The Hater introduces a brand new coverstock and a brand new asymmetrical core design to the DV8 lineup. The brand new Hater weight block is a better RG (2.539″), excessive whole differential (0.054″), and excessive intermediate differential (0.024″) design that helps hold the Hater’s tough field end from wanting to start out too early and burn off an excessive amount of power. The brand new HK22-based Havoc Hybrid cowl produces first rate size for a shell that comes out of the field sanded at 500/1500 SiaAir. We had glorious traction within the midlane and good continuation on the again finish in our testing. The extra oil that was on the lane, particularly within the entrance of the lane, the higher the Hater rolled for us.

Cranker

Cranker had the perfect response out of our three bowlers on the heavy oil sample with the Hater. He may miss left into the heavier a part of the sample and nonetheless have sufficient traction for the ball to drive by means of the pins, whereas pictures missed to the skin would come again to the pocket however lacked a little bit of pin carry. The ball dug into the oil more durable than his Bother Maker, letting him cowl extra whole boards. Because the sample began to interrupt down, he may make smaller strikes to remain within the pocket. This ball stored him just a few boards proper of the place he was with the Hellcat XLR8 the entire time he bowled on this situation.

Whereas Cranker may get his Hater to the pocket on the medium oil sample with the field end, his response was inferior to the opposite two bowlers, because the sanded floor needed to start out hooking a bit too