Meags,
Any gut recommendations from this side of the pond? Looking for performance and price here.
Rossy, baseliner, moonballer, doesnt like to venture too close to the evil, nasty net..............has now decided to try gut hmmmmm
The one great advantage is you can string real tight (mid 60's) and have lovely feel from the elasticity and 'give' it has and the control of a tight stringbed. When you drop tension and being used to poly you can find that it is lively with the ball popping everywhere......hmmmm, bugger, it may suit the Melbourne, I think I have never strung it tight enough (bit scared tbh)........bugger bugger pi$$ flaps!!!!
I'm really thinking of taking the Gut leap. I tried it in my last demo and wow. Like warm apple pie lol. I had gut mains and alu crosses just like the pros. Are you using poly mains and gut crosses?
BigM
Gads,
PP,
I've hardly hit with gut/poly hybrid before, but in my 'stringaholic' inner demon would definitely like me to do so! A few stumbling blocks for me would be price of gut. Plus also I know virtually nothing about what to look at - what's really decent - the differences between playing characteristics of various guts, etc. Looks as if I need to do some searching in the strings section etc.
What do you guys say about typhoon? Is it any good?
This is WAY off topic but any chance of insight from our 2 California residents?
I realize you two live at opposite ends of the state but was looking for any feedback on LA.
My son got accepted at USC last week and is up for a full ride. They're flying him out there in a few weeks and wanted to know the pros and cons of the California lifestyle
Depends on the stick. Loved it in the YTPP but did not like it in either Tec 320 or APD.
Just played with the Prestige and the Xi 98. Xi is removed from further play. It's a solid average stick, but doesn't really do anything overwhelmingly good or bad. Right down the middle. No 'wow' factor in any department. It is, to its credit, extremely controlled and I like the feel of it -- again, right down the middle.
PROS:
Great weather
Close to beach
CONS:
Horrible traffic
Rude people
Earthquakes
This is WAY off topic but any chance of insight from our 2 California residents?
I realize you two live at opposite ends of the state but was looking for any feedback on LA.
My son got accepted at USC last week and is up for a full ride. They're flying him out there in a few weeks and wanted to know the pros and cons of the California lifestyle
I may pass on the xi if it is that average. I need excitement when I demo..pure wozzy tweener action????
I totally identify with this. I need the weird stuff. Lol.
The woz racquet is surprising smooth. It may feel like a fisher price compared to your gut strung 6.1 though
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If you get a little wild and crazy, you should seriously try the Genesis Hexonic in 1.27 in the Tfight. It does not last that long, but the feel is going to really fire you up.
I liked that setup but Hex 1.27mm felt too thick and didn't have the pinpoint control in the Tec that TB does.
^^my elbow hurts just thinking about BBO in the Tec. It was one of my go to strings in the MGPP though.
Hoping to hear some good news about scoring some n6.1 18x20s today.
I officially put the PSL up for sale. There just really isn't any competition for me between it and the BLX. I never thought I would be a Wilsonian but you can't fight it when it's this good.
A softer racquet like the EXO would not really need the gut poly, but wilsons and babs are prime candidates.
I always thought Kim Clijsters had the sick Bab setup..a Pure Drive with full gut. A lot of people think they will go through it really quickly, but look at Rogi, Djoker, Clijsters..etc..They are not breaking strings all the time during matches and are dealing with the heaviest balls in the world. I dont know, there is just something about it. I figure 2 sticks can last me 2-3 weeks and that is all I need..if I'm wrong and it starts breaking fast..so be it..but gut has this way of hanging on by a strand sometimes for a while.
This is WAY off topic but any chance of insight from our 2 California residents?
I realize you two live at opposite ends of the state but was looking for any feedback on LA.
My son got accepted at USC last week and is up for a full ride. They're flying him out there in a few weeks and wanted to know the pros and cons of the California lifestyle
I may pass on the xi if it is that average. I need excitement when I demo..pure wozzy tweener action????
Thanks, it's the rude people that would bother me the most
JGads is my new personal hero. He scored me 2 darn near perfect n6.1 18x20s for a beyond ridiculously good price. My tennis life is saved and revived!
^^A perfect as always JGads response. Thanks
What's the biggest difference living there vs where you were before?
ry,
Superb news compadre. I was actually a big fan of the closed pattern N95 and it's the last closed pattern I ever played. It's a great frame (as you already know), and I know a few ppl who deem it a really great frame. Congrats!
PP,
You said before you may look at full multi job for a 3rd 6.1. What multis do you like or would consider?
All,
Have a mate who is so tight he doesn't like to string more than twice a year!:roll: Here's the thing though, the last two times I've hit with him his groundies are just continually going long due to the dead string (think he had a poly/multi hybrid), and it's driving me bonkers! He doesn't play more than about once a week. He's a pretty decent rec player. What do you advise me to tell him to go for string-wise? Poly/multi hybrid again? A syn. gut job (I know zero about these)? Something else? He'll obviously be wanting something long-lasting but decent quality with good performance. It's annoying because I used to enjoy hitting with him but now he's just blasting it over the b-line 24/7.
I love LA and NYC, but gads nailed it.
Id still pick la because of the weather. But nyc has that amazing energy going on. Personally my dream is to live in multiple places throughout the year.
I always forget..dont play tennis when you are really tired. It is like my feet just do not move. But i hit around and then just did serve return practice with our club stud player. Serves started dropping for me and he could not return them..he got some, but we were both pretty tired and did not have a lot of focus.
Anyway, the setup is still alive..slowly adding string savers. Besides the killer feel of the string setup, i have to say the spin is vicious. It is easily as good if not better than any full poly setup i have used. The main thing to watch is tension loss. The poly drops tension a little but it is still very controllable. Plan for about 7 pounds of tension loss and that will do it. I am starting to really get my feel for lobs and drop shots a lot more dialed than i ever could with poly. Also slices are just incredible. It is easier to effortlessly drive slices now. I think gut and the 6.1 just gives me so much ball feel that it really helps me out.
hitting with the heavier sw blx and the lighter..it is so tough to pick a favorite one. The heavier sw just crushes the ball so hard. Its not like the lighter is much different, but you can just feel a little more of that ball crushing sensation.
Have a mate who is so tight he doesn't like to string more than twice a year!:roll: Here's the thing though, the last two times I've hit with him his groundies are just continually going long due to the dead string (think he had a poly/multi hybrid), and it's driving me bonkers! He doesn't play more than about once a week. He's a pretty decent rec player. What do you advise me to tell him to go for string-wise? Poly/multi hybrid again? A syn. gut job (I know zero about these)? Something else? He'll obviously be wanting something long-lasting but decent quality with good performance. It's annoying because I used to enjoy hitting with him but now he's just blasting it over the b-line 24/7.
Man oh man am I feeling you there. MD and I hit tonight and I was dead. Awful. Also didn't help that it was cold and windy, which can be the end of you. We got it going a little bit towards the end but we've had better days out there. ... AND... I've got a league match scheduled for tomorrow night. That could be trouble. I'll carbo load or something, see if I can find any basalt bars.
Hit with one of Ry's incoming N6.1s. Pretty sweet. Drives the ball like a 6.1 and swung nicely.
Demo frame wise, man, I wish the RDIS 200 had some decent string in there, not a multi that's old and moving around a lot. That frame moves through the air SO well and easily, has a lot of power, nice big spin, and feels so nice on the arm. The softness of it would be conducive to a good crisp poly like TB, which is a kind of mix I like and I feel like the performance could be stellar... I'll put this on my 'trade requests' for future frames I'm selling and maybe pick one up for super cheap if I can. I'm telling you, it's a nice little sleeper, one of the best Yonnies I've hit.
JGads is my new personal hero. He scored me 2 darn near perfect n6.1 18x20s for a beyond ridiculously good price. My tennis life is saved and revived!
Just strung the 200 up yesterday for the B team captain with revolution at mid tension. He loves the racket and set up, He's a counter puncher and the racket suits his get everything back style. He's a superb volleyer and has a solid all round game. No huge shots but very consistent.
The rdis200 is like the best pure feeling frame ever. I wanted to get one and lead it up to 12.5 but first I will deal with the vcore.
The cool thing about rdis200 is that its a total sleeper and out there for cheap! I am just not used to all that flex...its in the back of my mind for sure though.
Shockingly plush frame. Wish it was a 95. Reminded me of old radicals...but with that big open string pattern, a ball massuese if there ever was one. Sharp poly at like 58 and a little added weight...wow.
I gotta calm down becuase I just got a screaming deal on a vcore and I was goating with the demo. Plus theres no substitute for the ps85. And the 320 never did me wrong. Man. There's a lotta good stuff out there.
Chris kinda got in my head with the 200 review, saying his ball wasnt that fierce...I kinda get that feeling from all flexy frames....like Im leaving some power on the table. But if you beefed it up...
Yes yes, but did you SEE Sean Hemmer hammer (trademark Sean Hemmer) that forehand down the line? It was disgusting. Believe he had a nice backhand in there, too. Granted, he's Sean Hammer Hemmer. But I remember thinking that the boys actually looked like they were hitting some pretty good balls, Chris included. For me, the frame lacks no power whatsoever. If anything it could be tamed a bit, but again, I'm hitting it with loose multi.
Just watched it. He smoked that fh!
Man, I think I have demoed so much that I can infer if a frame will be good despite the stringjob...the demo multi is just garbaaage overcooked pasta, you have to hit super flat to get any rip on the ball...but I can tell this frame is gonna be killer with shaped poly.
But I'm chillin. I think 95d is gonna be my frame for 2012. I think. Maybe I should get a Yonex bag? Lol. comprehensive Yonex fail?
So risky.
No Yonex bag. Out of respect to the 85s and 88. And Roger.
Been bagless for months now. Rollin to the courts with a trader joes bag and a ps85...just a drifter with beatdown vapors and 2004 nike throwbacks