Cyclone felt like it lost control for me within 45 minutes when I was playing with a ~360sw. Same weight setup (a bit lower SW because team is a tad bit lighter so maybe ~357) and the Team lasted 6 hours of intensive hitting and another 6 hours of light feeds etc (all sort of mixed) for giving lessons before I noticed a marginal loss in tension. It played essentially the same, maybe a bit less spin, but overall the same just at a lower tension. I'm very impressed with this string, and am a bit shocked that TW has data about it, yet no reviews are out for it from the playtest team... Conspiracy? Who knows, but more people should try this string out.
TWU research showed at 60lbs there is less % tension loss than at 50lbs. So I tried that. It is in my Graphene Pres Pro. I'm enjoying it at around a 350sw give or take depending on the day. Still trying to dial in those last 5 sw points. At 60lbs, fresh the control is absolutely unreal. It adds control well outside the sweetspot for sure. Where normally you didn't get a clean enough strike at the ball, you get plenty and the ball goes where you'd like it to. The decreased dwell time makes lower twistweights and shots outside the sweet spot more forgiving (as the bed will have less time in contact with the ball, so racquet shake won't have as much time to affect striking the ball. Plenty of power too, not at all a dead string, which seems quite counter intuitive, but it's a nice setup.
Not at all. It has more power than a ton of polys. Definitely more than rpm blast. TWU shows it has 90% energy return.
You Wrong. many many people said it is very low powered string in this forum and i play tested it and it is and i agree.
crazy stiff relatively to most strings on the database, but never tried stiffer than 200
RPM team is a bit hollow. There are air bubbles inside of them to give them a softer feeling. The lab tests are a good general indicator, but they're not nearly as accurate as actual playinge experience. If you want to compare two different strings, it has to happen on a tennis court with actual playing conditions, not in a laboratory.
There is a significant stifness difference between 1.25 and 1.30 gauges
Try rpm blast 15. It’s a diff animal to the other Gagues. Best string innmarket.
I dont agree. Having enough dwell time allows one to steer the ball, thereby having more control. Why else would Fed use low tension hybrid with gut, giving him lots of dwell time.In my experience Team is like 4g and Blast had a child. It's fantastic. Beyond that, it has one of the least tension loss total, and most gradual tension loss when strung at 60lbs. With a fresh bed of this stuff, I really feel like I can get away with shots that I shouldn't be able to.
String stiffness=control, and reduced dwell time. This string is only second to 4g and 4g S. And as you can see from TWU research, it has similar tension retention to non poly strings. Even better than 4g towards the end of it's life.
This is an important one: LESS DWELL TIME=MORE CONTROL. This means TEAM has most control as the string wears out, out of the strings tested:
This article explains
polys well and highlights the benefits of RPM Team http://twu.tennis-warehouse.com/learning_center/deadstrings.php
I normally wouldn’t find myself agreeing with Fedace, but when I used it, I did find it to be lower powered compared to other poly strings I was using at the time. That said, I was comparing it to Solinco Tour Bite and Revolution, and I only used one set. I’m not sure what I’d think of it now.Lol sorry the numbers don't lie:
Unless of course you think TWU is incorrect... And that when they get 96-98% energy return for natural gut that is wrong too.
When I play with this string, I can definitely feel the power when flattening out the ball. It is quite lively. When going for more spin I can feel the string stiffness. It's ok though, I wouldn't expect you to be able to fully utilize this string Nostradamus. Spend more time on court, less posting on TT
