Rommel Alastra
Regular Member
anyone got their hands on auraspeed 98K? Let me know how do you feel about it and compare it to the 90S and 90K? and also the stiffness. Not so much information about it in the website.
anyone got their hands on auraspeed 98K? Let me know how do you feel about it and compare it to the 90S and 90K? and also the stiffness. Not so much information about it in the website.
Three years to develop a plastic handle. Wow. I wonder what they will fill it with though.View attachment 195158
The new DriveX-9X with a synthetic handle that took 3 years to develop. Interesting...
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The new DriveX-9X with a synthetic handle that took 3 years to develop. Interesting...
Seems like marketing gimmic. They can make a plastic shaft or anything & say it will be more powerfull more control or whatsoever but well... Even knowing that, im sure some few people out there will take the bait to buy & try it.Super interesting but while Victor claims the handle boosts overall performances vs wooden handle I'd like to know why instead of just believing what they say.
For instance, how does a plastic handle help achieve what they claim in the photo above? Also questionable in terms of sustainability.
100% agreed. Marketing gibberish at its finest. Bottom line - it's cheaper, that's what it is. Mizuno tries to implement carbon fibre handles on some rackets, but so far even that doesn't seem to be that successful with the customers. And let's be honest, how much influence on power does the handle have?! Slim to none. It mostly has to transfer the right feel (vibrations) coming from the acutal impact through the shaft into the hand, and here is where wood is doing a great job.Seems like marketing gimmic. They can make a plastic shaft or anything & say it will be more powerfull more control or whatsoever but well...
100% agreed. Marketing gibberish at its finest. Bottom line - it's cheaper, that's what it is. Mizuno tries to implement carbon fibre handles on some rackets, but so far even that doesn't seem to be that successful with the customers. And let's be honest, how much influence on power does the handle have?! Slim to none. It mostly has to transfer the right feel (vibrations) coming from the acutal impact through the shaft into the hand, and here is where wood is doing a great job.
Interesting, I didn't know that.The Thruster BXR has a part carbon fibre handle too but it didn't seem to feel any different when playing
To be fair, that's what basically all manufacturers do. Yonex gave the blueprint and it works perfectly for them. The thing is that Victor somehow lost their mojo in the past years and come up with rather weak strategies to promote their "innovations". Just look at that plastic handle - I mean, you have to try a bit harder to lure people into thinking that it's a great thing then posting a bad picture of a simple white plastic tube and saying "it improves power and we needed ages to develop it!". That's so lame that customers tend to feel obviously fooled.Totally agree with you guys and I feel bad for Victor which is a brand I like very much but coming up with stuff like that doesn't make me want to actually purchase their stuff at all... I mean they always market their new rackets with so called new technologies and they miss the essential idea behind marketing I believe. Using their stars and conveying a performance based message. I mean use LZJ or TTY in action with a nice sport slogan, a bit of new technology is welcome for sure and that's it. But abusing the tech language to sell stuff without any actual explanations or proofs is a bit of a turn off for me.
okay, this one is killing me:https://au.victorsport.com/news/189...-grounds-with-innovative-free-core-technology
Apparently the Drivex 9x will have Victor's stiffest shaft ever?
As if the mx80 and sw35 weren't stiff enough already... :/
Oh god now they're propogating false information.. We're gonna go back to the vicious cycle of 3inch thick grips and even balanced AX99s now.okay, this one is killing me:
"The newly designed lightweight end cap moves the balance point higher up and achieves more powerful attacking strength."
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okay, this one is killing me:
"The newly designed lightweight end cap moves the balance point higher up and achieves more powerful attacking strength."
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The MX JJS is one of the few rackets that I really, really regret to have missed completely.To this day I still use the Victor MeteorX JJS (3U) and have been looking for a suitable replacement from Victor (I disliked the Hypernanos). Ignoring the marketing of new tech, the DriveX looks like it will replace the Hypernanos and the 9X does seem to have specs similar to that of the MX-80/90/JJS (MX-80 being the stiffest of the lot).
I do have a slimmer of hope that this will be comparable to the Meteors. Hoping someone can provide a thorough review as I haven't seen anything written so far on the DriveX 7K which has been in the market since September 2019.