Just get the swing going that tad bit earlier to make the longer lever effective.
Thats insane
Lol. Verdasco doesnt have short arms but he is not even close to lanky. Also theres people 6 foot 5 who have arms shorter than people who are 5’10. Being taller doesnt mean you automatically will have better reach than someone shorter.
Sorry can I just ask, were you hitting too long with the 27?
Have you ever played with wood?
color of the racquet is also an important consideration
Using a longer racquet doesnt increase leverage. It decreases it. Try seeing how much leverage you have swinging a pole vaulting pole by grabbing the end with one hand
Holy sheizer ive never heard this said before. Nobel prize in the science of originality coming your way my friend.
Pwned
Gear is very important if you want to be the best player you can be. Have a doubles team switch racquets and see how well they play lol. Pro and high level players are finely tuned machines almost like formula 1 cars. Even just a little variation in equipment can drastically change how well a player plays. If you are just smacking balls around with a friend then yeah the racquet doesnt matter much. But even then, having a suitable racquet that feels natural and easy to swing will make playing a million times more fun.
I think your confusing torque and leverage. A longer racket when swung with the same amount of effort takes longer to speed up but has more force because the contact point is moving faster. That's why you have to prep earlier with a longer stick.
I hate to cloud the issue with facts, but the fact is the vast majority of pros do not play with finely tuned rackets. You mention doubles players. Fact is, the majority of them don't do anything to their frames other than add lead and a leather grip (maybe). That's the reason you see the doubles guys pretty much all use one of 3 or 4 frames. Off the shelf frames. Fact is, Djokovic got to be a world class player through ability, not equipment. That he has tailored equipment now is really a testament to how wildly overpaid he is, not his need for same. Djokovic would be the same player he is with a stock racket weighted to his spec. At that level, it's all between the ears. And the belief that his gear is no longer a factor is between the ears. It's a benefit of making $200M/year.
Arrows/bows and pre-gunpowder hunters. TIs true, indeed.
When you put 10 foot tires on an monster truck, you have to re-gear the transmisdion because the same torque applied to bigger wheels will result in less force at the road/tire boundary. And this idea is not different from the concept of leverage. A 10 foot tall tire will effectively reduce the leverage the crankshaft has over the wheels, even though the crankshaft is sending the same torque. Think of your hand as the crankshaft and a 10 ft long racquet as the 10 foot tall tire. The crankshaft/hand can only provide the same torque no matter what. (Your hand does not become stronger when you use a 10 foot long racquet). I get what you are saying but i think you mean to say that a longer racquet will have more inertia/momentum than a short racquet when moving at the same angular velocity as the short racquet. This is true as far as i understand. But the small racquet having less rotational inertia will accelerate faster in angular velocity under the same hand torque. If you ignore certain considerations you can say that the hand will be able to impart the same angular momentum to both the short and long racquets under the same hand torque for the same length of time.
Interesting post man. What do you think makes med meat and tsitsipas bones?
I think theres plenty of racquets out there that if djokovic grew up playing with them he would be nowhere near his level of success. If he had a decent players racquet growing up then yeah i agree with you, but if you gave him some sledgehammer oversize racquet go grow up with and get used to he would suck compared to himself today. And once a pro is used to their racquet, changing anything major will throw them off just as much as if you shortened a pro golfers clubs before a big event. Verdasco seems to be on the fence about which racquet he plays best with and i think that has hurt his game pretty badly. Once you are lock stock on what your nervous coordination expects from your racquet, changing anything about it would be like pissing in your cornflakes. You would know immediately something was wrong.
Also 6’11 Opelka and 5’9 Evans rackets are not a million miles apart.
Yeah i would agree with that. I was just saying that it makes more sense to refer to leverage as something that decreases as the racquet gets longer.
This but the thread in generall is getting to be one of thsoe back and forth things with a lot of noise. While some of what has been said has merit, at the pro level and whatever level, you will always find an outlier to whatever convention you think was true and it will mess with you if you let it. I'd follow your instinct or curiousity and see what the results are for you. Sometimes a longer racket with a more head-light balance can feel just as nice in the sense of swinging it but if you get a different racket entirely and it's also longer, who knows what variables are at play for you? Could be much more going on than just the length.
I getcha, like you can tuck in and whip it around while still benefiting from the extended reach for use in a brushy/whippy swing under pressure.
Bc the longer the racket, the less control you have.
