Which factor is most important??

For a racquet, there are so many factors to affect its performance:

1. Whole weight (2U,3U,or 4U);

2. Balance point (headlight, headheavy);

3. Flexibility of the shaft (stiff, flex);

4. Kick point of the shaft as some manufacturer concerned (I don't know it exactly);

5. Shape of the frame (classic oval shape, isometric, Y shape) or the sweet point;

6. Width of the frame;

7. Grip size (G3, G4);

8. String style (BG 65, 66, 70....);

9. String tension.

But I have heard so many opposite opinions on these factors.

Now I'm just puzzled by those factors, Which ones are really important for the performance and how do they work??

For the following performances:

1. power: smash, clear, or drive.

2. control: direction control, power control.

3. maneuverability: when you need quick reflection in the game.

3. comfort: make you play for long time without hurt on the arm or wrist. I really don't know how to describe this one, but I think it's really important. Because some headheavy racquet, maybe you can smash harder than usual, after a game and you find you can not even clear in the next one.

4. analyze the technics and the racquets, which factor benefit the wrist player, which one for the arm styles??

 

For a racquet there must be something good for or bad for,
Which style racquet fit who is the question.
Everyone just want to find a better racquet for his better performance.

 

I agree most of them is the personal preference, so I think we should make a racquet into so many factors.

Then we can just talk about the factor and minimize the personal preference here.

 

I'm a full swing guy, used the Yonex Ti 8, now change to Carlton AS-Ti.

I found that the isometric and heavy head make me feel better when clear, but a little bit slowly for return smash. But when smash, with the AS-Ti, I can swing faster, then hit harder than the Ti 8.

Ti 8's shaft is more flexible than AS-Ti, So I feel more comfortable when play for a long time, but another reason is that you can't use the arm to generate enough power with AS-Ti, unless you put all you wrist on.

I think the AS-Ti's oval head make me controling the direction much better than use Ti8.

 

For the power, you said that the high tension means more power, but I've heard that the pros use high tension just because they want control the power better, but high tension mean less power.

It's same as the tennis racquet.

And I got the same feel.

Maybe in a range it's right. When I change 18 lb to 22lb, I found it's more powerful, but when I change 22lb to 26lb, I felt very difficult to hit the birdy back.(

 

When can you post your paper here?? I really want to know how tension means to power.)