TL/DR: glue a coin on the bottom of the handle.
Hello all
So one day I concluded, that my racket just feels too heavy, which is a shame, as it plays nicelly. The setup is:
Timo Boll Spark 94g
Xiom Vega X 50g
Yinhe Mercury 2 48g
With glue it added up to about 193-194 grams, which I felt was a bit too much. Even worse, I felt that the balance is not helping as it was head heavy, which I felt especially during bh flips (I'm not very fit unfortunatelly). I felt, that if only the balance was shifted a bit more towards the handle, it would be easier for me to bear the racket's weight.
I decided to try to add some weight to the handle - that would of course make the blade even heavier, but with the balance shifted towards the handle weight would be less noticeable. I wanted something easy, cheap and easy to "revert".
My first idea was to use some kind of lead tape, but it was not necesairly super cheap and I had some worries about the fact, that it was a lead. Then I thought about drilling a hole in a handle and filling it with something heavy, but that was a bit too much work and my Spark already had one "surgery" regarding the handle (someone cut or sanded a part of the handle and converted the AN to chinese penhold and someone after that reverted that change by creating a small extension) so I decided it is not worth it.
And then I saw my stack of various coins and I came up with the idea to glue one to the bottom end of handle. It seemed pretty promising: coin is relativelly dense and will be very far from the current balance point, so balance should be shifted heavily without a big gain in racket's weight. I also decided to use the foam double sided tape, which will increase the distance a bit more.
So the overall effects looks as follows:
Coin weights 3.6 g and the balance of the whole racket shifted by about 9 mm (from about 55 to something about 46 mm). The difference in play is noticeable. BH flips seems a bit easier and the weight is not that bad now (I hope I'm not imagining anything here).
So I see this as a compelete success
I also learned something else: the Butterfly black tag is not glued or anything, as I imagined previously, but is actually nailed to the handle with two small nails.
Regards
Hello all
So one day I concluded, that my racket just feels too heavy, which is a shame, as it plays nicelly. The setup is:
Timo Boll Spark 94g
Xiom Vega X 50g
Yinhe Mercury 2 48g
With glue it added up to about 193-194 grams, which I felt was a bit too much. Even worse, I felt that the balance is not helping as it was head heavy, which I felt especially during bh flips (I'm not very fit unfortunatelly). I felt, that if only the balance was shifted a bit more towards the handle, it would be easier for me to bear the racket's weight.
I decided to try to add some weight to the handle - that would of course make the blade even heavier, but with the balance shifted towards the handle weight would be less noticeable. I wanted something easy, cheap and easy to "revert".
My first idea was to use some kind of lead tape, but it was not necesairly super cheap and I had some worries about the fact, that it was a lead. Then I thought about drilling a hole in a handle and filling it with something heavy, but that was a bit too much work and my Spark already had one "surgery" regarding the handle (someone cut or sanded a part of the handle and converted the AN to chinese penhold and someone after that reverted that change by creating a small extension) so I decided it is not worth it.
And then I saw my stack of various coins and I came up with the idea to glue one to the bottom end of handle. It seemed pretty promising: coin is relativelly dense and will be very far from the current balance point, so balance should be shifted heavily without a big gain in racket's weight. I also decided to use the foam double sided tape, which will increase the distance a bit more.
So the overall effects looks as follows:
Coin weights 3.6 g and the balance of the whole racket shifted by about 9 mm (from about 55 to something about 46 mm). The difference in play is noticeable. BH flips seems a bit easier and the weight is not that bad now (I hope I'm not imagining anything here
).So I see this as a compelete success
I also learned something else: the Butterfly black tag is not glued or anything, as I imagined previously, but is actually nailed to the handle with two small nails.
Regards
