[Review Experience] Kumpoo K520pro

Jayce September 6, 2024 2 0

Why is it that the more we develop, the more we pull the crotch? Mostly it’s a lack of insight into social development and understanding where success is going. Not any improvement in a racket is going to make a piece of equipment PRO.

Parameters: 4UG5, with bottom, total weight in used condition 90.8g balance point 301mm, 7.0mm centre pole, 210mm long, soft tuning, boxed racket frame, 76 holes line bed, 9-3 point line slot, 28lbs warranty, pulling line 24-26lbs vs v5.

Compared to the old model, the style of the pro is not changing, but the details of the changes make me like it more. First of all, a white cover all the ugly, even a small black shot to engage in painting applies, 4, 8 points of the pattern is richer. Then, the style of the font on the centre pole has changed, light green with the pro’s signature model art lettering, as if it was certified, there is a sense of circumspection, avoiding the suspicion of touching the white gold colour scheme. Finally, the strength of the paint has improved, at least so far I have not hit the cone cover off the paint or hit the frame off the paint.

But I must first complain a little, on paper the original and pro are both 290mm balance point, in the original use state for 290 below, normal, but to the pro in the case of no de-bottomed the balance point came to 301, not on the hand glue when the balance point of 318mm, so I do not believe that the balance point of the state of its air shot marking is accurate. The actual feel is still similar to the 520, slightly more solid, but not noticeably heavier in the head.

But as soon as I got my hands on the racket and hit the first warm-up, I knew I wasn’t going to like it. Soft, meaty, with a very low flex feel in the center, and it doesn’t show an upgrade from the k520.

There’s nothing wrong with this setup in order to allow even beginners to hit spot-on high shots, but this time it’s a bit much. The racket doesn’t feel like it has any sincerity in the materials used, its elasticity performance is disaster level, and this performance flaw makes the racket difficult to hit at high ball speeds. Admittedly, the presence of head weight makes it feel very good to find active power, but there is no corresponding feeling of being able to put power into the head of the ball, and the shots are quite draggy.

This sense of drag continued throughout the trial. The good point is that the enhanced ball holding feeling makes the racket’s threshold of use as low as possible, low IQ, this racket wherever you can hit, it is that level.

In the attack, there is no strength in the ball, there is no difference in the sweet spot, there is no crisp feedback, the power can only hit a 60% efficiency, the ball is not only slow, but also because of too long holding time leads to an abnormal feeling of downward pressure, to adapt to the racket before the probability of killing the net more often than not, the wire bed of the role of the hostage is too strong.

Although the racket is quite light and fast in terms of consistency, this kind of performance also destined that it is not a racket that can be speeded up at any time. The pointing of the flat draw is not very clear, and even if you catch an incoming shot from a crouching forecourt, it’s hard to make a clean mulligan in the cut-off. The mid-range isn’t too long, but the feeling of flopping around when swinging is especially obvious, and the flat draw block is extremely weak, often turning into a failure to keep up but only to try hard to get rid of it.

The feeling of not being able to hit the ball even ruined its defensive performance. In addition to catching heavy kill did not find that kind of force rebound feeling, even caught the other side of a beat hesitation want to pump split side, k520p also seems to be thinking about life.

The usable part of the shot would really only be the front of the net rubbing around, after all, the power control in the name can’t be just as bad. So, how different is this training racket from the Black? It’s not much more enjoyable to play against.

So what’s the problem with a racket that doesn’t play much better than the mediocre K520? Forgive it for the price?

That said, there are still three manufacturers missing from the whip: Ren Inferno, which has the strongest legal department in the East, Dark Shame, which has milked the Three Kingdoms and Warring States ip, and Bandai Namco, which is obsessed with plastic miniatures.

According to me, the evergreens of the industry still have to be the devil with the trousers off and illusion.