cjviva
New User
Some background on why I am asking this. I had some wrist pain and switched to using the famous triax/ypta combo which is extremely comfortable. Only thing is ypta losses tension fast, so I was on a search for a poly with less tension loss while not shredding my wrist. During the search I found some poly that are soft still hurt my wrist, and some stiffer poly actually played fine. This leading me to question whether stiffness (lb/in) is the only attribute I should be looking for when judging arm friendliness. Below are the list of polys that I tried and their stiffness on the TW string database:
Wrist ok:
poly tour air: 155
poly tour rev: 193
ice code: 221
xperience: 224
solstice power: 209
firestorm: 189
quadro twist: 178
lynx touch: 222
polaris: no data?
Can feel something going on in the wrist:
cream: 177
sidewinder: 163
cyclone tour: 167
hex tour: assume slightly softer than lynx tour's 218?
ghost wire 18g: 167
So for my wrist the stiffness is not the deciding factor, and newer released strings seems to be more arm friendly despite the stiffness increase? What are some other attributes that can parameterize a string's arm friendliness.
Wrist ok:
poly tour air: 155
poly tour rev: 193
ice code: 221
xperience: 224
solstice power: 209
firestorm: 189
quadro twist: 178
lynx touch: 222
polaris: no data?
Can feel something going on in the wrist:
cream: 177
sidewinder: 163
cyclone tour: 167
hex tour: assume slightly softer than lynx tour's 218?
ghost wire 18g: 167
So for my wrist the stiffness is not the deciding factor, and newer released strings seems to be more arm friendly despite the stiffness increase? What are some other attributes that can parameterize a string's arm friendliness.