This is interesting!! I'm a Special Olympics bowler for 10 years! I love to learn something new every day!

I work at Storm. The process has changed some since the video was made.

"This Machine shapes the ball with out removing a lot of resin." and it takes a good half inch (1cm) of.

I loved that Storm Hot Rod Hybrid they featured in that. I rolled my second 300 with that ball.

5:24 really professional

This used to my fav video... nostalgia.

You can tell this guy's voice is awesome when transcribe audio gets most of it right.

This used to be my favourite video bc I loved bowling lol

That strike they showed was really heavy in the pocket, pretty lucky

Found this video again after 7 years.

This is the most correct, concise and thorough explanation of bowling ball construction to include specifications and industry standards. And if you correct me, you pass the idiot test.

Pretty cool. I actually do remember that most bowling balls do indeed have an individual smell. 2:12

Woooooow. So original. I can't believe you came up with that all by yourself.

This was really informative, actually.

Always very informative :)

Umm, that whole thing about the core is completely wrong. That slab at the top is *NOT* what causes the ball to hook... If you look at other professional bowling balls, they don't even have that slab, that's pretty much unique to Storm. Its the shape of the core that causes the motion of the ball in combination with the ball's surface.

i just love these videos

I'm so glad that they stated balls sometimes have smells with them. I got my Black Widow ball and swore it smelled like Caramel when they drilled it.

Niko! let's go bowling!

lmao I love the looks of all the workers. I thought I saw neuman for a sec there

I like that they have let some machine sounds come along in this one!

In order for a ball to hook. A ball has to be custom drilled for the person who is using it. Not just anyone can make the same ball hook.

so how do they make the clear ones with the skull inside

1:29 When mum say "Diner"

@vitruvian8807 The'yve missed quite a bit of detail in this. Take a closer look and you'll see a yellow dot about 3/8" across on the surface of these balls. That's the riser pin which locates the centre of the ball core. That pin can be located in relation to a player' axis of rotation to create a larger or smaller "wheel" within the ball. Larger distances rev up slower, smaller ones faster. It's a lot more complex than that, but I'm sure you get the idea.

They really need to clean those balls more thoroughly before using them so the bowling pins wouldn't be so dirty afterwards

House balls do have a smaller version of a weight block or (mechanism) as you described it.

This was awsome

the core determines the weight not the outer shell. shell thickness can vary but it's density from ball to ball is the same.

Does anyone know where that bowling alley is

4:22: The balls are so hype about the music. 😆

Lol, there are no pre-drilled balls.

Omg this video was made when I was born even tho I watch this when I was 4-5

i would love a polisher like the one in 4:35

its depends from wich side the ball has a "charge", the depth of the finger holes may also be considered in a shot, but usually in any bowling place the balls doenst have any specific charge at any side and they have a coventional grip. Excuse my definitions I dont know the specific word from spanish to english for grips and ball charge.

So satisfying

HEY! NIKO!!

@luigi90900 That is probably the least amount needed to be taken off judging by the extreme ridges and valleys present on the surface of the rough ball.

But how do they know where that puck like thing that helps bowlers curve their shot ends up if it gets all covered up? Or does its position not matter?

I didn't it's a meme, I'm expressing how I am relived that I finally know how they are made, it always interested me how they were made.

i like lighter balls but the holes are too small for my thumb my mom says i cant have a customised ball what to do?

@speedyduck38 Narrator meant the location of where they were when the video was shot.

Don't bowl much, but I sure love to know how things are made.

my storm has a fish smell on the finger hole go figure!! - -)

It appears that Storm bowling balls are made in America I like that

awesome!!

yeah at least someone has watched this in their childhood

Great display of talent .

I have a Storm Fast, Cherry smell...love it!!!!!

I wonder if the hot rod hybrid ball still selling for 2023?

thank u for not telling me how the core gets in

omfg where i live i remmember making fun of the Storm ball and now i know how they are made.. :P

personally im a hammer guy but these storm factorys give bowling a bad name hammer psycho for me

2:12 only in storm

@JasonDoust Also, they don't drill the holes at the factory.. that is the job of your local pro shop operator. And i highly doubt that they actually used metal for the weight blocks...

Now adays, for the last step you have to go to a pro shop and get the holes drilled. Storm or any other companies like Ebonite dont do predrilled anymore.

very nice

They should’ve filmed the bowling at a tenpin bowling arcade place 😂

Since when is there a metal piece in gold to curve? To hook is the core and the coverstock

Those are storm hot rods

That would be the point of a curve ball isnt it? My dad would specifically request what area of where to put the extra weight in order to match to his certain throwing style. Curved balls typically have two holes instead of three.

What bowling balls were made in that factory?

Should have included that the hole werent being drilled at the factory. A normal house ball would be, but a special bowling ball like the ones featured in this wouldnt. You would get your finger/thumb width and hand span measured at a pro shop and then they would custom drill the ball for your fingers only

actually up until recently a bowling ball was allowed to have twelve holes. it has been reduced to eleven. you are allowed one for each finger (thats 5), then you are allowed a small "vent" hole for each finger to allow air in and out so you don't have a vacuum effect when releasing the ball, then a "weight" hole to make it legal, and before resin balls the PBS used a durometer hole above the fingers 1/16" deep to be sure the surface wasn't tampered with thats 5+5+1+1=12

What ball was being made?

@BowlerX0001 you can have the ball drilled at the factory but i wouldnt trust them that much

It's only if you get that specific ball. House balls usually don't have this mechanism.

Because the light weight one's don't get made with a weighted core like this, the rest of the ball is also made from other materials

Thanks for this nice share :)

Yes, but the real question is how did they make the bowling ball with the rose in it from Kingpin?

They should just go over the proccess of making the ball, but cut out all the technical stuff because they are dead wrong

I was really hoping the last manufacturing step would be to take the ball and roll it down an alley, 5:22 yay!

ooh mine was candlepin bowling.

most everyone who bowls is aware of the feature the reason most people dont have reactive balls as they are called is they arent very cheap ranging from $90-$200 dollars or more

Different companies have different ways of creating balls.. Some (the yellow pin you see in the ball) hanging outside the ball through the mold.. It is later cut off and then the ball is cut on a lathe and pretty much the same process you saw in this clip.. So, the ROSE (it's own weightblock) is hung while the ball hardens..

Are 9 lb balls ever made with polyurythane or just plastic?

3:38 Damn I hate my job

I LOVE Bowling

Darn! It was close!

SUBBED!

The skull is the denser core, while a clear polyurethane is used to make the body of the ball. Same concepts, different result.

I'm going bowling for my 16th :)

"metal" aka proprietary information withheld.

That’s a lot of balls

Nostalgia

you watched this as a kid..

the finger holes are drilled at proshop.. not at factory...

Oh so this is how the bowling ball have sex with bowling pins!

"some bowlers also want their balls to have individual smell"

i love bowling is neyon in 2019 or 2020 2024?

i like how it says here in the USA with a GB flag in the top left ;)

this is actually so awesome! as a bowler i love this.

2:43 why is michael moore working in a bowling ball factory??

lol the storm factory looks sooo dirty compared to the ebonite assembly line

i love my storm bowling ball

how much are professional bowling balls?

man, why are american bowling balls so big? the ones that were at my bowling alley were WAY smaller.

Please small feeling masin tools in jewellery use demo

YOU DONT DRILL IT THE CUSTOMER GOES TO A PRO SHOP AND MAKES IT A CUSTOM FIT FOR THE CUSTOMER

A ten pin king