Very interested in this string.I shall comment after I try Wilson revolve twist.
Hey man, Golden Set has absolutely no playability drop off.Genesis twisted razor> Solinco barb wire > Golden set snakebite
Right, Cyclone is Gear Shaped and not twisted. Cyclone Tour is Gear Shaped and Twisted.BTW.. are we only talking about twisted...? Cyclone is gear shaped.. etc
I am not sure about the string being twisted or if most softer string is shaped but I for sure feel they lose playability pretty quickly. I also string CT very low (close to the edge of playability) so it doesn't take much to push it over the edge. Right now one of my racquets is at about 6 hours of play. I play tonight. I plan to give it a shot in the hope I can get some further life out of it. However, I expect that I will be grabbing another racquet with fresh string during warm up.Does anyone else feel like the twisted strings lose playability faster than others?
I just got home. I had a blast as always. What can be a better way to end the week than Friday night tennis and festivities with great friends at the club after? Perhaps because it is a bit colder the string played fine for the entire match. I could tell it was not at it's best but was playable. So that is 8 hours on this set of string.I am not sure about the string being twisted or if most softer string is shaped but I for sure feel they lose playability pretty quickly. I also string CT very low (close to the edge of playability) so it doesn't take much to push it over the edge. Right now one of my racquets is at about 6 hours of play. I play tonight. I plan to give it a shot in the hope I can get some further life out of it. However, I expect that I will be grabbing another racquet with fresh string during warm up.
I've only tried Tornado on 16g and 18g. It feels very crisp and powerful with decent spin. It reminded me of a lower quality Luxilon Alu Power Rough, but Tornado has less spin. The 18g has more spin, but less durability than the 16g.What about signum pro tornado and tier one strike force rip?
I recently strung w.revolve.twist on a 16/19 racquetSo, anyone try Wilson Revolve Twist yet? Curious to know if its any good, as I was not impressed with Revolve Spin.
please report back and give us the details on how Wilson Revolve Twist playsI recently strung w.revolve.twist on a 16/19 racquet
im very familiar with w.revolve and w.revolve.spin
w.revolve.twist is a very aggressively twisted string, but it was fairly easy to string
it slid very well on each other when fanning the string, no major impact on my fingers after
hope it playes well
And??? How did it play?I recently strung w.revolve.twist on a 16/19 racquet
im very familiar with w.revolve and w.revolve.spin
w.revolve.twist is a very aggressively twisted string, but it was fairly easy to string
it slid very well on each other when fanning the string, no major impact on my fingers after
hope it playes well
its was a clients racquet, I strung up for him/herAnd??? How did it play?
Anthracite (Grey) or red hit the same to me. I have one guy who likes the red, the rest choose grey. But only buy VCT in 1.30mm and don't even think about buying 1.25mm or thinner. The 1.30mm last 4 to 5X longer than 1.25mm. 1.30mm VCT plays like most either 1.25 polys.Great @g4driver now I need to go to my local shop and grab some cyclone tour. Quick question- is there a color preference and/or any noticeable playing characteristics that separate the red from the grey? Thanks!
Form doesn't trump strings at all costs. If that were true, polys, multis and natural guy wouldn't exist. Pros would play with 1.30 mm Kevlar and restring their frames once a month or just use synthetic gut like Jim Courier. Balance.. that is what most tennis players seek in strings. VCT 1.30 gives many rec 3.5 to 4.5 players they balance they seek. Hope you find a string you truly like that gives you what you want. No hard feeling at all. Just giving some readers including you my experience as a stringer and a player. Solinco Revolution 1.25 mm is slightly more expensive but also works well for some 4.5 guys.@g4driver sure, but under that theory why not just have you're 4.5 guys play with my pros pro strings for $30 a reel? Because if we're being honest form trumps string no matter what.
Try a pack of 1.30mm VCT and a pack of 1.20 VCT and you will find the truth. That is one stat that doesn't translate to the court.Strange because TWU has the 18g cyclone tour as having the least tension loss.
VCT 1.25mm is literally like a different string than VCT 1.30mm. I have never seen a string behave so radically different for being .05mm thinner, so that is why I don't stock or recommend the 1.25mm version of VCT. VCT cost me $6 a full bed which is what I charge to my clients. It is $10 a pack, but by the reel $100/16.5 = $6.06I haven't played tour, I used to love cyclone but was snapping it every month, at least in college.
Most reviews I've seen of tour say it loses tension fairly fast (granted the reviews I found were not on 1.30mm so that could be the difference), do the guys you string for play with one frame till it breaks? I ask because I'm curious if they've done a side by side of the playability of the freshly strung frame to one they've had for a month. Most of the people I string for will play with whatever string they buy, till it breaks, and never notice the difference (pretty much all 4.0 and 4.5 guys).
Also as you mention, labor cost matters. I would deal with older polys if I was paying $10 for strings and $15 for labor every time. Instead, I pay <$3 for strings every time and 0 for labor. I can afford to keep fresher strings that way and fresh pros pro strings feel much nicer than 2-3 month old RPM team anyway (the only comparison I have since it's what I strung my racquets with when I started back out).
I don't hybrid VCT 1.30 mm with anything and I never prestretch it. Hyoer G/ Head Hawk make a good combo but VCT works best as a full bed IMO.@g4driver completely by coincidence I'm stringing some 1.30 vct for a friend in a hybrid setup today. I have a hard time believing it holds tension particularly well (unless you're prestretching it?), but some stuff is just different on the stringer so I'll still try it sometime.
It's also extremely annoying to string on a dropweight -_- stuff is stretchier than some 18gauge strings
So what you is telling me is that using Volkl Cyclone Tour is a guarantee to improving your NTRP rating by 0.5?Update: Five of those 4.5 guys using Volkl Cyclone Tour 1.30mm were bumped to 5.0 last on Sunday and none were able to appeal back to 4.5