JT_2eighty
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Can anyone confirm whether the pacific tough gut plays as softly as the data suggests at high tension?
It does. I use it at 61 lbs and it is like butter, if I can use such a nebulous descriptor in this thread.
Seems the harder I swing, the better it feels. I used it once at 50 lbs expecting to be even softer, and it actually felt boardy until I really broke it in over some hours on court.
At 61, control is amazing and the comfort is heavenly. Worth every $ to me, as it is durable when in an 18x20 flexy stick, while the playability doesn't bottom out like synthetics inevitably do. This speaks to its resilience, i.e. the way a string retains its elasticity. Resilience is a key property of a string, something not measured by any lab tests I've seen, and this, if ever quantified by experiments, will tell us more about a string than stiffness and tension loss combined. If you aren't a big string breaker, it last long and plays great for months.