TORON 150 ESP RACQUETBALL RACQUET (SS)

The first consideration is the type of game you play and your experience level. For the "cunning & wile" strategist vs a "power and agility" opponent, the 150g in this state-of-art carbon has played dang near perfect. Yes, the 150g vs a 165g is debatable but I've settled the debate for myself.I play the gym's "B" ladder and play "A's" in pick-ups. I'm nearly always the oldest character and power has become a relative term ... most everybody I play has more power and agility and they use it. I focus on the cunning & wile game of placement to frustrate and overcome.I've studied this 'power vs control' tradeoff for 40 years. If your game is repetitively successful with power serves followed by crossing kill shot you have successfully selected a racquet to enable your skill. If you're like me, the game is filled with uncertainty following your best serve, followed by volley and resolved by the best placed return. That's a control game. I see my game as >80% control and <20% old guy power.It's taken some time to intellectualize my ideal racquet. It always gets down to F=Ma and the variations of leverage, tensor/stressor and torque that makes for the personal ideal. Lighter is faster and more agile in my low speed lob, medium power Z and the precision placement serve and the control game. This top weighted 150g is ideal for my serve. This racquet has extraordinary maneuverability/manipulability with its 150g weight and SS grip. The racquet provides an ideal center of mass to leverage matching the kinesthetics of my swing with a near optimal sweet spot. I'm still exploring the sweet spot around the center of percussion and vibration node. This is the best racquet match that I've found in 40 years of playing the game.Exceeds expectations ... 5-star!7/30/15 update - I've re-strung it twice now and settled on 17ga max tension for both control and crack. I should have restrung the racket to max from day one. The subtleties of the racket performance have been a blast to explore. It's tough to boot. I've thought I broke it at least twice only to be pleasantly surprised. I’ve test driven most of the other high end rackets and have yet to find a better match than this to my play.In tournament play that demands more than the typical number of driving serves, the head biased weight can wear a mean tennis elbow. Wear a tennis elbow band.3/30/2017On the last string change, I maxed the tension. What an unexpected difference ... great play and no more tennis elbow for some unexplainable reason.9/18/2017After 3 years of aggressive play, 5 restringing's @ 36-37#'s it has stayed together. I thought I'd broken it with 3 typical racquet destroying wall/corner swings. It's one tough, high preforming racquet.

Hits hard and very accurate but broke two of them within a year and a half. The first one I collided racquets with another player (didn't even scratch his). The second broke just hitting the ball hard...

holy crap this thing is a beast. i love this racket.