[Review Experience] Jabs invade, heavy punches break in | TECTONIC 7/7D

Jayce September 6, 2024 3 0

Looking back in recent years, Li Ning in order to “young, fashion, fun” elements into the badminton market, one after another signing hand in hand with the badminton world superstars also make Li Ning in the badminton international market influence continues to improve. The racket that helped the stars win awards has become a widely discussed topic, and before the three major technology platforms (energy, CALIBAR, and wind movement) were determined in April 2018, it was clear that naming the high-end racket with the “N” series had invariably limited Li-Ning’s development in the racket field, and the new racket naming rules were sorted out. The new racket naming rules seemed to indicate that Li-Ning was paving the way for the birth of a new series of rackets. Sure enough, today, after a year, Li-Ning racket series finally ushered in the “TEXTONIC” to join the new technology platform is undoubtedly the integration of Li-Ning’s growing family of rackets to add fresh blood.

It is not difficult to realize that the 5 and 7 o’clock position of the frame of the racket is the bottom edge of the effective sweet spot, and then the position of the tee structure near the racket is designed for high torsion resistance to facilitate the transfer of power, and the badminton ball will bend slightly when it hits the 5 and 7 o’clock position in the effective sweet spot, so the main bending point of the frame is the 5 and 7 o’clock position.

The TEXTONIC technology platform is to increase the elastic potential energy at the 5 and 7 o’clock positions of the racket frame, resulting in a faster rebound and the speed of the stroke can be increased.

T1100G high modulus carbon has been added to the frame, which combines high strength and toughness. The frame is designed with a narrow elastic structure at 5 and 7 o’clock, incorporating Li-Ning’s newly developed “Thundercloud Technology System”.

Simply put, the TEXTONIC technology platform is designed to make the racket’s 5 and 7 points adopt an elastic structure frame type; so that the frame elastic potential energy increases, rebound faster, faster ball speed;

This time to meet with you have TEXTONIC 7 and TEXTONIC 7 Drive (hereinafter referred to as TEXTONIC 7D) since it is a symbol of sponsorship models racket sequence “7” naturally, there is no shortage of shining star grip endorsement, it is reported that there have been Chen Yufei, Sindhu, Jonatan and other players in the grinding experience.

Both racquets are in matte ivory, with color-changing inks at the 5 and 7 o’clock positions, such as copper yellow (TEXTONIC 7) and dark green (TEXTONIC 7D), to make them more recognizable.

In addition to the same detailing and ornamentation, the biggest difference between them is that the top of the racket frame of the TEXTONIC 7 up to the 4, 8 o’clock position are black matte paint, very metallic copper yellow contrasting black and white cross-section of the separation, the TEXTONIC 7D is a fresh and elegant TEXTONIC 7D is simply not too suitable for Chen Yufei.

Simple color scheme, prominent main idea, in the appearance of the new series of TEXTONIC raid is still the racket industry within the coating design of the benchmark of airbrush, and TEXTONIC 7 and TEXTONIC 7D black and white with its points in the court of the work of the general clear.

Detailed parameters

TECTONIC 7
Racket Weight	84g
Balance Point	295mm
Handle Length	200mm
Handle Size	S2
Body Length	675mm
Center Barrel Diameter	7.00mm
Middle Barrel Flexibility	Medium
This threading	Li-Ning 1
Hangtag price	1680RMB

Hands-on experience

The TEXTONIC 7 is equipped with a 7.0mm center tube with the same diameter, and the use of new technology platforms, it is easy to see that Li-Ning is determined to make everyone have a brand new hitting experience on the racket frame.

Despite having a not-so-low balance point, the TEXTONIC 7 has a more even weight distribution, a slight head-heavy feel in the hand, and the deformation of the center tube can be clearly felt when swinging the racquet, making it easy to drive and control.

Since TEXTONIC has chosen a frame that is based on the classic cassette frame, there is a “force slot” design in the frame, which is the usual way to improve the stability of the frame without sacrificing the stability of the cassette frame. But TEXTONIC’s racket face structure, which is close to a full-force slot, looks very powerful.

If stability, speed and control are the previous characteristics of Li-Ning’s three technology platforms, then the stable explosion based on the classic box frame is definitely the biggest feature of the TEXTONIC technology platform.

Although TEXTONIC 7 is a sponsored model, it is surprisingly “simple and easy to play”. Amateur golfers can easily handle it at the first try, and the stable hitting feeling of the box frame always gives us a reassuring experience, friendly and accommodating.

Combined with the familiar 72-hole threading design, the TEXTONIC 7 is more comfortable in terms of handling and ball wrapping, and the stiffer frame with a 7.00mm diameter elastic center tube provides a strong sense of consistency in power transfer. The most obvious point in the experience of TEXTONIC’s new technology platform is that the closer the hitting point is to the upper part of the sweet spot of the racket frame, the stronger the explosive feedback of the ball will be, and to a large extent, the design of the 72-hole design also makes the racket frame’s overall sweet spot shift upward, which seems that TEXTONIC’s platform is simply tailor-made for 72-hole racket frames.

When using TEXTONIC 7 to kill the ball, you can clearly feel the rapid deformation of the middle tube rebound, not to say that it can bring you as powerful as the wind moving 9000C that heavy feeling, but it will bring you like a rain of offensive coherence.

TECTONIC 7
Racket Weight	81g
Balance Point	304mm
Handle Length	200mm
Handle Size	S1
Body Length	670mm
Center Barrel Diameter	7.00mm
Middle Barrel Flexibility	Stiffness
This threading	Li-Ning 1
Hangtag price	1680RMB

Hands-on experience

The TEXTONIC 7D is a speedy Drive model that has not only been reduced in weight, but also in length by 5mm. Interestingly, while most racquets with a shortened center barrel usually have a longer handle (5-10mm) to achieve an overall length of 675mm, the TEXTONIC has kept the regular length of the handle to achieve an overall length of 670mm.

So even with the balance point forward, the racket’s noticeable head-heaviness does not detract from its agile character in any way. Compared to the TEXTONIC 7, the TEXTONIC 7D has a lower weight in the air, which makes it lighter in the air but heavier in the head. At first, the 5mm shortened racket body will still have some influence on the control of the hitting point when hitting the high ball, but the consistency of the body of the TEXTONIC 7D will feel much better than the TEXTONIC 7. At the moment of hitting the ball, due to the hardness of the center tube has been improved, and its length has been shortened, resulting in the 7D in the hitting of the center tube to swing less, and the overall feeling of the racket in the hardness of the ball is higher than that of the TEXTONIC 7, with a direct and precise feedback and a strong pointing character.

TEXTONIC 7D is the world of Raid 7D. In the fleeting net confrontation, TEXTONIC 7D’s flexibility and excellent downward pressure make TEXTONIC 7D’s offense as quick and sudden as a dragonfly. TEXTONIC 7D’s racket surface is stable and consistent with TEXTONIC 7’s performance.

And in the back step of the mid-court kill TEXTONIC 7D is the stability of the racket frame and the toughness of the burst of integration, it should be noted that the TEXTONIC 7D center tube and the overall racket body is shorter, the racket holder can not be as in the past, deliberately shift the grip point on, of course, I also tried to grip to the cone part of the racket to deal with doubles serve-receive, not to say that the fast and fast, at least in the flexibility of not only improve a level.

At the same time in the passive defense of the ball handling, favoring the nimble handling of the TEXTONIC 7D can be adjusted in a short period of time to get rid of, just due to the shorter mid-tube and a strong sense of hard straightness will make the TEXTONIC 7D in the borrowed power on the longer tube elasticity more comfortable TEXTONIC 7 more need for their own ball control skills.

Simple and fashionable, very texture coating appearance, different frame folding point design, burst of explosive hitting feeling, on the hands of the most intuitive experience; these are TEXTONIC 7/7D to bring the author, the two racquets clear division of labor, fast and agile TEXTONIC 7D as a jab raining down in the center field, giving its offensive ability TEXTONIC 7 is more like a heavy punch of the raid, the two rackets in the process of singles and doubles back and forth! The two racquets switch back and forth between singles and doubles, with distinctive features and smoothness. Both racquets are highly recognizable, both in terms of feel and finish.

Overall, the TEXTONIC 7/7D as a “power raid” Li-Ning emerging technology platform debut is still very worth experiencing, as well as 670mm TEXTONIC 7D to play very playable.