What tension will you use. I’m playing with head extreme mp and prince beast 0 98 . Would like to try head tour my local shop doesn’t carry it
I think in the stock form, the Head Extreme Tour has less power and mass than the Pure Strike, so I will string it a little lower. Probably gut as main at 52 and poly as cross at 49. I can even go lower because the control this frame gives is great.
This is just my personal opinion, but from my experience the Head Extreme Tour is less powerful than the Pure Strike, the Vcore 98, and the Blade 16X19. But, I do not think the Head Extreme Tour is an underpowered frame because you can produce faster swing due to its headlight balance. Definitely less mass in the head, but it has a good stability and power potential. I would like to compare it to the Vcore Pro 97 (310) that I have used before, and both of them are whippy but very stable. And they also have such a nice clean feel compared to the mute feeling of the Pure Strike and the Blade.
I agree that the Head Extreme Tour has less power than many 98/305 frames, and it feels head-lighter than most of them.
Compared to many 98 frames such as the Pure Strike, the Vcore, and the Blade which all have muted feel, the Head Extreme Tour has clean and even raw feel, and therefore it might make people feel that the sweet spot is smaller in my opinion.
I agree that the Head Extreme Tour has less power than many 98/305 frames, and it feels head-lighter than most of them.
However, at the recreational level I do not feel to add weight to the frame for the stability reason. It has enough stability for not being easily pushed.
If you need more power and ball pocketing, I think you can first lower tension before putting more weight. My demo was strung with poly/multi hybrid at 50/48 and it has sufficient power to handle heavy balls at 4.0-4.5 level.
And I do not think the sweet spot is oddly small
I have 2HBH and do not feel that the HET is unstable
I think the lead will make the frame more stable and powerful for sure though.me too haha
Other than 5g to build up the butt no.
It doesn’t have a lot of free power but wouldn’t say it’s anemic either. If you want power go with the MP version. What it has over the pt 2.0, prestige, rad pro is bigger sweet spot, spin and maneuverability. What it has over the gravity and speed is spin and maneuverability and a better paint job.
paint job is actually really cool in person. I have a demo (courtesy of one the most distinguished gentleman of distinguished gentlemen club @gutfeeling) rain, cancellation, heat... could not take it for a ride for a week. Tonight finally! very curious to hit with this puppy...
Ditch it. Trust me now, thank me later
Thats exactly what I meant in my post above when I said ‘ditch it now, thank me later’
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Sometimes I find that a slightly head heavy racquet makes it easier to serve, especially flat and slice serves. The head coming through brings a lot of weight to the ball. Less so on kick where maneuverability is more important.
I realized why adding led to frames like the Rad MP and the ET is difficult: the plow you get from the added SW is addictive (who doesn’t want easy depth), but you need to be conservative to avoid the uncontrollable rocket launcher.
Generally, racquets with open patterns that enable higher launch angles require more vertical strokes that create the necessary spin to bring the ball back down into the court.
