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Eli Weinstein
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What is all the hype about these new materials? Why do the racquet manufacturers come up with this stuff? It all started with Head introducing Titanium, then it was Intelligence and extra Intelligence (wow, real creative!), and now Liquid Metal is the best thing since sliced bread. Wilson is the latest example of how consumers are being taken for ride with their new “n-code material” story! Why do they do that? Are consumers really that naïve to believe everything that they are told? What happened to incorporating REAL technologies, technologies that you can see and that actually make sense and the racquet better?. We all know that there was only one thin stripe of Titanium on the original TiS6, and how did that improve the performance of the racquet? What about the Intelligence racquets? Those racquets were all just equipped with stickers indicating a new revolutionary material! And now what is Liquid Metal? Why do these manufacturers spend millions of advertising dollars to communicate something that is NOT inside the racquet, instead of coming up with visible technologies. Why don’t the other racquet manufacturers sue these guys for false advertising? By the way, what was Hyper Carbon? Another invented word for graphite!?!
I am sick of always being lied to by these racquet manufacturers. But why do they continue to do it? Because we want to be lied to?! We want to hear that there is something in this racquet so that we are more willing to spend the 200 bucks. But there is NOTHING new. Don’t get me wrong, I do think that these new racquets play well and perform, but definitely NOT because of the new revolutionary material story, because there NEVER is any new material in these racquets. All racquets are predominantly made of graphite (maybe some fibreglass as well), its always the same stuff, they just like to give them different names. What has happened to real technologies? TRIAD is real, Rollers were real, Catapult is real, Triple Threat is real, the AREO technology is real.
But consumers are supporting these gimmicks. The Liquid Metal Radical is the best selling racquet and in 6 months the new n-codes by Wilson will be selling like hot-cakes. Why don’t we start supporting racquet manufacturers that spend their money in coming up with REAL Technologies!
My 2 cents …
I am sick of always being lied to by these racquet manufacturers. But why do they continue to do it? Because we want to be lied to?! We want to hear that there is something in this racquet so that we are more willing to spend the 200 bucks. But there is NOTHING new. Don’t get me wrong, I do think that these new racquets play well and perform, but definitely NOT because of the new revolutionary material story, because there NEVER is any new material in these racquets. All racquets are predominantly made of graphite (maybe some fibreglass as well), its always the same stuff, they just like to give them different names. What has happened to real technologies? TRIAD is real, Rollers were real, Catapult is real, Triple Threat is real, the AREO technology is real.
But consumers are supporting these gimmicks. The Liquid Metal Radical is the best selling racquet and in 6 months the new n-codes by Wilson will be selling like hot-cakes. Why don’t we start supporting racquet manufacturers that spend their money in coming up with REAL Technologies!
My 2 cents …