If you follow the video I posted, the cameraman was at the Sudirman Cup in Qingdao, China and capturing the racquet and request slip on the Yonex stringer's bench/desk. Now who do you trust more, the stringer who personally gets the string request slips from the player themselves (hence the strung racquet plus request slip on his bench), or a secretary who types/logs everything up (which sometimes can be untrue) in MS Excel?
i remember saw the pic you posted as well. there are too many discussion about his tension, some said around 28/30, some said 30, and some 33, etc. which is ridiculous. I find it's interesting to see all of those web info though. as for who do I trust more? definitely not media. speak of hand-writing pic, here it is:
You can see clearly on the sticky note the name TAGO. We should all know or have heard by now that Kenichi Tago has been using 35lbs with BG66 Sharp with his racquets, so a quote of 33-37 will not be surprising at all especially when Tago is related. I have no idea why the writing Lee C W is present on the note, and you can speculate further. Wasn't Tago also using the VT80 during the Sudirman Cup 2011? The video I posted is an actual account of someone walking through the Yonex stringer's bench and taking notice of the string and tensions used by the players, LCW included. If you were there experiencing it you would have seen the same thing. People say seeing is believing; I guess that doesn't apply to you. The casual photographer/cameraman's work is all magic and make-believe to you it seems.
Not sure why you are so aggressive and unfriendly in this kind of forum! "Seeing is believing" is dependent upon the source and who present it to you. Do you trust everything you SEE from media? As always, I just wanted to post what I found from MEDIA as well, which I believe that's also your source, correct? UNLESS you talked with Lee C. W. in person, OR strung his racket! Please calm down, and just share info! PS: I have heard (FROM MEDIA again) that pro players always try different tensions BEFORE the big tourney, and then settle down to one value. UNLESS they are using their own stringer.
If you look careful at the first picture posted in this thread the note about LCWs stringing didn't even indicate if it was kg or lbs .. I think he really wanted bg66S@66x72 (30 kg) ...he he..
Don't argue ok. LCW uses BG66 Sharp that comes in a roll. Direct from Yonex Japan. He strung it at 30lbs 4 knots. As in how he chooses his rackets when he has at least 10 in his bag? He listen to the sound and hitting the strings on the palm. That is basically how he does it.
I've been observing that you appear to be a fairly respected member on this forum. However, you seem to be with-holding information about LCW's latest racket. Why is this? Is it because you don't know? And therefore there's a possibility you aren't 100% sure on anything else about LCW? Or is it because you'd be breaking some law if you revealed more information? Thanks for reading and thanks in advance to any reply, including none.
What do they mean by prestrech? Also, I usually string my racket up to 28lbs. I seen some string 26/28 lbs. What does that mean actually? Horizon 26 lbs, vertical 28 lbs? Pls advice.
30 lb with 10% prestretch means the string is pulled to 33 lb (30 + 10%), then allowed to relax to 30 lb before being clamped.
it removes a bit of the "looseness" (ie. elasticity) from the string so that the string retains tension better and longer not all strings require this, eg. zymax series, as the core is already designed to retain tension very well
The string request by him during All England 2012 earlier this year does not reflect what you just said: True enough it might have changed, but I certainly do not have any proof on my side, other than that most if not all of the string request slips I have seen with the LCW name on it has always been 30lbs.
