Inner-structure substitute for Synteliac VCI

[bfd4]

Hi everyone,

Recently I've had a rather significant accident with my Synteliac VCI (hit the blade on the table trying to loop after a half-long serve...), which left a pretty deep crack on the wood to the point of changing the feeling I had with the racket. That being said, I need to find a substitute to this quite pricy blade. Any suggestions? I have grown appreciation for innercarbon blades, preferably with the feeling similar to that of the Synteliac VCI. A quick search also shows some fairly similar blades in terms of construction, e.g., Stiga Aura Hybrid and Tibhar Hybrid AC. Can anyone compare the VCI to those? Thanks in advance!

 

[Airoc]

Wouldn´t the Stiga and the Tibhar also be "quite pricy"?
At least the price of the Aura kept me from trying it. I played with the AC once and found it disappointingly devoid of feeling. I still have it lying around and will give it another chance, because it was so bad, it might be a bad apple and not representative.
In other words: can´t really be of help...

But I´m sure someone will come up with a Chinese solution

 

[bfd4]

Wouldn´t the Stiga and the Tibhar also be "quite pricy"?
At least the price of the Aura kept me from trying it. I played with the AC once and found it disappointingly devoid of feeling. I still have it lying around and will give it another chance, because it was so bad, it might be a bad apple and not representative.
In other words: can´t really be of help...

But I´m sure someone will come up with a Chinese solution

Thanks for the reply! I mentioned the Aura here because there is a shop up close with a significant discount to it and a friend is willing to sell his almost unused AC Hybrid for a good price

 

[Haito]

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It might be a bit hard to do. Whatever they are doing their blades are stiff AF.

According to the TT Gearlab its significantly stiffer than Tibhar AC. They should feel quite different.

 

[Airoc]

a friend is willing to sell his almost unused AC Hybrid for a good price

If he´s a friend, he should let you play with it to make a good decision

 

[staysmart]

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[AndySmith]

Hi everyone,

Recently I've had a rather significant accident with my Synteliac VCI (hit the blade on the table trying to loop after a half-long serve...), which left a pretty deep crack on the wood to the point of changing the feeling I had with the racket. That being said, I need to find a substitute to this quite pricy blade. Any suggestions? I have grown appreciation for innercarbon blades, preferably with the feeling similar to that of the Synteliac VCI. A quick search also shows some fairly similar blades in terms of construction, e.g., Stiga Aura Hybrid and Tibhar Hybrid AC. Can anyone compare the VCI to those? Thanks in advance!

I have a VCI for sale at the moment, ST handle though. Send me a PM if you're interested.

 

[Scarfed Garchomp]

Thanks for the reply! I mentioned the Aura here because there is a shop up close with a significant discount to it and a friend is willing to sell his almost unused AC Hybrid for a good price

Comparing the composition of Aura to VCI, they are visually indistinguishable. I can take pics when I get home from work. I think they play very similarly as well but I cannot make too direct a comparison because my Aura is Cybershape. They both play like thick core style inner ALC blades, if anything the Aura is a bit deader in low gears but has more kick in the higher gears, though that might be the Cybershape at play

 

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