DinkALot's Racket Review

**DinkAlot** · 04-08-2010, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by ace9988

just out of curiosity i've noticed there aren't any carlton racquets in the review??

Panda has not been able to get access to Carlton rackets. At least not easily.

**Easy Tiger** · 04-08-2010, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by vctrku

Yeah, it seems like Carlton has pretty much died out. Before, EVERYONE used Carlton and now it is not even heard of anymore. I am using a Carlton Airblade 500 Ti and I get laughed at for "using some kind of ugly no name brand" as all they know is Yonex this and Yonex that. It just shows me how little they know about sports in general. Sure, my Carlton racket is definitely not any kind of top of the line racket or anything but it does the job for me but it does not deserve to be called "no name"! Just about all of them have been slayed by my Carlton racket and I guess seeing their faces after I destroy them makes up for them hurting my racket's feelings. All the people who are capable of beating me know better than to think that a racket determines one's skills. Hehe. ^^ Sorry for the rant. I just have to let it out and I love my Carlton rackets. Though I am going to switch over to Apacs soon as Carlton rackets are not really accessable anymore, while Apacs is REALLY cheap and has many selections.

You could buy my Carlton Vapour Trail Tour, before you completely sell-out

**ace9988** · 04-09-2010, 01:21 PM

ive got both apacs and carlton...carlton i love for doubles, the apacs works its magic at singles, BUT they are more accessible in the UK

**vctrku** · 04-09-2010, 01:47 PM

Yeah, the only bad about Apacs for me is that there are no stores here to buy Apacs equipment so I am not able to hold it in my hand and try it out before I buy something. We have to get everything online. The owner (or whatever you call him) of Apacs Canada told me that if they decided to open a store to sell Apacs equipment, they would have to increase the prices by about 50% so they could survive. It is too bad because they also have cheap shoes but with something like shoes, I would only buy it if I tried it on first, knowing it fits properly. Also, since I have wide feet, I do not want to risk spending money on a pair of shoes that would not even fit me properly.

**Saulius** · 04-12-2010, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by vctrku

Yeah, the only bad about Apacs for me is that there are no stores here to buy Apacs equipment so I am not able to hold it in my hand and try it out before I buy something. We have to get everything online. The owner (or whatever you call him) of Apacs Canada told me that if they decided to open a store to sell Apacs equipment, they would have to increase the prices by about 50% so they could survive. It is too bad because they also have cheap shoes but with something like shoes, I would only buy it if I tried it on first, knowing it fits properly. Also, since I have wide feet, I do not want to risk spending money on a pair of shoes that would not even fit me properly.

I've got the Apacs shoes about 4 months ago, still going well. My feet are also wide (120kg weight, what you expect). So no worries here. And cheap.

**Slimeburger** · 05-02-2010, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by bolts

I'm trying to fit the whole review on one sheet of paper...

Has anyone been successful in doing this??.... if yes would you please share how you did it? What program etc?

Thanks

Time to go shopping for more rackets again!

bolts

For those of you like me that wanted to print DinkAlot's excellent racket review but found it too small. I have converted it to a 3 page pdf document split across 3 pages (landscape) and it can be downloaded from here (sorry it is a tad big at 3MB)

I did try and upload the pdf to this forum but it would not let me....some sort of failure message!

I hope DinkAlot does not mind me converting it and hosting it elsewhere....I don't have any ulterior motive except that I would like to be able to easily access it from my iPhone when I am out and I could not do that from this forum....anyway let me know if it's a problem and I can remove it....

Does anyone know of a similar list for shuttles?

Simon (aka Lord Slimeburger.....don't ask...its a long story)

**noiseloops** · 05-03-2010, 01:15 AM

thanks Simon for the link. It really helps make it portable. I was having issues exporting it.

**PyourK** · 05-03-2010, 01:15 PM

I would honestly like to know how the panda rackets rank amongst the others

**Danstevens** · 05-03-2010, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by PyourK

I would honestly like to know how the panda rackets rank amongst the others

I believe that Sir Dink posted something to that effect somewhere in either this thread or the Panda Power thread.

**singnflip4life** · 05-03-2010, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by Danstevens

I believe that Sir Dink posted something to that effect somewhere in either this thread or the Panda Power thread.

Heh got you guys covered!

Here's the ones for the T1 and U1
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/foru...&postcount=599

Overall Excellent- for both

And the ones for the T2 and U2

http://www.badmintonforum.com/vb/sho...&postcount=709

Excellent- still for U2 but an upgrade to Excellent for T2.

Note, for weight/bp, this was before T2v2

**CHOcobo** · 05-16-2010, 12:32 AM

so hows the NS9900 coming a long?

**demolidor** · 05-16-2010, 01:12 AM

Nicely ... ?

I think there's a Panda review either in here or in the NS9900 thread ...

**demolidor** · 05-16-2010, 01:44 AM

Well coudn't find a detailed one either so perhaps it's just this that I remember http://www.badmintoncentral.com/foru...00#post1311712

Wouldn't be hard to fill in the boxes on the review chart yourself with all the info out there already.

**rommel9772** · 05-22-2010, 12:45 PM

Can we have the updated chart from this thread? It is very useful for us to compare what's the best racket and what is suitable for us (like me) im just a beginner still searchin', diggin', breakin' rackets...Tnx!

**random.badmin1** · 05-23-2010, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by rommel9772

Can we have the updated chart from this thread? It is very useful for us to compare what's the best racket and what is suitable for us (like me) im just a beginner still searchin', diggin', breakin' rackets...Tnx!

I agree with you