Jayce
Episode 4 of the 80% condition trial comes from a great racket that was white-knuckled from someone else. If the old color of his 88D is actually still essentially a more traditional offensive racket, then I’m sure a lot of players would agree with this: the 88S is the first racket in the ASTROX series to make a mark.
The 88S was once the racket used by Suka, and I believe it does have the strength of character. Moreover, this racket is quite valuable.
There is a theory that the new colors have been adjusted to take into account the weak performance of the old colors in the backcourt, but the details are still to be verified.
Parameters: 4UG5, total weight 93.0g in used condition, balance point 302mm, overall length 670mm, center rod length 220mm, 3mm in the taper cap fish mouth section, moderately stiff tuning, boxed frame, 76-hole thread bed, 9-3 point thread slot, 28lbs warranty, threading 24-26lbs as.
I’ve always felt that being the same old color, the 88S looks better than the D. This shade of green would look fresher and prettier on an asymmetrical racket frame. Since they form a twin with the 88D, they are almost identical in terms of design style and embellishment textures used.S stands for skill, and since the 88D specializes in backcourt output, you can imagine that the 88S is tuned to focus more on optimizing the frontcourt’s ability to play against each other in doubles.
I have also tried the new color, and from the very first hands-on feeling, the power pattern on the overhand shots is not too different from the new color, with a slightly stiffer mid-range, but the driver is not too difficult and the sweet spot is large enough. The head weight seems to be a little lower than the new color, so it’s more of a quicker swing. Perhaps all of the current rackets have a good lofting experience, which was not apparent from the warm-ups, but the backcourt chop or slice did have a very noticeable takeaway and was very forgiving.
What’s amazing is that the previous equipment on the day of my trial was the Bow 7, which didn’t show any particular difficulty in adapting to the racket rotation, despite the big difference in the stiffness-led feel. I did a bit of homework, and there are indeed some bigwigs who think that the 88S swings like a 670mm long version of the 3u Bow 11, which I personally cautiously agree with.
In fact, the first feeling of the racket is that the elasticity is too much, the as line itself is very elastic, and the 88s frame and the center stick are also very elastic, if it is not firm enough hardness, it may be more active than the ability of the author to handle. The sweet spot is relatively large, the feel of the ball after the head to find the right shot rubbing the ball or hooking the ball are quite good, in the net can be described as flexible and stable, if the configuration is changed to bg80 this kind of elasticity of the more controllable wire may have a better performance, the current 88s in the soft blocking or when doing a small ball for the author or easy to pop high.
However, such a good elasticity allows me to play very touch fish, mainly in defense and handling passive in the confidence is very full, not afraid to mix against the turnover. In the reception of kills in the power back to the top, popping diagonal feel clear, hands feel more flexible, for the angle of the angle of pulling open the fast ball as long as you can get, can rely on the racket and the wire bed of the elasticity of the racket itself to block a shot close to the net. The backhand area is particularly pleasing to the eye, not like the general performance of this mid-range hardness racket, power feel good and easy to hit the backcourt to get rid of.
Flat blocking and net blocking is one of the highlights of the 88S, and it lives up to its name. Not only rely on flexibility, in the 88S body has ASTROX series of coherent weapon, really can obviously feel encountered blocking after swinging the racket recovery speed faster can quickly form the next racket, sometimes a few underhand position of the ball is not handled well by the opponent to guard the net sealing pouncing on the loss of points of the ball have a chance to get back to the city. The net wiping and pouncing is also exceptionally good feel, during the white john will not have to press down too hard out of bounds, which is also the 88S bending point compared to the 88D has adjusted the effect.
As mentioned above, the 88S is a quite unique racket, and the above advantages are actually reflected in many rackets, what really makes me feel a little something is its downward pressure feel, even if its offense compared to the new color 88S has a little bit of absolute power on the lack of.
How to describe it, we all know that the existence of namd makes the stiffness of the racket change according to the different patterns of power, which is also a feature of the ASTROX series. So even on the 88S, which is said to be not very good in the backcourt, the racket has a “I can hold it” feeling when it is more focused on hitting threatening kills. However, even though the speed of the ball is not bad, the heavy kills are unexpectedly fluttering, and the promised bend in the racket frame can produce a sharper ball path. Could it be my own technique? And just when I gave up the big shot for lack of confidence and used more semi-half-power light kills or point kills, the sharpness of its landing point came up instead, and it was easy to cause the opponent’s defense mistakes by hitting the ball fast and short. Moreover, the 88S’s consistent downward pressure feels good, and the presence of the spin generation system is obvious.
To be honest, in a crowd of offensive racket enthusiasts gathered in the middle of the feather on a backcourt under the pressure is not good and is not sentimental old series of a green factory high-end can be more unanimous praise is also quite rare. From the feel or simply from the head weight feeling, 88S is really not “ASTROX”, even a little sugar water, not difficult to manage, but its characteristics make me understand the reason why it is also popular.
However, I also found a very interesting phenomenon, if you want to say that the three major manufacturers to do a balanced racket has a speed or offensive bias, the ball player is probably not to buy a single …… but you have to say that an offensive racket or a speed racket to give it to do the balance, then there is a red capital, it is not a farce … … …
