A rackets personality....
Actually ross you may be right but I've been thinking about the pros and cons of these rackets for a short time now, especially whilst showering of a morning!
If all being equal (ie similar feel/stability etc) the volkl is a versatile stick, its grace and easy flowing nature allow you to express yourself and as an all court kinda guy, I like that. The problem lies in the fact that I am not Federer and although I consistently hit good shots, with a stick like this it gets into your head, oooh little drop shot here, dinky cutesy clever shot there and this gets me into trouble.
I win points, games and matches by playing my game, big serve, very aggressive, powerful ground strokes, forcing errors, getting stuff back, if I stick to the plan I can look pretty decent, if I start getting cute my game goes in and out and start trying too hard......so is a beautifully versatile stick for me?
Or , like the last couple of outings with the yonex do I play a stick that's a little more one dimensional (in a multi dimensional kind a way but not as multi dimensional as the volkl!). Theres no messing with this stick, it wants you to hit thro the ball, it has no problems creating angles with acute spin but in general it likes to just keep deep and to the corners, which in the scheme of things will win you most matches. It likes you to keep it simple, something I keep telling myself. I can play my all court game, s & v, chip and charging, baseline rallying, mixing it up, but for some reason I don't try to be too clever. My problem lies in the fact that its an ugly brute and I see myself much more in terms of artistic flaneur. Maybe its that opposites attract or maybe I do have to try the rdx500 mid/rds001 although it will have to be the all yellow one!?
Lastly, the mg600 (leaded up its the closest thing to my beloved feeling pt600), its control suits my game, its versatile but not in a cut thro the air like a magician kinda way the volkl is, its not clunky or beefed up brute, but get the weighting right and you have all the power you need. It does feel much smaller headed and this makes me keep it simple, its somewhere in between. Its the racket I chose (prob unrealistically) for myself when I started playing a few years ago, we have history!
So yes a racket must match your own personality but I have to think of my biggest asset and that's my serve and work on everything else and as these sticks are so close in all departments that shouldn't prove too difficult.
At the moment on serve out of 10 the yonex is a 9.3, the head 8.9 and the volkl 8.8......maybe I should do the tw rating list and see what happens
