Storm Omega Crux Surface Comparison | Kennon McFalls
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Omega Crux Surface Comparison
Hello and welcome back to my RUclips channel for a surface comparison on the all new Storm Omega Crux. The Omega Crux comes out of the box with a 3000 grit finish. For my Omega, it appeared to have more surface than that. I assume that I may have just gotten a fresh 3000 pad on the Storm surfacers. None the less, out of the box the ball rolls great. Typically with pearl balls I take either a 2000 pad or an old 1000 pad and knock the shine off. For me, this helps break the cover because I have found that factory shine bowling balls are inconsistent off of the breakpoint. So pulling this bad boy out of the box with surface already on it is a god send. In the videos, you’ll notice that the box finish gives nice midland read and that slow heavy roll that is associated with the Catalyst Core. With that being said, it’s still not as early and not as forward off of the spot as the Crux Prime. Im mostly impressed with the versatility. Typically I have to change balls about the 2nd/3rd game in league because my big high performance balls just won’t hit. With this one, as it lane shines, I can just spin it more through the front and it continues harder downlane.
After taking the initial videos with the Out of Box Surface, I went to the ball spinner and applied polish. I didn’t try to polish the heck out of it, but just enough that it appeared shiny. One disclaimer about polish. I don’t use polish, nor do many professionals. Thats not to say that polish is bad, in fact Storm makes an awesome surface prep kit with polish that is wonderful. I personally don’t typically use polish because I feel it dilutes the ball reaction. It’s like adding water to sweet tea to make it less sweet. When I polished the Omega, I was able to move 3-4 boards right with my feet from the box finish. It felt like it went a few feet longer, but didn’t give up that semi-slow shape downlane. Again, it’s a bit cleaner but it really feels like a deluded reaction from the box finish. You can see that it still rolls forward pretty hard off the end of the pattern. It’s interesting to note just how strong of a characteristic the Catalyst Core has.
Finally, I sanded it hard. Even though the picture might not look like it, I hit it hard with a 500 grit pad and lightly touched it with a fresh 360 pad. The first video, I stood in the same exact spot as I did with the polished Omega. When scratching the cover that hard, I really saw the core come to life. It read the lane so early that it was nearly impossible to get my ball to finish though the pins. I have a lot of axis tilt and axis rotation, but even then, I could not get it to finish. I moved my feet about 10 left of the polished spot and really tried to flick it down the lane. By flick I mean, really spin it through the fronts in hopes of helping it retain more energy. This seemed to be the trick. I found that miss right where it would stop in front of the head pin, but a miss left wouldn’t hook up too much.
I wouldn’t be scared to hit this ball with surface. Personally, I liked the box finish better for the sheer fact that the surface and volume I bowl on has lots of friction but having consistent motion in the midland helps my carry. If you bowl on a soupy house pattern or are bowling a tournament with a heavy volume pattern, the Omega Crux would easily take the surface and still give you more skid through the front than a Prime, without diminishing the heavy Catalyst Core roll downlane.
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Thank you for showing how well this ball takes surface adjustments. That can/should be a key factor when bowlers decide to purchase a piece..
Hope the audio was better! ☺️🍻
@@KennonMcFalls much better. No issues hearing what you were saying. Keep up the good work!
Looks like a great piece. Bowling in a center that still wood I get plenty of friction also. My being a lefty I don't move much during the night . It just adjusting to the difference friction from both lanes
with the super smooth motion of crux core, polish might help low rew rate playrs.i use lane shine on oob finnish on my astro and it work perfeckt for me
I was talking to one of my teammates about this ball earlier today. I probably won’t be buying another ball soon, but looking at different reviews I was thinking this might be the next ball I get.
i like polished balls a lot more then dull balls.. rolls much later and makes a snappier move.. i like that.. :D
But i get the point that dull balls always give you more control because they just read the lane better. ;)
Great Video ^^
It’s 100% personal preference for sure!
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Layout question, with the mb being left of your thumb what does that do for the reaction?
The MB being left of my thumb is because I used a large drilling angle. The larger the drilling angle, the more slid through the front part of the lane!
I like your vids ....so what made you go with this layout ...looks like a 90 x 4 1/2 x 35....or an old school 105 or so layout
It’s 75 x 5 x 40! This is a semi typical asym layout for me. Huge drilling angle to get it through the front. A medium pin for decent control off the break point to compliment the medium val angle.
@@KennonMcFalls I was almost close...I run the angles I gave you and my numbers look close to yours.....thanks for update
Hi
Im looking for the st strongest polished Ball and i mean the Crux omega is strong
But is there a other stronger Ball?
Alex
Question? How would this layout work on the rubicon??
Good question. I didn’t use this layout on the Rubicon because it doesn’t really have a bunch of teeth. The Rubicon is just above the Idol in terms of strength. The huge asym balls are where this layout really becomes useful. If I put this on a Rubicon, I think it would make it weaker in the midlane than my regular pin up layout and probably would retain more energy off the friction.
Wes Malott had a layout like this on the X-1 on the Roto fb page! I encourage you to check it out.
@@KennonMcFalls thanks! I'm going to put this layout on my Omega crux. I'm going to drill my rubicon the same as yours.
Its hard to see what direction the ball is rotation at with all those colors swirling around. It is like the phaze 3 which I have barely used and it is hard to tell how it is spinning.
i agree
How do you bring this ball back to its original surface??
You can do that at your local Storm VIP Pro Shop! They’ll throw it on the ball spinner and take care of that for you!
Where did you get that polishing pad?
Tbh- I’m not sure. I’ll ask my PSO and get back to you!
Mickey’s- My PSO said that Innovative Bowling Products makes the pad!
Hi
How Strong is the Crux omega polished in combarsions to:
Astro physix
Crux Prime
Axiom
And polished the:
Axiom
Crux Prime
Physix
Halo
Alex
What a Ball is the strongest:
I play roto grip, storm and motiv.
Nucleus cell
Astro phisix
Trident Nemesis
Villain scorn
Crux omega
Crux Prime
Axiom
Pro motion
Forge fire
Alpha jackal
Halo
UFO
All Balls are
polished.
Other factorys:
Results
Closer solid
Redemption Solid
Prism Solid
Prism warp
Omni
Verge
Frequenzy
Flux Solid
Proof
All Balls in polished
Prism Hybrid
Chaos Black
Omni pearl
Flux pearl
Redemption pearl
Closer pearl
Squatch Hybrid
Alex
Crux Prime, UFO or Redmeption Solid.
@@KennonMcFalls ok thank you
Kennon: Omega Prime or Physix ??
Would need more info. If you’re looking for more overall shape I think that goes to the Omega.
For me the Physix is the definition of smooth and forward. It’s early because of the nano, but blends any wet/dry like no other.
Both?? 😆
Astro is cleaner and has more pop off the friction. Omega is much earlier and smoother.
Not sure how Omega is viewed as a knight. He should be a joker who’s waiting to take down Batman
😂😂