Radical Torpedo Direct Hit Bowling Ball Review

The Radical Torpedo Direct Hit is a unique offering to the market for the spring of 2025. This ball shares the very aggressive low RG and high flare potential Torpedo Asymmetric core shape with the Torpedo. It also uses a pearl coverstock like the Torpedo, but instead of an aggressive HK22C formulation, it uses a Low Friction Reactive coverstock. A similar cover was previously used by Radical’s sister company Hammer on their Axe spare balls. The Low Friction Reactive cover is harder than most traditional resin covers, keeping it from creating as much traction. The Torpedo Direct Hit comes highly polished out of the box, with a 2000 SiaAir, Factory Compound, and Factory Polish finish that makes it very glossy and provides tons of length. We needed to be very direct to the pocket with this ball, as it didn’t have the downlane recovery to get back to the pocket on our patterns if we got too open with our angles. Bowlers on older…