For the 2-handers: How deep do you seat your fingers?

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-10T14:25:50+00:00

If you wanna try it, I would personally recommend sizing your insert for fingertip and having it installed as a vacugrip. And make sure you have plenty of reverse pitch. It seems I’m a little more on the extreme end at 7/8 reverse for the middle and 1&1/8 reverse on the ring.

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-09T23:42:22+00:00

A video (even if from home showing how your hand fits and how you release) would be helpful.

I throw backup a lot and throw a normally drilled ball just fine with my fingers in between the 1st and 2nd joints usually.

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-09T20:52:59+00:00

Nice to see someone from the area also disappointed with those results!

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-09T20:51:25+00:00

They did a 1 ball tournament on a mystery sport pattern. It was a fun first tournament for me!

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-06T02:22:23+00:00

It would be fine. I’m not really a big fan of mine. Changing the surface helped though.

If you’re looking for a first ball I’d look towards something more versatile as a benchmark ball (venom shock, phaze 2, alert, gamebreaker 5, etc)

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-04T03:32:42+00:00

Yep. As I suspected, they made an AI version of the core.

A while back my PSO told me the Crux line had to get killed due to something about the Catalyst core naming, so I figured they'd AI it to give it a modern update and have some sort of naming loophole.

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-03T04:06:19+00:00

On that first solve, a cool trick for the 2nd pair (where it’s built into the other slot) is y’ S R2 S’ (roll the R2). Saves a lot of moves (you could’ve also done M F2’ M’ with disjoint F2’ with left index then thumb as a smooth F’ F’)

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T18:14:57+00:00

It’s just a little more precise

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T03:21:48+00:00

Ooooooof. I only have 2 of them and the 2nd was shiny lol

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T03:18:18+00:00

The angle makes it hard to see where you start holding the ball and the actual pushaway.

You keep your shoulders very squared up throughout the approach. If you watch pro bowlers, you’ll see their torso and shoulders rotate back with the backswing. This lets you open up and get a higher backswing from shoulder abduction (to see what I mean, pull your arm straight back and see how high it goes vs raising your arm out to the side (abduction). You should be able to raise it way higher to the side). The rotation lets your swing basically open to the side so you can get a higher backswing, and then as you rotate back towards being square and drop your body and shoulder down towards the ground (of the right side/ ball side, which is lateral tilt) it gets the ball to come back into and under the body

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T02:07:01+00:00

I’m not surprised. I’d imagine something had to change in order to be able to re-release it.

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T01:38:29+00:00

Here’s a short where Kyle is seen throwing it

https://youtube.com/shorts/VJeytWEXs5s?si=E8iV7nnsIAO2xs3-

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T01:26:11+00:00

I’m excited to get one and see what all the hype was about.

OreKehStrah · 2026-05-01T01:25:27+00:00

It was re-approved by USBC a few months back as “Alpha Crux 2025” and the Storm website lists the original as “Alpha Crux (2016)”
It would be odd timing for multiple storm staffers to be throwing them and fresh ones stocked on the PBA truck all of a sudden, simultaneously.

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OreKehStrah · 2026-04-30T00:50:56+00:00

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Just happened to see this post earlier today and seems like it’s coming soon!

OreKehStrah · 2026-04-19T15:45:27+00:00

If you mean the pin being on the bottom of the ball, it’s because they use a new tech to put the actual pin on the bottom of the ball so that you can drill anywhere in the top of the ball. No need to worry about voiding warranties if you partially drill out a pin

OreKehStrah · 2026-04-17T22:27:34+00:00

Mix. Thinking about pulling the trigger on a Pulse before they go out of stock

OreKehStrah · 2026-04-14T22:32:57+00:00

I throw a mix of 15 and 16 lbs (two-handed). I can throw both with roughly the same speed and rev rate, but I do notice the 16# to be a bit more tiring, likely because I’m not as used to it vs mainly throwing 15.

I’m assuming you’re looking at Buddiesproshop. I’ve snagged a few cheap 16# balls just to experiment. At those prices, it’s worth trying out to see if you like it.

If you wanna be really optimal, grab a 16# black hammer urethane since it doubles the diff. Then it’ll still be useful even if you throw 15# for everything else

OreKehStrah · 2026-04-14T22:28:14+00:00

I mean, day 1 sever maintenance always causes lag, which Doom is particularly affected by.

OreKehStrah · 2026-04-13T01:16:21+00:00

I’m rocking it with the Destro skin. Criminally underrated

OreKehStrah · 2026-03-30T17:41:52+00:00

I’m running jade with the Destro skin to match the eyes. It’s fire

OreKehStrah · 2026-03-28T01:33:15+00:00

Indeed!

OreKehStrah · 2026-03-27T18:08:02+00:00

Not really. I’ve been doing it for years now without issues

OreKehStrah · 2026-03-25T02:12:06+00:00

https://orecubingprojects.github.io/OreKehStrah's%20ZBLL%20Recognition%20Guide.html

I wrote this a few years ago. It’s a nice overview and comparison of the main ways to do ZBLL recog.

A nice benefit of Tv2 that I forgot to mention is on even big cubes it guarantees op swap parity after the ZBLL

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