One thing to note, NL is tall and has long arms, so it is a complicated thing to talk about movement. He gets to a lot of things and takes shots from good position and that movement does not seem to me to impact his knees and hips. However, the rotational force of the the stroke impacts his knees, hips shoulders and wrist. But, his technique is good enough that, despite the compromised joints, HE HAS POWER.
And it seems NL has always excelled in play with harder sponges with a little less catapult. I remember back in the day when NL was using Big Dipper and man he got some spin off those rubbers.
But I agree that, with that kind of rubber, the enticement to go ballistic and really put power into the ball may compromise that shoulder. I hope not. I would love to see NL play with T05H because it sounds like it is a rubber that is Tenergy and all the things that caused NL to look at other rubbers like MXS, Big Dipper, Xiom O5 Asia, and some other hard rubbers that were not Tenergy. So Tenergy plus that hard sponge that NL seems to favor sounds to me like it may be exactly what the Evil TT Doctor ordered for NL.
What say the the left coast chapter of the goon squad Der_Echte?
