Practice set match CX 200 Tour 16x19

 Had a practice set with CX 200 Tour 16x19. The AG300 (with leather grip) hurts my pinky and tried other racquet. I won 7-5. Pretty frustrated at 5-5 because my opponent was starting to realise my low powered racquet. But then I just embraced this low powered racquet and slices bounced low. Ball flies higher compare to 18x20 but with not much spin and bounce. If you look at TNerd using it you can see that his opponent struggle with the low bounce. I changed the grip with leather and add 4.5grams at 3 and 9. The new version on red are more appealing but the this old version is more stealthy.

Prince Precision Blade 107

Recently got a mint condition Prince Precision Blade 107. Strung weight at 312grams w/o overgrip. No information in WWW for this one. Slight head heavy. Tested playing with it, and pretty decent despite heavy swing. Not as lively as Warrior 107. 

Racquet and arms pain

 This three powerful racquet gave me sore/pain in the arm areas, they are:

• Wilson Pro Staff 97: wrist pain on off center hits (may need softer string tension or thinner gauge)
• Head Radical OS: thumb pain from backhand (may need to replace leather grip with regular grip)
• Dunlop Aerogel 300: pinky finger digit from racquet shock (changed the leather grip to regular grip, will let you know of the result)

 Low powered frames does not give me arm pain but they are low powered (Dunlop CX Tour, Dunlop 200G, Wilson Six One Team).

BLX Six One Team (3g lead)

So, I had a practice match yesterday and was comparing AG300 with BLX SOT. The spec of the SOT are 306 grams with 3 grams lead on 3 and 9, and Babolat syn gut 16g. In comparison with AG300 the SOT are: 

• lower powered: some of the shots from backhand landed on nets compare to AG300.
• maneuverability: easier volley and more stable than before probably due to the lead (need to use this on doubles)
• smaller sweetspot: feels way smaller than AG300, off center shots were landed short and drive volleys are hard.
• spin friendly: spin on serves and forehand were controllable.

In summary, this SOT is in between AG300 and CX 200 Tour, let see if I can add 2 grams lead on top*.

*) added 2 grams lead on top and can feel slight additional power but not much.

Car stories

 Udah jatooh diomelin pulak ama bapak ampe nangis2 ... wakakakaka

Jadi gini ceritanya, kita dulu selalu berlebaran di Purwokerto dan Bapak beli mercy pontoon 180E hijau kepunyaan pakde ( bapak dari ibu ), yang jadi mobil ke 2 untuk keseharian. Mobil satunya Mazda kotak B600 warna abu2 milik ibu yang diberikan oleh pakde juga setelah ibu bapak menikah (STNK kuning gading)

Sewaktu berlebaran di purwokerto, kebiasaan kita adalah sholat hari raya di mesjid agung purwokerto, tempat kita dulu baik delman bareng2..

Nah sepulangnya dari sholat di mesjid agung... kita  mungkin bapak nyupir dengan siapa disebelahnya lupa.

Saya, om rahardjo dan Bei duduk dibelakang...

Mercy 180e dipintu belakang kanan kiri itu ada sandaran tangan nya..

Untuk penumpang

Dan didepan tiap sandaran itu ada tuas pembuka pintu yang kalau ditarik ke atas, melepas kuncian pintu.

Seperti biasa bei kan mungkin kelas 1 atau 2 SD ya ... suka duduk diatas sandaran tangan dan bersender dipintu...

Kami bercanda canda ketawa seperti biasa ... happy lah pokoknya...

Perjalanan pulang ke kebon dalem bapak nyupir melewati rotary tugu yang dekat Gatot Subroto yang kayak monas mini

..  datang dari arah selatan

Jadi di tugu mobil kita belok kanan memutari rotary tugu kearah timur...

Kebiasaan bei .. tangannya suka mainan tuas pintu... ya kita ketawa ketawa lah dalam mobil...

Bei posisi di pintu belakang kiri... ketawa ketawa konyol lah... sambil utak atik...

Masuk ke rotari .. agak ngebut juga sih Bapak...

Tau2 pas belok di rotary... pintu kebuka lebar... tuh bocah kelempar keluar trus jatoh guling guling kayak di film2...

Copot semua jantung yang di mobil ... kecuali gw

Untung situasi sepi dan gak ada mobil dibelakang...

Bapak itu otomatis maaaaaaraaaaaah...

Karena bapak dasarnya begitu... gak sedih gak kaget tapi muaraaaah

Bapak diem aja abis kita nolongin bei... tetapi sesampai di kebon dalem... kita besua dipanggil ngadep dan dimarahin abis2an... dah bubar tuh mood buat lebaran.

Bedua (kena marah)

Lecet2... karena jalan aspalnya berkerikil jaman dulu

Dengkulnya lecet2

Posisi jatohnya kayak guling2...

Saya kira itu terakhir kali kami duduk bersandar di pegangan tangan, walaupun duduk agak mblesek di kursi belakang jadi gak bisa lihat pemandangan secara keseluruhan

Duduk dipagangan tangan agar bisa liat kedepan, hahaha....

Kalau noi punya kebiasaan jelek kalau naik mobil toyota DX biru milik bapak....

Mobil itu jok depan belakang ditutupi cover warna biru tua

Noi suka tidur dibelakang tengah dengan posisi duduk bersender menghadap.. kesamping

Kalau udah tidur kepalanya suka nempel kesenderan kepala sampai pipinya bergesek2 ke jok mobil..

Dasar anak gupis.... ngilernya kayak sungai...

Itu jok mobil bagian tengah penuh dengan garis garis putih

Garis dari ilernya Noi yang naik turun

Selama kejadian bertahun tahun dan gak bisa hilang..

Bapak dulu waktu muda lucu... nabrak mobil orang dari belakang... kok korbannya dimaki dan diajak gelut... tuh kelakuan.

Bapak mah konyol....

Waktu SD sering diajak makan siang bareng bapak sewaktu di Bandung..

Kita sudah pindah ke lembang waktu itu.. kelas 3 SD..

Kita cuman punya satu supir .. pak man..

Jadi pagi turun ke bandund dari lembang.. pak man nunggu di kantor konsultan bapak di sukaluyu, jalan batik jonas blok 2 no.2

Siang jemput anak2 di sekolah masing, mobil langsung ke lembang dan gak lama balik ke bandung

Jadi kalo gak ikut pulang siangnya... ya mau gak mau stuck di bandung.. antara ngikutin bapak kemana dia pergi atau tinggal di kantor bapak sampai sore atau malam tergantung kapan bapak selesai.

Kita sering ngikut makan di restoran Mirasari di jalan purnawarman dekat dago.

Restoran yang prosesnya milih menu di lemari kaca dekat kasir.

Nah... itu restoran kadang ramai kadang sepi.. pelayannya laki2 semua yang kerjanya ngambilin orderan kita setelah kita memilih...

Dasar itu bapak emang kadang gak sabar ya...  beberapa kali ribut ama pelayan nanyain pesanannya... sampe suatu hari ribut itu sampe bediri kayak mo berantem

Tapi herannya masih suka balik kesitu..

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TW Archive - Dunlop Aerogel 3hundred 2008

 In stock form, the racquet is too light, need weight both static and swing. Added leather grip, overgrip, 4 grams lead on 9 and 3, and 6 grams of dampener. Flat server. Better stability now and plow. I wonder if new CX 200 at 305 grams feels the same. 

1st week Feb: after playing 3 sets in a day with CX 200 Tour, I guess I got pretty tired. On the day after, I used the Aerogel 300, the racquet felt pretty heavy so I took out the 6grams dampener. The racquet feels fine without dampener, and how 6 grams can make a different.  

Pro Staff v10 and v13 scores (with the chart)

I used PS97 v10 while the newest one, with they say improved stringbed is v13. Below are the scores from TW. v10 got overall 83 while v13 got 85 (the average from all scores actually was 84). The most improved was control (up by 9 points) while lowered on others especially powers at 79 (down 3 points). I wonder by the lower power, if it is similar with CX 200 Tour now.

Return of the Pro Staff

After playing most of doubles games now using AG300 or CX200T, I tried PS97 for singles game, just one a ten points tie breaker which came out as winner (12-10). The spec of the racquet was around 332grams and worn 16g syn gut. Had two double faults, need to relearn serving with this racquet in singles game. I wonder if I can survive a set or two with this racquet. One of the reason, I bought this racquet aside from RF won another slam was that the review score was high (top image), but turns out not all score (bottom image); very low on control score (76) despite the not so high score on power (82). No wonder, many shots went over. Need to produce topspin or use spin friendly string.