I play tennis evey day and have now about thirty rackets, ranging from Slazenger and Dunlop Muliply wood jobs, the Dunlop Max 200G, various vintage and newer Wilson, Head, Prince, graphite, carbon fiber, tungsten, magnesium, and others. I even have a Megaton Pro super widebody and Rex Professional super widebidy from Germany. To claim that the material in rackets is pure marketing is a little bit silly IMHO since each type of racket obviously has it’s own action, physical characteristics and feel, which are attributable to several factors including materials as well as geometry, strings, tension of strings, etc. Besides, why would a company like Head take out a patent on the Graphene racket technology? Doesn’t make sense. Is that itself a marketing ploy, taking out a patent?
Furthermore, and more to the point, why would Djokovich comment, regarding his Head Graphene tennis racket, "It’s my secret weapon." I suppose now I’ll have to check out the French Open today at 12 and see how Djokovich is doing with that heavily marketed Head Graphene racket. ;-)
Doncha agree tennis is a lot like audio - it’s a question of tweaking, materials, what strings to use, tension, vibration dampers, materials. ;-) especially what I do a lot of professionally, vibration isolation and resonance control, in terms of physics of materials.
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geoff kait
machina dynamica
Furthermore, and more to the point, why would Djokovich comment, regarding his Head Graphene tennis racket, "It’s my secret weapon." I suppose now I’ll have to check out the French Open today at 12 and see how Djokovich is doing with that heavily marketed Head Graphene racket. ;-)
Doncha agree tennis is a lot like audio - it’s a question of tweaking, materials, what strings to use, tension, vibration dampers, materials. ;-) especially what I do a lot of professionally, vibration isolation and resonance control, in terms of physics of materials.
I return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
geoff kait
machina dynamica