I have seen some ;ess power pro players now have normal strung racquets but have loser strings like a little kids racquet using thin synthetic deigns closer to what a little kids racquet might use only more durable materials or some kind of full gut, and this is probably one of the only ways to have a racquet set up so a player can use a similar bend in strings helping create more topspin.

large amounts of money shot sports to never before seen heights while simultaneously destroying the culture behind them. I wonder if it was worth it :(

Recently I played with someone locally. He played over 10 years ago. He put on his shoes from when he was 20, there were bits of shoes all over the court.

Racket strings really don't last very long. Of course, over 40 years, the rest of the racket might not either

That's pretty amazing, Vilas was essentially the new Borg on clay in the early 80's, can you say who your brother is?

Your father is right, there is a lot of energy bound into a racket, any stress and it'll probably come apart pretty quick

@@tzimiscelord8483 actually these rackets were strung very loose which is why it had all the "extras" added to prevent strings from rubbing together and wearing out quickly.

Stan Smith: Chalenge accepted

American Dad???

Too bad. Can you imagine people learning how to play with more racquets? So many possibilities were closed! Professional sports are no fun.

Table tennis requires as much skill as tennis

but why is the table tennis mindset blames so much on equipment instead of skill

Agree!!! The gap between racquet characteristic between each table tennis blade and rubbers can be enormous.for example, in table tennis, we can make one side very spinny but other side very slippery. Good luck making tennis racquet tennis like that. 😍😍😍

Becuae tt has so much variety, he created the long pips of tennis and the wimps couldnt handke it so banned it

@@QwertyUser1983 In tennis, we have rackets with heads ranging from less than 80 to 135 square inches. We have rackets from 230 to 400 grams. We have stiff or flexible rackets. Control, power, beginner, intermediate, advanced rackets. We have over 700 different strings (with specifications from brands), from various materials (nylon, poliester, kevlar, natural gut, etc...). We have different string gauges (from 0.60mm to 1,80mm). To over complicate, we can make hybrids with those strings (one type in the mains and another on the crosses). We have different string tensions, ranging from less than 30 to over 65 lbs, according to each player. We have at least 5 grip sizes. I will not details about grips, overgrips, vibration dampeners, lead or tungsten weights, string savers, different types of shoes (according to each surface: cement, grass, clay, carpet, synthetic), socks, etc.... Tennis market is way bigger than table tennis market. Believe me.

... become a 'Pasta Masta' 😂

Average romanian mental gymnastic

It would've been pretty funny if he would've played with a spaghetti racked *and* then thrown a fit and resigned when faced with an opponent doing the same.

@@jeanxza5395 It is true though. It's a odd thing to use it himself but he didn't break any promises.

Get 50 racquets and show up to a tournament

only stringing mains you could get away with 10 racquets and string between matches.@@JimmyButler101

@@JimmyButler101lmao That would be amazing 😂

I've done this with kevlar string on the mains and a smooth poly on the crosses. First time I had just fucked up the weaving on accident but I like the spin it generated. I usually do it just above the sweet spot so I can still hit a nice flat shot.

Without those string savers mentioned, the Spaghetti would have only lasted mere minutes before a string snap!

The love is mutual Wivo ❤

It is shocking how many old-fashioned games have very little in the rules about these things. It took until 1979 for cricket to explicitly say that their bats had to be made of wood (after some controversy about someone using one made of aluminium).

What are you talking about? It's just simply unfair, making it impossible to tell where the ball would go when hit. Where is the favoritism in that? It's like how Nike's shoes were banned from the Olympics and full body swimsuits as well, just because they were unfair and gave an advantage not by thr player but by their equipment.

Also happened when a high-school girl softballer struck out Babe Ruth when they were trying to decide if desegregating baseball meant degendering it too.

This is neither innovative or intelligent. It’s a cheat. Before they dictated what a “conforming racquet” was it was already a cheat and everyone knew it. Removing the aspect of skill from competition is not a good thing. Ever.

If something comes along that dominates a sport, the decision should be based on what's best for the sport. If it makes the game boring because it's impossible to return a volley, nobody will want to play or watch it. TCGs do that kind of thing all the time. They ban cards that dominate tournaments and make the game stale.

@@cadekachelmeier7251 TCGs are actually a perfect example of why this is trash. Someone could spend hours, days, or weeks researching hundreds of thousands of card combinations to find something unique that works and wins. Then invest thousands of dollars to get the required cards. Only for some judge at the event to make a single ban ruling to not only remove the person's deck from the competition but invalidate everything they have done and all the money they have spent. how is that in any way fair to the player? You know what would be a much better option than that. Full open selection so we just don't see mirror decks with slight changes and if a card is truly uncontested create counter cards to be released in the next batch.

If the racket was actually this good they didn’t have much choice. It’d be like allowing aluminum bats in MLB. It fundamentally breaks the sport in a way that would destroy the sport long term.

@@CoconutMigrating or people would learn to adapt. a lot of things we do in modern sports would have been considered impossible in the past and are only now seen as normal due to the increase in technology and technique. if I went back in time with any of the modern equipment should it be banned because it would be hard to play against? people would find a way to play with or around these bats they just didn't want to "change the meta"

Makes you wonder if such footage even exists tbh

@@Graceclaw it may but maybe not in public domain, or no one bothered to digitise them

might be on the dark web...@@shreya1100

It wouldn't be that special anyway, less spin than the Nadal forehand we've been watching for over a decade.

Thats tennis

It seems to me that making the game less predictable also makes it less fun and less about skill.

​@@2MeterLP It simply shifts the skill focus of the game from the player receiving a hit to the technique of the player hitting the ball due to the increased ball control it offers. The skill factor wasn't removed and thinking it was betrays a lack of insight.

​@Atlas-nf2gw Do you play tennis? I dont want to assume anything.

Hmm, you should try court tennis, real tennis or Jeu de Paume. The balls are the random element!

You must be a bot using ai generated comments.

​@@verlatenwolf and what are you basing your comment on? genuinely curious, machine learning is doing immense damage to our society, as you're demonstrating, and I am very interested in exactly what triggered this paranoia for you (hint: bots don't tend to bother with saved playlists or actual unique usernames)

true

Fitting your play style and making it so that there is NO way for your opponent to prepare for what’s coming are not the same thing. Tennis wouldn’t have survived if this had continued.

Table tennis rubers need to be ITTF approved

Oh my, Cam, you’re everywhere!

^ The real GOAT of tennis KZfaq

It also has the Czech Republic instead of Czechoslovakia

Today with the oversized racket, strung with different strings and different tensions between the mains and crosses you can generate massive topspin. Think Rafa. Interestingly, Djoker is one of the few to still use a 95 which I can say from experience has more precision but the sweet spot is smaller so its harder to use...

well in his case he just upgraded his arrow and it worked

​@@robertgarcia2266added some dynamite to the arrow lol

I remember in 1990's or early 2000's when a maximum head size had to be instituted for play at most levels as you saw 120 square inches or 305 square cm as a big jump in late 1990's due to Willams twins and heard the pro levels racquets at 135 square inches or 343 square cm in play by no later then 2001 and Jr capped later at X for each age group.

​@@caseysmith544 yes, super sized rackets became a problem. Since I’m an older guy I remember the classic wooden rackets of the 1970s (Bjorn Borg) which had a head size of 65 inches. Racket size exploded quickly (by Prince) to over 100 square inches. I believe the limit today involves length and width which as you wrote comes out to be a maximum of about 135 inches.

​@@bb1111116 Yes and I remember when 110 square inches was broken by Kent or Kennex and everyone in tennis was in an uproar making issue go on mainstream sports news until older traditional brands like Wilson or Spalding were soon at same sized heads. I have seen perfectly round heads on tennis racquets mainly on kids smaller Jr racquets where size is 135 square inches of head size in very late 2000's. Same round 135 square inch racquet design ended up being used for new game Speedmitton that never lasted as a new sport. Now if brands making speedmiton were not using round 135 square inch head, they used long design Kennex and Head pioneered for 117--120 square inch head. A main reason Speedmitton died off was lack of a head shape and how the birdie should be, some wanted foam in a bigger tennis sized shuttlecock while others used a tennis ball in a shuttlecock deign. Some odd versions of Speedmiton made for beach used same big wooden paddle as in Paddleball/beach tennis.

I started playing tennis in the 80s when wood was being phased out for metal. Ive picked up a few wooden rackets years ago to compare with the rackets of the present. You understand why serve and volley died out with the modern technology in tennis.

@@jaaklucas1329 Between racquets and I think it was McEnroe that said something along the lines of courts being better built/maintained and less grass courts mean a far more consistent bounce, so less need to keep the ball in the air and far less risk of the ball skidding/dying on you if you let it bounce. I do want to hit with a good wooden racket just to see how different the game is.

Agreed on the grass courts getting better bounces and less skidding. They started using sand and laser levelling to make it more like a modern putting green. Slower and more consistent.A few years ago Misha Zverev won Eastbourne doing pure serve and volley, the grass was old school. Johnny Mac had the Dunlop Maxply wooden raquet mid-career and it was the pinnacle of wooden rackets. Then they came up with steel ala Jimmy Connors. I kept an old wooden raquet around for years to prove to my son that it was the shotmaking that was more important than power. Less errors,etc. We called the power on those old rackets "trampoline power"! I think theres some videos around with modern players using wood...@@zeroelus

@@jaaklucas1329 Yeah I think it was Dimitrov and Zverev hitting with some old school racquets? In any case I've seen the video you mention. It's so cool you've been able to play through such an important phase in tennis, so much variety! How do you feel about the last 10 years of racquet evolution? I personally feel that strings and frames have been improving incrementally, but nothing really big that stands out from the initial advent of poly strings and graphite racquets. And if you don't mind me asking, what racquets do you use?

“Chuckles at the thought of only having to manage a five foot wide table”

Lol ok have fun covering a court larger than a table

Yes(I think), but good luck making shots in.

According to contemporary assessment, it would take an experienced stringer at least a few hours to complete. That’s only AFTER learning the system and perfecting it.

@@CULTTENNIS would restringing need to occur at the same rate as now?

Good one

It's easy to spend $300 on a production racket today. For a totally custom, innovative, minuscule production run option paying double is not unreasonable.

Even after weeks of extensive research, it appears no available archival footage of the racket exists online. If anyone has any, please DM me!

Good catch!

sorry lol, having a big enough tantrum over a skill issue that the ref sends you off still counts as a loss

Cry me a river dude. Free top quality content. Gtfo

I have an old exo prince rebel lying around I bet it is the easiest racket to get that dubbel string pattern in, I am half tempted to try. Just to feel what is happening, and what kind of advantage I would get from it, if any.