What do you look for in a good stringer?

I have a few places/people I can go to to get strung but all manual. Closest reputable ECP stringers are 100km away
So to me the guy who can do it the fastest always wins cause I hate waiting around.

 

Go to your local badminton club. I am sure you can get it strung in less than 30 mins. Many stringers who string in badminton clubs and training centres will string your rackets on the spot as long as you ask nicely.

 

2 of them are club stringers and neither use ECP.

 

As long as their end results (ie tension and frequency) are consistent, then it's still good.

 

Still at the court at the moment and I have to say that the X-Feel Blast is badass!

 

I have yet to see a club/training centre in Toronto that use other than a ECP machine.

I have seen some have Victors, Yonex Protechs, Technifibers, Wish etc and are all ECP...

Even buying an addon ECP module addon on a crank or drop machine only costs a few hundred dollars. And for the more accuracy, I don't see why not, especially simce the club/training centre are the ones buying the machine for their pro shop area in the club/training centre

 

that's because it probably plays like a tk8000...

 

Yeah but I'm in Guelph. So closest ECP is in GTA.

 

I don't know man...I think I have evolved to a point where I like every racket I touch!
The Babolat feels totally different but plays the same.
It's super stiff but I had no problems with it!

 

Agreed, most important are how the stringers utilize their equipment. Also, does not really need latest n greatest ECP machines to get decent results. Just like driving a car, it is the DRIVER that matters the most (in most cases, except in competitions). My stringer's results are better than guys w/ Yonex/Lining ECP machines in my city, more playable n retain its original frame shape.

 

the good stringer i look will never use the flying clamp to string the whole racket, or use them for the cross , never use the string mover during tension ....