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We talk about crispness or muted or dead or "tinny" or trampolined or stiff or heavy or harsh and many more adjectives to describe those 4 miliseconds. I've found that gut can feel the best, but only for a short time. Luxilon feels good for a longer time than gut does, and is more predictable in its tension loss and far more durable from string set to game set. (Otherwise, why would so many pros be using all lux and lux hybrids?) Gut is made from cow intestine, the serosa. Lux is a monofilament synthetic nylon co-polymer with extra fibers and fluorocarbon resin.
The one common thing among pros, heavy stick. The mass allows for absolute ball crushing. When you crush a ball, the bed becomes suddenly very heavy, like a black hole for a moment, and when the string job is good, the ball seems to stay there longer, dwell there longer, feel there longer, and time will even seem to slow down somewhat. In the heavier massed shot, we feel the ball, and where it's going, for a longer time, as the string bed has elongated considerably more than normal, or at least it feels that way. Lux will exaggerate this feeling with heavy shots, which is why so many pros like it; they hit heavy shots with superior technique, with heavy frames. Ever notice how much more they commit to shots than normal players? How much more core coil there is on a pro shot? Stick speed, hip rotation, faster feet, big interior coil, fluid and smooth acceleration way out front to the contact point. Heavy shot. Feels like you are now playing with a bowling ball, and not a tennis ball. The ball will compress on a heavy shot to 1/2 its normal size. This is the kill shot, 100mph and up. It's ironic that a string that feels like piano wire can feel so soft on a pocketed shot. It's so stiff, that you could jab it into someone's jugular vein and kill them with it.
With gut, the ball will not stay on the bed long enough, is too fast on its release, almost too powerful in a too fast way, which breeds inconsistent power. Lux is more muted, the ball stays longer, and the sweet spot stays longer without the string job breaking.
All pros cut lux out before it breaks, (grommet breaks aside), while many pros break gut at higher tensions, even on a new string job. Lux will lose tension before it breaks, and trampoline, due to the durability of the string.
How many times did you see Sampras break a string job? 73lbs,vs gut, all season 17g, with a 393g stick. Fed: 360g, vs gut, alu lux power rough 16l, 55/50.5Lbs.
How many times you see Fed break strings? Ever? So why does Fed use string a lings? He's going to change sticks way before the string breaks. I've never even seen him get a grommet break. Sampras, sometimes, 3 breaks a match. Sometimes it's one point that costs you a match. Fed uses them for spin. The lux keeps the strings from moving much. They aren't there for string movement.
The new strings, Signum ppp 1.18mm and cyber flash 1.25mm (Cyber Flash is made of the latest structure-optimized PETP), are an improvement on the lux.
The one common thing among pros, heavy stick. The mass allows for absolute ball crushing. When you crush a ball, the bed becomes suddenly very heavy, like a black hole for a moment, and when the string job is good, the ball seems to stay there longer, dwell there longer, feel there longer, and time will even seem to slow down somewhat. In the heavier massed shot, we feel the ball, and where it's going, for a longer time, as the string bed has elongated considerably more than normal, or at least it feels that way. Lux will exaggerate this feeling with heavy shots, which is why so many pros like it; they hit heavy shots with superior technique, with heavy frames. Ever notice how much more they commit to shots than normal players? How much more core coil there is on a pro shot? Stick speed, hip rotation, faster feet, big interior coil, fluid and smooth acceleration way out front to the contact point. Heavy shot. Feels like you are now playing with a bowling ball, and not a tennis ball. The ball will compress on a heavy shot to 1/2 its normal size. This is the kill shot, 100mph and up. It's ironic that a string that feels like piano wire can feel so soft on a pocketed shot. It's so stiff, that you could jab it into someone's jugular vein and kill them with it.
With gut, the ball will not stay on the bed long enough, is too fast on its release, almost too powerful in a too fast way, which breeds inconsistent power. Lux is more muted, the ball stays longer, and the sweet spot stays longer without the string job breaking.
All pros cut lux out before it breaks, (grommet breaks aside), while many pros break gut at higher tensions, even on a new string job. Lux will lose tension before it breaks, and trampoline, due to the durability of the string.
How many times did you see Sampras break a string job? 73lbs,vs gut, all season 17g, with a 393g stick. Fed: 360g, vs gut, alu lux power rough 16l, 55/50.5Lbs.
How many times you see Fed break strings? Ever? So why does Fed use string a lings? He's going to change sticks way before the string breaks. I've never even seen him get a grommet break. Sampras, sometimes, 3 breaks a match. Sometimes it's one point that costs you a match. Fed uses them for spin. The lux keeps the strings from moving much. They aren't there for string movement.
The new strings, Signum ppp 1.18mm and cyber flash 1.25mm (Cyber Flash is made of the latest structure-optimized PETP), are an improvement on the lux.
