus the zen because of how much differential is in it and how early rolling that core is what will actually happen is just let it pick up and it won't do anything stupid in the oil because it's still getting through wherever you've got maybe some burn spots but you can't really wheel on it like that on something

that's clipped off like this because the differential slows it down too much and then you 2810 let's see if we can another couple and get on out of here do you love it when you throw it bad and it still strikes one more almost send her back here [Music] it doesn't get any better than that let's go and we are back just got off the lanes

with the hustle wine and boy that actually worked out much better than i expected you know a part of it was sort of by design and when i decided to go through those shots i really wanted to make sure that it was on something that was maybe a little bit trashed something that was a little bit drier you know i've had a couple times to throw this ball in fresher conditions and it's really not suited necessarily for that but man when it really got into these high friction zones it was just really able to control it but still continue through pins why does it do that well it's meant to do that that's the entire

point of this bowling ball be able to get through friction float through the fronts get through some mid lane stuff use a lower differential type core to be able to save some energy don't burn it all up in the mid lane and just use that to get through pins well so what do i think the best case uses of this ball are well there's two one this is going to be when there's a lot of friction that was the whole point of going and bowling on this burned up house shot that's when i'm going to use this ball when the fronts are fried or the edges are fried and i need something to get

through it and also not just die when it hits that corner or just bank off of it and go dead left this ball is able to float and have an easy reaction not overdo it and control the pocket when there's a lot of friction this also comes into play during longer format tournaments if the qualifying block is between 8 10 maybe even 12 games and we're bowling on something that's 38 to 45 feet probably somewhere in there i'm going to bet that this ball is going to come out somewhere in the latter portions of that qualifying block when i

just need to float it through it and hit where the break point is and just get it into the pocket because sometimes the zen is a little bit too much sometimes the honey badger wants to roll too much sometimes the big solid balls just don't have enough giddy up and go to get through the pins at all and this ball really has that place later in those blocks just being able to control the pocket control my reaction and not split a whole bunch and maybe kick out a few tens and just keep grinding out those two twenties hopefully even getting up into 240s something like that the other best use scenario that i see with this

ball is going to be for either rev dominant or slow speed tight bowlers and especially those that are both and this is going to be traditionally meant for those that bowl primarily or entirely on house shots if you are a rev dominant player this ball is going to do one thing it's going to control the cliff if you've ever bowled on a house shot especially in a maybe a longer format tournament you know at some point there's gonna be this defined line somewhere between eight board and twelve board that it's either gonna hook if you miss it right or it's gonna fly if you miss it left and this ball will be able

to keep your angles more in front of you keep your feet a little bit further right so you can throw it into some usable friction float through it the right way but also still have some power to get through the pins once it gets there but also if you're a slower speed bowler sometimes you just need a ball that's just gonna get through everything because if you have a medium rev rate but it's everything seems to just overreact or just really labor up into the pocket because it's using up all of its energy this ball is going to have some of that

natural length in it because of the ease of the cover the lower differential of that core and then it's going to be able to maybe kick out some more 10 pins for you increase your carry percentage a little bit because you're going to be able to play in a part of the lane that's maybe more comfortable for you further right and again use usable friction but that's going to be our best case scenarios it's also important to know what this ball isn't what i don't think it can do or maybe some of the times when it might not be a great fit for you and in your arsenal it's easy to say that every ball has a place in

somebody's bag but honestly that's not the truth so here are the two ways that i think that this ball doesn't match up first off i don't think that this ball is going to be great for your traditional speed dominant bowlers it doesn't have a whole lot of friction built into it because of how clean this cover is and the fact that it really doesn't flare a whole lot a speed dominant bowler is probably going to have issues getting this ball up into the pocket with the right amount of angle also unless you are a traditional stroker type player i really don't think

that this ball is gonna come out on fresh conditions at all i have not hit it with any surface at all but every time that i've thrown this ball on fresh conditions it's just over under all day you miss it left it just hits the oil and it just skids through it and if you miss it right it saves so much energy because it's so clean it gets very very angular and it just starts leaving weird artistic designs otherwise known as splits if you want a ball that's made for more fresh conditions but you don't want to maybe spend a whole lot of money or you still like playing more up the

boards and maybe you just match up with the hustle core should probably go with something like a hustle pbr or the electrify solid something in that territory where it's just more made for fresher type conditions and keeping your angles in front of you but honestly i think that this ball has a place in a lot of people's arsenals even more so than i thought originally you know with me essentially thinking that it was a re-issue of the hustle rap i was really confused when this ball was released i wasn't really sure what they were trying to do with it it just seemed like it was just falling into the line because

rotogrip needed a new hustle but this is actually a pretty unique shape there's just something about the way that this core matches up with this cover at the color of this deep wine red storm has really started to focus on these controllable strong pearls and this really falls into that category when the zen starts to be too much this is probably going to be the next ball out of my bag get to some usable friction and then just get through pins but that also means it's not doing the hockey stick like motion where it's just all clean and at all angle that's just

pretty unusable for pretty much every bowler but i want to know what you think do you like the idea of having a hustle wine in your bag where do you think it fits into your arsenal would you carry this and a high road and a zen and something else pearl or is this gonna be the one that maybe you just have two pearls and this is your weaker one how do you kind of see yourself laying that out let me know in the comments again thank you so much to the guys over at striking edge pro shop if you are interested in checking them out got the link in the bio but that is going to be everything for this one guys thank you

so much for tuning in and don't forget your best life is a 10 pin life see ya you