Stiga infinity vps weight balance

Balanced with Legend handle (wide FL), not head heavy at all.

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Flight-Johan said:

Hello there! So I just want know how balanced the Infinity vps is. If it's head heavy or not. I will be playing it with DNA Pro M.

Right now I'm playing with a kinda head heavy blade that weight 92 grams with the dna m. I feel that it's a little too heavy sometimes. Especially in backhand.

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92 grams with dna.m sounds kinda "off" to me considering that the blade weight is 91 grams ????????

Weight is towards the head. Even lighter ones still tend to be head heavy depending on the rubbers used.

yogi_bear said:

Weight is towards the head. Even lighter ones still tend to bw head heavy depending on the rubbers used.

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Yeah. It has been a long time, but that was my memory as well.

The infinity is the most head heavy blade that I have used. (Mine has the wide Legend handle).

Expected from hollow handle blades.

I am sorry, but I do not agree with others here

I have a 92g Legend Handle VPS with H3Neo National Orange Sponge 40* (2.15) and Mizuno Q4 (max).

This setup is balanced and not head heavy for me.

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Ive had 3 infinity blades, all were head heavy.

chintanmashroo said:

I am sorry, but I do not agree with others here

I have a 92g Legend Handle VPS with H3Neo National Orange Sponge 40* (2.15) and Mizuno Q4 (max).

This setup is balanced and not head heavy for me.

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Could you show a photo of the blade balanced on your index finger with the index finger resting parallel to the bottom edge of the rubber: to see where on the blade face it balances?

It is totally possible you have one that somehow is center balanced. But my memory of the ones I tried was that it was head heavy and Stiga does make all their handles hollow because they actually like head heavy.

My Infinity with legend handle not head heavy. I had before another 2-2 Infinity and they also weren't head heavy

UpSideDownCarl said:

Yeah. It has been a long time, but that was my memory as well.

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Absolutely Correct. Stiga mostly has hollow handles even for those blades which do not have WRB assigned to them. So after adding rubbers to the paddle the weight seems to be more towards the head. It could be a good thing or not based on player's preference. Many companies advertise it as that weight is more towards the head so based on the equation of Momentum = Mass * velocity we get more acceleration in our topspins. I personally don't like this and find that I play better if my setup is more center balanced.

UpSideDownCarl said:

Could you show a photo of the blade balanced on your index finger with the index finger resting parallel to the bottom edge of the rubber: to see where on the blade face it balances?

It is totally possible you have one that somehow is center balanced. But my memory of the ones I tried was that it was head heavy and Stiga does make all their handles hollow because they actually like head heavy.

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I dont have the blade with me, else I would've definitely taken a pic.

why dont you do the same and share a pic with us?
(legend handle)

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chintanmashroo said:

I dont have the blade with me, else I would've definitely taken a pic.

why dont you do the same and share a pic with us?
(legend handle)

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I never said I had one. I have not tried one in years. But all the ones I tried, my memory is, they were head heavy. And it should be understood that Stiga does purposely design all of their blades to be somewhat head heavy. All of their handles are hollow. As KM 1976 said above, that is good for some people and not for others. But, since blades are mostly made of wood (even the composite blades) there can be variation and some Infinities may in fact end up center balanced. You may in fact have an Infinity that is more center balanced. It would be good for people to see that each and every blade is unique: even if you have 500 of the same model blade, they will all play and feel slightly different. If several people who do have Infinities show where their blade balances, it will be easy to see that this is the case.

And what I described is how you measure if a blade is head heavy, center balances or handle heavy.

So, if anyone has an Infinity with rubbers on, feel free to do the head balance test and have someone take a photo so you can show where the racket balances. You just take your index finger under the blade face on one side, parallel to the bottom edge of the rubber and see where you can get the blade to balance. The closer to the handle it balances the more center or handle heavy the blade is. The closer to the center of the blade face the blade balances, the more head heavy the blade is.

One more detail, it is possible that what one person feels as head heavy, another person may feel as center balanced based on what they are used to. That would be another good reason for the test. In fact, it may be a good thing to have Der_Echte to show a photo of one of his purposely handle HEAVY blades and where that balances so you can see what the other extreme looks like.

Der_, could you do that?

For reference, here is my weapon of choice. This is the OSP Virtuoso Plus with Rasanter R 48 on both sides. As you can see from the photos below, it is a little head heavy.





Show some photos of how some different Infinities balance. And then people can judge for themselves.

thanks Carl

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I might need to either turn into an octopus to get such a shot or enlist the help of Goon Squad...

I have several Infinity Carbon... they did not feel terrible head heavy like some other Stiga blades I tried... guess I goota get a pic as Carl requested before mutant ninja sewer rats visit my secret trap house.