TIP - Simple method to determine your "hitting spot"

There is a easy and simple way (just not instant) to determine where you are hitting the shuttle on the stringbed of your racquet aka contact point between the shuttlecock and racquet stringbed.

All you need to do is to restring with a darker colour string or your choice. This is the "old fashion" way, before the availability of high speed cameras etc.

After playing with it for a short period of time, you will be able to see the most common contact points via areas of wear & tear - see the example(s) from one of my racquets below.

With this information, you can slowly adjust your "stroke timing" until you are hitting the racquet "sweet spot" regularly (REF: see video on how to determine your racquet "sweet spot") - very easily said but extremely hard to accomplish. 

That's the theory anyway ....

View from Side-A

View from Side-B

Table with summary of Yonex strings and characteristics

Came across this useful table with summary of Yonex strings and characteristics on the internet a while ago but forgotten about it.

String Tension Advice from the Yonex stringing team

 Best to let the experts clarify the details

Update - How to watch region blocked BWF live streams and recent videos of tournaments

Created this video due to quite a number of requests for a update as the Opera browser had been updated. Thus the previous procedure was not so intuitive any longer.

Enjoy!

Note - this video is for enabling Opera on a andoid device but the technique is applicable for PC, etc or where-ever Opera can be installed

Difference between string which snap due to usage vs a "mis-hit"

How do you tell the difference between a string which broke from natural wear&tear vs from a "mis-hit" eg from hitting the feather?

Here are two examples - the pix(s) are pretty much self explanatory (or "clear-cut")😄

Due to wear and tear

Due to "mis-hit"

From the pix(s) you can tell the string which snap due to wear and tear has evidence of fraying before it gave way from the stringing tension.

Likewise, the string which snap due to a "mis-hit" shows some form of a clean-cut-thru before the string tension caused failure.

Yonex string chart

 

Yonex racquet chart 2020