Ball Pocketing, Dwell Time, Spin Potential

[mxmx]

Originally Posted by tlm

Okay Jack fair enough, I just get hooked on the great spin I get with a kevlar main and poly cross. But more than that this set up plays so much more consistent than a full poly job does.

I love poly when it is fresh, but it come nowhere near kevlar when it comes to maintaining pinpoint control with its built in restricted flight even after a few hours of use. I hit a high trajectory with a lot of top spin and when the poly starts to lose some tension I have a harder time with shots going long.

And even though I know kevlar loses tension quickly it does not lose its control anywhere near as quick as poly does. I am still experimenting with different poly set ups and hoping to find one that works. Because I would like to get away from the kevlar its stiffness can be hard on the arm. But like I mentioned its unmatched control and pinpoint accuracy is addicting.

By the way what club do you play out of, I play in the suburbs out of Park Forest and Homewood.
TLM

Great thread people....what I was looking for...

My question would be: When kevlar loses its tension, does it increase in power?
My experience of kevlar is that the older it gets, the rougher and looser the actual strings get, and the spin increases. Power, I am not sure. To me poly is great on flat shots, but not as great as kevlar with spin. Could anyone concur?

[tennisnut123]

Originally Posted by pvaudio

It's very odd. It's like it's braided almost. It's kinda lumpy rather than rough.

Yeah, its definitely a strange feel...It's almost like they took alu power, and just cut small crevices into the string, somewhat like little spiral notches.

[tennisnut123]

A lot of this is way over my head lol...But, for a While i was using the Kblade 98...Strung with Wilson Nat gut @ 56 lbs mains/Tec Black code @ 54 lbs cross. I had tried doing the same tension with the wilson nat gut mains and lux alu rough cross, but felt like the ball had a trampoline effect when making contact, and that same effect never happened with the black code. I used this hybrid for a few years and still like it to this day, but switched to all black code. Could you help me understand some possible reasons why i would have liked the black code hybrid more, based off of the information that you've provided previously? I currently string rackets for two different places and I string quite a bit, but still learning about the science of it all...so i find this quite interesting. Thanks Audio or whoever can enlighten me on this.

[mxmx]

Originally Posted by tennisnut123

A lot of this is way over my head lol...But, for a While i was using the Kblade 98...Strung with Wilson Nat gut @ 56 lbs mains/Tec Black code @ 54 lbs cross. I had tried doing the same tension with the wilson nat gut mains and lux alu rough cross, but felt like the ball had a trampoline effect when making contact, and that same effect never happened with the black code. I used this hybrid for a few years and still like it to this day, but switched to all black code. Could you help me understand some possible reasons why i would have liked the black code hybrid more, based off of the information that you've provided previously? I currently string rackets for two different places and I string quite a bit, but still learning about the science of it all...so i find this quite interesting. Thanks Audio or whoever can enlighten me on this.

For me on the kblade 98, the most success I had stringwise, was the thinner babolat pro hurricane (white)....second place was the pro hurricane tour (yellow)
I am not sure why though....the blade was also the lightest on strings compared to all my other rackets.