Many thanks Trip!@Pet_82 - The Boom Pro is a very muted racquet, meaning that it has quite a bit of shock-absorption material in the layup, which, while reducing harmful vibrations, also drastically cuts down on the amount of feel you get from the string bed. As such, you generally want to use the most crisp string bed you can handle, to transmit as much feel through all that muting/dampening material as possible.
Examples of crisp strings:
Natural Gut: Luxilon
Synthetic Gut: Gamma TNT or Ocho TNT, Gosen OG Sheep Micro or AK Pro CX, Prince Syn Gut with Duraflex
Multi: Prince Premier Control, Signum Pro Micronite, Tecnifibre NRG2
Co-Poly: most anything silver/gray in color, which often use very crisp-feeling alloys - Head Lynx Tour Anthracite, Head Hawk Silver, IsoSpeed Grey Fire, Kirschbaum Max Power/Rough, Lux Alu Power/Rough, Gamma AMP Ocho Silver, Tourna Silver 7 Tour, Solinco Tour Bite, etc.
Here are examples of more gummy/muted strings, which IMHO you'd want to avoid:
Syn Gut: Forten Sweet
Multi: Head Velocity MLT, Dunlop Silk Spin
Co-Poly: Solinco Confidential, Tru Pro (formerly Tier One) Black Knight, Volkl Cyclone/Tour
Lastly, the BP has a medium-open string bed, so picking the right gauge will help strike a nice balance between spin/bite, durability and control over the trampoline. If using poly, I'd use something around 1.23 to 1.28, and for non-poly (gut or synthetics), I'd go 1.30-ish.
Hope that helps!
Hi Trip. What do you thing of Hawk Touch 22/21 kg on this racket? It could be a good choice?@Pet_82 - The Boom Pro is a very muted racquet, meaning that it has quite a bit of shock-absorption material in the layup, which, while reducing harmful vibrations, also drastically cuts down on the amount of feel you get from the string bed. As such, you generally want to use the most crisp string bed you can handle, to transmit as much feel through all that muting/dampening material as possible.
Examples of crisp strings:
Natural Gut: Luxilon
Synthetic Gut: Gamma TNT or Ocho TNT, Gosen OG Sheep Micro or AK Pro CX, Prince Syn Gut with Duraflex
Multi: Prince Premier Control, Signum Pro Micronite, Tecnifibre NRG2
Co-Poly: most anything silver/gray in color, which often use very crisp-feeling alloys - Head Lynx Tour Anthracite, Head Hawk Silver, IsoSpeed Grey Fire, Kirschbaum Max Power/Rough, Lux Alu Power/Rough, Gamma AMP Ocho Silver, Tourna Silver 7 Tour, Solinco Tour Bite, etc.
Here are examples of more gummy/muted strings, which IMHO you'd want to avoid:
Syn Gut: Forten Sweet
Multi: Head Velocity MLT, Dunlop Silk Spin
Co-Poly: Solinco Confidential, Tru Pro (formerly Tier One) Black Knight, Volkl Cyclone/Tour
Lastly, the BP has a medium-open string bed, so picking the right gauge will help strike a nice balance between spin/bite, durability and control over the trampoline. If using poly, I'd use something around 1.23 to 1.28, and for non-poly (gut or synthetics), I'd go 1.30-ish.
Hope that helps!
Hi,@Pet_82 - The Boom Pro is a very muted racquet, meaning that it has quite a bit of shock-absorption material in the layup, which, while reducing harmful vibrations, also drastically cuts down on the amount of feel you get from the string bed. As such, you generally want to use the most crisp string bed you can handle, to transmit as much feel through all that muting/dampening material as possible.
Examples of crisp strings:
Natural Gut: Luxilon
Synthetic Gut: Gamma TNT or Ocho TNT, Gosen OG Sheep Micro or AK Pro CX, Prince Syn Gut with Duraflex
Multi: Prince Premier Control, Signum Pro Micronite, Tecnifibre NRG2
Co-Poly: most anything silver/gray in color, which often use very crisp-feeling alloys - Head Lynx Tour Anthracite, Head Hawk Silver, IsoSpeed Grey Fire, Kirschbaum Max Power/Rough, Lux Alu Power/Rough, Gamma AMP Ocho Silver, Tourna Silver 7 Tour, Solinco Tour Bite, etc.
Here are examples of more gummy/muted strings, which IMHO you'd want to avoid:
Syn Gut: Forten Sweet
Multi: Head Velocity MLT, Dunlop Silk Spin
Co-Poly: Solinco Confidential, Tru Pro (formerly Tier One) Black Knight, Volkl Cyclone/Tour
Lastly, the BP has a medium-open string bed, so picking the right gauge will help strike a nice balance between spin/bite, durability and control over the trampoline. If using poly, I'd use something around 1.23 to 1.28, and for non-poly (gut or synthetics), I'd go 1.30-ish.
Hope that helps!
I would recommend Lynx Tour over Lynx and also Hawk/Hawk Touch before Lynx for the Boom Pro.Hi,
Which of these strings would you recommend to fit on my Head Boom Pro 2024?
- Head Lynx Tour Grey (1.25)
- Head Lynx Tour Black (1.25)
- Head Lynx Black (1.25)
As tension do you think 22/21 Kg is good?
I've been using Lynx Tour 1.25 with Lynx Touch 1.30 crosses (both at 46 lbs) on the 2022 Boom Pros I got on super sale. The LTouch really opens up the sweet spot (compared to Hawk Power, same tension) while the LTour maintains reasonable control and decent spin. They seem to wear very slowly together (whereas the LTouch ate 17ga Confidential in half a handful of matches) with little notching and no noticeable thinning of the crosses so far (at least 16 matches). Tension seems to have settled quickly at around 42 lbs, so this setup is very stable as well. The feel isn't the best (Velocity is far nicer, though short-lived), but given all of the other positives I will be sticking with this and working on my game!
Head velocityHi Trip, All
I currently play with Lynx tour 1.25 grey. But I feel they are too stiff. Could you recommend a slightly softer string that is good for this racquet?
Thats gonna be WAY different from Lynx Tour. If you like Lynx Tour you can try anything from Solinco (HyperG, Confidential, Revolution) or just try Lynx Tour Champagne, its a little softerHead velocity
Subsequent trial feedback:Try Technifibre 4S, works great with this frame
10 minutes? Are you posting from the court?10 minute doubles initial impressions of Zero x GW is... They don't go together in this frame. Maybe needs some bed in time.
Sometimes you've planned to play for hours, and life does it's best to ruin your day.10 minutes? Are you posting from the court?
This setup improved drastically after another 10 minute warmup. Versus FB Zero (which was fine from the start), velocity/feel/topspin/consistency were all better after it settled.10 minute doubles initial impressions of Zero x GW is... They don't go together in this frame. Maybe needs some bed in time.
For what it’s worth, I have settled on Zero in the mains, Tourna Black Zone 18 in the crosses (48 lbs for both) after trying about 10 different string combinations. Gives me more ball feel and control than full-bed Zero. The colorway matches the racquet very nicely as well.This setup improved drastically after another 10 minute warmup. Versus FB Zero (which was fine from the start), velocity/feel/topspin/consistency were all better after it settled.
The main issue I have with GW is that it aggressively saws through mains (1/3 through Zero after 2hrs). Was going to try a multi x GW next, but beginning to regret this 18G!
I agree, Zero is better crossed. Haven't played much last 2 months, but Zero x GW has survived another 4hrs vs flat hitters and hasn't sawed through much more.For what it’s worth, I have settled on Zero in the mains, Tourna Black Zone 18 in the crosses (48 lbs for both) after trying about 10 different string combinations. Gives me more ball feel and control than full-bed Zero. The colorway matches the racquet very nicely as well.
I haven’t tried Zero+GW, but Lynx Tour (1.25mm)+GW (1.17mm) was just ok. Once LT lost its crispness (after about 2 matches), the stringbed felt a bit too mushy though.