Track Stealth Mode Hybrid Bowling Ball Review

The Stealth Mode Hybrid is the glossy follow-up to the successful Stealth Mode for Track. This ball uses the same symmetrical Stealth core shape as previous balls in the Stealth line. The coverstock has been updated to an HK22C-based version of Super Response Hybrid, which is the same shell that was used on the Criterion Hybrid. This ball is finished with 1500 SiaAir and Factory Compound, which provided lots of length for all three of our bowlers. We found the length and very strong move off the dry at the end of the pattern to match up best on our medium oil pattern. We needed much more traction from surface adjustments on our sport pattern before the Stealth Mode Hybrid was in play on that condition.

Stroker

Stroker liked how strong the Stealth Mode Hybrid was at the end of the pattern on the fresh medium oil condition. He left a few solid 9 pins on the fresh, seeing a very strong change of direction when the ball came out of the pattern. He started off straighter in the front, playing around the second arrow and getting the ball out to board eight on the fresh. He was farther right than he was with the duller balls in the Track line, as well as a little straighter in the front than he was with the Criterion Inverse. He was able to camp out in this part of the lane for the entire session. The Stealth Mode Hybrid going down the lane on its own didn’t change the pattern much at all, letting him stay in the same area the entire time. When duller balls like the Paragon Shadow and the Synthesis were also in play, they ate up the oil in the front of the lane, and