Episode 4 - A New Tension
As per previous update, I thought I needed a bit more control, which meant upping the Kevlar mains tension a bit (68lbs) and the ZX crosses a lot (55lbs). Previously I had tried 65/45 (that string job still going strong as you'll see).
Got a couple of sets of Kevlar/ZX from
@TypeRx again (thank you!), this time he only prestretched the ZX. Gave it to my usual stringer to string and when I got the racquet back, while using my Tourna Stringmeter I noticed that 3 of the central mains were at 68lbs, but other 5 were at a lot higher tension... not too sure what to think of this but conspiracy theories abound!
Anyway, the day to test out the new string job arrived and with it a pretty big drop in temps. Last week we were in the 100s and now I'm playing in the 60s. Even if I took the rubber mallet to the new strings for around 1200 hits, this stringbed was just too tight... good spin but really boardy. I hit with it around 30mins until a light bulb lit up... maybe with the lower temps the other Kevlar/ZX racquet plays ok?
DING-DING-DING!!! It did!!!
Really no issues with control and very good spin coming out of it. This string job by now has more than 10 hours of hitting and it feels really plush. I really like these strings, like I mentioned before, similar spin than fb poly but none of the scary kind of elbow pain I get from poly.
Not sure now what to do with the higher tension stringjob. Get to 10k rubber mallet hits? Give it to
@Shroud? Suggestions welcomed.