NU Blue Hammer | HIGH GLOSS POLISHED! 👀

[@Lovetheducks]

I’m glad everyone loves this ball because it just looks amazing going down the lane

[@traviskirk3834]

It reminds me of the slate blue gargoyle from visionary bowling.

[@dijigo1587]

That smooth arc when you aimed it at the pocket took me back about 40 years =) Great video Nick, thanks.

[@remington1439]

This ball seems to hold pocket better than it was a solid. Unbelievable Nick, I’m digging it

[@jdnance168]

Great video. I have had luck on my center's house shot with polished urethane.... yes, I said it. Mirror ball attitude control urethane up ten. Great to see some versatility out of this ball with a little shine on it, when you need it!

[@AndrewWarrenPatriotsfan]

That put nail in coffin. That will be my next ball. I love both my Purple Hammer and my Black Widow Pink. After seeing the NU Blue shined, that made my decision right there to get that ball.

[@brunsnick]

Awesome! Glad to hear it

[@bradybauman8916]

I’m so excited for this ball!!!

[@brunsnick]

Haven’t seen a ball have so much hype and chatter!

[@JoshuaMendiola-bg8xy]

Had been considering the idea since I bought it, everyone just kept telling me to change the surface. Tried lots of different grits with some success here and there, but regardless of the surface the lane just seemed to play really tight. Did throw a 279 with the box surface, but muscle was doing the work that night (lots of light mixers). Watched this video last night and said screw it, hit it with 2000 and put the shine to it. Just got back from my practice session threw 3 games exclusively with Blue, 204, 226, 234. Rode 10 board at 17-18MPH and probably 350-400 revs and could miss right basically to the gutter if I caught it good, it would recover, and I could miss left 4-5 boards and it would slide right through the break and find the pocket. Awesome stuff, Thanks Nick.

[@brunsnick]

Awesome. The good thing about surface changes is they can be changed over and over again. 👍🏻

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

You earned my subscription. I think you provide more value with your explanations and technical knowledge than any other bowling content creator I’ve seen. You amaze me with your accuracy and ability to throw any ball correctly to get strikes.

[@brunsnick]

Appreciate that feedback, thank you. 👍🏻

[@carlchilders4813]

He is a well-oiled machine on the lanes.

[@MrThinkImPossible]

Yup. This is what I needed. I’m buying 2 of them. And one will be polished. Let’s gooooo!

[@tonyrubaszewski6811]

Like the down and in... I have lot of revs. This will be great ball.. Thanks for the info on it being shined up

[@shannondingus8430]

Exactly what I was hoping for.. thanks Nick. I was thinking this ball might be slow to friction with some polish. Some balls like this when polished are too quick off the spot. Im always looking for good weaker balls so I can play the angles I need to. But most weaker balls are way too skid flip and im tired of 9 pins lol. Revs are a blessing and a curse..

[@brunsnick]

I have to buy my revs on eBay. 😆

[@garybryant1225]

I have to buy my revs and pay in 4 easy payments.

[@AyoMrB]

I'm just waiting for mine to ship already lol. Polished looks like it's going to be money for THS and short patterns.

[@steveg7018]

NICK!!! Thanks for the insight with this. Was at the Hoinke this weekend and could’ve used 3000 polish on mine to control the pocket.

[@joelosurdo4858]

I would love to see this on a short sport pattern. Great job as always Nick!!

[@brunsnick]

I did a video on Wolf 34’, but out of box surface.

[@joelosurdo4858]

Yes I did see that, but shined up would be a bit different.@@brunsnick

[@brunsnick]

@@joelosurdo4858 might work. Might be unpredictable. Hard to say.

[@joeyferguson1985]

I have been shinning urethane for years. Take the surface up to 3 or 4 thousand and they shine up pretty easy

[@clayjones2219]

Agreed , need 2 of them , one at Box and the other polished . 👍

[@remington1439]

Hey Nick’ this ball reminds me since you polished it’ remember the 90 cuda we would by 2 of them and polish 1 so we would have the best of two balls? I’m glad your doing this video because honestly I was thinking of this a week ago since all the videos have been out and You’ve done it first. Man that ball actually looks better than it did a few days ago when you threw it. Awesome Nick

[@joshuawhite4850]

This is the first ball I have ever pre-ordered.

[@brunsnick]

Nice! 🙌🏻

[@ericw6043]

I can’t wait to see you do videos on the 3 new Brunswick brand balls coming out.

[@brunsnick]

Next week launch 👍🏻

[@ericw6043]

@@brunsnick I like the colors on the Violent Collision, but that Theorem looks like a back-end animal!!

[@stevothegreat]

I had my nu blue ball (dull), finally broke 600 in the league last week 205 ,235 and 177. Very controllable, nice smooth arc pattern. Why did you polish your ball ? Did it come dull in first place ? Thanks for the tip !

[@brunsnick]

To try it for a video and see what it would do.

[@stevothegreat]

I see , who do you prefer dull or polished ? ​@@brunsnick

[@brunsnick]

@@stevothegreat it’s better dull for me.

[@larrylacroix3944]

Liked this video. Interesting to see what the ball would do polished

[@markmatroni631]

I would have that bad ass blue gleaming in the ball spinner. Good video.

[@MichaelMcDonough-lh9zi]

I I just drilled a blue hammer and you and I bowed on a 43 ft got her to gutter Lane condition The ball always wanted to overhook everything I threw to be at send it out via keep it closer be it play it tighter everything broke sharp when I struck it was one right runaway Brooklyn and I'm left-handed most of the time when it did come in pocket I would leave a split and I couldn't control the pocket with the ball I only bowled with it the one time and played four games but I was everywhere on the approach show it trying different hand positions more speed less speed and it was impossible for me to control it

[@nordattack]

Honestly, it still looks great!

[@bobjanicki9045]

Another great video I'm going to get 4 of them and drill them different and shine one of them

[@stompingpeak2043]

Alot of people polish urethane so they can stay straight and bounce off the dry. Can play in one spot all day

[@ARsAndGlocksOhMy]

I just got mine and first three shots was a 🦃, and ended with a 226. Really liking it so far

[@daviddeiss7907]

I am a guy with low ball speed 14.30 at the sensor down lane and I have 290 to 300 revs. I bowl on 30-year-old spl lanes that have a ton of early friction and am currently using weaker balls to battle that early friction. weak balls don't have the same hitting power as do higher end equipment, so carry is an issue with a weak ball, I love to play up the boards like you did in the very last shot on the video this ball shined up looks really good, you kind of seem like you're against the shiny blue hammer. but I got to say it looks like it could be a real option for a guy like myself who isn't super comfortable with playing too far left and likes to keep the angles in front of me, it really looked good and controllable which is what I'm looking for, some low-end balls do get a little quick off the pattern and I don't care for that kind of ball motion, smooth and controlled for me, am I crazy for wanting to try this ball for the conditions I'm facing? is there a better way to battle early friction? how would you advise me if we was working together?

[@brunsnick]

Yes it could work for you for sure, however 14.3 at the pins is plenty fast. I wouldn’t call that low speed at all. It usually takes me throwing it 18+ off my hand to have an entry speed of 14. You’re just bowling on some really dry lanes. 👍🏻

[@daviddeiss7907]

Thanks for the reply the nu blue hammer is really intriguing to me, I may have to give it a try.

[@jhowell6015]

I just purchased this ball as my first bowling ball. First throw, it over hooked and missed the pins. Had a terrible time controlling the hook. Do you think a little higher grit would help get the ball down lane?

[@brunsnick]

Yes, the more shiny you go, the less overall hook you’ll get.

[@BowlersRant]

I need this in my life. My half thumb 400rpm at 14.5mph would like this. We have heavy oil and I could bowl straighter. I love this look! I don't know about shiny, but the ball itself.....nnnnnnnnnnnn.

[@DASamX5453]

I don't have any dull bowling balls except the White Brunswick Quantum Bias...I only throw polished stuff...I hate solids (especially the Bias as I have to sand it every week to get the marks and oil off the ball...I hate it but I won it off a online raffle so I don't throw it hardly anymore), so I let the weight block and roll dictate stuff on our house shot pattern...but my preferred ball motion is polished...solids never worked for me...

[@CurtisL8.3066]

I want to play up 5 on a house shot since that’s what I have to do on every sport pattern ever, but have yet to find that trick ball to make it happen. Best balls I’ve found to do that so far are a 5 inch pin axiom pearl and a dark web hybrid. Both balls really roll off the spot and help the ball from overhooking , but I still have to dump it to get it through the fronts while still upping my speed. It’s a trick I can do but not with any kind of consistency during a league set. I wonder if shining a blue would be the ticket to me hacking a house shot? Nick, did you play with misses any after you turned the camera off? Curious as to what an inside miss would do on the oil line if you were trying to lay down on 7 and get it out to 4 or so downlane. Maybe going like 4.5x35 would help? I’ve tried all kinds of urethane like this and it’s just WAYY too early

[@brunsnick]

I didn’t experiment with it off camera, all the shots were used in the video. A NU Blue would be even slower responding and smoother than Dark Web Hybrid.

[@robertreinoehl2805]

I love my NU. I have a second one coming that I plan on drilling up for the burn. Do you have any layout recommendations? My NU is 3.5 x 50

[@brunsnick]

I can’t really give layout suggestions if I don’t know your game, sorry.

[@robertreinoehl2805]

It's cool! 18 moh off the hand, 400 rv rate, 13 degrees of tilt. I'm thinking pin under to lower the diff a smidge.

[@brunsnick]

@@robertreinoehl2805 it’ll definitely lower the flare and make it more mellow. Not sure how much flare you get out of yours now but it can’t be that much

[@xxLiLRay808xx]

I tried shinning mines up too. Same result, really labors compared to surfaced in oil.

[@youarebeingfooled]

I am a little confused by what you said. I was told that a high RG ball means it wont hook until rather late in the lane, but you are saying that it should start hooking early. Whats up with this?

[@brunsnick]

RG doesn’t matter nearly as much as coverstock. That will dictate 75-80% of the motion.

[@youarebeingfooled]

@@brunsnick ok, and coverstock is like the finish on the ball right? like the grit or polish? so a polished ball should also be hooking rather late? still new to a lot of these ideas

[@brunsnick]

@@youarebeingfooled yes, typically duller balls will hook more and hook earlier as they dig into the lane. This ball has a cover that is dull out of box but I shined it for this video to see what it would do. 👍🏻

[@darrinwatts9979]

I have a question about why on the Hammer Website the 14# description in the picture has a black inner core around the weight block ??

[@brunsnick]

The Nu Blue, along with Purple Urethane and Purple Reactive are thick-shell balls in 15-16lb. (Just inner core and coverstock) In 14, they have an outer core material.

[@darrinwatts9979]

@@brunsnick ok thanks alot ! I've enjoyed your videos and input here with the NU and our stats are very similar with revs and ball speed and we're going with your 60×4×20 layout for mine too and I roll 14#. This is a yearly birthday ball for me and it's right on time ! Birthday is the 22nd and this is truly and exciting ball to get ! Keep up the good work and we all appreciate you ! 🎳 4- life !!

[@brunsnick]

@@darrinwatts9979 Happy early Birthday Darrin!

[@darrinwatts9979]

@@brunsnick thanks alot ! Bowling out of Bowlero AMF Camellia Lanes center 615 here. No sanctioned bowling here unfortunately I work league nights so I get to bowl Sunday night 4 person league that's a lot of fun. Have a good night man and thank you !!

[@darrinwatts9979]

@@brunsnick oh hey if you're a Lane talk user look me up ! We'll follow one another.

[@hawjfamily321]

I want the nu blue but it's too similar to my purple hammer that I just bought.

[@brunsnick]

It’s not though.

[@JamesCFelty3]

Image it at higher grit like at 2k or 4K?

[@Jpepperguy]

I think the biggest question is whats it made of?

[@kodyheskett7964]

Been bowling a year now and I wanna throw my bluey the you can. I've thrown a few shots that look close but man whoo noice 😊

[@Jpepperguy]

You started out saying that this ball would under perform shined up yet the ball proved you completely wrong I think it performed awsome shined up.

[@brunsnick]

Looked great shiny and I even shot 711 in league with it as compared to 660 the week before OOB

[@spencerrobinson438]

I want to compare a polish purple reactive to see

[@christakamatsu9304]

What would happen to the reaction if you sanded or used abralon to create more friction. Thanks

[@brunsnick]

It’s sanded out of box. I made a couple videos on that so far.

[@notonyourlife7939]

The same thing that always happens when you do that... it'll be earlier and smoother.

[@butchcoolidge3261]

I prefer compound on my pearls and GB4 hybrid, instead of polish. I use Dupont car compound instead of Brunswick. It is tackier and lasts longer. How do you think this ball compares to the 3D Offset? Thanks

[@GracieGarage]

Here is what I think. Brunswick should make a nice contribution to the PBA so its pros can use the purple.

[@glenandbrandy]

Great video & brings back some fun memories of the short oil of the late 80s. Many of us remember putting a marble finish on a Slate Grey U-Dot, Grey Angle, or Pink Hammer just to have it to skid any distance. 🎳 😎

[@joshuatran7649]

how does your hand bend like that when you put your fingers in the ball

[@brunsnick]

Very carefully lol. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6mbeWqDnth9o9Usi=1cgH_YN8l4198NzG Sarge Easter Grip - welcome to the channel, be sure to subscribe!

[@jdparker4663]

Did you leave surface at 1000 before you polished it

[@brunsnick]

Polish right on top of it all.

[@zacharydavis4825]

That ball almost looks like the planet Uranus

[@carlchilders4813]

They could have named it Hammer Uranus. It would have been a great play on words.

[@michaeljamrozy4299]

What a coincidence...I'm Jammz City

[@brunsnick]

Well how about that!

[@FootLooseAngel]

Probably gunna have 2, one shined and one box

[@brunsnick]

It was noticeably different with shine!

[@MichaelMcDonough-lh9zi]

That should have said it was a runaway Brooklyn

[@spencerrobinson438]

Is this out of box then polish?

[@brunsnick]

Yes.

[@spencerrobinson438]

@@brunsnick Thanks did you try this on the purple reactive?

[@brunsnick]

@@spencerrobinson438 no

[@lildno2007]

@@brunsnickwhat process you used to shine it up??

[@brunsnick]

Just added factory finish polish on top of everything. It shines up pretty easy.

[@jamesdaniels9249]

How would you compare the polished Nu Blue to the sanded AXE?

[@brunsnick]

I wouldn’t. NU Blue is stronger by a lot, even with 1000 grit my Axe didn’t hook much.

[@jamesdaniels9249]

Thanks, I'll just sell my NU Blue. The AXE OTB hooks plenty for me.@@brunsnick

[@OceanicMaestro]

I want to like this ball I just really hate the color on it

[@carlchilders4813]

The color is awesome.

[@scottythompson940]

Cool video talk tech bowling bowling ball blue hammer not urathane bowling ball with dot technology drill anywhere technology and carbon fiber technology and dynamic core technology in the bowling ball too more strike hitting power at time Brunsnick

[@AV8R_1]

really rev dominant, really dry lanes... just use your plastic spare ball...

[@kyraandkaden15]

Why is the nu hammer called

[@adanomics5997]

I don't understand the hype... It's just an entry level type of ball to me

[@brunsnick]

That’s okay