We are working on them. Working on a H2H with Signum Pro Firestorm and Lynx Tour, and I've got a demo package coming from Tier 1. Simon has also begun a journey where he looks for a string of choice. He'll be making regular blog posts on our website soon so you can follow along.
I would like to hear about thin strings 1.1-1.15-1.2 I prefer string to brake faster then stay 3 months. Since string last 15 hours it’s better to break after the tension lost.
Great review as always. I heard you mention the new Head Extreme with Auxetic. When do you anticipate reviewing this the Extreme Tour with Auxetic? Any idea when the racket will be released to the public?
yeah released in September. I'm hoping to get an early copy from Courtside, but that will depend on permission from our local Head rep as well as shipping/stock. I just sent a follow up email on it today
Just had Hyper G put in a new Pure Strike. Feels great to me. Much better than my two Pure Aero rackets with RPM Blast. But I'm still kind of new to tennis and haven't tried a lot of equipment/strings. But the Pure Strike w/ Hyper G feels so nice when I hit the ball. Spin, power and control are all there. If the Grapplesnake are that much better I would definitely love to try them.
I would definitely try out the Tour Sniper on your next string job to compare. Personally, if I was using a Pure Strike, I'd try Tour M8 because the thicker gauge can help tame the high launch angle of the Strike. Its also softer than Sniper i think which can help combat some of the stiffness of the Strike.
Great review as always. Hyper G is a good string. However, I find Confidential to be marginally but noticeably better in just about every important area including spin, predictability of launch angle, tension maintenance, controlled power and comfort. If I want something softer, then I’d pick Hyper G Soft instead. The only reason I might pick Hyper G these days is if I want something close to Confidential, but in a bright green colour to suit the racquet! That said, I’ll admit that if I lose a match playing my racquet with Hyper G, using another with Confidential probably wouldn’t make any difference to the outcome!!
Great video. I'm going to have to give some grapplesnake a try. I've been playing mostly YTEX, Toroline and Tier One. I really like Solinco Tour Bite though.
A Poly tour pro and Alu Power soft review would be awesome. I also just had a very inconsistent experience with Lynx tour. Also I found it to be overpowered.
Thanks for your answer. Here in Germany PTP is the cheapest of the bunch. I ordered TS and will test it. Is it possible that Lynx Tour adds weight compared to Alu power ? Racket feels heavier
I felt that Lynx Tour felt a bit heavy as well, but I would need to measure it to be sure. Simon will be doing blog posts on our website where he tests a ton of strings in his own string journey for anything you come across that I may not have reviewed.
@@mansour6623 HEAD’s labelling of Lynx Tour is slightly understated. If you string, you will notice for example that the Lynx Tour 1.25 is slightly thicker than most other 1.25 polys. As such, it is also a little heavier. Full bed Solinco Confidential 1.25 in my Gravity Tour is 17 grams. Lynx Tour 1.25 is 18-19g.
Thank you for this! Wonder if you've had the chance to try Black Code or Black Code 4s and what your thoughts are in comparison to hyper g and the strings you mentioned? Thanks!
I haven't tried hyper-G in a few years either, but from my testing this year, I put Grapplesnake game changer and tour sniper at the top as well. Loved volkyl cyclone as well but it just died out pretty quickly and I'm not stringing once every week or two haha. So I concur with the united board of completely subjective and made up graphs 😂
💪🎾 nice review. Weiss Cannon Rock'n'power is a very stiff or softer string? And one question please: will the 1.20 string weight much less in the frame than the 1.25? I mean, does it change the balance?
1.25mm will weight more and change the balance. The amount this changes depends on the string and racquet, as some racquets require more strings than others. RocknBlue is pretty stiff for me and not particularly comfortable. Note that square strings at 1.20mm are much thicker than 1.25mm because the cross-section is a square. when a circle has the same diameter as a square has width, the square has more area, meaning the string will more valume.
@@TennCom You're right, great explanation of geometry. I had not taken it into account. I was thinking that maybe with this finer string I could lighten the head balance on a YONEX EZONE 98 TOUR. What do you think about that?
I recently strung my old Speed Mp with head hawk and liked it the first few hittings. After some time the string just felt dead. Now I used a Lively shaped string similar to hyper g and I experience the different launchy balls sometimes like you mention and it frustrates me because they often sail long. Now I need your help guys, you maybe know a string that has both, decent touch and control with a little bit of bite and livelines. The touch and feel of head hawk was really good for me but it went totally dead after 10h.
Almost impossible to find strings that last more than 10 hours. The only ones that have worked for me are Grapplesnake Tour Sniper, Tour M8 and Tourna Silver 7 Tour.
I find iso speed baseline still better then both hyper g and tour bite even though its one of the cheapest on the market. The control and spin are really really good, better theen rpm blast for me. Will need to try stringing tour sniper and give it a try.
watching all your videos since i discovered you lol:P how would you rate old cheep and trusty MSV Co-Focus round and hex to the ones on the list and newer more advanced strings?
Sadly not right now. USA and Europe operate separately. I’ll let me US contact know there’s interest and try to get it to happen though. Even Tennisnerd doesn’t have a link for Europe so it might just be a them thing.
Great one! Long time Hyper-G user. Need advice! 45y o male 4.5/5.0 baseliner. Similar game to you from what I've seen. Linear 2-handed backhand I like to hit flat and through court and spinnier forehand (but still flattish). I like hitting through the court and being aggressive. Just switched to HEAD Gravity Pro last month. 3 strings you'd recommend for the 18 X 20. (I am coming from the legendary Ezone 98+ from 5 years ago that was flexible like butter but powerful--couldn't hit a good drop shot in 5 years with the long racquet though.) Looking for refresh from HyperG. thanks
@@TennCom Feel and feedback. I want to feel the beauty of a well played dropshot. I guess it's dwell time? Hard to put into words but HyperG sometimes feels board-like and possibly that's the tension (52). When I go too low on tension balls spring out. I guess more connection to the ball whether a brush-up backhand you've hit perfectly or a touch shot. Don't care about guage. I like a comfortable "ping" that I got on the gravity pro demo but maybe that was head lynx at low tension (a guess)
@@sebastianabdelnur3907 yeah I really think you are going to like Tour Sniper. It’s very soft and lower powered, but the softness gives it a very long dwelltime, yet it retains a crisper, more feedback intensive feel
@@TennCom thank you. you going places. Probably the most thorough reviews and such (with physics) involved on youtube. keep putting out content! Many tennis people are nuts like me that love this stuff. Thanks. You ever need a medical recommendation hit me up
I use msv co focus 1,18 in the mains , good comfort, power and spin but it does not last.What about using hyper g 1,20 or tour bite 1,20 in the mains insted of msv?I found tour bite be like 10 points less in tennis wharehouse univesity scale in stiffness (181 TB - 195 HG) but all i hear form reviews is that tour bite is not for sensitive arms!What do you thing of these 2 strings in that gauge?I d like to take a mini reel to test with my trusty element 1,28 in the mains (ezone100 and blade v8 18x20)
i dont really have experience with MSV, but I typically would only use strings than thin in the cross due to durability concerns. I also think that people have a prejudice against some strings RPM and TB for being arm killers. For most of those players (from what I've seen on court), the arm killer is hitting the ball late lol.
I hit with hyper g once also had hyper g soft on my prestige for a while. Hyper g soft is definitely something you should only consider if you have arm issues or don't care how it feels when you strike the ball as its mussy and weird. Hyper g as well that have to agree because of the material and the finish of the string feels muted and not crisp, rest of the things like mentioned, spin, power, tention maintenance are pretty avarage too. It really is a bit over rated. My favourite set up is volkl cyclone tour hybrid with technifiber triax, pre stretch as known to loose tention but seriously after the initial tention loss It settles and plays well as for at least 10-12 hours depending on the intensity. It haa all you want from a string thought, power spin control, amazing feel so on...
@@TennCom Roman Prokes in an interview with Craig Shapiro a few years ago said it was his favourite string, maybe he has a slice in Solinco, and um it seems most of TW playtesters L O V E it ... not me by the way. It would be good to try grapplesnake but i live in Australia & we don't seem to carry it here. $65 a set on ebay.
@@pm312 yeah it was very good a couple of years ago, but too many great strings have come out since. As per the TW playtesters, they are known to be criminally biased.
I actually like it quite a bit. Really felt like I could swing away confidently. One issue for me is that with the rough strings, once they start to notch, the stringbed really locks up and it can be hard to control.
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CORRECTION: You can only use the Grapplesnake link ONCE. Sorry for the mis-information.
Gold-Tier Thumbnail game
god tier*
Always great to hear what others think of the string and compare it to others. Thanks Beckett!
Great video, I hope you guys make other videos like this on different strings.
We are working on them. Working on a H2H with Signum Pro Firestorm and Lynx Tour, and I've got a demo package coming from Tier 1. Simon has also begun a journey where he looks for a string of choice. He'll be making regular blog posts on our website soon so you can follow along.
The "Shill" font at the end. You're hilarious! I love your channel.
Definitely do more vids like this with the graphs - total awesome
I would like to hear about thin strings 1.1-1.15-1.2 I prefer string to brake faster then stay 3 months. Since string last 15 hours it’s better to break after the tension lost.
Ok I'll get around to testing some thin bois
Great review as always. I heard you mention the new Head Extreme with Auxetic. When do you anticipate reviewing this the Extreme Tour with Auxetic? Any idea when the racket will be released to the public?
They just announced today on their Instagram/Facebook that it’ll be available in September
yeah released in September. I'm hoping to get an early copy from Courtside, but that will depend on permission from our local Head rep as well as shipping/stock. I just sent a follow up email on it today
Just had Hyper G put in a new Pure Strike. Feels great to me. Much better than my two Pure Aero rackets with RPM Blast. But I'm still kind of new to tennis and haven't tried a lot of equipment/strings. But the Pure Strike w/ Hyper G feels so nice when I hit the ball. Spin, power and control are all there. If the Grapplesnake are that much better I would definitely love to try them.
I would definitely try out the Tour Sniper on your next string job to compare.
Personally, if I was using a Pure Strike, I'd try Tour M8 because the thicker gauge can help tame the high launch angle of the Strike. Its also softer than Sniper i think which can help combat some of the stiffness of the Strike.
@@TennCom Thanks. I'll definitely order a couple sets of the Tour M8.
Great review as always. Hyper G is a good string. However, I find Confidential to be marginally but noticeably better in just about every important area including spin, predictability of launch angle, tension maintenance, controlled power and comfort. If I want something softer, then I’d pick Hyper G Soft instead. The only reason I might pick Hyper G these days is if I want something close to Confidential, but in a bright green colour to suit the racquet!
That said, I’ll admit that if I lose a match playing my racquet with Hyper G, using another with Confidential probably wouldn’t make any difference to the outcome!!
1.20 confidential?
@@Bambotb I use 1.25. Anything less snaps in 4hrs of play. 1.25 gets me to 8hrs.
@@jerome_morrow it makes no sense to say 0.05mm will give you 4h more of play it's complete lunacy
It’s not just the thickness, it’s the extra volume of the string. Imo getting an extra 4h from 1.25 over 1.20 is pretty reasonable.
@@Bambotb well, I’ve frequently been described as being a bit mad…
Great video. I'm going to have to give some grapplesnake a try. I've been playing mostly YTEX, Toroline and Tier One. I really like Solinco Tour Bite though.
I have some Tier 1 stuff coming in the mail. Very excited.
A Poly tour pro and Alu Power soft review would be awesome. I also just had a very inconsistent experience with Lynx tour. Also I found it to be overpowered.
Thanks for your answer. Here in Germany PTP is the cheapest of the bunch. I ordered TS and will test it. Is it possible that Lynx Tour adds weight compared to Alu power ? Racket feels heavier
I felt that Lynx Tour felt a bit heavy as well, but I would need to measure it to be sure. Simon will be doing blog posts on our website where he tests a ton of strings in his own string journey for anything you come across that I may not have reviewed.
@@mansour6623 HEAD’s labelling of Lynx Tour is slightly understated. If you string, you will notice for example that the Lynx Tour 1.25 is slightly thicker than most other 1.25 polys. As such, it is also a little heavier. Full bed Solinco Confidential 1.25 in my Gravity Tour is 17 grams. Lynx Tour 1.25 is 18-19g.
Thank you for this! Wonder if you've had the chance to try Black Code or Black Code 4s and what your thoughts are in comparison to hyper g and the strings you mentioned? Thanks!
I haven’t, sadly, Tecnifibre stuff isn’t cheap in Canada so I never bothered
Another god tier review from the king 🤴
I haven't tried hyper-G in a few years either, but from my testing this year, I put Grapplesnake game changer and tour sniper at the top as well. Loved volkyl cyclone as well but it just died out pretty quickly and I'm not stringing once every week or two haha. So I concur with the united board of completely subjective and made up graphs 😂
I was very pleasantly surprised with Game Changer. I thought it would just be another square shaped poly, but it was surprisingly predictable.
💪🎾 nice review. Weiss Cannon Rock'n'power is a very stiff or softer string?
And one question please: will the 1.20 string weight much less in the frame than the 1.25? I mean, does it change the balance?
1.25mm will weight more and change the balance. The amount this changes depends on the string and racquet, as some racquets require more strings than others. RocknBlue is pretty stiff for me and not particularly comfortable. Note that square strings at 1.20mm are much thicker than 1.25mm because the cross-section is a square. when a circle has the same diameter as a square has width, the square has more area, meaning the string will more valume.
@@TennCom You're right, great explanation of geometry. I had not taken it into account.
I was thinking that maybe with this finer string I could lighten the head balance on a YONEX EZONE 98 TOUR. What do you think about that?
@@gerardovitaliani9318 worth a try. Maybe string a bit tighter to compensate.
Hey man! Thoughts on the new head extreme paint job?
Tough to say. Some photos look cool and others horrible. Need to see in person
I recently strung my old Speed Mp with head hawk and liked it the first few hittings. After some time the string just felt dead. Now I used a Lively shaped string similar to hyper g and I experience the different launchy balls sometimes like you mention and it frustrates me because they often sail long. Now I need your help guys, you maybe know a string that has both, decent touch and control with a little bit of bite and livelines. The touch and feel of head hawk was really good for me but it went totally dead after 10h.
Almost impossible to find strings that last more than 10 hours. The only ones that have worked for me are Grapplesnake Tour Sniper, Tour M8 and Tourna Silver 7 Tour.
I find iso speed baseline still better then both hyper g and tour bite even though its one of the cheapest on the market. The control and spin are really really good, better theen rpm blast for me. Will need to try stringing tour sniper and give it a try.
I will need to try some Isospeed as well
watching all your videos since i discovered you lol:P how would you rate old cheep and trusty MSV Co-Focus round and hex to the ones on the list and newer more advanced strings?
I've maybe tried MSV strings once. I remember liking them but that's about it.
How is tour bite more powerful than hyper g???
Hey Beckett! Any chance of a discount code for Grapplesnake Europe? Thanks, love the content!
Sadly not right now. USA and Europe operate separately. I’ll let me US contact know there’s interest and try to get it to happen though. Even Tennisnerd doesn’t have a link for Europe so it might just be a them thing.
Great one! Long time Hyper-G user. Need advice! 45y o male 4.5/5.0 baseliner. Similar game to you from what I've seen. Linear 2-handed backhand I like to hit flat and through court and spinnier forehand (but still flattish). I like hitting through the court and being aggressive. Just switched to HEAD Gravity Pro last month. 3 strings you'd recommend for the 18 X 20. (I am coming from the legendary Ezone 98+ from 5 years ago that was flexible like butter but powerful--couldn't hit a good drop shot in 5 years with the long racquet though.) Looking for refresh from HyperG. thanks
What would you change about Hyper G if you could change it? Also do you care about gauge?
@@TennCom Feel and feedback. I want to feel the beauty of a well played dropshot. I guess it's dwell time? Hard to put into words but HyperG sometimes feels board-like and possibly that's the tension (52). When I go too low on tension balls spring out. I guess more connection to the ball whether a brush-up backhand you've hit perfectly or a touch shot. Don't care about guage. I like a comfortable "ping" that I got on the gravity pro demo but maybe that was head lynx at low tension (a guess)
@@sebastianabdelnur3907 yeah I really think you are going to like Tour Sniper. It’s very soft and lower powered, but the softness gives it a very long dwelltime, yet it retains a crisper, more feedback intensive feel
@@TennCom thank you. you going places. Probably the most thorough reviews and such (with physics) involved on youtube. keep putting out content! Many tennis people are nuts like me that love this stuff. Thanks. You ever need a medical recommendation hit me up
What about confidential? I saw it in your strings recommentation video. How does it compares in control and consistency?
I find Confidential to be way more controlled and consistent feeling. Much better tension maintenance as well, though certainly less powerful.
What tension did you use?
52lbs
I use msv co focus 1,18 in the mains , good comfort, power and spin but it does not last.What about using hyper g 1,20 or tour bite 1,20 in the mains insted of msv?I found tour bite be like 10 points less in tennis wharehouse univesity scale in stiffness (181 TB - 195 HG) but all i hear form reviews is that tour bite is not for sensitive arms!What do you thing of these 2 strings in that gauge?I d like to take a mini reel to test with my trusty element 1,28 in the mains (ezone100 and blade v8 18x20)
i dont really have experience with MSV, but I typically would only use strings than thin in the cross due to durability concerns. I also think that people have a prejudice against some strings RPM and TB for being arm killers. For most of those players (from what I've seen on court), the arm killer is hitting the ball late lol.
I hit with hyper g once also had hyper g soft on my prestige for a while. Hyper g soft is definitely something you should only consider if you have arm issues or don't care how it feels when you strike the ball as its mussy and weird. Hyper g as well that have to agree because of the material and the finish of the string feels muted and not crisp, rest of the things like mentioned, spin, power, tention maintenance are pretty avarage too. It really is a bit over rated. My favourite set up is volkl cyclone tour hybrid with technifiber triax, pre stretch as known to loose tention but seriously after the initial tention loss It settles and plays well as for at least 10-12 hours depending on the intensity. It haa all you want from a string thought, power spin control, amazing feel so on...
solid vid!
Is playability different between 1,20 and 1,25? Not durability but the way it plays
I think the ball pocketing is quite a bit better in the thinner gauge, other than that, I find playability to be quite similar other than durability.
Thoughts on kirschbaum super smash orange 16/17? I heard people find it similar to the hyper g.
never tried
I have a reel of both, hyper g has way more bite
What about dunlop black widow? I hear it’s the best string on the market
only good for big hitters, not like me
Good video. Simon is moving like a cat!!
Have you tried Yonex poly tour Rev?
No, I've heard mostly good things, but I find the price to be a deterrent. In Canada, sets on Yonex strings are quite expensive (more than Luxilon).
PTRev has no spin
Feels like the title shoud just be: Hyper G bad. Grapplesnake good.
Slothy correct
Hey Becket, if hyper g is so good…. You see it a lot on the rec scene, Why don’t many (if any as you cant miss it) pros use it?
Who said Hyper G was so good?
@@TennCom Roman Prokes in an interview with Craig Shapiro a few years ago said it was his favourite string, maybe he has a slice in Solinco, and um it seems most of TW playtesters L O V E it ... not me by the way. It would be good to try grapplesnake but i live in Australia & we don't seem to carry it here. $65 a set on ebay.
@@pm312 yeah it was very good a couple of years ago, but too many great strings have come out since. As per the TW playtesters, they are known to be criminally biased.
Pros dont use shapped strings its too unpredictable
@@nakmuay5034 lol Rafa, Alcaraz and any one who uses RPM Blast, tons of Pros are using Lynx Tour (Musetti, Thiem) and Ruud uses Poly Tour Spin
Whats your thoughts on RPM Rough?
I actually like it quite a bit. Really felt like I could swing away confidently. One issue for me is that with the rough strings, once they start to notch, the stringbed really locks up and it can be hard to control.
@@TennCom Its very low powered also unfortunately
Too much of a plastic/rubbery feel for me. I prefer something that feels more crisp and consistent like Confidential, etc.
I think hyperg has no feel and just feels way too overhyped. Solinco's confidential is where it's at. It's so much nicer.
100%
Hyperg soft is better..also crisp for soft poly
What is better about it?
I also like the feel of hyper g soft better as well
No its trash lol, polytour strike >>>
too expensive $$$
Very bad string, feels and moove like a sgut
green string ugly