Per ^4555 above, the Mag Pro was considered Firm by Prince, at least compared to their aluminiums, and has been measured at 60RA I believe, but I do also recall the warping concerns. Weird since they must have used more of it to reach the typical weight range as it's a third lighter than Al.
Yes, after many years of checking the local Op/Thrift Shops I thought I would never see one of these; ever. Very, very unexpected. But I always check the sports section after hunting through the record section.
They were using a word like "durability" to describe Mag Pro instead of Prince Pro or Graphite Pro(#4559). Hmm.. Just it doesn't seem to have matched the real world experiences in which there is reportedly some warpage issue with this frame.
Couldn't a player flip it and use The Dark Side Of The Spoon? Learned years ago do not try to bend the spoon. It is impossible. Instead finally realize the TW Truth....................................................
Me too
No luck finding my missing Barricade at the last club I might have had it at. Looks like it’s a goner.
There is a serial number on the throat. I’ll find the pics on my other harddrive tomorrow.
I decided to hit tonight with the no-name brand Woodie with the old punching bag partner. I beat him 6/1, then after going down 1/5 in the 2nd, came back to win it 7/6 much to his dismay. Idk if it was a lapse in concentration or fatigue but for a random 2 games in the 2nd I basically couldn’t hit a serve in the box, nearly all went long. After I reminded myself I’m not allowed to lose to this man, I played some Brad Gilbert style tennis and just make him play every ball instead of trying to tee off with a mono shaft wood. I recorded this like every other match, and maybe I’ll edit it but it’s not going to be top drawer stuff.
I could blame the racket but honestly it seems of decent build quality and the nylons play just as I want them to, I just wasn’t finding the sweetspot enough. I’d totally buy a few sets of those white/black striped nylons if I could find em.
Yeah I guess magnesium must deform and retain its newest contort . Which I knew so I assumed it to be very flexible. But no…
Depends on the model. There were about a half dozen. The cheaper ones “Borg Monte Carlo” and ironically “Borg Wimbledon” (since he used Donnay’s there) were from Taiwan. The “Borg Personal” was made in U.S.A. and is of higher quality and likely worth it to pickup at that price.
It’s a Wimbledon model - think I’ll pass on it - thanks
You probably didn't know,, but it was Pro Kennex Day today. Or something. Anyways I saw this at Savers for $3.99 and adored the flashy mid 90's look and its in great shape to boot. It's the first frame I've found from the Destiny family. Oversize and a little light, but that made getting wristy and whippy easy for me, I hit some good balls with it below, give it a watch why not? I decided to take it out for a hit with one of my more backboard style hitting partners, we did a bunch of those points where you hit 3 friendly balls then play out the point.
I have no idea what they mean by "tournament de tennis"
One can assume. 1995 would have to be the tail end as it was a Thailand produced model and that ended after that year.
And I also found this the other day, while at the Play it Again Sports location that I visit the least frequently (40 mins from home), and ususlly they have a poor selection. Well not this time. This is actually the cheapest adult racket I've seen at a PIAS, and they even knew the model, yet priced it this cheap... Bizarre. Obviously I snatched it up like I just noticed a $100 bill blowing down the street.
So now I have both of the USA produced Prestige offerings, the Pro and Master. The Master shares the same aesthetics as the Pro, this one being an earlier offering I can tell from the buttcap, but the CAP grommets don't encompass the whole head. It's also 20g lighter than the Pro, despite the increase in headsize from 89.5 to 102.5. (332g for the Master, vs 352 for the Pro). This one is strung tight, 65lbs with Prince synthetic, its very stiff. Like most Prestige's, and especially early ones, it gives you little and asks a lot of you, but if you get it right you're rewarded. I'll be honest, I have a little footage of me using this thing for rally points, the same day as the footage above with that Pro Kennex Power Destiny, and the footage of the Prestige Master isn't pretty. Had some good shots but plenty of bad ones. I actually put it away after losing a very long rally by getting passed, and I hurled this poor prestige into the back tarp with alarming force. Luckily the tarp is soft, and it landed on carpet. no way I would have let my anger out like that outdoors on hard court. I picked up that cheap Pro Kennex and almost instantly played better... I think the footage speaks for itself, that was all recorded after my trials with this frame. I'll give it another go, but probably with new strings, but what to put in it?
8.5 I’m pretty sure. The beam looks identical to the Prestige Pro, the hoop is just bigger.
Adidas, Kneissl, and Yamaha all tried this grip shape for a few years. Maybe others too but that's all I know of.
Stopped by a Pawn shop while waiting for a buddy to get off work so we could have a bbq. Was sad to see they're missing their sweet shop cat, owner suspects someone picked her up. I'm a huge sucker for cats so this broke my heart to hear. I had to support them, and luckily they had a frame on the wall worth spending a few bucks on. My first Kneissl. Made in Yamaha's own factory in Singapore around 1988, and featuring an inner beam bevel that's highly reminiscent of the Yamaha 97FX, its the Aeramic 25 Classic! I have no idea what the 25 in the name stands for, as it's certainly not the length, nor the beam width. This Kneissl has a very dense 16x18 pattern, and a cool string protection grommet strip, and is fairly heavy. 374g strung, but a SW of only 330. Condition is excellent.
I have to rate it only as fairly heavy, after finding my fathers old Davis Imperial in a 4 3/4 grip and coming in at 410g strung lol.
What an odd pallet system.Found this and thought why not, once again suckered in by the near mint shape. Dated under the grip, sadly unwrapping the original leather caused bad creasing in it, so I had to put an overgrip on top. After holding this thing, no wonder he was called muscles. Seriously, has anyone else here tried swinging this thing? The I beams on this thing could support a sky scraper they're so overbuilt. I suppose Acro was some sort of partner that designed the little grommets-on-rails system Seamco implemented here? It's really neat and I plan on comparing it to the Rawlings Tiebreaker as that's another early 70's aluminum stick that by chance weighs exactly the same at 390g strung.
Just another catchup photo dump night, got these a couple weeks ago. So this first one looks like Pro Kennex thought to themselves, "hey, its 1995 or so, lets see if we can sell an updated snowshoe head racket that was somewhat popular a decade ago?" They titled this system a pretty generic "long strings" frame, the strings are extended, but the racket length is standard. Also bizarrely called the Micro Light, despite weighing 330g strung, which I don't think qualified as light even in the mid 90s. I guess that was about the time companies decided being lightweight was a useful marketing tool? Definitely love that shade of blue that almost seems to glow.
He used the paint job but not that actual stick.
I’ll find out eventually. Though if you thought my backlog of photos was big, you should see the percentage of my collection I’ve yet to hit with.
