Storm Omega Crux Surface Comparison | Kennon McFalls

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Omega Crux Surface Comparison

Hello and welcome back to my Youtube 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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