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Not to mislead you - have not heard anything about that happening. I would personally think Nike would want to aquire a company that has a bigger piece of the market gain their distribution.

I play with 95" - I've really grown accustomed to their fine play. I am generally able to hit at my "targets" away from opponents at whatever pace and spin I am hit at. Serves and volleys well. Very happy with the company. All they would need to make believers out of more would be to paint on a...

In practice matches or practice in general, the object sometimes seems to be to grove your swings so you practice hitting back to someone. As opposed to practicing strategy - also when you push yourself during practice instead of the ball, your game may look and feel uglier at your limits...

I only had a chance to briefly take a few hits with my Boronite II this summer and put it away. My club is having a charity wooden racquet doubles tournament this weekend, so I had it restrung with the blue spiral gut. Just wanted to share my hour of practice at the expense of a doubles...

1004's Also to note: per instruction of Dr.: I remove the factory inserts and replace them with flat, soft inserts, then the orthotics go on top of them. So by my set up, the dynamics of the shoe change change favorably in the shoes that have a higher instep For me it's the damage...

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Heal pads genrally soften the pain for PF. Heal Spurs and shin splints may be caused by not getting enough arch support. Whether you pronate and / or supinate would be reflected on how a specialist builds up the orthotics. In terms of a layman's guess - do you wear out the outside or the inside...

I believe it was called: Laserfibre Supernatural Pro Stock? - was priced like $19.99 a set. It would peel off thin ribbon layers faster than any string. It was much more opaque than the iso's but, the Iso Pro 17 classic seems to be the closest I've ever seen. I do not hit the ball as hard as I...

Sure - here's what I saw/felt in comparison: Vantage 95 - 12.something strung oz & headlight. Full laserfibre & iso professional 17 - 55 lbs notched quickly & frayed. As they frayed, they stretched. As they stretched they got looser and the strings moved quite a bit. The strings broke...

Absolutely guilty of over simplifying -( polyaryletherketone polymers ) - Seemed to me that the two are close enough to using interchangably like saying kevlar & aramid, But yes all three: head, laserfibre & iso are made of polyolefin, woven in ribbons, and have very close elasticity ratings...

That's just bad advise. Actually - it's made out of the same chemical construction - zyex, woven in a similar ribbon construction, their USRSA ratings and the string index database both show similarity in their elasticity properties. I'd believe that they are more similar than different based...

This post is like comparing little league baseball players to the major league all stars. People who denegrate others as a form of self flattery - eventually get called out for it.

What racquet manufacturer offers a production racquet more "custom" than vantage? There are a few known retails who will accommodate modifications. And while they are available to the general public they are not manufacturing, designing and marketing their own brand. If Vantage isn't the...

The biggest difference that I've observed is when we guys are playing against a higher ranked female and are able to take advantage of powering through our opponent despite their better form and consistency. I have a niece who can retreive and place who will give everyone who plays against her...

Just a thought. You may want to try this approach if TW isn't able to help you: Call every single Head 800 number. Have your claim # handy and inform everyone that answers that you will be calling their 800 numbers every day on the hour until they either replaced the shoes or you have rung up a...

Wow two years later - seemed like just yesterday!

Hard to prove doesn't mean it's wrong but it doesn't mean it is going to be an easy sale to prove it based on hearsay either. Nike did buy Bauer hockey and launched their own equipment simultaneously. Then eventually Nike branded their own equipment. So it's historically possible, but in this...

Babolat Pure Storm Tour Racquets would be my guess to start. In terms or heritage: http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/catpage-GROMBABOLAT.html they share the same set of grommets: (Babolat Pure Storm/Tour/+/Control/Zyln Gromm) Looks closely the same too...

Legit: high modulus carbon fiber Soft grommets open grommets string patterns head shapes weighting quality control

For me, the 70 ra has a more modern feel and the 63's have a more classic feel in the 95 mid plus - I switched to the 63 after palying with 70's - having said that I've gone from 27&1/4 to 27&1/2 length and from 6 points hl to 8 .. but have played with a bunch of different vantages.

Great post - I liken the difference to sportsmanship vs gamesmanship - Sporting Types tend accept the points taken away by the rules regardless of the final outcome and compete (means to end) Gamesmanship Types are primarily concerned with the gaining of their points (ends to a mean)

A friend has a AD main / Supex cross set up on an OS that I had hit with - the strings make a click noise on heavy topspin shots and seemed to return to their position rather well - I'm not sure how long this set up lasts but it provided plently of spin.

Agree with preponderence of serves to the backhand and mixing up for opponents under 4.0 -> Much Depends on your doubles partner - some are more static than others. A good poacher for a partner motivates my serving game to really hit spots instead of trying to get creative with spin and power.

I've been using their 95's for 4 years - I do like to demo other racquet company's latest and greatest for some hits but lately I've been really locked in to them. Vantage measures RA without grip - for consistancy - their 70 is closer to other's mid to upper 60's

If you mess up for a few seconds trying to be honest in a non-tournement situation it's not such a big deal. Couple of thoughts - When some people have played the psychological game of trying to put doubt in my calls I've found a few phrases have sometimes helped - depending on the people I'm...

Is 317 a high swingweight? Is 317 a high swingweight? Wasn't there a "noman's land" between swingweights that was proportional to the weight - ie the lower the weight of the racquet the higher the swingweight was supposed to be? or that weight polorization didn't substantiate until it was...

There are programs for 4 - 5 yearolds at one club I know of. The women who teach these clinics spend most of what what they are doing on very basic fundamentals: footwork and swing drills whereby the 45 minutes spent is more about familiarity and developing the kids active listening skills than...

I was in boater's World this weekend and while I was rumaging through the clearance section ,i remembered these "fishing line" posts when I saw some 1.20 mm 130 lb leader line and leader wire. Appearently there is a difference between the florocarbon and regular monofilament. The floro seems...

Count me in. Ifound my old Boron .. I think it will be allowed in the wooden racquet challenges.. If it is I'll string it with the Pacific Blue Spiral mock Imperial.

perhaps, in other words; how much paint is used typically for a paint job in fluid oz and what is the approximate weight for that much paint? somewhere between 5-30 grams? I would guess less than 15 grams but some types of paint & certain colors might be heavier than others. maybe a paint store...