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The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. The old idea of string having 'bite' has been mostly di
by Encosia 11y ago
The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. The old idea of string having 'bite' has been mostly disproven with the advent of high speed video to show what's really happening in the fraction of a second during impact. Those geometric extrusion strings are more marketing than anything else (and shred your stringer's fingers).
I play with full poly at 48#, but have experimented with gut hybrids and full gut at times. Even comparing 48# poly to 60# gut, the gut is like a rocket launcher compared to the poly. The amount of power it generates, at any tension, is unreal. You can hit huge flat serves with it, but the lack of spin isn't worth the extra pace.
- geoka9 11y ago> The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. Sure, I should've put "gripping" in quotes - what I meant is the top spin potential, not the actual physics behind it. > Even comparing 48# poly to 60# gut, the gut is like a rocket launcher compared to the poly. How about 60# full gut vs 50# hybrid (gut in the crosses)? Would the former still be a lot more powerful than the latter?
- Encosia 11y ago> How about 60# full gut vs 50# hybrid (gut in the crosses)? Would the former still be a lot more powerful than the latter? The hybrid setups I tested were usually in the ballpark of 46-48# poly mains with 50-52# gut crosses. My experience was that the hybrid setups were (obviously) more powerful than full poly, but still very noticeably less powerful than full gut at any tension. Without poly's spin/control, the full gut setups were a big disadvantage from the baseline, but I could hit some amazing (for me) first serves. I didn't experiment too much though because I was breaking every gut hybrid I tried in a few hours, which got expensive quick.