I was wondering... How do you check for internal damage on your racket? I just got my new racket and my sister wanted to try a few swings... First thing she did was drop it >_< So now i want to check for some internal damage, How do I do that? Oh yeah, I have an At 700
I would imagine it would very hard to check for internal damage because, afterall, it is internal. Give the racket bit of a shake and if you don't hear any weird noises and it feels OK to hit with, I think you can be sure it's OK. Or maybe you could X-ray your racket?
Just dropping the racquet probably won't cause damage unless it was from 8 feet+ onto concrete or something.
Unless you run through x-ray, otherwise, i doubt anyone can accurately identify the internal damage. If she drop it from her hand, it should be fine. However, if she was attempting a full swing, and the racket flew 3 courts length, that's another story. Btw, how bad is the paint chip? If almost none, I assume mostly you are fine.
You can throw your racket onto the floor, with no additional force applied, flat with the entire frame touching the ground at the same time, it is not likely to cause any harm. Throw another 20 times, your racket is still intact. If your racket cannot even withstand such a small impact, don't smash with it. Thanks.
Should be fine, It's only a minor drop. If rackets can sustain clashes and high tensions, a small drop should be fine.
Yeah i sure hope so! But my friend today just hit his racket on his wall at home before he came to practice and he is now really scared there is some internal damage as well >_< There are no paint chips on his At700 (He has one also.)
Hitting a wall is a completely different matter, especially if you're swinging the racquet.... Hitting a smash, the racquet face is moving extremely fast, much faster than if you drop it. So people smash and clash, and that's damage. If you drop the racquet, definately nothing.
Unless she threw it on the ground like many others said it shouldnt break unless its already broken due to poor manufacturing seeing as if you go for the smash and get a frame hit it most certainly would be more force then just dropping it. Even so if there is what you gonna do about it? I would say that theres nothing you can do besides play with it and if it should break try to send it back
Even though your racket seems to be fine ^^ ^^ , theres a way you can tell if your racket is broken. Hold your racket at the bottom (grip side) right at the end. And shake it normally if it is internally broken you can feel it , it does feel quite strange.
Not at the moment no it's still working perfectly fine for him and me, no competitions yet though, only at end of Jan. Now I'm hoping his racket is going to be fine >_< He's my doubles partner.
