Well first I only use yonex so here goes Mine is AT700. 4U I like this one because the look and it feel pretty great. Lots of power Feel free to tell the detail about your racquet. Most hate; I must say arcsabre? any kind of them, lol this is stupid reason but I hate the bag, it look just ugly. and for color combination, I hate nano9000 of course i can only base on looks because I don't have much chances to find different racquet and try out.
not that i have used many rackets myself, but i personally prefer (the borrowed) yonex armortec 900. it makes me feel that im in control, really. next will be proace nanotech 70. just the right weight for me and durable too (very economical! an average proace nanotech 70 cost $100 and lasts for 2 years!). even when me and my partner's racket clashed it only chipped. unlike sintec's nanotec 7000 which is quite vulnerable. a few accidental hits against the ground and thats it. proace nanotech 80 is a disaster though. i have a extremely weird feeling just wielding it alone. but the current racket i'm using is proace ABS-power1000. not bad, but it seems to be unable to withstand moderately high tensions (26~28 lbs). broke 2 of these rackets and one sinked in (i dont really know how to describe it, lol) while stringing. the worst racket i've used is a reddish-pink (i think?) apacs racket. i borrowed it from a friend for 2 weeks and using it, i cant seem to find the "sweet spot". it seemed short and light and its very difficult to 借力 (sorry i dont know how to translate this into english, something like rebound?) when returning a shot. not only me, i've asked my friends to try it too and they also found it disastrous. this gave me a bad impression on apacs racket and i will NEVER buy an apacs racket. the above are all IN MY OPINION.
i have had some cheap racket like the AT250, AT300, Carb1800Ti ect... but my fav has to be the Ti-10 old edition, I've always taken it for granted till I use cheaper rackets, the Ti-10 just feels like you're holding power, every hit is solid (provided that you are still fresh), and it has a surprisingly good amount of control for the power it generate. but that crap wears you out quick because it's heavy.
I had problem using Ti-10, Ti-3, Ti-5, heck I think the whole Ti family hahah. But back then I had to play with them. They're at least better than the old yonex racquets. Well I just tend to use the most updated yonex racquet. I'm waiting on my at 900 T to die =) so I can try new one. But I might not gonna break it that easily, unless i go restring it with around 30 lbs. because it's a 4U, so i think it's alitlte sensitive at that tension. But that's my tension though, I can't go 25 and below.
looking at the specs, looks like they're all heavy hitting rackets, they also makes the super light version... not sure how those performs.
Any racquet in too bright colours. White is worst, then silver, then all other bright colours. Why? Not because they are ugly, but because they kind of destrubs my concentration. I tend to look at the racquet more than I should.
It's a dunlop, main color is white with silver/chrome accents. Azbadman had one for sale earlier, here's the link to his thread. It's the first pic in the first post. http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73835 or maybe an APACS Nano Super Light, primary color is CHROME, white accents I own the latter Super Light and I was going to buy the former M-fil from azbadman but he closed his thread.
Oh, now I remember a really sh**y racket! Yonex isometric 150 long. It felt kind of nice when i tried it so a bought three. Didn't cost much wich should have been a warning sign. I did get them all at the same time in the same shop. They all felt different allthough they all were 2uG3! I strung them with the same string at the same tension and put on identical grips. I could still easily tell them apart. Like it was three different types. Luckily(!) they all broke within a few months. Just from playing! No clashes.
They ALL felt different? >.< I can understand minor differences, like slightly heavier or something, but wow, like 3 different types? Heh hope you went with a better racquet after those broke.
woot... that's one powerful & sensitive man here... powerful enough to break 3racquet & sensitive enough to feel their different!
Naaa, not so powerful. Sensitive - yes. But most of all, there were something seriously wrong with those rackets. The frame caved in between the gromets at the top and they were only strung at 20 lbs. I'd say they were produced on a very bad monday and maby misslabeled as well.
