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I've been giving him Wilson extreme syn gut, which is pretty cheap. I have no experience playing with Kevlar, but just stringing with it I don't feel like it would transmit shock like a poly would. I've always heard it referred to as more dead than stiff.

I string for a friend who breaks strings really fast. He's not a very advanced player, but can hit hard and with lots of spin. Because he's not so advanced, any sort of stiff poly string immediately makes his elbow and shoulder sore. Is Kevlar the answer here?

I'm taking the bar in a couple months and have done my fair share of contracts work. Basically, an attorney can argue that anything is advertising. Normally I'd just say he's covering his bases, but it doesn't take a law degree to spot an obvious troll.

I did basically admit to arming the ball, and I'll make a video this weeked to see if I can incorporate all this advice. I imagine the serve will be most noticeable. @ GetBetterer- so I should stick my hip out into the court more? This sounds similar to the bow & arrow clinic I've seen on...

So I went out to hit last night and I was amazed at the results I got from the arm extension on my serve. It took some pace off, but consistency and placement were excellent. I was able to arm my BH less and that really helped me free up my swing. I really had trouble on the FH side though, I...

@dozu - so my swing needs to be more of a core rotation? I think I can do that, but the trick there for me is moving my feet enough to get a good distance between my body and the ball. As for the shirt, can you honestly expect me to hide these guns? @mightyrick - good advice on toss...

thanks for the input Thanks for the tips guys! I wouldn't have noticed most of these things on my own. @spacediver & pvaudio - I never even considered what I was doing with my tossing arm but I can see how extending it further would force me to take more time and slow down my motion a bit...

I've never really noticed, but which pros do this?

So I just got a decent phone not to long ago and I decided the other day to take some videos at my courts. I'm a former high school player and now I just do this for fun when I have time. I may toss up some ground strokes to warm up for about a minute, but the rest is mainly serves. Hopefully...

I'm a huge Blake fan and was really hoping for him to make a comeback this year, but interviews like that make me doubt that it will happen. He's questioning his equipment way too much, to the point where he's wearing cage I's with the nike logos ripped off. fila must love that. but the...

looking at the memphis final, it's interesting to see how the o3 technology has made PJs impossible for prince. both querrey (hybrid tour) and isner (original o3 white) are using long discontinued racquets. with both of them becoming more visible top 30, maybe top 20 players it will be...

An earlier thread confirmed that Querrey did use the 18x20 HT for a little while before switching to the custom 16x20. I know he used to use the diablo, but in a recent TTC bag check he holds up the HTs and says he's been using them since he was a kid. If it is a diablo with o-ports, you would...

kpax is a 2001 movie starring kevin spacey that i've never heard of. lol but the imdb plot summary seems strangely relevant : "Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations."

i also lift 3-4 times per week. lately i've been isolating less, always incorporating sets of dips and pullups in between weight exercises. i always play a few games of full court bball immediately after lifting, although sometimes i'll hit the sauna before i play. someone told me once...

this is not news OP, there are like 3 active threads on this already, but whatever. i still can't understand why they don't include the falcon dampener with the djokovic sig frame, lol they'll probably sell it separately for $4.95 in a couple of months.

Monfils is Prince's most visible player right now, but I don't think he played Wimby this year so he must be injured, again. They finally get Sharapova and Davy back playing and now the guy on the cards of their new frames is missing majors? talk about bad luck for prince. Malisse plays with...

you should really check out that last thread, Fed's P1 stringer said they use the old buttcaps after grip customization because that's what they have lying around, no reason in particular.

Yeah, you have to string these frames like you would with the port inserts or the grommets get damaged. I would've done the same thing if i hadn't read that on the back of the card or wherever i saw the warning. i forgot to hold the frame in place when i was stringing mine once and i could...

I gravitated to this racquet when i saw the low flex of 60. Most mid or midplus racquets these days are around 67-68 so the rebel is definitely unique in that sense. I started out using the 58/56 lb full poly setup that i'd been using for years in my hybrid tour. PHT 16 played well and i kept...

I hesitate to call that a true eastern grip. Fed's index finger is on a higher bevel than the rest of his hand, giving it the appearance of an eastern grip while the racquet face is actually turned more SW. Just from watching Fed play i can see a clear difference from true SW forehand players...

the exo3 graphite 100 comes to mind

you're talking about a first gen poly in enduro gold and what plays like a first gen synthetic gut in super fine play. mix them together and you get the cheapest hybrid on TW. I've found that this setup is perfect for friends who don't pay you for string jobs.

the standard for criminal cases is "beyond a reasonable doubt" while the standard for civil cases is a "preponderance of the evidence", which means more likely than not. since no one's freedom is on the line i think the issue of fed's racquet would be handled by a civil court in the US. btw a...

what about the black and pink CBs that go with it? sure they have the raging bull logo on the side, but i dunno how i would feel about wearing those on the court.

Johnny mac was talking racquets again today and he mentioned Djokovic's risky racquet change. The commentators talk about it so much that it makes me wonder why they never talk about other pros changing pjs. The graphic on the broadcast said that Djokovic's string is "Technifibre 17." btw...

i read a lot of reviews where people complained about those red spots that appear on the vapor VIs, wonder why that happens?

i just can't bring myself to wear something with fed's initials on it. he needs a better logo like jumpman for jordan or nadal's bull head but i guess he's trying to be like his best friend tiger. btw i saw someone in nadal's box wearing a bull hat, will that ever be released?

nothing to lose except for his top 20 in the world ranking. what do you call a modern frame and how are they better? btw you aren't the one who said ferrer was physically unimpressive so you really only have one ridiculous statement to defend. this thread is up there with the fed 95"...

maybe i misspoke, i could comfortably dead lift 200 lbs. its just that the soreness that comes immediately afterward seems too intense.

dead lifts cause pain for me. i swear i'm doing them properly but if i go much over 100 lbs it feels like i'm going to pull something. i know this sounds lame, but lower back extensions seem to be just as effective for me