Tommy Sacramento
New User
Feel like I’m close to the Goldilocks zone after a long journey with my ezone 98 and looking for ideas/recommendations. Am 4 hours into solinco revolution 18g crossed with blue yptp 18g, both at 40lbs. Love the pocketing and seems close to the perfect combo of snap and bite. Seems like the thin gauge opens up the stringbed, low tension softens it up a ton, and rev provides some feedback to translate thru the dampened muted feel of the frame. The feel I’m looking for —pocket in and throw the ball out — is there, albeit subtle and seems to disappear at times. Have another stick ready to go with evolution 41lbs crossed w yptp 18g 43lbs. Hoping this adds a little more crispness.
Have sets of max power 1.20 and orange 1.23 on the way, but what are some other stiff/dead polys that would play well at 40-43lbs? Seems like this is the sweet spot for me and ezone — stiff + crisp to tame the ezone power and provide feedback/sensation, but easy on the arm. Will be sticking with value strings bc I’m home stringing in order to replace as often as needed. I’m not a fan of super sharp edges, but don’t mind shaped strings in general — so plan to stay away from hyper g, confidential, tour bite et al.
Long winded backstory for context:
For a long while I had 47lbs as my reference tension for full poly. Never found the ball-in-hand pocketing feel that I like, but enjoyed the stick overall. Tried most many options, hyper g, cyclone, most grapplesnake while tinkering around the margins of 47lbs.
Was having them done at a stringer so leaving setups in too long, without a doubt. After having some wrist and shoulder soreness, I played with gut/poly for a few months. Loved it for serves and volleys but never was able to get dialed in off the ground and felt I was becoming hesitant and abbreviated trying to tame the power. Even with 4g as a cross, though plush and explosive, felt that the ball was off the strings and over the net instantly.
From there I decided to start home stringing and pivoted to poly with syn gut crosses to get some more poly character while softening things up a bit. Kept poly reference at 47 with syngut at 50 (babolat 17g), as the consensus around here seems to be that sg doesn’t do great >50. I’m not a string breaker but hit serves hard and forehand is heavy but more of a drive with spin than buggy whip.
Enjoyed a few setups this way but found that the sg wasn’t keeping up performance despite not breaking after 3-4 hours after the coating wore off and began to notch. I enjoy modestly shaped poly too but those tended to feel locked at contact, digging into the cross rather than sliding. Favorite was m8 at 46/50. Got a cheap reel of yptp blue 18g and loved that with sg for 2.5 hrs, but seemed to pinch into the softer 17g sg and lost a fair amount of SnapBack.
Liked the thinness (and bonus points for blue on zone!) so tried out solinco rev 18g crossed with yptp at 40lbs, the lowest tension my drop weight offers. The logic was after ~9 months of gut or syn hybrid, this would be a way to keep it softer and relatively similar power. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this and felt like it was even more arm friendly, but much more control to swing out hard and heavy or spin a short angle. I do feel it could be a little more crisp, so am planning to try slightly higher tension with yptp crosses
Have sets of max power 1.20 and orange 1.23 on the way, but what are some other stiff/dead polys that would play well at 40-43lbs? Seems like this is the sweet spot for me and ezone — stiff + crisp to tame the ezone power and provide feedback/sensation, but easy on the arm. Will be sticking with value strings bc I’m home stringing in order to replace as often as needed. I’m not a fan of super sharp edges, but don’t mind shaped strings in general — so plan to stay away from hyper g, confidential, tour bite et al.
Long winded backstory for context:
For a long while I had 47lbs as my reference tension for full poly. Never found the ball-in-hand pocketing feel that I like, but enjoyed the stick overall. Tried most many options, hyper g, cyclone, most grapplesnake while tinkering around the margins of 47lbs.
Was having them done at a stringer so leaving setups in too long, without a doubt. After having some wrist and shoulder soreness, I played with gut/poly for a few months. Loved it for serves and volleys but never was able to get dialed in off the ground and felt I was becoming hesitant and abbreviated trying to tame the power. Even with 4g as a cross, though plush and explosive, felt that the ball was off the strings and over the net instantly.
From there I decided to start home stringing and pivoted to poly with syn gut crosses to get some more poly character while softening things up a bit. Kept poly reference at 47 with syngut at 50 (babolat 17g), as the consensus around here seems to be that sg doesn’t do great >50. I’m not a string breaker but hit serves hard and forehand is heavy but more of a drive with spin than buggy whip.
Enjoyed a few setups this way but found that the sg wasn’t keeping up performance despite not breaking after 3-4 hours after the coating wore off and began to notch. I enjoy modestly shaped poly too but those tended to feel locked at contact, digging into the cross rather than sliding. Favorite was m8 at 46/50. Got a cheap reel of yptp blue 18g and loved that with sg for 2.5 hrs, but seemed to pinch into the softer 17g sg and lost a fair amount of SnapBack.
Liked the thinness (and bonus points for blue on zone!) so tried out solinco rev 18g crossed with yptp at 40lbs, the lowest tension my drop weight offers. The logic was after ~9 months of gut or syn hybrid, this would be a way to keep it softer and relatively similar power. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this and felt like it was even more arm friendly, but much more control to swing out hard and heavy or spin a short angle. I do feel it could be a little more crisp, so am planning to try slightly higher tension with yptp crosses
