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Since it's summer time and no competition and league matches I'm trying out as much stuff as possible. Since I only have ONE Cybershape I'm kind of bogged down since the shape and cutting and other blades don't fit that blabla. Anyway my point is that I can't have a main blade and a 2nd one (similar) I'm experimenting on.
So Cybershape has a bigger head, right? Sure it does and bigger surface means more head heavy, especially if you glue on some max sponge rubbers. Since more rubber = more heavy. And in case of the Cybershape more head heavy. Luckily I have the Truls edition that has the CWT which is basically the same as the original Cybershape but you have the possibility to change some weights in the handle to balance the blade. I know it's not a revolutionary idea since you could glue a coin to your normal racket or whatever but it's convenient and you can change your weight depending on the hall, rubber, if you feel more powerful that day or a bit drowsy etc etc. You can change it based on opponent too... Play against defender make the racket more head heavy, you get the idea, convenient.
The problem with ESN and Chinese rubbers are that they are heavy compared to Butterfly. For example take Rakza X or Vega X or V15 or whatever that grade rubber and compare it to Tenergy 05, I bet they will be 2-3 grams heavier on a normal blade and more like 3+ grams heavier on Cybershape. So that's 5-6g for both sides of your blade.
More head heavy racket, so you need more weight in the handle if you wanna balance that out so even more heavy racket but now less head heavy. One can play itself up to 195g without much sweat and 195g is already on the heavy side.
But you buy Dignics or Glayzer you will have 2-3g less weight per side. And you can remove 3g of weight to be less handle heavy so that's like 9g less weight immediately. You think it doesn't influence your strokes or your "reaction time budget"? I think you're wrong. 9g is like 5% of racket weight, if one looks at Butterfly marketing blabla, Dignics can impart like 3% more power from the same shot as Tenergy so that 5% seems mighty lot. And that 5% is something you can accelerate your racket more, you have more time to decide how to approach the shot, that 5% adds up to be a lot of 5%'s combined.
Zwill, wtf you talked about a lot of BS we know already and discussed already in 99 threads and in a gazillion posts. Yes, sorry.
So the ultimate cheat code for Spring Sponge X is the "Soulspin No Tuning Air Box".
Why??? Thanks for asking. Well if you swallowed a low of Butterfly marketing you would know that the sping sponge uses air pockets inside the sponge to compress and then decompress. So that gives the ball speed and spin (or both) depening on your stroke. Gases are very compressible and this tool only uses air, like you would pump your tyres. The more you pump into your tyres the more the tyre will expand. If you put too much air into your tyre or sponge it will become too hard. So there is a sweet spot for it too. The manufacturer aka Soulspin recommends around 15psi and I agree with them, that is a great starting point and you can tweak from there.
Zwill, my dude why is this better than Seamoon? Well I'm sure glad you asked. Seamoon is a liquid and has a considerable weight. You see my point why I was talking about weight and head heaviness? Seamoon application is not that well controlled, you don't know how much you put on your rubber, don't know the booster quality and quite frankly the booster shortens the sponge's lifetime. Not to mention if you apply liquid on a pored rubber it might fill up your air pockets with fluid instead of gas, or partially fill it. Liquids are really bad at compression compared to gases like for example AIR.
So why is spring sponge X so special? I don't know but it retains this air boost for longer than other sponges. Actually, ESN sponges are not bad at it either, so it works quite well with Victas V>15 extra which is like a semi-modern rubber from around the time plastic balls were enforced. It works with Fastarc G-1 but I think that sponge is very leaky.
Oh, what is a leaky sponge? Well, I mostly tried Spring Sponge X as in Glayzer and G09c, V15E and Mantra Pro in this "No Tuning Air Box" device. So I actually didn't try Tenergy or Dignics but G05 or G09c gets very domed inside and they stay quite domes for 30min to an hour after you take them out and even after 8-10 hours you feel the sponge is boosted. So you put your racket with Glayzers into this device for the night, in the moring you take it out, you go to work for 8 hours and after that you go to training and you can still feel the tuning after all this time. It is a very significant boost compared to "default" Glayzer. With V15E you can also feel the difference. With G-1, Mantra Pro you don't. So if you use this device with German rubbers you probably should buy more modern rubbers aka 2015 or newer and possibly the newest ones are the best with it.
So why Spring Sponge X? So far it retains the most air, especially over many hours. G09c and Glayzer become softer on weak impact but if you hit harder they don't bottom out so easy. My G09c became about as fast as V15E which is crazy fast. My racket is light so I can hit "later" and harder so not bottoming out is a double plus. This doesn't degrade the sponge or rubber chemically. No extra weight since air is so light, and unmeasurable. Pretty consistent too, unlike liquid boosting, don't need to reglue your rubber.
And I didn't even talk about the fun stuff, G09c really became almost as fast as V15E which is like T80 speed territory and G09c is much spinner. It feels amazing to play like this.
G09c has the most complaint for speed, but this completely fixes it so much that I think it makes the whole Dignics lineup obsolete.
I never ever ever had so much fun and laugh with anything like with G09c air boosted (10 hours after removing from air booster). I used D09c before but I don't remember this level of speed or spin out of the pack. Granted if you air boost D09c I'm pretty sure it will trump G09c but G09c is already so great it makes ESN in my eyes bankrupt on FH but even on BH normal Glayzer is just too amazing.
I saw TTD video with Dima talking about D09c and how good it counters over the table, you just need to swing and don't care. Well I call bullshit on that. Normally out of the package you need to be really fracking mindful of your angles and whatnot you can't just close your eyes and let it rip like Dima says. The situation is the same with G09c, you can't just close your eyes and "yolo". It won't work. But air tuning your G09c up and you can just fracking close your eyes and swing and don't give two craps about what will be your output and the rubber will take care of you. It really is like magic. Magic not only for 2 weeks, magic as long as you air tune your rubber.
Guys I'm only talking about G09c and Glayzer here. This device makes them better than Dignics out of the pack. Will Dignics be better if I air boost them? No doubt they will be even better. As good as they can possibly be.
I think this is the cheat code to get sponsored players Dignics "on the cheap" and maintain them for months because Glayzer and Dignics topsheets last for long.
I can't stress enough how good G09c air boosted is. Countering close, countering from back, blocking, feel blocking, pushing, is just amazing. I now strongly believe this is the way to get sponsored level of Dignics or Tenergy without needing to be sponsored.
So Cybershape has a bigger head, right? Sure it does and bigger surface means more head heavy, especially if you glue on some max sponge rubbers. Since more rubber = more heavy. And in case of the Cybershape more head heavy. Luckily I have the Truls edition that has the CWT which is basically the same as the original Cybershape but you have the possibility to change some weights in the handle to balance the blade. I know it's not a revolutionary idea since you could glue a coin to your normal racket or whatever but it's convenient and you can change your weight depending on the hall, rubber, if you feel more powerful that day or a bit drowsy etc etc. You can change it based on opponent too... Play against defender make the racket more head heavy, you get the idea, convenient.
The problem with ESN and Chinese rubbers are that they are heavy compared to Butterfly. For example take Rakza X or Vega X or V15 or whatever that grade rubber and compare it to Tenergy 05, I bet they will be 2-3 grams heavier on a normal blade and more like 3+ grams heavier on Cybershape. So that's 5-6g for both sides of your blade.
More head heavy racket, so you need more weight in the handle if you wanna balance that out so even more heavy racket but now less head heavy. One can play itself up to 195g without much sweat and 195g is already on the heavy side.
But you buy Dignics or Glayzer you will have 2-3g less weight per side. And you can remove 3g of weight to be less handle heavy so that's like 9g less weight immediately. You think it doesn't influence your strokes or your "reaction time budget"? I think you're wrong. 9g is like 5% of racket weight, if one looks at Butterfly marketing blabla, Dignics can impart like 3% more power from the same shot as Tenergy so that 5% seems mighty lot. And that 5% is something you can accelerate your racket more, you have more time to decide how to approach the shot, that 5% adds up to be a lot of 5%'s combined.
Zwill, wtf you talked about a lot of BS we know already and discussed already in 99 threads and in a gazillion posts. Yes, sorry.
So the ultimate cheat code for Spring Sponge X is the "Soulspin No Tuning Air Box".
Why??? Thanks for asking. Well if you swallowed a low of Butterfly marketing you would know that the sping sponge uses air pockets inside the sponge to compress and then decompress. So that gives the ball speed and spin (or both) depening on your stroke. Gases are very compressible and this tool only uses air, like you would pump your tyres. The more you pump into your tyres the more the tyre will expand. If you put too much air into your tyre or sponge it will become too hard. So there is a sweet spot for it too. The manufacturer aka Soulspin recommends around 15psi and I agree with them, that is a great starting point and you can tweak from there.
Zwill, my dude why is this better than Seamoon? Well I'm sure glad you asked. Seamoon is a liquid and has a considerable weight. You see my point why I was talking about weight and head heaviness? Seamoon application is not that well controlled, you don't know how much you put on your rubber, don't know the booster quality and quite frankly the booster shortens the sponge's lifetime. Not to mention if you apply liquid on a pored rubber it might fill up your air pockets with fluid instead of gas, or partially fill it. Liquids are really bad at compression compared to gases like for example AIR.
So why is spring sponge X so special? I don't know but it retains this air boost for longer than other sponges. Actually, ESN sponges are not bad at it either, so it works quite well with Victas V>15 extra which is like a semi-modern rubber from around the time plastic balls were enforced. It works with Fastarc G-1 but I think that sponge is very leaky.
Oh, what is a leaky sponge? Well, I mostly tried Spring Sponge X as in Glayzer and G09c, V15E and Mantra Pro in this "No Tuning Air Box" device. So I actually didn't try Tenergy or Dignics but G05 or G09c gets very domed inside and they stay quite domes for 30min to an hour after you take them out and even after 8-10 hours you feel the sponge is boosted. So you put your racket with Glayzers into this device for the night, in the moring you take it out, you go to work for 8 hours and after that you go to training and you can still feel the tuning after all this time. It is a very significant boost compared to "default" Glayzer. With V15E you can also feel the difference. With G-1, Mantra Pro you don't. So if you use this device with German rubbers you probably should buy more modern rubbers aka 2015 or newer and possibly the newest ones are the best with it.
So why Spring Sponge X? So far it retains the most air, especially over many hours. G09c and Glayzer become softer on weak impact but if you hit harder they don't bottom out so easy. My G09c became about as fast as V15E which is crazy fast. My racket is light so I can hit "later" and harder so not bottoming out is a double plus. This doesn't degrade the sponge or rubber chemically. No extra weight since air is so light, and unmeasurable. Pretty consistent too, unlike liquid boosting, don't need to reglue your rubber.
And I didn't even talk about the fun stuff, G09c really became almost as fast as V15E which is like T80 speed territory and G09c is much spinner. It feels amazing to play like this.
G09c has the most complaint for speed, but this completely fixes it so much that I think it makes the whole Dignics lineup obsolete.
I never ever ever had so much fun and laugh with anything like with G09c air boosted (10 hours after removing from air booster). I used D09c before but I don't remember this level of speed or spin out of the pack. Granted if you air boost D09c I'm pretty sure it will trump G09c but G09c is already so great it makes ESN in my eyes bankrupt on FH but even on BH normal Glayzer is just too amazing.
I saw TTD video with Dima talking about D09c and how good it counters over the table, you just need to swing and don't care. Well I call bullshit on that. Normally out of the package you need to be really fracking mindful of your angles and whatnot you can't just close your eyes and let it rip like Dima says. The situation is the same with G09c, you can't just close your eyes and "yolo". It won't work. But air tuning your G09c up and you can just fracking close your eyes and swing and don't give two craps about what will be your output and the rubber will take care of you. It really is like magic. Magic not only for 2 weeks, magic as long as you air tune your rubber.
Guys I'm only talking about G09c and Glayzer here. This device makes them better than Dignics out of the pack. Will Dignics be better if I air boost them? No doubt they will be even better. As good as they can possibly be.
I think this is the cheat code to get sponsored players Dignics "on the cheap" and maintain them for months because Glayzer and Dignics topsheets last for long.
I can't stress enough how good G09c air boosted is. Countering close, countering from back, blocking, feel blocking, pushing, is just amazing. I now strongly believe this is the way to get sponsored level of Dignics or Tenergy without needing to be sponsored.
