The MP99 has a sweetspot low on the face. If you hit it higher, then it feels incredibly weak, however, it gives amazing power if hit right.
the 'best' way to ensure you hit it square on is practising it a lot. Minor tricks include a slight change in your grip to panhandle (just look at Lin Dan's photo on the yonex catalogue, for example) and making a more straightforward hitting action (álways keeping the head square on with the bird...less twisting and turning)
Hi! I read a lot about technique and saw a lot of videos about smashing and I have improved my smash a lot in 5 years playing badminton. But there is something which I cannot explain - I know how to make a "whip-like-stroke" and that the flexibility of the racquet is important here BUT: when has the racquet time to bend if you acctually accalerate the racquet surface parallel to the direction of stroke with your elbow directed to the shuttle and at very last moment you snap the wrist and hit the head surface perpendicular to the shuttle. So how is it possible to bend the racquet in direction perpendicular to the head surface during the stroke (because such reaction hits the shuttle with so many times called whip-like movement)? It's a little confusing I know but hope that you will understand what i mean. Any ideas?
You really don't need to worry about this. The actual mechanics of a smash swing are very complex, and trying to analyse them is unlikely to help your game. Suffice to say that the racket will bend, and the violent twisting motion of your forearm (with the final timing in your fingers) is necessary to generate a powerful smash.
Yes I know that it works... I also saw on slow motion video (Lin Dan) that racquet really bends during the smash... And you can tell if you swing properlly... But ok, I will have to smash without knowing how this really happen. Like in that story where scientists proved that a bumblebee cannot fly because his wings are too small for his big weight. But bumblebee does not know this and he just fly!
The racquet flexes with any swing. The amount that it bends depends on the racquet flexibility and how much acceleration you're generating.
To maximize sound output and power, you hit it squarely. I really despise people who think they have a quiet hit, and they think that just by increasing tension it will be louder. It would, a bit or alot, but you should first do it with whatever tension you have now. Because many players that i've seen including myeslf. Can have very loud pop while using very low tension. My bg-65 strung at 21lbs used for one year. And had no trouble producing sound, quite loud I might add. Now I know i am hitting it correctly. Not because I have a high tensioned racket.
Good point and I forgot to mention that. In fact, if you want a loud BOOM, go lower tension. It will be a loud deep BOOM. High tension makes a higher pitch BOOM, not as impressive as the deep loud BOOM when you smash. Of course this is assuming you can maximize the racket and string to produce the BOOM.
Well the problem wasn't that I had a fast swing speed, it was that I wasn't having a consistent swing speed, sometimes fast, sometimes not as fast. If I wanted to, I could produce a loud boom, but most of the time, I didn't have the swing speed. I'm getting better at that though.
Good. Then keep a lower tension. Because a lower tension does not require you to swing that fast anyways. Thanks for backing me up dinkalot lol.
I find that 24lbs is good for me, and I can get a good sound about 80-90% of the time. It's been a month since I first started this thread, and I've been working on a consistent swing speed. 100th post!!
No, I've been using 23lbs for a while, and after I broke my racquet, I just went up 1 lb. Not that much.
also has 2 do with the racket aswell!! mainly the smashes!! if i use the yonex 8000 it dont make a proper sound...but if i use the 9000 its so much more powerfull!!!!!
i dont think the racket has much to do with the sound. of course if the racket swings faster i assume its going to make a bigger 'boom!' but what really determines the sound is, as somone previously mentioned, the string tension. Lower tensions will definitely create a deeper Boom! whereas higher tensions will create a piercing boom!
Yep.....explosive swings with no slice will generate the clearest sound and with the most repulsive feel.