*Sigh, well, today my nanospeed 8000 broke :crying:. I am going to try to avoid buying nanospeeds from now on. Just because i found this type of foam stuff in the racquet, i dunno if its there to absorb vibrations of whatever but it obviously decreases the life span of the racquet enourmously. i'm so sad right now cause the racquet only had a lifespan of 3-4 months :crying:. i'm gonna miss the power and speed of the racquet. Carrying on, does anyone know any racquets that are similar to the quickness and power of the nanospeed 8000 but with better durability? PS: will be posting pics as soon as i find a digicam, old digicam broke...
you could mayeb try a Sotx woven 5/6...I haven't played teh 5 yet...but the 6 is really on the outer end of the manouvrability-scala... it's really freaking fast, though shorter, and less stiff than your ns8k...and I haven't tested the two head-to-head (i do own both, but my ns8k is collecting dust) btu I think the ns8k packs a bit more power, but is slower than the w6...maybe the stiffer/longer woven 5 provides a better solution..
It's not because of those foam. It's more depend on the thickness of the frame and structural strenth. NS8000 is no doubt a fragile racket( those parts without nano carbon).
I believe the Woven 6 is on par with the NS8000 in stiffness. Maybe the 8000 is a tad bit stiffer but it's not that significant of a difference. Agree the 8000 is more powerful.
hmm, you're right, Did some bending...in my memory the ns8k was stiffer... but then, my wrist strength , in comparison to last year (ns8k year), has almost doubled (thank you squash racket! thank you more court-time!) so that might've set me off... Have you tried teh woven 5 Dan? how does it compare to the ns8k? I ehard some belgium bloke say he replaced his ns7k with a w5...but I haven't hit it...
I feel bending only gives you a rough estimate. To truly tell, you need to hit both rackets back to back with the same shuttle. I have not tried the Woven 5. I've tried the Woven 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16.
you tried the 13 and 16? coudl you drop by http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34889&page=2 and tell me/us what you thought of the 13/16 (because I really haven't found much imput on those two, and it would help our site a lot if we had more than 1 opinion )
I know of that page. I didn't post because I didn't test them in detail. I firmly believe string and tension are more important then the racket. For instanfe, the Woven 16 I hit was terrible. I was so disappointed with the racket, no power, no feel. But after the fact, I realized the string tension was way too low and it was...I don't know what string it was. It was just weird. Like hitting a spongey board, if that makes any sense. The 13 was good though. But again, not enough to form a concrete opinion.
hmhm, ok, makes sense...for feel/control/power string/tension indeed matters a lot, and can horribly throw you off when they're not what you're used to. But thans for looking anyway! BWT, the spongey baord makes sense...I tried a ns9X with 18lbs bg65...The racket couldn't flex because the strings 'absorbing' the shuttles energy, for lack of a better explanation...
thanks guys, i've been thinking about something along the lines of forza or sotx, the ns8k stiffness is perfect for me and i sort of need the extra reach cause i think i'll be playing singles this year. but i guess i can adapt to the sotx 5/6, will be looking into those. any other suggestions? does a 4u armortec 700 have about the same weight at the head? i only held one but it felt sort of similar. also, is the decrease in power, stiffness, noticable by a large margin?
erm..good luck with Forza...I suggest you ask a salesmen to help you out... I'm looking at www.forzafz.nl and can't plow through any of that...it seems liek they only make 'easy' rackets...the type eveyrbody shoudl like...all mid-balance, some head-heavy...all ~88grams..and soem stiffness variation... I'll bet the rackets differ from each other, but the website doesn't clarify much...
hmm well, i've played with a forza armortech 700 clone, i gotta say it was pretty close to the real armortec 700, also, i like the paintjob of the forza alot better then the 700 . i don't think i found the forza armotech clone on the site though.
u did not tell us how it broke. if it not from clashing nor mis hitting the frame, people often blame it on racket design or weakness. Reality, often it was due to bad stringing. None of my client ns8k broken yet, and they are all at 25-30 lbs range. This is a general comment, i dunno how ur 8k died.
Would anyone compare the durability of NanoSpeed Series to Wilson racquets? I think they both have the snappy durablility....
Well nanospeeds are quite fragile, broke from clash, before the clash, racquet was in mint condit. only minor scartches (from stringer, i did not inflict it). an mp44 withstood the clash whereas my nanospeed lost to the mp44 haha. i don't think i'll ever get an ns8k again, unless i get rich i'll miss its power and control though . the tension was also pretty low at the time, it dropped to about 22lbs? however i did feel that the tension was a bit uneven, and the top knot came loose a bit. Cooler i think i might have you string my racquets from now on . funny thing is it broke at the fullrene / nanocarbon area, which is suppose to be the strongest right?
nonspeeds have like this cardboard type material in the middle , i found that out yesterday, wilson durability > nanospeed durability. also, wilson racquets are made to withstand tons and tons of clashes with noobs.
No high-end racket is "clash"-safe... But I agree that NS8000 is more fragile than the average racket (personally I have broken 6 NS8ks ( no clashes involved, I try to avoid them, at least in friendly doubles, better to loose the point than the racket when playing a friendly game), so I gave up on this model.. /Twobeer
Relatively speaking the Wilson NCodes are more durable than the NS6000, 7000 and 8000. The 9000 with Elastic Ti is noticeably more durable than the other NSs and best guess, on par with the NCodes, which are durable.
in this case, the design is part of the reason of less durability for the ns8k. The frame is slim and light, it's just common sense. That's why i dun own any ns6k,7k,8k.
So how does the 9k stack up against the 8k? do you think it is better then the 8k in terms of control and power?
