My first racket should be the very low end badminton set with a pair of iron badminton rackets and a plastic shuttlecork. No brand name and just bought it by my Mon from park. My first Hi End racket was Carlton Boron Classic. My oldest racket should be a Slazenger Wooden racket which is sent by my friends in UK as wedding gift.
My first racquet was a Pro Kennex CarbonPro 767 Boron that I got 15 years ago... still have it in my bag to this day.
My first racket was a Crane. My first real racket was Carlton Vapour Trail. My first nice racket was VTZF.
My very first real racket was a Blacken II from 1987 or so. it has since disappeared after so many years. Then i got a cab18 in 1988. sold it to a friend only to have his brother sit on it and cracked it the next day. then i had like 3 cab21, each one of them broke within one term. since then i got pissed and bought a cab8DX with aluminum frame and I still have that one since 1992.
Those cab 16, 18, 21 are very fragile in my distant past experience. Cab 20 is the sturdiest amongst them.
oh yes. now i remember more clearly. and you are correct. after i broke the expensive (expensive==HK$6xx) cab21's, i went to a cheaper cab14 and broke that on the 2nd day. so i bought the 8DX.
I still have my 1st racket, cab21, since 1992. Suffers lotsa paint chips but still a gem. I'm still using it as my back up regularly and it is stringed at 24 lbs.
Interestingly, I had a similar story. Started with my Blacken II, it was U-G4 then I bought my first Cab21 which was broken after few months. I bought another one which lasted for about a year until it's finally broken too. Enough of bad experience with Cab21, I bought a Cab9 (gold color t-joint) and it served me well for quite a while until I received my Iso800 Tour from one Indonesian player during Indonesia Open 1996.
my story continues on similarly! with me taking a break from badminton due to college, after that in 1996 after i got into graduate school and picked up badminton again, i went back to HK and got myself a Iso600 Power.
Lol... same here... university took over too... after my Cab 20 in high school, got my TiSwing Power Type SS 1st gen when I restarted badminton and used it well over 8 years. Then after registering on BC forum, GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) took over... and now 3 yrs and some 20 rackets later, I can only blame BC.
i was a junior in high school in 96, i went back to HK in 98 and bought an iso800 tour and an iso600 power. that was the first time i realized that each racket is slightly different, 600power with a box frame while 800tour has a thinner but wider frame.
