Christian Olsson
Professional
Hello fellow TT nuts!
As you might or not know by now I'm very fond of the 10 series Volkl racquets, got the Super G 295 myself. I think I've gone through what can be done. Since they have the dampening pin in the handle many think that it's impossible to mod inside the handle. But that's wrong assumption, there's bot the outside parallel chambers and there's the 10mm round channel you can stuff with a M10 threaded metal rod quite easily. That's what I did because I wanted a less polariser higher mgr/I value but still good stability racquet. I cut up 45 mm rods and made a flat slot in one side so you can gently turn if needed and stuck it at approx 14-15 cm up the channel (same distance on both racquets). God this sounds like I'm a racquet-proctologist or something. This weighs 22 grams and is absolutely in position and no rattles at all due to the glue and tight location. On these racquets there's a coating af some soft green stuff that's still firm. Not a part of the graphite structure but more like a carpeting of sorts, probably part of the matrix. Quite clever actually. Some sorts of dampening material. No need for foam. That's probably why they feel so solid and dampened.
Further mods are 4 grams at 7" and 4+4 grams at 10/2 and 2grams at 12 to compensate for the lighter origin stringbed. Very fast feel and oddly I find the racquets faster to swing now than the 310 gram stock weight. Must be the pendulum effect.
I will post lots of pictures of this how the compartments are laid up etc. I got them in my phone so long below for the next post from me with these.
Another matter is the matching of racquets. I find that weighing tip / butt / measuring balance gets you a long way. The way I weigh tip is having the digital kitchen scale on one end and 68 cm from it another object that Is the same height, a couple stacked books or similar and weigh the butt / tip separately. I don't have easy access to a RDC machine so I don't really know if Swingweight differs. On my racquets the numbers went:
Tip: 164 grams strung
Butt: 182
Balance: 322mm
The total weight is 350 grams.
My SG10's had 1-2 grams difference overall from each other, bought from two different stores 1 year apart. So Volkl seems to have very good QC.
On another note, the V sense stock base grip is thicker and plusher than the stock Super G basegrip so I went for two of those as well, feels very good!
As you might or not know by now I'm very fond of the 10 series Volkl racquets, got the Super G 295 myself. I think I've gone through what can be done. Since they have the dampening pin in the handle many think that it's impossible to mod inside the handle. But that's wrong assumption, there's bot the outside parallel chambers and there's the 10mm round channel you can stuff with a M10 threaded metal rod quite easily. That's what I did because I wanted a less polariser higher mgr/I value but still good stability racquet. I cut up 45 mm rods and made a flat slot in one side so you can gently turn if needed and stuck it at approx 14-15 cm up the channel (same distance on both racquets). God this sounds like I'm a racquet-proctologist or something. This weighs 22 grams and is absolutely in position and no rattles at all due to the glue and tight location. On these racquets there's a coating af some soft green stuff that's still firm. Not a part of the graphite structure but more like a carpeting of sorts, probably part of the matrix. Quite clever actually. Some sorts of dampening material. No need for foam. That's probably why they feel so solid and dampened.
Further mods are 4 grams at 7" and 4+4 grams at 10/2 and 2grams at 12 to compensate for the lighter origin stringbed. Very fast feel and oddly I find the racquets faster to swing now than the 310 gram stock weight. Must be the pendulum effect.
I will post lots of pictures of this how the compartments are laid up etc. I got them in my phone so long below for the next post from me with these.
Another matter is the matching of racquets. I find that weighing tip / butt / measuring balance gets you a long way. The way I weigh tip is having the digital kitchen scale on one end and 68 cm from it another object that Is the same height, a couple stacked books or similar and weigh the butt / tip separately. I don't have easy access to a RDC machine so I don't really know if Swingweight differs. On my racquets the numbers went:
Tip: 164 grams strung
Butt: 182
Balance: 322mm
The total weight is 350 grams.
My SG10's had 1-2 grams difference overall from each other, bought from two different stores 1 year apart. So Volkl seems to have very good QC.
On another note, the V sense stock base grip is thicker and plusher than the stock Super G basegrip so I went for two of those as well, feels very good!
