Badminton Racquet Care
As a badminton game lover and fever, I really love about all the equipments on this game, especially the racquet, which often I treated as my own weapon on the court, and this high cost equipment deserve a good care to prolong its life, and maintain its performance. These are the few points which I think should be done…..
- Avoid direct or indirect contact to high temperature, eq. leaving your racquet inside the car. Car under the sunlight over an hour may raise up to 70 degree C, this may activate the molecule on the carbon made racquet that may misshape or de-shape the racquet frame with high tension we strung on it.
- Always kept it on some place cool, dry and pressure free. Most of us tends to leave the racquet inside our bag when we are not using it or after playing. Moisture, sweat, bacteria, and some pressure may caught on the racquet inside the bag. Best place is, hang on the wall.
- For newly strung string, try not to maximise it usage, like full power smash, drive, or baseline log. Always warm up the new string before serious on the game.
- Always check on the string that strung on the racquet. Change the string if any “gonna break” signs. Don't wait until the string break during the game, as when any signs of breaking, meaning the tension are not “balance” on the frame, this may cause shorten life on the frame.
- Always cut the string immediately after it broke on the game, as unbalance tension on the frame may lead to de-shaping frame.
- Always try to use both side of the string during game, to prolong tension and string life.
- Best way to string your racquet on 4 knots, as on this method, vertical and horizontal tension are pulled in separate time. Also, one side of the string tension doest not affect on the other during breaking of the string on game time.
- To maximise and maintain the shaft stiffness, do not always bend the racquet like testing the flexibility of the racquet.
These are the methods generally will prolong the racquet life. Please do drop any comments if you do have any other ways….
