I know people often use squash racquets to train and to help increase their strength but does anyone know a manufacturer/place where they sell extremely heavy badminton racquets? I know a friend who has one of these and it's probabaly the weight of about 8 racquets combined into a badminton racquet
i have a racquet of the yonex basic series which is very heavy, made of steel. It's not too heavy but heavier than an average racquet. Forgot the name of the racquet though. It's silver, frame is redish.
I want it pretty heavy, i'd hope i could get it to be about one half the weight of a tennis racquet, somewhere around there
I tried ashaway training racket which is super heavy. Maybe you could try that out? It cost about Rm100 so about 30 USD.
Yang Yang is about to introduce a 130g training racket... Gia Dinh Sports in Vietnam also carries 150g and 200 gram training rackets....their web is www.giadinhsports.com 130g cost 25usd 150g cost 27usd 200g cost 30usd
You can possibly buy this thing called a 'banana weight' (weighs 40g) by Wilson, which you can attatch onto any racquet for training your wrist. Here's an example: http://www.wilson-badminton.jp/products/contents/accessory/all/T0290B
with regards to the banana weight...u might damage the racket due to imbalance flexing when u excute any shots ... as the weight are concentrated at various points, the shaft have a high possibility of getting damaged due to the huge moment it experiences...i would encourage not ... morever, a heavy racket might influence your feel and excution when you switch back to you own main racket which might be detrimental... just my few cents ...
