marky mark
07-30-2003, 07:36 PM
i've been browsing this site a lot, and from the reviews and posts i've read, i came to the conclusion that the yonex ti-10 was the best (or at least the most powerful) yonex racket available in the market. so when a major sports equipment dealer had a sale here a month ago of their yonex racquet inventory, i immediately bought their two remaining stocks of ti-10s. :D
i had my two racquets strung with bg-65 ti at 23-25 lbs. at an official yonex dealer, again given the reasonable recommendation i read in this site of using the same strings and tension for the "main" and "spare" racquets, so as to avoid having to adapt to a different racquet should the main's strings break.
in any case, i now find that the ti-10 is way too powerful. ;) the smashes are definitely good and really power packed :p , but everything else is way off for me. my serve is bad, my drop shots are too high, my drives are exaggerated (meaning they often are out), and my net play is now pathetic. (hmm... thinking about what i have written, it looks that it is with control that i am having problems with).
to be fair to myself (and to the racquet as well), i've been playing with the racquets for only the past two weeks (i play 4x a week). i am likewise coming back from an injury (ankle sprain), wherein i was not able to play for 6 weeks. the injury is not yet fully healed, so aside from the adjustments i have had to make with a new racquet, my movements are not as quick and solid as before, and my timing is still off (or so i think). i've tried different ways of limiting the power of the racquet, ie. choking the handle, slicing, etc., but the bird really just explodes off the face. needless to say, i have lost almost all of my matches since i've started playing (and some of them were not even close) to people who i was mercilessly beating in the past (i mostly play doubles).
my frustration is growing, and i don't know if it's because of my difficulty adapting to the ti-10 that's why i've been losing. hope you guys can give me pointers on how to tame these babies, as i really am just utterly in love with them. :D (by the way, for those who might post otherwise, they're genuine, manufactured in 2001, with the serial numbers corresponding to the graph made by kwun).
my apologies for the long post, but this is my first one :) and this problem is really bothering me. thanks in advance to those who will give constructive suggestions and recommendations.
i had my two racquets strung with bg-65 ti at 23-25 lbs. at an official yonex dealer, again given the reasonable recommendation i read in this site of using the same strings and tension for the "main" and "spare" racquets, so as to avoid having to adapt to a different racquet should the main's strings break.
in any case, i now find that the ti-10 is way too powerful. ;) the smashes are definitely good and really power packed :p , but everything else is way off for me. my serve is bad, my drop shots are too high, my drives are exaggerated (meaning they often are out), and my net play is now pathetic. (hmm... thinking about what i have written, it looks that it is with control that i am having problems with).
to be fair to myself (and to the racquet as well), i've been playing with the racquets for only the past two weeks (i play 4x a week). i am likewise coming back from an injury (ankle sprain), wherein i was not able to play for 6 weeks. the injury is not yet fully healed, so aside from the adjustments i have had to make with a new racquet, my movements are not as quick and solid as before, and my timing is still off (or so i think). i've tried different ways of limiting the power of the racquet, ie. choking the handle, slicing, etc., but the bird really just explodes off the face. needless to say, i have lost almost all of my matches since i've started playing (and some of them were not even close) to people who i was mercilessly beating in the past (i mostly play doubles).
my frustration is growing, and i don't know if it's because of my difficulty adapting to the ti-10 that's why i've been losing. hope you guys can give me pointers on how to tame these babies, as i really am just utterly in love with them. :D (by the way, for those who might post otherwise, they're genuine, manufactured in 2001, with the serial numbers corresponding to the graph made by kwun).
my apologies for the long post, but this is my first one :) and this problem is really bothering me. thanks in advance to those who will give constructive suggestions and recommendations.