How to Change Ball Media in the Ruby Twist Pro (Flavor and Performance Mode)

The Ruby Twist Pro has two personalities, and moving between them is a four minute job. This is the full ball media change, start to finish, with nothing skipped.

If you're new to the device and want the full rundown of what the Pro changes, the review covers it. This guide is just the swap.

Flavor mode vs performance mode

Flavor mode is how the Pro ships: 2.5mm ruby balls with the cyclone widget installed. Performance mode is what you get when you pull the widget and fill the space it leaves behind with more balls. Ruby, silicon carbide, whatever you run, the mode is about quantity, not material.

More media means more thermal mass sitting in the head, and more thermal mass means bigger sessions with draws that stay consistent instead of fading. That's the whole appeal. The flip side is that bigger hits make it very easy to keep taking bigger hits, so ease into it.

The swap, step by step

The teardown is short: we pull the heat guard, take out the screens, and empty the ball media. That's the entire disassembly.

Rebuilding is the same trip in reverse. In the video I go back to stock, so the 2.5mm rubies go in and the cyclone widget goes back to its home. Watch how everything seats and it's hard to get wrong.

Going to performance mode instead

Same video, opposite direction. My Pro started out in performance mode, so you'll see exactly how that setup comes apart: no widget, more balls. If that's where you're headed, leave the widget out and give its space to extra media.

That's the swap. Take care of your balls and they'll take care of you.