The AMP 90 and 95 are my go to rackets. The frame is very strong and stiff. The feel is extremely solid. If you like the SOTX Woven 7 or Ti10 feel, you will love the 88, 90, and 95. The AMPs are also very powerful while still retaining very good defense. The AMPs are about $80 USD each from www.apacscanada.com. For the money, you'll be hard pressed to find better bang-for-the-buck. Using the Weinsteinum rating, I'd say the AMPs are: Based on an 89g AMP95: Defense: Good+ to Excellent- Power: Excellent- to Excellent These are my personal AMPs, they are not for sale.
Assuming equal weight, say 89g vs. 89g, I give the edge in power to the AMP95. And yes, defense is significantly better with the AMP. The W7s that rate excellent in power are 91-92g. The lighter 88-89gs are not nearly as powerful. I'm going to update my racket review to include the exact weight of each racket. 4U/3U/2U can be very misleading.
Why does the one in bbeshop have different color scheme for the amps?? http://www.bbeshop.com/en/racket_apacs.htm
Notice the "AM" not the "AMP". Armor Muscle Series instead of Armor Muscle Pro Series. Yea APACS is crazy when it comes to names. Armor this Armor that Nanos everywhere.
but if you look at the racket shaft you'll see its printed armor muscle pro. http://www.bbeshop.com/apacs/images/racket_am95_shaft.jpg http://www.bbeshop.com/apacs/images/racket_am99_shaft.jpg
I just noticed something, APACS rackets don't seem to be able to stand 'straight', something wrong with the base maybe? Anyway, aside from Balance Point,Colour Scheme,Shaft(little difference) and VERY slight difference in stiffness,the AMP 90 and 95 is the same thing. Guess they feel about the same when playing then... Think I'll go for the 95, the paint looks more ELEGANT.
Panda will not be switching rackets in the foreseeable future. For Panda, the AMP is just about ideal.
Think we've all heard that line before ! "Can't have too many rackets" is definitely another of your lines as well Anyway, these rackets sound awesome, and given the apacs pricing, should be a great steal I hope! Need to get some when I get back to SE AsiA!
"foreseeable future" Since I can't see more than a week at a time it is plausible otherwise my money would be on him using a new stick in the next 6 weeks.
Huh! No idea... but could it be fake ones? But then again, wh would want to fake APACS rackets? But then again and again, the paint looks much better for the 95 than the original...
Haha no way the on that 95 looks better than the original. The original paint is more "elegant" like that other guy put it haha. I don't know why, but white rackets are just really attractive.
hello everyone in Panda post. I recently bought an Apacs EdgeSaber 10 and Nano Speed 1900 from Ebay. Both strung with "most probably fake" Yonex Nanogy 95 strings at 22g. And I played with them over the weekend. The 1st feeling is that...the EdgeSaber is a bit soft (lolz..pardon me if I used a wrong term, I played as a casual player before this and didn't mind to learn any of the terms). Another hypothesis I think...would be because I haven't put on extra grips on top of the original red grip which came with the Apacs G2 grip (which apparently is very small size, might be smaller than Yonex's G5). The Nano Speed 1900, with the extra grip I applied onto it, felt powerful (altho my skills and techniques are quite noobie level XD), and it felt much more solid than the EdgeSaber 10 too. Please do correct me if you have a different opinion/view. Hope to see Sir Panda updating the table of racquets soon~ now im on the shuttlecock searching quest
