Lin Dan using AT-700 Limited in Beijing ???

Hehe.. You make it sound like 178cm is short, 5'10 is not bad. He must have super small feet proportionally to fit in size 7.5/8. =P

 

if my memory serves me, the colour of the "700" on the shaft is yellow, and from photo #60, it's yellow - original 700

 

Okay,

I'm only doing this once, no matter how many other threads arise about LD pasting "white lead tape" on his racket.
Besides pictures showing it's clearly an at700 (shaft, dark-coloured cone), the stuff on top is just regular athletic tape.

He covers the top half of it with tape, two strand of 35cm long (tried it out, it's somewhere between 33 and 35cm) and 5-8mm wide.
Now, my babolat leadtape is ~half a millimeter thick, and lead is 11.34 g/cm^3.

Using standard high-school calculations, you'd find LD would add:
2 x (33 to 35) x (0.5 to 0.8) x 0.05 x 11.34 = 18 to 30 grams

Now, even if you take the least possible value, 18grams is....ungodly...

Now, on the other hand, two strands of the easily-available athletic tape. are about 2-3grams.
Which is still quite a lot of mass to add to the top of your racket,

And, to top it all:
you can see the fibers from the athletic tape. (proving my assumption about it being two separate strands on each side)


PS: I'd love to credit someone, because these are not my photo's
But I have no clue who I should credit
Anyway, you know who you are! Thanks man!

 

Definitely lead or Tungsten tape

 

...
..did you even read what I typed?

Do you not see the edges of the torn fabric?

 

Lindan stick 2 layers of athletic tape on his racket. Not one layer.

 

good enough for me... that'd make it 3-5grams.

Still not even close to the 20grams that leadtape of that length would add...

Thanks ants

 

From jerby's n ants statement..2 layers of it..so,approx 20g per layer.He added 40g to the head.Total weight..125g or something.BP..40cm something...

 

Btw,is that the pic of LD's own racket???

 

LD is a beast! I can't imagine playing with something that heavy/head heavy.

 

I believe u accidently made some typos. See above highlighted letter that shouldn't be there .

 

don't forget LD uses BG65ti, not bg66 like some whimpy pros Huangk and krisna, did u hear that

 

He uses BG65.

 

Nahhh. Are you a beast?

 

Sorry didn't i didn't read what your wrote.

 

on't forget LD uses BG65ti, not bg66 like some whimpy pros Huangk and krisna, did u hear that
but LD strung ant how many lbs?

 

LD uses BG65 not BG65Ti.

 

I think it's 3M electric tape which I use quite often.
It's very light and with good strength.
Normally, with it on a BP=285 3U racket will shift the BP to about 300.
On a BP=295 ~ 305 racket, the BP will shift to about 320.
But with LinDan's Extremly light handle, I think the BP has been Shifted to at least 340mm.
But, In the same time, the overall weight will be less than a standard AT700.
Still not easy for most players though.

 

I am just wondering is athletic tape as heavy as lead tape?