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@tennis3 I have seen a number of athletes who seem to have unusual limitations, and they all have had some root cause in their physiological makeup. In the case of @wallymann - it may be that he has concentrated on endurance fitness for many years and so has become almost all type 1 muscle...

Best of luck with your knee journey. Put in the work beforehand so it will pay off afterwards, and remember that ice cream always helps!

First hit today after a full month of not touching a racquet. Wasn’t sure how it was going to go with me still trying to get over this crud and being on antibiotics. I also made the mistake of taking a Sudafed just before heading out to hit. Without it, the post nasal drip makes me cough like...

Went in the garage and dug out two OLD Prince frames to compare - a POG OS and an OS Precision Graphite. The POG was my racquet back about 40 years ago, while my wife used the Precision Graphite because it was lighter. I would guess the Precision Graphite is going to be much closer in spec and...

Last night, I hit the gym for the first time in a month. We were traveling in Europe, but both my wife and I got pretty sick the last few days before coming home. We tested and it wasn’t Covid. We had very sore throats and congestion that resulted in a lot of coughing. So we masked up for the...

Here was my experience. About three or four years ago, I developed a sore wrist attempting to make a slight technique change on my forehand. I was using Silver 7 Tour in an 18x19 SW104 racquet and the mis-hits were just too painful. I was stringing then for a guy who had a tender elbow and...

So sorry to hear that. The guys I know that have developed arrythmia have had to quit cycling altogether, and one has an implant to give his hear a jolt if the rhythm gets so bad he’s at risk of dying. I hope you can continue to manage your symptoms well!

Literally this guy was a string bean, and like many people with his build, they just seem to have incredibly high peak heart rates. I worked with a woman who was probably 5’2” and 90 pounds, and I lent her my Polar hear rate monitor because I wasn’t using it any more. We went for a lunchtime...

I’d suggest trying Big Hitter Black 7. It’s almost as soft as VCT but has impact feel like regular Cyclone.

The max heart rate I’ve ever seen was 194, when I was in my 20’s and doing a VO2 test on a treadmill. That’s typical of people with my mesomorphic body structure. At around that time, I was training with a guy who would eventually do a sub-10 hour Ironman who was an ectomorph and his max heart...

@wallymann Lifetime cyclist here. I was still a 350-watt-for-an-hour guy at age 40, which sounds great but not when considering I was 85 kilos! I found that when I cycled a lot, much more of the time was at steady state efforts. When I trained short and hard, my efforts were very stochastic...

Thanks! My current string of choice is 1.20 Confidential, and I’m using it at 49/45 in a Babolat Aero 112 which is a very open 16x19 pattern also. But the Aero 112 is a 73 RA racquet and the swing weight of every one of mines was in the 340’s with the thin Confidential string. Going from the...

Lucky to have been chosen to participate with the 107. Perfect as my racquet has been discontinued and I’m looking for a replacement. I have a POG from probably 35 years ago to compare it with. When I made my last racquet switch, I strung up my POG and would have strongly considered switching...

Will respond to this and all other messages when I get home - currently in Portugal.

It’s definitely an expensive surgery. I reviewed all the EOBs and it totaled somewhere around $50k for my three hours in the surgical center. And that doesn’t count all of the pre- and post- surgical visits you’ll need. My ortho didn’t get wealthy from the operation. I know many doctors and...

@djNEiGht - so sorry to hear that. What’s the reason they aren’t able to proceed with surgery?

A couple of years ago, I switched to the Babolat Aero 112 because I found my SW104 was a bit too demanding when I was under extreme pressure. Under those circumstances and to a little bit lesser extent when volleying, the extra length made it difficult to find the small’ish sweet spot. But as...

I wrote about how OS racquets play differently in another thread here but I’ll repeat some of that. OS racquets seem to compress the ball response spectrum, in that softer swings provide more power than with a typical midsize racquet, but at the top end of rec player swing speeds, power levels...

Surgery was 12-27-2023 so I’m nearing 4 1/2 months. Seems like an eternity ago!

This was part of the progression of being able to go down stairs, and I used this method around week 3 or 4 after my knee replacement. But since that time, I’ve been going down normally. It’s just a bit frustrating to feel like I’m going backwards. I do resort to that if my knees are really...

@djNEiGht I hope everything progresses smoothly for you. Just a reminder again that it was over four months from my committing to my surgery, to my surgery date. There just seems to be an epidemic of joint replacements. Good luck with the tennis elbow too!

I’m pretty sure that’s not what @travlerajm is getting at because his contention is that tennis balls change their size to equalizer internal and external pressure, and that’s why his “venting” method can repressurize a ball within an hour whereas a tennis ball pressurizer takes two weeks. My...

I’d be curious to know what you think of the Angell. Since I turned 50, I went from a 110 down to a 104, and then back up to a 112. The 110 to 104 shift coincided with a bump up to 4.5, and I really enjoyed how well I could play offensive tennis with the SW104. The problem was that as I got...

Me too. As a 62 year old who plays against 4.5’s less than half my age, I need larger head sizes to help with declining eyesight. My current racquet is discontinued and I played with (and still have) the original Prince POG OS back in the day and the Phantom 107 would be a racquet I’d consider...

Because I know people connected high up in Wilson, I’ve been a product tester for them for a few years. Here’s a video where I hit with the v7 Blade 98 16x19 and 18x20. At that time, I was using the SW104. I strung these Blades with the same strings I used on the SW104 so I had an easy and...

What I do, since I string poly 95% of the time, is to cut the length I need, wrap it around a post, and lean on it with a small percentage of my body weight. This removes coil memory, which is important since I typically string one piece. I have a lockout crank machine so I manually perform a...

I am using (the now discontinued) Babolat Aero 112. 73 RA and 27.6 inches long. Stock, all seven of my racquets have an unmodified strung swing weight averaging 345 kg-cm^2 and about 8 points head heavy at roughly 295-300 grams, even though the spec is 324 swing weight and 285-290 gram static...

Hello from Lisbon. It’s our last day here. We get a rental car tomorrow and drive up north to Porto and then for a few days in their one National Park, Peneda-Geres. We’ve been on the road for almost three weeks and my knee is deteriorating. The lack of consistent stretching and weight...

Always willing to learn. What is “pressure balance”? A google search brings up pressure measurement devices and shower heads.

It can be fine no matter how much racquet head speed you have. I use a 112 and it is less powerful than a v8 Blade 98 weighted to the same swing weight.