where does your string break most often?

**kinoko** · 09-24-2007, 11:21 AM

always the vertical one for me.. if wear out usually around 2-4cm above the mid point... if a mishit usually closer to the top..sadly at 29-30p i go through a string in less than 10 games

perhaps any different in playing for those who breaks vertical string and horizontal?....

**azn_123** · 09-25-2007, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by kinoko

always the vertical one for me.. if wear out usually around 2-4cm above the mid point... if a mishit usually closer to the top..sadly at 29-30p i go through a string in less than 10 games

perhaps any different in playing for those who breaks vertical string and horizontal?....

Hmm..I only break vertical strings, I have never broke two at once. Wow..you go through a stirng in less than 10 games! That's a lot of money if you don't have a stringing machine.

**kinoko** · 09-25-2007, 01:59 PM

luckily i can have bg65 for around 3usd... and i could freely use one of the machine at the court near home =D

i still have no clue of why some broke vertical only and some broke horizontal. theres 2 things i could think of...

1. way of ppl hitting the shuttle
2. different tension of horizontal and vertical when stringing.

**jhirata** · 10-01-2007, 02:09 AM

I've only broken my strings twice, because I'm still a newbie/intermediate player. They both snapped near the center.

**IceLEMonTea** · 10-03-2007, 05:45 AM

hmmm...i dont know about u guys...but ive broken 3 strings this year and it was all on the cross.....always on the top 2 strings...lol

i wonder how u all break the vertical ones

**shaoyut** · 12-07-2007, 05:04 PM

mine always breaks very near the middle

**taneepak** · 01-17-2008, 09:25 PM

One place where strings often break prematurely is at the top of the racquet. The load placed on this spot by a power shot is fully felt with no energy being deflected. You can try this experiment :
Place your racquet over a desk or table, with one hand pressing down the handle/grip on the table edge and the frame and shaft outside the table in free space. Using your other hand drop a shuttle from a 1' height onto the top of the racquet. You will observe that the shuttle will not bounce. Now do the same but drop the shuttle unto the sweetspot, and you will observe that the shuttle will bounce. The more repulsion or bounce the better the sweetspot. Now you know why the top of the stringbed breaks easily, as it should. We call it a mishit. This test is the racquet designer's ultimate test, plus another simple oscillation test, on any prototype racquet before being released into the market.

**sifuyono** · 01-23-2008, 10:49 PM

i agree with you too Eepak

**azabaz_ipoh** · 01-31-2008, 03:34 AM

it breaks in the center (a little to the top) but not really sure the mains or the cross but i kinda remember i was cutting the cross first.

**coley** · 02-03-2008, 01:01 PM

usually break the strings with a bit of a miss-hit, the price 2pay for high tensionand hin strings i guess! or wherever i cut them!

**Ramster** · 02-10-2008, 10:40 AM

Ive never used any string other than bg-65s and those things are unbreakable O_O! Havent broken any strings to date!

**Dill** · 02-10-2008, 04:34 PM

Always 10 or 2, just where i scoop it up from the court

**smash_master** · 02-22-2008, 03:32 AM

well tonight within the course of about 1 hour i snapped 2 set of strings Yonex BG 65 at 27lbs on 2 of my racquets so yeah that pretty much sucked and with a tournament this weekend means i only have 2 racquets left with one of them going to break oh well just hope they last me the weekend.

**Pete LSD** · 02-22-2008, 03:54 AM

Do you string your own racquets?

Yeah, it's a pain in the butt to pop two sets of strings in one night.

Originally Posted by smash_master

well tonight within the course of about 1 hour i snapped 2 set of strings Yonex BG 65 at 27lbs on 2 of my racquets so yeah that pretty much sucked and with a tournament this weekend means i only have 2 racquets left with one of them going to break oh well just hope they last me the weekend.

**Pete LSD** · 02-22-2008, 03:55 AM

Ignore . . . double post.

Originally Posted by smash_master

well tonight within the course of about 1 hour i snapped 2 set of strings Yonex BG 65 at 27lbs on 2 of my racquets so yeah that pretty much sucked and with a tournament this weekend means i only have 2 racquets left with one of them going to break oh well just hope they last me the weekend.

**smash_master** · 02-24-2008, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by Pete LSD

Do you string your own racquets?

Yeah, it's a pain in the butt to pop two sets of strings in one night.

nope i dont strign my own, an ex-national player/my coach string them so yeah there good stringers no question about that. both strings broke in the middle though which sucked.

**smash_master** · 02-24-2008, 12:45 AM

just to add yeah i broke another set of strings today while playing in the alberta series tournament. that sucks so for this weekend bringing up 4 racquets at the end of the weekend i have 1 left. all the strings broke in the sweet spot however and were strung at 27lbs roughly.