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He uses the apd original.apd
nadal frame
It's about 338g strung, gripped, with impact absorber 2-3g+ added, a bal. pt. of 33, no silicone in butt. NOt the advertised version of cortex, etc. at all. It's stiffer, more powerful, and as you can see in the pic, no cortex, put a paint job. He places two strips about 4" of 33mm lead tape under the grommet at 12 oclock. He uses the 1.35mm string. He strings about 54/52 and strings more frames per tourny than any other male pro. He burns through the rpm blast (used to be duralast). Mass is too light, more for a junior set up. Ra is about the same as Feds: 65. Moment of inertia is lower than Feds or Joker, who is higher than the other two.
Thank you kindly for posting now I sort of see why one of my buddies prefers a copy of the Aeropro with a nasty paintjob of the cortex. The chinese copy is 63-64 rating +11 head heavy!!! (obviously bad graphite technique but stiff hoop!) 320 +/_ 1 grams strung. He injects a fair bit of silicone to balance it at the base, also inside the bumper about 3 grams then overgrip and loves it more than his original APDs as he thinks he can get better pocketing and spin than the originals. Comes up to around 352grams with overgrip but slightly more tension using 56m 53x black code. He is French and a little quirky but loves his Chinese rip off from French designed sticks
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