in my testing weird rackets video i asked you guys in the comment section which
weird racket should i pick to play a set against a 5.0 player
and i'm very nervous playing with this thing it's going to be weird trying to figure out what side
of the racket to use and i haven't really hit any backhands with it so the backhand might not
work at all so we'll see what happens but i've never actually lost to somebody at the 5.0 level
and today might be the day guys this might be the first time in my life that i lose to someone with
the 5.0 rating
ah feeling tight today feeling a little bit anxious too and what's the best way
guys to get rid of a little bit of nervousness a little bit of tightness you got to warm your body
up right and i'm going to have to be really warmed up because the player i chose to be in this video
is one of my former students evan who played division 3 for Vasser he's a really solid
5.0 player and the interesting thing is that not only did i never lose to a 5.0 level player
i've also never lost to one of my students so today because of this weird racket and thanks
guys by the way for choosing it it might be the first time ever that i lose to one of my students
guys i cannot say that was fun thanks a lot for picking this racket that was maybe the worst match
i've played in a long time and the reason was the
racket i could not serve at all my flat serve was gone
i couldn't hit any service winners i couldn't hit
any aces i think i had three aces and those were slices
that caught evan by surprise and the biggest problem was
my forehand i just kept shanking so many forehands
i did not trust to rip my forehand i was careful i was pushing the ball
the only thing that worked surprisingly well was
the backhand slice i felt like i was hitting the backhand slice really well
now the big problem with this racquet is actually the strings but i think it's a kevlar that's what
it feels like i'm not quite sure and who knows when this was strung i actually got this racket
off of ebay and i would love to restring it i have no idea how to string this racket so i had to play
with these strings that gave me absolutely no power so this was some of the slowest shots
i've ever hit normally i like to rip the ball and i get quite easy power but with this racquet had
a very good difficult time generating speed so guys as great as this idea is of the ergonom
racket with the angled racket head i cannot get used to the shape of the racket head and it was also
very confusing on the backhand side i could not hit my two-handed backhand at all so for that
reason there's absolutely no way i could play with the racquet like that a lot of people ask me nick
why did you pick the wilson sledgehammer as the only racket you could play with in that testing
weird rackets video and i had this suspicion that this racket was too confusing i kind of got lucky
when i was hitting against the ball machine i ripped balls and they were going in but i knew that the
confusing part about which way to hold the racket would be very difficult in a match situation but
nevertheless it was fun trying this racket out and i hope you guys enjoyed watching me play with it