Suffered an off court elbow injury so for the recovery period I took out my PK 7G strung with NRG2 16 @ 49 lbs. The gift that never stops giving, great stick. Will use it for a while. Impressive also how good it is at the net which is surprising. But its best quality is the stability. So, so stable- return to serve is just a breeze...
Still playing with 7G with same-ish setup as
@mmazzinin1, finally hit against a big hitter tonight. Funny to come back here with thoughts that have already been said lol ... the stability is actually quite ridiculous on this frame. On not a single point did I think "yeah the stability was an issue right there". It just literally never happened, twisting was just a non-thing.
And yeah the way it just smacks back heavy shots is something special. Never really played with a frame that did it the way the 7G does, not even massive old frames just shrug pace off and swat it back. The stability is just doing so much good work.
My frame came in well under spec, I had it leaded up to TW's numbers but it felt a bit sluggish with the extra length. It's weird, I think if you have two rackets, one 27" and one 27.5", and both have 330 swing weight, the extended one will still somehow feel like more of a schlep. But that may just be a superstition. Because usually 327 (which is where it's at now) would feel too light to me, but here it feels goldilocksy. Not too whippy, not too laggy.
So I dialed it back, moved the lead down on the lower half of 3/9, and now it's at 332g and 327sw, and it swings more freely with no decrease to stability. I can now bring the head through on serves faster, though that might also be just finally getting adjusted to the longer frame (this is my first extended racket).
I was curious coming from the 5G what the response would be in the upper hoop, and it feels very different somehow. Shots up there aren't cushy of course, but they also stay in play, and you can tell how the shock is muted.
I'm impressed with the sense of feel as well -- it's like I can pinpoint exactly where the ball is hitting on the stringbed. And perhaps as a result of the sweet spot being so small (and yeah it really is tiny as far as I can tell), the feeling is quite different everywhere on the strings. That makes it a very interesting racket to play with, and the feedback feels like it's making me better, like it's transmitting a lot of data.
Since the shock and vibrations are so limited, I'm considering switching over to a leather grip.
There are certainly some aspects that aren't perfect (to say nothing of the hologram which peeled off after 15 minutes of play), but I'd have to say that's more to do with my inexperience with a 27.5" frame. Swinging a long racket like this feels like it has more moving parts, like there's additional joints and gears inbetween my shoulder and the tip of the racket, more things are happening that you need to manage and keep track of. We'll see if this becomes a forever-frame, I'm not sure if ultimately, extended is where it's at in my case. However, the fact that I can play so competitively with it, and it's just so miraculously easy on my elbow (though my shoulder certainly is getting more strain than the 5G), I'll likely be sticking with it for a while. It's a very impressive racket, and crazily different from the 5G considering everyone seems to say it's just a taller 5G.
