I was demoing a racquet from my local tennis shop and it had a babolat air touch replacement grip on it. I didn't like it at all so I took it off and I noticed that the babolat grip was so thick because of the soft foam underneath used to make the air chambers. I was able to easily peel that foam part off and I used the rest of the grip as a thin, firm replacement grip like the artificial leather grips that **** sells. Now I'm gonna buy a bunch of them.
Found super thin and firm replacement grip
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I tried doing this with some Gamma Hi-Tech grips and could not for the life of me get that foam off of the grip!
I actually took out an X-acto knife and tried to slice it off, but STILL couldn't do it. It was incredible.
Glad to see you were successful. Any idea how thin the grip turned out to be after you got the foam off of it?
I actually took out an X-acto knife and tried to slice it off, but STILL couldn't do it. It was incredible.
Glad to see you were successful. Any idea how thin the grip turned out to be after you got the foam off of it?
Well, the grip was pretty old. i dont know if that helped in making the backing come off so easily but when I removed the grip the foam part pretty much stayed on the racquet handle separating it from the grip. The grip size on the racquet is 4 3/8. With the thin grip, it measured to be just about 4 5/16 which makes sense because with an overgrip it feels like 4 3/8.
