Squirrel Badminton

🏸 **A piece of history just crossed my bench.**

The customer dropped off a **Yonex Carbonex 21 SP** tonight… and I couldn't help but hold onto it a moment.

This racket was state-of-the-art in its day:
> 🪵 Heavy frame
> 💧 Low tension
> 🧵 Natural gut
> 🎯 A game built on precision and patience

Then badminton changed. ⚡
Faster rallies. Bigger smashes. New rules. New styles. And the racket had to keep up.

🔄 **Then vs now:**
3U ➜ 4U ➜ 5U — the frames got lighter
📈 Tensions climbed higher and higher
🧬 Poly & hybrid setups rewrote what "feel" means

The racket got lighter. The string got smarter. The game got **explosive.** 💥

And yet — holding this Carbonex, seeing the line from then to now —
it was never old vs new. 🕰️
It's **how far the sport we love has come.**

Every racket that passes through my bench — classic or cutting-edge — gets strung like it matters. Because it does. 🐿️

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Did you know we can do Tennis racket restring too?

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Why 25lbs isn’t always 25lbs! 🏸🤔

Ever wonder why two rackets strung at the exact same tension feel completely different on court?
I ran a controlled experiment to see how Frame Geometry affects your Dynamic Tension (DT)—the actual "stiffness" of the string bed you feel when hitting the shuttle. 🎾📊

​The Controlled Setup 🛠️
​To keep things scientific, I kept every variable identical:
​String: Kizuna Z66 ✅
​Machine Tension: 25lbs (Yonex 4-knot method) ✅
​Speed: 17–19 mins per racket ✅
​Consistency: Identical tension balancing modification ✅

​The Results (Measured with ERT 300) 📈
​Even though they are all 25lbs, the frame shape told a different story:
​1️⃣ Large/Standard Frame (Wilson): 50 DT 🟢 (Softer/Powerful)
2️⃣ Standard Frame (Victor Fatome F): 51 DT 🟡 (Balanced)
3️⃣ Compact Frame (LiNing Bladex700): 53 DT 🔴 (Stiff/Control)

​The Science: Why does this happen? 🧬
​It comes down to string length. 📏
In a compact frame, the individual strings are shorter. Shorter strings have less "give" or stretch compared to the longer strings found in a larger head.

​The Result: A compact frame naturally creates a denser, stiffer string bed. In this test, the compact frame felt 3 DT units tighter than the large frame—that’s a massive difference in feel!

​The Pro-Tip for Players 💡
​If you are switching from a large-head racket to a "Compact" frame, drop your tension by 1-2lbs to maintain the same feel you're used to!

​What’s your preference? A forgiving large head for easy power, or a surgical compact frame for maximum control? Let me know below! 👇

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Welcome our new stringing machine
Precision 8.0

Basically it's the best machine the world has without the Auto height adjustment.

Let's string some rackets .sylee

Time to upgrade.

100ZZ VA
Anyone jumped on the hype wagon?

The settings is between the Blue and red one.
Still a fast swinging and more towards even balanced

Expect to see lots of people on court with them haha.

The only way to string a TTY is with the TTY method

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Racket: Victor TKF-C TTY
String: YonexBG80
Method: Gosen Haribito STD with Tension balancing (TTY mod)

Finally Restocked!!!
Kizuna Z63x and the one of the best 0.65mm strings available right now
Gosen Ryzonic65

Wow, probably the last ever AX99bp I can ever source

Bonus pic: all the BP that I sold with stringing job (most of them will never get strung and be on display haha)

JP code Pre-Order starting now
ETA Dec-2023

3uG5/G6
4uG5/G6

Msg us if you are interested