That one Japanese comment at the beginning was supportive tho. 😂😂😂😂

6:21 can we just appreciate that guy on the right who picked up that split. Wow

I'm by far more impressed that the lane maschines are capable to bring back this heavy pounder 😂

I would love to see the power of a 23 pound reactive ball! The pins will have no chance.

Your dedication to your craft is amazing. Much love.

As a pin setter mechanic that ball will-eventually get stuck in the ball return in back or front due to weight issues & oil on rubber wheels/belt to lift ball & depending on maintenance on machines (pinsetters) but other than that I’m sure that ball has lots of momentum behind it to bulldoze right through pins😊

I am in love with my Tzone as my plastic ball so it warms my heart to see it being used for all these experiments lol

My jaw just dropped. When I saw the lanes I was like wow I used to bowl there as a child. Then I saw you in the den after you finished and was like holy shit that is my childhood home. You must live on the block that I grew up on!

Love your passion for the game! Keep the experiment going!

Love it! Suggestion ended up becoming real! And who wouldn't want to see a 23lb purple hammer? :)

I love the custom core concept because it adds another level of experimentation. Not cheap though maybe mixing different metals in different parts of the core could be interesting. Would love to see ILLEGAL SOFT urethane + ILLEGAL WEIGHT

This is amazing and the fact that the doubters and haters don't want it to be a thing makes me love it even more. Do a reactive 23lber!

The “My Balls are Illegal” shirt is amazing

Bro the black and decker drill you pulled out at first had me dying 💀 🤣 😂

Good video! Great content!! I don’t care what one you do next, I’m watching what ever it is.

Slick beginning and that Raiders hat was righteous! Cool vid.

6:25 That would have been SOOO classic if the first shot 7-10'd!

Nice! Seeing how little that ball hooked you should try a low end reactive next.

Man I just taught myself how to throw one handed properly and now I see you've full switched to 2 hand 😭 your earlier vids helped out a lot with my progression

Ha very nice ! Try to make the spareball more dull with some pads and see how it goes first. Then , if you have the time it would also be fun to do it with a urethane or reactive ball as well. But it would be nice if you could try to somewhat bias the weight inside as similar as the original core would be.

damn you can really see KE=1/2mv^2 in action here. Your 15lb throw had a similar pin carry to the heavier balls because you threw the other two slower.

Now that you have those bits... It would be interesting to see if you could make a liquid core...

Definitely should try this with reactive, I think the added reactive will really display the unique "core" dynamics better than plastic will

Seeing a 20-plus reactive bowling ball would definitely be interesting to see. Maybe you'll bowl a perfect game with that!

I have two comments period First you are dealing with friction vs. Surface area vs weight. The weight is keeping it from hooking. You can sand it and get much better(or bigger) reaction. 2nd, im sure the tungsten chips and dust have settled some by now. You should drill it back open and see if you can add more weight.

You should try doing this to a reactive ball like a cheap Storm Tropical or something. Could probably find a used one.

Can't wait till the next vid Michael!

Definitely want to see this with a reactive coverstock.

you need to find a way to vibrate the ball after your pour the powder in, untill it stops setteling then compact it with the hammer. i bet you would be suprised at how much more you can get in the ball. great videos!! keep it up

Yes to reactive to get more hook and improved angle into the pocket. I heard that a 6 degree angle is best. Your polyester 23 pound ball had a smaller angle at the pins.

you are a legend :) keep them coming :D

Someone more versed in physics can probably explain better than I can, but the transition on from skid to roll happens due to friction and not weight distribution. That 23-pound ball has a LOT more mass that needs to change direction than a lighter ball does. You can have all the weight on one side of the ball, and it still moves in the same direction without friction. The ball will hook when the direction of rotation (vector) is in the same direction as the linear direction. That doesn't happen absent friction. Moving weights around can cause the sphere to wobble about on its initial axis or rotation (PAP) until it reaches a preferred axis (PSA), but as I said without friction it will still go in whatever direction it's initially travelling. The wobble is what we see as flare on a bowling ball. The purpose of track flare is to present a fresh ball surface free of lane oil to come in contact with the lane each rotation. That's why balls that flare more can possibly hook more and not because the weights are shifting inside the ball.

I seen that nice split conversion 2 lanes to the right on his first ball looked like 5-7

Almost left the 7-10, push to production, it's done! lol fun vid man

Shoutout to Emily’s order being ready 9:24 😂

That is crazy cool!! I wish I had one haha. Do a reactive one next!

I think u hit the mark of diminishing returns on the weight . Once you get over 20 I don’t think it makes a huge difference but it’s harder to throw and is more work for you as well . Love the videos and think it’s hilarious people say “illegal”

Nice man bun.. reminds me my lunch lady in high school... I'm sure some houses would object to even you rolling that ball open play. The stress on the lift motor the cushion and on the pins

I feel attacked! I saw the title for this video, had to come see if there was any comments on if it was legal to have a 23lb custom core ball and the intro showed me! LoL... As always, awesome videos... cannot wait for the next

0:54 I love the shirt that says, "My balls are illegal"! 🤣

You could try dulling the ball to get it to create some friction and hook. With it being so heavy, it shouldn't deflect so giving it 1000 or 500 surface shouldn't impact the way it drives through the pins

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Love your videos man! Watching from Germany

I'm not surprised that it doesn't hook much .. with that much weight the momentum is just going to carry it forward.

I would suggest giving the 23 pound ball some surface, about 1,000 or 1,500 grit.

I would think, as in sport training, practicing with heavier than normal used, would train you motion and balance to seam easy in league or tournament. I don't really know, but seams like it.

Love to see this with a reactive ball. I was typing this as I was watching the end where you said this lol

Love the cat by stove picture behind you. I have the same one. Wife hates it.

I love this stuff keep going its super funny

Great experiment!

It looks like it is hooking right away and just rolling. If you want more hook you want the mass as close to the cover as well as over your fingers

The reverse should be done. Since the late 1970s, bowling scores have been getting higher and higher. One way to get scores under control would be to make the pins over 4 pounds or heavier.

I always injoy your videos , thank you.

goes to show coverstock is 80% of ball motion/potential hook on the lanes. maybe try this with a ball with reactive cover. and have the same ball factory to compare it with.

Nice. Reminds me of my first ball , a legal 22 lbs handy me down from grandpa

oh man i laught so hard at 3:30, i thought "inst it dngerous to drill in the direction of our fingers and 2secs later he has a bandage o his finger

This is the most imprecise thing I've seen since the last contractor I stopped working for. 😂 Seriously tho, it really does seem to carry more instead of hook more... Just plows through with a good throw. Not bad. 🤷🏻‍♂️

1) Get a drill press! 2) if that gets caught in one of my machines where I work, it will become my property. 3) Should said ball become my property, I'm going to blow it up W/ some C4. 4) this was amusing to watch. 5) Loving the Kitty! 6) Run a reactive!

looks like the core is so offset that as it spins down the lane, the weight of the ball is going from top to bottom, and when the weight is at the top, there is less friction for the ball to utilize for hook. just an observation

Yay Kitty cat EVERYWHERE ❤ ....... appreciate it my brother, just for that I will buy some "my balls are illegal" shirt! Perhaps your best creative video ever in my opinion intro wise! I think you will do extremely well two handed in your next tournament. Gotta love Kitty shot in your merch site! 🤙❤ ...... cats are good for the soul.

Wow 👍 good job! Maybe it will be more heavy, difficult to up on belt ....😂

Have you ever had a 6 lb ball drilled for your fingers? I'd be curious to see you throw it as hard/fast as possible. My friends and I used to mess around with the 6 lb house balls gor kids and stand all the way back at the table and run up and chuck it (just putting our fingers on 2 holes, basically palming it) and still getting a little hook. I called it the whiffle ball shot, because that's basically how it looked haha.

6:21 appreciate the guy who convert a split

"Ah, f@#k-it dude... let's go bowlin'." "Walter, don't bring your 23 lbs ball, man... Kitanno won't like it." "He's crackin'."

How long do you think you could throw that before serious fatigue kicks in?

It's fascinating how many people miss the point entirely. You're not creating them because you want to use them in league, you're just doing something interesting to see what kind of wacky things may happen. Experiments are fun! Oh my god, the "Eric Trump would have thought of this" line LOL!!! That's giving him a hell of a lot more credit than he has earned!

Congratulations you are a young and strong champion bowler and can throw with a 23 pounds bowling ball 🌎. Be careful with the release. Have fun.😊

Maybe an entry level pearl reactive? A sneak attack or rhino… something like that. I feel like a strong reactive ball with so much weight might be tough to keep on the lane.

The ball return machine was sweating too 😂

Interesting video. I'm surprised that you didn't leave more splits, considering that ball does not deflect at all. (Unless you cut those out.😁) Also most likely didn't hook because 1 Physics will cause the weight to move to the outside orbit of the ball, and your weight is not a solid mass, and 2, it's a t-zone. 😁😁 Betcha that Brunswick ball wheel and lift rods were plenty tore up afterwards. (That's the A-2 Pinsetter Mechanic in me, there)

In the past it was very common to find 20 and 22 pound balls at a bowling lane. I've seen 24lbs before. Rule of thumb a lot of people used to go by long ago was no more than 10% of body weight. I remember some big old men destroying things at the alley a long time ago.

A 23 pound ball is ok for young, two handed, strong bowlers. It will have explosive hit power on the lane. Good luck. Thanks for the video. Try the urethane reactive challenge next time.

the begining is hilarious "IDC" 🤣

What you did with this video was awesome.

I was thinking a lot of your hits could have just been the cover stock. Hard to believe a 23lb ball would leave so many pocket 7 10s and 10 pins

I don’t know what you do, but you are the best at it.

great pick up!! 6:20

Do this same thing but with the lightest ball you can find! You wont get the high weight number but your ball reaction will be much much better.

Definitely a 20-plus reactive ball. I’m curious in how much it’ll hook

It would be interesting to see at what weight it would become self defeating. You need some resistance from the pins, ball deflection, to generate a strike. Be interesting to see at what weight you lose the pin resistance.

Yes 23 pound reactive, and a Urethane one too for the middle ground. You got the plastic ball. Fun to see.

Dude...your videos are great...and f'n funny!

You should buff the surface down to 500 grit and see what kind of reaction you can get

I’m a simple man. 220 uploads I watch the video.

When I was in my teens, I worked the all-night shift in a house that had both ten pins and duck pins. We would roll the duck pin balls around the rounded L-shaped settee area, and tried to get the ball down the lane and into the pins. It was cool and challenging, but not cool enough to tell my friends about it. Like this, it was just something silly that we did, which had no relationship to bowling.

For what it's worth, the shape you created by creating the core like that basically made the rg a hilariously low number, coupled with the plastic coverstock, ball just fights itself the entire way down the lane. You'd be better off drilling a wider column straight down (think 3-4 inches) as that would keep the rg a little higher, then using some marginally reactive cover. Can also soak it to make it softer if it pushes too far downlane. It's already illegal, might as well do everything you can to make it roll well lol

0:43 CATCH!! *chucks anvil in the shape of a bowling ball*

Imagine using that 23lb plastic ball in a NO-TAP Tournament ! ? ! ? - Straight to the pocket boom - Enjoy seeing how you level up the arsenal. Would like to see some trick shots also

Good thing you're young. My wrist broke wachting this andnim.old school kranker

Totally should go with a reactive ball next!

The dancing squirrel is a must.

Im dying at the comments on the 20lb ball at the start and then you just randomly put the one in japanese hahaha! keep doing you man your a creative youtube in a rather new rising genre at least for me on the channel. i think im switching to two-handed, after your recent vid. Been bowling since i was a 8 and im 27 now. I am just bored at one handed and a couple of my league members bowl with only 2 holes, so im gonna use their balls while im starting to try it out. I also have a proton physix as my main ball and thats been one of the reason i liked your vids and channel so much. Dont see a lot of other people throwing. Im not gonna fill it in just yet though but it looks like you did seeing the weigh in.

can you try to just change the surface of the plastic ball to get it to hook or would that not work if not definitely reactive

Yessir bro a reactive ball would be sick to see it’s movement

Now you have to let Osku use it to see if a pin will actually break.

A successful test for the first ever 23lb bowling ball. I'm sure there is more testing to be done and improvements before the ball can be produced for the public. Well back to the drawing board.

This might be utter nonsense, but was biasing all the weight towards your PAP creating what is essentially a really short Pin to PAP? Cause it does look like it's revving up early and then it seems to almost roll out and die really quickly.

You should find or make some heavy pins. Maybe 5lbs each, and show the differnce between the 15 and 23lb balls. Hint: find magnesium pins and refill them.

I have to agree with the others asking to see this done with a reactive cover. The reason you're not getting as much hook as you would expect, is becuase the plastic cannot grab the lane, as the weight is pushing the ball forward, cause it to skid, the plastic cover cannot create the friction needed to move the weight in the direction of the rotations. You wouldn't need a lot of friction either, but you need at least some, I think if you had a low to medium reactive case ball and did the same thing, you'd get drastically better results. I'm really keen to see it actually, I think the pin carry would be amazing.

Molten lead might be better as it could be poured in. Find a reloaded in your area from KZfaq to do a colab with, or come to Florida, and I’ll help you.