In comparison to RPM blast and Wilson NXT, how spin friendly is ALU Power?

[Zaerop]

From a scale of 0-10, 0 being the spin potential of wilson natural gut and 10 being the spin potential of RPM blast. Where would ALU Power fall on this spectrum?

 

[scotus]

Then you'd have hundreds of strings with scores of -20

 

[scotus]

Also, you mentioned Wilson NXT in your title but natural gut in the OP.

Do you generate the same amount of spin with those two strings?

 

[dgold44]

I have been using Multis my entire life and the spin sucks. I am going to try out them polys and play in the year 2015!!!

Multis are good for power and feel and not much more.

 

[gchen]

Honestly the spin difference is minimal for most of the strings, and spin is most closely associated to the player and racquet rather than the string used. If you get 5% more spin with one string vs 10% more with another, is that going to win you the set? Changing the technique is more important. Find a string that fits your game in terms of price, performance, and feel. RPM is a bit stiffer, ALU slightly softer, both have spin. Do you notice a big difference in the spin of Nadal when he 'changed' from Duralast to RPM?

There are many strings that have more 'spin potential' than RPM, you can check the tennis warehouse data.

 

[Zaerop]

Also, you mentioned Wilson NXT in your title but natural gut in the OP.

Do you generate the same amount of spin with those two strings?

Nah, I made a mistake. I meant NXT for both. I've never used natural gut before, I don't know why I mentioned it.

 

[Zaerop]

Honestly the spin difference is minimal for most of the strings, and spin is most closely associated to the player and racquet rather than the string used. If you get 5% more spin with one string vs 10% more with another, is that going to win you the set? Changing the technique is more important. Find a string that fits your game in terms of price, performance, and feel. RPM is a bit stiffer, ALU slightly softer, both have spin. Do you notice a big difference in the spin of Nadal when he 'changed' from Duralast to RPM?

There are many strings that have more 'spin potential' than RPM, you can check the tennis warehouse data.

I use a western forehand and I'm still deciding between RPM blast and ALU power. And just saying, I've used full beds of both wilson NXT and RPM blast on my blade 98s (I'm switching to the rf97 soon) and I notched an enormous difference in spin. With rpm blast, the ball would make crazy arcs in the air. I felt as though I could barely get half the spin with NXT. What I'm wondering is, will the extra spin potential of RPM blast be worth the sacrifice of the power and feel ALU power provides? I'm just wondering how close they are in spin potential. If they're pretty close to each other by the standards of most other strings, I think I'll go with ALU power. The only thing I'm wondering is how far apart ALU and RPM are in spin. That's all I want to know, as someone who hasn't used ALU before.

 

[Zaerop]

Then you'd have hundreds of strings with scores of -20

Yeah, but I don't care about these strings. All I'm asking for is the difference in spin between ALU power and RPM blast by using NXT as a reference.
For example, I hate mushrooms and enjoy strawberries. Mushrooms aren't my favorite food, but I'm using them as the reference point, 0. Strawberries will be 10. I don't like bananas as much as I like strawberries, but I like them more than mushrooms, so they will go somewhere in that spectrum of 0-10.
You see what I mean? I don't care if there's stuff in the negatives. I don't care about other strings. There are only three strings that matter: nxt, rpm, and alu. NXT had the least spin potential of the three, RPM has the highest. NXT is 0, RPM is 10.
Now, where does ALU fall? Is it a 4, closer to NXT than RPM when it comes to spin? Is it a 6, slightly closer to RPM? Is it a 9, with just slightly less spin than RPM?
Where would ALU Power fall on this scale? That's what I'm asking here.

 

[fgs]

if you use alu power rough you'll get on your scale to 11. from my experience so far it "outspins" rpm blast effortlessly and also keeps playing for a little bit longer than rpm blast, although if you don't break it in 4-5hrs of practice you might be running into some problems. the rpm blast nevertheless "dies" even sooner than that.

 

[Zaerop]

if you use alu power rough you'll get on your scale to 11. from my experience so far it "outspins" rpm blast effortlessly and also keeps playing for a little bit longer than rpm blast, although if you don't break it in 4-5hrs of practice you might be running into some problems. the rpm blast nevertheless "dies" even sooner than that.

Ok, thanks for the input. What about regular ALU though?

 

[fgs]

regular alu costs the same but spins less and according to my experience on court dies faster than alu rough, so i don't see any use for it if you want spin and think about using it as a main.

 

[gchen]

RPM to ALU power. Not a big difference in spin. Mostly psychological. ALU less stiff by a little.
Stiffer string may cause you to swing harder and generate more spin.

If you believe Tennis Warehouse research, these are the numbers-
Property Babolat
RPM Blast 16 Luxilon Big Banger ALU Power 125/16L Wilson NXT 16
Stiffness (lb/in) 233 209 174
Energy Return (%) 85 85 94
Spin Potential 4.5 4.6 3.9

 

[NextGeneration]

9. I find it to be overall a much better string than rpm but I personally don't like rpm aside from the spin so that doesn't mean much.