But where it shines best is when it comes to cliffed house shots. The Zen U is the perfect fit for me on most patterns. But then the Rubicon UC3 is usually a little bit too much most times. No matter how much surface I used it still wasn’t enough. I struggled a lot on shorter patterns getting any urethane to shape enough. I drilled my Zen U with a basic 4x4x2 layout because I am 20mph of my hand and a revrate of 550 I need help getting balls into a roll quicker and this Zen U definitely achieves that for me. The Zen U is also wrapped with the S35 Urethane+ which helps this ball see the lane much quicker than traditional urethane. It features the Meditate LD Core which is the original Meditate core but it has a lower density which helps it have a huge amount of control while still shaping as much as you need urethane to. The Zen U is 900 Globals newest urethane piece. Great piece to have in the bag for tournament season! When the lanes are a bit too jumpy for reactive, I can pull this out and control that down lane motion. Zen U – Control, control, control! This ball is very smooth off spot and very controllable. If you don’t have one yet you should definitely get one. This ball is what my friends and I call a pallet ball, we would order a pallet of Zen U’s and keep on drilling it year after year. What I also like about this ball is that if you throw it wrong it will show you but still find a way to adjust to the lanes and make it to the pocket unless you throw it incredibly bad. The Zen U is extremely controllable and a ball that is going to be religiously in my bag for any league or tournament I go to. The Zen U takes me back to when the first reactive resin balls came out on how smooth they were and controllable. This ball will fill a good gap for you if you throw traditional urethane to reactive equipment or it’s undoubtedly a great ball for cliffed house shots. Yes, the reaction of the ball is early but is so smooth and still is able to finish through the pocket. The Urethane+ cover stock makes the Zen U smooth out about any lane conditions, not all but most. With my PAP of 4 7/8 over and 5/8 up, the ball numbers are 5 1/8 pin-PAP, 4 mb-PAP and 4 pin buffer.900 Global’s Zen U is nothing less than a cheat code. It is much more a ball I can get in and go around a pattern with. UPDATE: On the recommendation of several people, I drilled a second ZEN with my favorite pin-up drilling and it makes a stronger and more curving motion, rather than the hockey stick of my original. The ZEN is as good as all the praise heaped on it and I would recommend it to anyone. Once the pattern really started to break down, I had to get out of the ZEN and go to something shiny (I had hit my ZEN with a 2,000 CTD pad for team event and left it for minors). I used the ZEN in minors at the 2021 USBC Open Championships, rolling a 5-bagger the first game of singles after going 30-clean without a double using mostly other balls in doubles. Since I don’t have any 900 Global balls to compare it to, I would say the Roto Grip MVP PEARL might be closest to the ZEN for me. The ZEN rolls heavy through the pins, leaving more flat 10s for me (not uncommon for being just shy of 59!) than ringing 10s. The ZEN motion I would describe as semi-hockey stick, with a quick and strong forward motion at the breakpoint. I’ve found the ZEN to be a shiny pearl that handles oil fairly well and is a great addition to my arsenal because it’s not skid-flippy or curvy. With my PAP of 4 7/8 over and 5/8 up, the ball numbers are 5 1/2 pin-PAP, 3 9/16 mb-PAP and 4 15/16 pin buffer. I chose a drilling I have had much success with in a variety of balls: pin in my middle finger with a strong drilling angle. The ZEN features the S77 Response pearl cover and the Meditate symmetric core, which for 14-pounders features a 2.50 RG and 0.051 differential.Īs I do with pretty much every box shiny ball (1,500-grit polished for the ZEN), I hand rubbed it with a 4,000-Abralon pad to take off the gloss, and hopefully take away any squirty-ness. And it has turned out to be everything it was touted, becoming a staple in my arsenal. It wasn’t hard to choose which 900 Global ball to drill, as the consensus was clear: the ZEN. To avoid giving myself way more balls than I could keep in a working arsenal, I haven’t drilled up every single release since I gained access to Roto Grip balls in 2012. The addition of 900 Global to the ball options for Storm Products staffers presented me with an obvious question: Which 900 Global balls would I drill up?
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