How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling

a portion of this video was sponsored by Salesforce this is the biggest most in-depth video about bowling ever how bowling balls are made the best way to throw them maximize strikes how the lanes are oiled what it takes to be a pro and how this sport has continually been reinvented for literally thousands of years up to the present day this is the science of bowling the most popular participatory sport in the United States I'm super impressed with how that went I'm I'm even more impressed than you are what is inside a bowling ball I sent this ball to creative electron to get a 3D X-Ray Scan and this is the result what is that I always expected bowling balls to be you know perfect solid spheres but there's something inside here and it's not symmetric and it's not even centered in the ball so I went to Storm bowling one of only 11 bowling ball manufacturers in the world to find out how bowling balls are made yeah basically when we make bowling balls we always start in the center and the center part of the bowling ball is the weight block and as you can see this is an example of an asymmetrical shaped weight block so it's actually a different shape about the X the Y and the Z axis the weight blocks are embedded in a core of lightweight glass beads oh that is so silky soft I feel like I have not felt anything this soft what's the difference in density between this sort of filler material and this core it's quite a bit about 2 and 1 half to three times more dense in the inner weight block than it is in the core material if you were to look for example at this actual core number one it says 960 which means that it weighs 9.60 lb and then the description here underneath which is a 03 this indicates what type of a weight block is inside of it what happens over here so this area right here is our urethane area so basically what we have are a number of different tanks that are set up so there's a chemical reaction that occurs once it actually fills the mold and we pour that cover stock material around the core it gets extremely hot in just a matter of ...