The softest string out there by the Racket Sports Industry after natural gut, surprisingly, is a polyester multi, Wilson NXT Control.
http://www.racquetsportsindustry.com/articles/2012/01/playtest_wilson_nxt_control.html
I used to string it in hybrid with gut (NXT-C mains/gut crosses) but the when the gut wore a little and got rough, it'd snap the NXT pretty quickly. I now play with a full NXT Control setup.
NXT control is not a poly.
Tennis Warehouse said:Featuring polyester and nylon fibers in a bed of polyurethane, NXT Control provides all the benefits of a great hybrid.
Uh, yeah it is.
NXT control is not a poly.
NXT control is not a poly.
Uh, yeah it is.
poly string is a solid piece of plastic
Its not both its neither - a hybrid multifilament is what RSI calls it.
Actually its a monofilament poly string that is a solid piece of plastic.
'Poly' simply denotes the material used, not the form of construction.
Very true. You cant take something that contains polyurethane, and say it is not polyurethane.
Actually its a monofilament poly string that is a solid piece of plastic.
'Poly' simply denotes the material used, not the form of construction.
*correction, meant to say polyester
All the popular poly strings that are used are a solid piece of plastic. Please show me other poly strings that have bundles of different materials like the picture of the nxt control string which is a multi, you know multi as in multiple bundles of different materials exactly the opposite of a poly string!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually its a monofilament poly string that is a solid piece of plastic.
'Poly' simply denotes the material used, not the form of construction.
You've uncovered a very true point. NXT is a polyurethane multi and NXT Control is a polyester multi, although not in the same way.
I'm going to order some Pro Line II 17L to see how I like it. FWIW, I'm a long time Competition user and I got tennis elbow from one single session when I over did it. First time it's happened in my 20yrs of tennis. It's taken almost 2yrs to recover but now that I have, I'm still using Competition and have had not even a hint of a relapse.It took me a long time to go back to poly's and found
these are easy on arm then.
They are:
Pro Line 11
Hurricane
Spiky Shark
Sonic Pro
All are 17 gauge and I use ther Sonic pro full bed in a flexible racquet.
It's both. You're both arguing over nothing.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h111/JimandKim/scan0003-1.jpg
http://www.racquetsportsindustry.com/articles/2012/01/playtest_wilson_nxt_control.html
I'm not arguing and I agree with your post that it's both. Tell this "tlm" character to maybe expand his narrow definitions and take that stick out of his *** with the tone of his posts
No one cares.
Anyway, getting back to the original post, Dunlop Black Widow is softer, offers more feel, and is more arm friendly than all of those strings on the OP's list.
You seem to care about whether people think you're right.
Ah good ol' Cyberflash, the forgotten string of yesteryear. Topspin Cyberflash 17L is even softer, measuring 158.3lbs in stiffness. Used to be pretty popular, I wonder if anybody still plays with it.Torres,
I completely agree. Even at 16g it's Dunlop Black Widow by a country mile. No contest at all. Been playing with the 18 gauge at 54 lbs in a Donnay Pro One, and its pretty effing sweet. Soft or no soft, I prefer it performance wise to my last textured poly fave, BHBR. I know you aren't big on lab testing, but in this case, the available test results agree with you. I've provided a cross section of the strings mentioned in this thread, the whole enchilada can be reconstructed here. Thought I'd share with the thread fwiw. BTW... how's your achilles tendon holding up?
-Jack
Ah good ol' Cyberflash, the forgotten string of yesteryear. Topspin Cyberflash 17L is even softer, measuring 158.3lbs in stiffness. Used to be pretty popular, I wonder if anybody still plays with it.
Torres,
I completely agree. Even at 16g it's Dunlop Black Widow by a country mile. No contest at all. Been playing with the 18 gauge at 54 lbs in a Donnay Pro One, and its pretty effing sweet. Soft or no soft, I prefer it performance wise to my last textured poly fave, BHBR. I know you aren't big on lab testing, but in this case, the available test results agree with you. I've provided a cross section of the strings mentioned in this thread, the whole enchilada can be reconstructed here. Thought I'd share with the thread fwiw. BTW... how's your achilles tendon holding up?
-Jack
Sorry to bring back up this slightly dated thread.
But it seems that Dunlop Black Widow has been retested by TW University, and different numbers are showing with the new stiffness rating much higher than before.
With medium tension and medium swing speed, I am getting the stiffness of 220 for the 16 gauge.
Even on the arm-friendliness ranking, Black Widow seems to have gone down quite a bit with stiffness rated at 193.
Does anyone know whether Black Widow has been reformulated recently? Or how else to interpret this change?
Good eye! I copied the TWU string database some time ago for my own reference and notes now I am seeing some differences. Competition 1.20 is 3lbs softer on the current chart for example.Sorry to bring back up this slightly dated thread.
But it seems that Dunlop Black Widow has been retested by TW University, and different numbers are showing with the new stiffness rating much higher than before.
With medium tension and medium swing speed, I am getting the stiffness of 220 for the 16 gauge.
Even on the arm-friendliness ranking, Black Widow seems to have gone down quite a bit with stiffness rated at 193.
Does anyone know whether Black Widow has been reformulated recently? Or how else to interpret this change?
Sorry to bring back up this slightly dated thread.
But it seems that Dunlop Black Widow has been retested by TW University, and different numbers are showing with the new stiffness rating much higher than before.
With medium tension and medium swing speed, I am getting the stiffness of 220 for the 16 gauge.
Even on the arm-friendliness ranking, Black Widow seems to have gone down quite a bit with stiffness rated at 193.
Does anyone know whether Black Widow has been reformulated recently? Or how else to interpret this change?
Polystar Energy has my vote. Was able to play well after coming back from physical therapy on my shoulder.