Luxilon won all top three spots for favorite string....whats

[intense2b]

Luxilon won all top three spots for favorite string at www.stringforum.net I wonder what TW users think? Here is the results from stringforum...cast your vote in our poll! Please ignore the very last numbers of the string,,,those were last yeras rankings and I printed by mistake.....once someone vote, I am unable to edit the poll question.:

1 Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power 46
2 Luxilon Big Banger Ace 17 27
3 Luxilon Big Banger TIMO 18 20
4 Tecnifibre NRG2 17
5 Gamma TNT2 Pro Plus 17 15
6 Head RIP Control 12
7 Wilson NXT 12
8 Isospeed Control 11
9 Babolat VS Team 11
10 Gamma Live Wire XP 17 9
11 Gosen OG-Sheep Micro Super Jim Courier 8
12 Prince Synthetic Gut Duraflex 8
13 Gosen Bio Gut Multi Oil 16 6
14 Gosen OG Sheep Micro 18 6
15 Pacific Prime Gut 6
16 Signum Pro Poly Plasma 6
17 Head IntelliTour 5
18 Kirschbaum Touch Turbo 5
19 Laserfibre Supreme 5
20 Tecnifibre X-One Biphase 17 5
21 WaveTennis Wave Power 5
22 Yonex Tour Super 850 5
23 Wilson Sensation 5
24 Babolat Pro Hurricane 5
25 Alpha Gut 2000 3
26 Babolat X-Cel Premium 3
27 Gamma TNT2 Ruff 16 3
28 Gosen Tec Gut Power 16 2
29 Laserfibre Supernatural Gut - Phenom 2
30 Tecnifibre TGV 2
31 WaveTennis Pure Power 2
32 Head Ultra Tour 2
33 WaveTennis White Shark 1
34 Ashaway Monogut 0
35 Bow Brand Natural Gut 0
36 Gamma Synthetic Gut 16 0
37 Hybrid Gosen Polylon/Synthetic Gut 0
38 Kirschbaum Competition 17 0
39 Laserfibre LaserLite XL 0
40 Pacific Space Power TX 0
41 Target Concept 3 0
42 Target Evolution Twinflex 0
43 Target Highspeed Alumina 0
44 Target Topspin Twinflex 0
45 Tecnifibre Competition 0
46 Tecnifibre Promix 0
47 Tecnifibre Spinfire 0
48 Tyger Dynachamp 0
49 Wilson Stamina 17 0

 

[StringBreaker]

Has to be the holy grail of strings Babolat VS Team 17/1.25.

 

[intense2b]

hey man...Im just trying to list evrything before anyone replies...but you just replied...can you erase your reply so I can finish the poll. I have to do it meticulously one by one....I keep getting ersaed in the middle so I have to save after every five entries..and please dont vote till Im done...unless its already too late!

 

[intense2b]

crap...I guess we can only poll these strings.....Im not cut and pasting anymore...my fingers hurt...if you want to continue the "legacy"...be my guest...LOL.

 

[The Pusher Terminator]

In the stringforum, someone tries to cheat and voted 10 times under different names. I am sure that will occur in this poll as well. aready I see two replies yet there are three votes. Oh well

 

[StringBreaker]

You dont have to reply to vote. P.S. Personally I think the string forum poll is useless. 36 voters deciding string of the year?! If we could get the almost 5000 members of this board to vote, then you'd have some useful numbers!

 

[intense2b]

Stringbreaker,

I agree with you. Thats why I posted here. Lets see what happens and merry Xmas!

 

[THE ANIMAL]

Have tried so many nothing comes close to VS Gut only Bow Brand Gut.

 

[schange50]

I'm probably going to step on lots of toes, but I don't care... They should go ahead and rename the site, polyforum.net. Not one (!) natural gut string places in the top 5 in either the power or feel categories. And then you have 5 poly strings place in the top 5 in tension stability!? LOL. I'm a big fan of poly string, but c'mon!

 

[b.]

schange50,

I posted (unsuccessfully) question if people on this board find marks given on stringforum to match their own experience.
Although database is abundant, after a lot of searching I can't say I have much better insight than before... It's a bit non descriptive, lots of brief data. But it is a good foundation for further development IMO.

 

[K!ck5w3rvE]

Alu is used everywhere, and most people have at least tried it, so I suppose that that's the reason for it up there. Oh, and that it's pretty good till you wreck your arm.

 

[David Pavlich]

You expected anything different from this board?

David

 

[b.]

I only played with four or five different types of strings. Those that are mentioned here (on this board) are described pretty much like I would (RIP Control, OG Sheep, Titan gut...). Given the limited number of strings I can obtain at my stringer, it is bigger chance to find some of those strings in large stringforum database.

I just would like to know if people that have tested significant number of strings find marks on stringforum to match their own, ie would it be wise to rely on stringforum evaluation database or not (as someone mentioned - it is still a fairly low number of voters per string on stringforum, so results can still be quite biased).

And at last but not the least, personal taste is more hidden behind numerical evaluations, and I would like to find out about proportion of taste vs. objectivity in stringforum's database - possible influence of specific "community taste".

 

[The Pusher Terminator]

Wow...we are already almost up to strinforum's 36 votes....keep it up guys...just a little more to go.

 

[thejackal]

Tried out BB Alu in a HPS 6.1 today. Terrific bite, no movement, and no pain so far. It was strung pretty low (55ish lb) though. So, I'd say use common sense. Stringing any poly at 65 in a Babolat Pure Drive or any other 70ish flex frame is foolish. Like an all kevlar job at that tension.

 

[Hawaii 5.0]

These are the funniest things I always see.Lux takes the top 3.I can guarantee this as a stringer and a player that I do 5-10 different people's Lux Alu's and out of them only about 30 percent of them actually see a true benefit.I'm talking about guys who string way low or way high and always complain about lack of power and can't put it away and this and that and blah and blah and blah and they still string with it even with more succes with medium grade multi's.Save your money people,they are seriously for 10-20 percent of the tennis industry,I mean if your 3.5 or below and I don't care what racquet your using or what frame your using your probably going to see better results elsewhere, but again there are tons of guys who still love the name and the fact that tons of pro's use it.Not to knock poly's because I use them, but this aura that Lux has over the industry is hype and there are just too many people(many stringers) who don't know better than to really help their customers and give them something better and make them get over their fantasies or pro play with pro name strings.

 

[hungry]

IMO Luxilon Ace and TiMo are made for people below 3.5... Ace is really a soft string... (JUST STRING AT a 10% LOWER TENSION than your usual tension)

IMO Roger Federer gave a great tip for ALL tennis players:

String at the lowest tension that you can control a ball with.

 

[thejackal]

Him using 59lb makes perfect sense now. Isn't that pretty low for a pro?

 

[David Pavlich]

These are the funniest things I always see.Lux takes the top 3.I can guarantee this as a stringer and a player that I do 5-10 different people's Lux Alu's and out of them only about 30 percent of them actually see a true benefit.I'm talking about guys who string way low or way high and always complain about lack of power and can't put it away and this and that and blah and blah and blah and they still string with it even with more succes with medium grade multi's.Save your money people,they are seriously for 10-20 percent of the tennis industry,I mean if your 3.5 or below and I don't care what racquet your using or what frame your using your probably going to see better results elsewhere, but again there are tons of guys who still love the name and the fact that tons of pro's use it.Not to knock poly's because I use them, but this aura that Lux has over the industry is hype and there are just too many people(many stringers) who don't know better than to really help their customers and give them something better and make them get over their fantasies or pro play with pro name strings.

I guess it depends on what part of the country we live in. Polys are about 5% of my stringing customers. Reading this board, you'd think my number should be 50%. I actually do more with Enduro Tour than Lux, by the way.

David

 

[Rabbit]

IMO Luxilon Ace and TiMo are made for people below 3.5... [/b]

Gee, don't tell Tim Henman or Mardy Fish that...

 

[intense2b]

I love the new TW graphics

 

[alan-n]

Him using 59lb makes perfect sense now. Isn't that pretty low for a pro?

Keep in mind that pros play with fresh strings. When strings are fresh and lively, the racquet bed is more forgiving on off centered shots and balls are really bouncy off of them.

 

[intense2b]

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[intense2b]

In our survey so far Luxilon held the #1 & 4 spots as Lux Ace & Lux Timo were tied at #4. I think its interesting to see that the #1 spot in our poll was Luxilon and the#2 spot was gut. It shows the war between Poly's and Gut. Do you think Poly's will actually beat out gut as the preferred string?

 

[equinox]

24 Babolat Pro Hurricane 5

 

[THE ANIMAL]

These are the funniest things I always see.Lux takes the top 3.I can guarantee this as a stringer and a player that I do 5-10 different people's Lux Alu's and out of them only about 30 percent of them actually see a true benefit.I'm talking about guys who string way low or way high and always complain about lack of power and can't put it away and this and that and blah and blah and blah and they still string with it even with more succes with medium grade multi's.Save your money people,they are seriously for 10-20 percent of the tennis industry,I mean if your 3.5 or below and I don't care what racquet your using or what frame your using your probably going to see better results elsewhere, but again there are tons of guys who still love the name and the fact that tons of pro's use it.Not to knock poly's because I use them, but this aura that Lux has over the industry is hype and there are just too many people(many stringers) who don't know better than to really help their customers and give them something better and make them get over their fantasies or pro play with pro name strings.

You got it spot on mate they’d be better of stringing with something like Gosen JC16 (very good string for the price) and concentrating more on improving there tennis.

Maybe the heading of this post should be changed to Favorite String Poll if you want to attract a fair equal amount of posters not just people who worship Luxilon.

 

[StringBreaker]

Can an admin fix this poll?

Change the name of the thread to "Favorite String Uber Poll", and have more than 10 options. These are the choices it should have:

Alpha Gut 2000
Alpha Viper MXT
Ashaway Dynamite
Ashaway Crossfire/Crossfire II
Ashaway Kevlar
Ashaway Synthetic Gut
Ashaway MonoGut
Babolat VS Natural Gut
Babolat Tonic+ Natural Gut
Babolat XCel Premium
Babolat Syntronic Brio
Babolat Fibertour
Babolat Powergy
Babolat Pro Hurricane
Babolat Ballistic Polymono
Babolat Razor Spin
Babolat Super Fine Play
Babolat Conquest
BDE Performance Natural Gut
BDE Rally Natural Gut
Bow Brand Championship Natural Gut
Bow Brand Professional Natural Gut
Forten Aramid Gear
Forten Kevlar
Forten Synthetic Gut
Forten Nylon
Gamma Live Wire Professional
Gamma Live Wire ESP
Gamma Live Wire XP
Gamma Live Wire
Gamma Zo Power
Gamma Zo Plus
Gamma Zo Life
Gamma TNT2 Fat Core
Gamma TNT2
Gamma TNT2 Pro Plus
Gamma TNT2 React SL
Gamma TNT2 Fusion Plus
Gamma TNT2 Rx
Gamma TNT2 Ruff
Gamma Revelation
Gamma Marathon DPC
Gamma Infinity
Gamma Ruff
Gamma XL
Gamma WearGuard Synthetic Gut
Gamma Dura Blast
Dunlop Max Comfort
Dunlop Synthetic Gut
Gosen Bio Gut Tec Bio
Gosen Bio Gut Multi Oil
Gosen Bio Gut Power
Gosen Tec Gut Power
Gosen Super Tec Anna Kournikova Pro
Gosen Super Tec AK Speed
Gosen OG Jim Courier Micro
Gosen OG-Sheep Micro
Gosen OG Sheep Micro Super
Gosen Arammix Pro
Gosen ProForm Tuff
Gosen Bio Gut Poly Multi
Gosen Polylon Comfort
Gosen Polylon
Gosen Polylon Ice
Head FiberGEL Power
Head FiberGEL
Head IntelliTour
Head RIP Perfect Control
Head RIP Perfect Power
Head RIP Ti.Fiber
Head RIP Control
Head Ultra Tour
Head FiberGEL Spin
Head Master Synthetic Gut
Head Synthetic Gut
Head Synthetic Gut PPS
Iso-Speed Control
Iso-Speed Professional
Iso-Speed Energetic
Kirschbaum Touch Turbo
Kirschbaum Competition
Kirschbaum Super Smash Honey
Kirschbaum Super Smash Spiky
KLIP Legend Natural Gut
KLIP Excellerator
KLIP Scorcher
KLIP Kicker
KLIP Hardcore
KLIP K-Boom
KLIP Synthetic Gut
LaserFibre SuperNatural Phenom XRC
LaserFibre SuperNatural Pro Stock
LaserFibre Laser Supreme
LaserFibre LaserTour
LaserFibre SuperNatural Gut
Laserfibre LaserLite XL
Luxilon Big Banger Original
Luxilon Big Banger Original Rough
Luxilon Big Banger ALU-Power
Luxilon Big Banger ALU-Power Rough
Luxilon Big Banger TiMO
Luxilon Big Banger Ace
Luxilon Big Banger XP
Luxilon Big Banger 5-Star
Luxilon Monotec Supersense
Luxilon Monotec Zolo
Luxilon Super Poly
Pacific Space Power TX
Pacific Poly Force
Pacific Prime Gut
Prince Premier Softflex
Prince Sweet Perfection
Prince Perfection
Prince Perfection Control
Prince More Feel
Prince Lightning XX
Prince Synthetic Gut
Prince Original Synthetic Gut
Prince Wrapsure
Prince ProBlend Duraflex
Prince Poly Gut
Prince DuraPro Kevlar
Prince Let 'r Rip
Prince Topspin
Prince Tournament Nylon
RAB Endura
RAB Monoflex
Target Concept
Target Evolution Twinflex
Target Highspeed Alumina
Target Topspin Twinflex
Tecnifibre X-One Biphase
Tecnifibre NRG2
Tecnifibre TRC
Tecnifibre 515 SPL
Tecnifibre Competition
Tecnifibre E-Matrix
Tecnifibre Spinfire
Tecnifibre Promix
Tecnifibre Polyspin
Tecnifibre SyntheticGut
Tecnifibre TGV
Toalson Leoina
Target Concept
Target Evolution Twinflex
Target Highspeed Alumina
Target Topspin Twinflex
Tyger Dynachamp
Unique Natural Gut
Unique Tourna Poly Big Hitter
Unique Tournafiber Irradiated
Volkl Power Fiber
WaveTennis Pure Power
WaveTennis Wave Power
WaveTennis White Shark
Yonex Tour Super
Wilson Natural Gut
Wilson NXT Tour
Wilson NXT Max
Wilson NXT
Wilson Sensation Supreme
Wilson Sensation
Wilson Enduro Tour
Wilson Enduro Mono
Wilson HyperLast
Wilson Stamina
Wilson Stamina Spin
Wilson Extreme Synthetic Gut

 

[intense2b]

HEY STRINGBREAKER,

By just calling it UBER POLL it will allow more than 10 options? That is weird. In any event...It would take me a few days to cut and paste all of those options...but if there are any takers out there then be my guest! ....I personally would love to see the results....I just don't want to cramp my tennis hand!

 

[StringBreaker]

By just calling it UBER POLL it will allow more than 10 options? That is weird.

Haha, no I meant could the admins rename the thread title, and change the max options in the poll setting to allow more than 10.

 

[The Pusher Terminator]

anyone try luxilon supersense out?

 

[ErwinFromParis]

IMO, LUX BB is now overvalued by the wavepower. It is impressive for the spin but imo it makes shots flying too much compare to the wpower and wavepower +.

 

[joe sch]

To have only one natural gut selection does not make sense unless you want all the natural players to just select it as the alternative option.