Ebonite Emerge | 4K Ball Review | Bowlers Paradise

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Ebonite adds the all new Emerge to their pro performance category alongside the Polaris hybrid and surprisingly, no big asym solid at the time of this video. The Emerge comes out of the box at a 1500 polished finish on the all new Optimize pearl cover featuring that HK22 additive. Inside the emerge is the emerge core with a mid range 2.51 RG and a strong .053 diff and .021 intermediate diff.

For the layout, we went with a 4.5 x 4 x 4 2LS layout. This is about the strongest layout I would put on an asym these days, and we chose to do this on the emerge to hopefully see a strong midlane reaction. When reviewing previous releases from Ebonite, it seemed like every time they would pick up a strong roll in the hook phase, the shape through the pins was great, and we wanted more of that out of the Emerge.

AND ON THE LANES… I was blown away by how strong this thing was. The outside part of the lane on this house shot was basically unusable as anytime the emerge saw friction, it would hook about as aggressively as I’ve seen a ball hook in the years I have been bowling. I definitely had some ideas of how I thought it was going to look, hoping it would be easier off the spot like the other ebonite releases, so that may have played into my astonishment, but the results also speak for themselves here. This thing is kind of a monster.

And even though I left a lot of pins on the deck figuring out that this ball was made to be used deep inside, I actually enjoyed the shape a lot. With the massive .021 intermediate differential, I would have never guessed that this Emerge would produce this much downlane angle, but just like with the ONE Remix, even though the core numbers are huge, they don’t just roll out and swish pins. That feature alone makes this Emerge unique in the market as you can trust that the core will basically never let it blow past the breakpoint, and that the HK22 cover material will make sure it stands up on friction and tries to pile drive the pins into the pit.

It’s a high upside kind of shape, but there’s also a good amount of risk involved in that. If I got around it too much, or threw it too slow, or got it too far outside too fast, it was a guessing game on if I would split or not, but I certainly wasn’t going to strike. There was very little free hold until I got well inside of 4th arrow and then I still had to get the Emerge outside quickly so it would have some lane to grab onto and do its thing. So, on one hand, the adventure was slightly frustrating to figure out this piece, but on the other hand, having an option like this where I have to play a lot more angle through the front to get it to do the right thing is actually a good thing.

You’d want to put it with something like a Gamebreaker 2 and a Polaris hybrid that are best suited to play the track area or at least keeping your angles in front of you. If you have that much variety, you’ll have to know what each piece does for your game to see success, but once you do, you’ll be able to make shapes no one else in the field would think are possible.

For comparison, I first grabbed the brunswick infinity and you can see how significantly slower transitioning it is. This piece does a great job handling the friction on the outside part of the lane and blending it out. In this scenario, the infinity is the much safer play, but that comes with the downside of sacrificing some carry on the off hits.

Then for our cross brand comparison, I grabbed the Eternity from 900 Global. This has been one of my favorite pearl asyms since it came out, so it has tamed out a bit, but you can see how much less the eternity hooks compared to the emerge. I had assumed these two pieces would be almost identical in shape, but it turns out that the Emerge was at least a zone more than the Eternity, and a lot more trustworthy to get up and get to the pocket, even through the carrydown.

But with that, here’s my recommendations on types of bowlers that I think would match up well with this piece. The first is Rev dominant bowlers who struggle on fresh house. I bring this recommendation as someone with personal experience here. I’d put the Emerge on the rack and just get inside of everyone and trust it. I know I can play huge angles with it, and that all I have to do is get my feet in the right area to have some extra hook if I miss right, and some hold left. The second is bowlers with a low axis of rotation. If you stay up the back of the bowling ball, the tendency is that you’ll struggle to create angle through the pins. Well, there’s plenty of that built right into the emerge, and I would bet those bowlers will see a dramatic increase in carry percentage when they have to move inside.

Thank you to Weston Lanes for allowing us to film this video: www.westonlanes.com

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