droliver
Professional
Does everyone remember the ceramic revolution in racket tech in the late 1980's?
For a brief period, it was in vogue for all the manufacturers to start incorporating ceramic fibers into many of their models. Just as quickly, it disappeared. All the PR surrounding that material's promise just vaporized. I'm still not sure what it was supposed to have offered. You could make similar observations about boron, kevlar, nanotech graphite, etc...
Watching HEAD jump desperately from tech to tech (Twaron, liquid metal, intelligence fibers, flexpoint, microgel, YouTEK) on an annual basis makes me more and more cynical that there's been little substantive advances in racquet material in 30 years since fiberglass and graphite emerged.
For a brief period, it was in vogue for all the manufacturers to start incorporating ceramic fibers into many of their models. Just as quickly, it disappeared. All the PR surrounding that material's promise just vaporized. I'm still not sure what it was supposed to have offered. You could make similar observations about boron, kevlar, nanotech graphite, etc...
Watching HEAD jump desperately from tech to tech (Twaron, liquid metal, intelligence fibers, flexpoint, microgel, YouTEK) on an annual basis makes me more and more cynical that there's been little substantive advances in racquet material in 30 years since fiberglass and graphite emerged.