Prince Ignite Team 95 weight...heavier than thought...

[ArchEtech]

In the interest of customizing my Ignite team racquet I found out some interesting things.

Stock Liquid metal radical 11.0oz strung.
Stock Kobra FX 10.9 strung.

For those of you who think the ignite team is a light racquet....(and it still will be for some here)

1) The racquet was 10.9 oz strung with no grip.
2) The racquet was 11.5 oz strung with a leather grip.
3) The racquet was 11.7 oz strung with a leather grip and overgrip.

Leather grip .8
Overgrip .2




This seemed a little light based on some of the strung specs I see on the Prince and TW website.

I had thrown a little weight in the handle hoping to get the weight around 11.8 which is what I like, and with just adding 20 inches of 1/4" tape I had ended up with 12.3 oz after using some ultra thin electrical tape over the lead tape then applying the leather grip and overgrip. All the numbers add up, I just didn't expect the leather grip to weigh .8 oz on the letter scale! The overgrip was .2 oz.

The point is, all those little things you add really add up pretty quick, and had I started with a non-team version I might have ended up with a racquet around 12.5 after an overgrip.

I put .15 oz at the top and bottom of the grip to end up at 12.0oz, and little more height light than stock, though I bet the leather grip made it a couple more points head light alone.

Just thought I would share. I will post a review after hitting tonight with the extra heft.

 

[beckham]

In the interest of customizing my Ignite team racquet I found out some interesting things.

Stock Liquid metal radical 11.0oz strung.
Stock Kobra FX 10.9 strung.

For those of you who think the ignite team is a light racquet....(and it still will be for some here)

1) The racquet was 10.9 oz strung with no grip.
2) The racquet was 11.5 oz strung with a leather grip.
3) The racquet was 11.7 oz strung with a leather grip and overgrip.

Leather grip .8
Overgrip .2

According to your data, there should only be a .6oz difference between no grip and a leather grip, however you have an .8oz.
Which is correct.

 

[ArchEtech]

According to your data, there should only be a .6oz difference between no grip and a leather grip, however you have an .8oz.
Which is correct.

Its a letter scale so im not sure how accurate it is; however I weighed the leather grip several times at .8 as well as the racquet with no grip. The racquet bare was 10.9, 11.0 not sure why it varried. No question about the over grip either. Perhaps where the racquet sat on the scale makes a slight difference in accuracy I'm not sure.

 

[ArchEtech]

My prince Ignite team:


I added enough weight first in the butt to get it to 12.3oz. It played like crap. I did a little reading and found out this can sometimes kill the sweet spot and or move it up too high on the string bed. The racquet still hit pretty good, but I though it would have more power. It didn't even feel head light either, and it should have.

Well I used the Tennis-warehouse customize tools, in an effort to get the racquet at least 4 pts head light from 1 pt head light stock. I figured the weight in the grip leather/over grip probably made it 2-3 points head light. Using the online tools I tried to figure out what to do to get it into the 11.9-12.0 range and 5-6 points head light. There were two options, the easiest of was to put .3 oz into the top of the handle at about 7.1 inches. I went to hit with it before checking the specs.


I played with it on a ball machine and hit quite a few serves and I was flabbergasted as to the difference in feel taking the weight out of the butt cap made. More power, less dead feeling, more dampened and more stable on miss hits. It gain some more whippy feeling, and is one of the more mobile 12.0 oz'ers I've used. I really like it now. I cut of the leather grip off and pulled it REALLY tight and re-wrapped it, and did the same with the over grip. Its a bit less bulky feeling now and also feels much better. I went back to work to use the scales and find out what specs I had ended up with.



Final specs:

12.0 oz (with dampener)

5 pts head light

12-7/8 " balance point (measured really carefully)

Not sure on swing weight, and not worried about it.

This makes it kind of closer to the non-team ignite without being so head light. I'm strong enough not to lose mobility so far with only a 5pt headlight 12.0 oz stick.

Weight feels 10x better at the top of the grip. It even feels more head light.

I'm new to customizing racquets, but its really interesting and kind of amazing to me how much this stuff makes ad difference in the racquet feel.

 

[jace112]

Just a thought about Prince QC:
if you look at some websites, including TW & tennis.com, you'll see that the weight, balance and SW are sometimes way off Prince official specs.
Even on the princetennis.com, if you choose different regions, the specs are différent too.
:-(