Had my first hit with my BA300 this morning, strung with gut/multi @ 58/56lbs and added a fairway leather grip, 340g total.
Firstly, very happy with how comfortable it is, 10/10; I would say it is softer than the previous generation BAP.
Very pleasantly surprised how much I like it to be honest. Warming up with volleys the feel surpassed my expectations. Continued the warm up with some service box short ball rallies, felt good in the hand and contact through the ball felt nice much like the volleys. Moved to the baseline, words that come to mind are effortless, plush and stable.
The more relaxed you are when accelerating the racquet through point of contact the more it rewards you, definitely enjoyed the feel more than the BAP and possibly most, if not all of the other rackets I've played recently. When your timing is on point the sensation of crushing the ball is somewhat addictive. Depth, pace and spin were easy to generate, while at the same time the approach and touch shots were just as easy to execute.
My serve will take some time to adjust, but the couple I was able to connect with were very good serves, looking forward to getting that sorted out. Returns is where I was very surprised, the level of stability through point of contact off a short back swing to generate easy depth is not something I've experience before, it gave me so much more confidence particularly on my OHBH returns. My BH slice will need the biggest adjustment, it requires the technique swing path to be long and forward through the ball as opposed to a high to low across the body swing path.
Really hoping this isn't just the honeymoon period.
), and so far so good. Staples were a PITA to get out until I hit them w/ a heat gun to soften the plastic around them, then an awl was easy to get underneath to pry them out. The PK stock buttcap weighs 8.4g, and the PK kinetic weight itself weighs 22g. There's silicone all around it so that adds a bit of weight and probably some dampening. The Prince buttcap w/ trapdoor weighs 13g. Super easy to replace; I simply slid it on, applied two rounds of electric tape, then covered that w/ two rounds of packaging tape. Put maybe 20 hrs on it so far and it's solid. The divider in the handle shaft starts maybe 3in down, so it's easy enough to stuff a cotton ball there and start adding BluTack or putty. I initially added 25g of putty but settled on 20g. Feels great w/ a dampener; I even removed the 2g of lead at 3 & 9. Current specs are 335g static weight, 31.9cm BP, 332 SW, which means a 171.33 RW, 20.456 MgR/I and 0.511 pol. index.
