Panda Power: A Racket That Can Take 40lbs. String Tension!

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  1. dimcorner

    dimcorner Regular Member

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    Nice!

    I'll have to give this one a shot as well. I made a new design with a more oval head to try it out. Will take pics when I get home. The new design I have I made in Photoshop so I have the PSD.
     
  2. visor

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    Master Panda, excellent post! Thanx for schooling me on it! :D

    Looking back to one of your posts from over a year ago, #814 specifically, you had mentioned exactly the same concept re choice of racket specs. icon14.png


     
  3. Hunterex196

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    Badminton stencil ink

    Hi guys, I'd like to stencil the panda logo onto my racket, but im not sure what kind of ink i can use. would regular ink work? cause I like my purple strings and i think white would look really cool on it :) thx guys
     
  4. j4ckie

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    Not too sure, depends on your string. Normally, it doesn't, there's special ink for it, although I doubt there's white. I've only seen black and red so far...
     
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    there is white stencil ink (brand: yonex, babolat, or own label)
     
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    There's also blue stencil ink, but IMO only white and maybe red would stand out on purple strings.
     
  7. Sketchy

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    If it's an Ultra 2, I think a yellow stencil would look best.
    If it's an Ultra Pro, then either white or yellow would be good.
    If it's anything else, then purple strings was probably a bad idea. XD

    Does anyone make a gold stencil ink?
    That would be great for the U2/UPro/TPro, with black strings.
    Maybe I'll try the gold decoration spray I have left over from Christmas...
     
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    what's the final design(colour) for Tpro?
     
  9. cobalt

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    Ford colours... :D
     
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    Think it's this one.
     
  11. Sketchy

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    Correct. It's gonna be black & "gold" (or whatever you want to call that color).
     
  12. Avenger

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    the only colour you can get at that time: black :D
     
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    Panda Power Ultra Pro has arrived in Malaysia ....

    Finally the ULTRA PRO has arrived in Malaysia shore ....

    Panda Power fans in Malaysia and Indonesia who has pre-order or would like to buy Ultra Pro, you can PM me or send an e-mail. Check my e-mail at www.dcbadminton.net/order.htm for the Malaysia/Indonesia distributor ...
     
  14. aCROX999

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    I've received my Trinity 2 last Tuesday(thanks to Mr. Ansar Aris for taking his time dealing with me for a month, haha) and strung it at 26lbs with an Apacs string, and overgrip it with a Karakal grip. It's a very good racquet, my first try on the racquet was yesterday, playing at an open court, no roof, no walls, and with a strong wind blowing. I was very impressed with the racquet, it's very aerodynamic, I can swing it easily even when the wind blows strongly. I felt a lot powerful and faster too. I also played for almost 2 hours this morning at an indoor court where I usually went to and used my Trinity 2 but I still have not used it to its full potential. I wonder why but after 2 days I didn't play badminton, I seems to forgot the smashing technique, lol.

    By the way, the specs is:
    SW : 85.9
    BP : 292mm

    Oh, and the badminton shop where I went to strung the racquet is funny. She said this is a fake racquet, never buy online anymore after this, come to her shop and buy racquets from them. Her reason is simple, she never heard of Panda Power or DCBadminton. Let me tell you that this kind of business trick won't work on me. ;)
    But the design is kinda off at the frame, the red stripes I mean. Was it really meant like that? Overall, the racquet is awesome, excellent job guys.

    P.s. Sketchy(or whoever the webmaster of dcbadminton.net are), please update the website with latest photos, I was confused when I received my racquet. I thought I got an old version of it but it's not. I did some research and I even misread about it too, lol, it was embarrassing. :p
     
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    Bro acROX999,not only did you got yourself a very impressive racket, you even gotten yourself a racket with fantastic BP and weigh!

    Very soon, you will be able to unleash the dragon from this beast.

    Not too sure if other ppl will agree with what i say, but i seems to get more power from Trinity 2 as compared to Precision.... but no doubt that precision seems like a easier racket to place with.(On days when i am not feeling good or strong, this is my racket to go)

    Have fun and enjoy!

    Cheerio
    From Singapore
     
  16. j4ckie

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    I agree, although my Precision has a higher BP, the flexible shaft seems to limit the power compared to the T2. Both are very light, to which I need to adapt before playing acceptably, but the T2 has definitely more power. I'm looking forward to the TPro very much now - it'll have better specs, so I'll hopefully get more power out of it =) if it's only 2/3 as fast around the net and in defense as my T2s and Precisions, I'm gonna be very happy indeed :D
     
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    What spec TPro are you looking at, compared to your T2?
     
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    my Current T2 is 85.7g and 287bp
    my current Miss P is at 85.7g and 290bp

    both string with BG66 at 25 with same karakal Pu grip. but still the T2 which have a lower bp produce more power.

    Yea will wait and see how things goes. but this time round i hope to look at at 85.7G and 293bp range

    will wait and see :)
     
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    T2 is now my go-to racquet. But it has a higher BP than any other racquets I have ever used, so I need to practice my wrist strength but since I love net play, I noticed that it's easier to do net play techniques than before because of the speed, lightness and higher tension.

    And I use the same Karakal PU grip too, it felt so good and tacky too. :D
     
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    grats on your new racket :D
    lol.. to that woman in badminton shop
    you should say to her about dc badminton ;)

    I will order the Tpro once I finished explore my AS008T (I only use it for 3 hours in past 2 months! :eek:)
    and once I can decide the bp and weight that I want (still can't decide it!)
     
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