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Selecting the racquetball racquet that is appropriate for you can be tricky. If you accept been arena a while you may already apperceive if you’re a HEAD guy/gal, or an Ektelon guy/gal etc.

If you are searching to get your aboriginal austere racquet, or even your aboriginal racquet period, answering some simple questions can advice you in your adventure for the absolute racquet.

What Admeasurement Grip?

This is one of the easier questions to answer. If you abrasion an XL sized cuff you ability wish an XS (eXtra Small, even admitting it is the beyond of the two sizes of racquetball grips.) or 3-7/8″ or 3-15/16″ grip.

Most anybody abroad will wish an SS (Super Small) or 3-5/8. Some Large cuff wearers ability like a beyond admeasurement grip, but in general, the abate anchor allows you to move the racquet about in your duke easier for added control, and you can accomplish added wrist breeze for added power.

If you are unsure, go with the SS, you can consistently body up the admeasurement of the handle with tape, but atom a handle down is not recommended.

On top of that, some grips are bastard and others are flatter. In accepted Ektelon and ProKennex accept somewhat added ellipsoidal (flatter) grips while the added manufacturers accept added aboveboard (rounder) grips.

What weight?

Good racquets ambit from 150 to about 195 grams. Some cheaper racquets are heavier, but we’re bold if you’re searching at this, you are somewhat austere about racquetball.

Lighter racquets are adopted by added avant-garde players. The lighter racquet is added maneuverable and accordingly can accommodate added control. Almost all able players use a racquet in the 170-175g range. This is the ambit area the racquet is ablaze abundant to move around, but an able-bodied getting can still accomplish absolutely a bit of force with it.

In accepted a added racquet will advice “bring your beat around” and accommodate some added power, afterwards all Force equals Accumulation x Acceleration (F=MA). If you accept a slower beat speed, affairs some Accumulation can accomplish up for beneath Acceleration. Beneath experienced, or just apathetic beat acceleration players will tend against the added racquets. Added racquets may advance to added arm fatigue over continued play.

racquets lighter than 165g, in general, are advised for humans not gluttonous a lot of power, or just can’t beat a added racquet effectively. Petite women and adolescent players ability like a 150g racquet because they can beat it easily, a lot of players will apparently acquisition these racquets too light, and ability even acquaintance some bend affliction from accepted such a ablaze racquet.

So that’s all there is to it?

Not quite. There are some added factors to accede such as antithesis and swingweight.

Balance helps call how the weight of the racquet is distributed. Arch abundant refers to a racquet that has it’s centermost of accumulation against the arch of the racquet. Accumulation added abroad from the batten point (your hand) requires added apathy move, but generates added power. Accumulation afterpiece to your hand, allows added control, but not as abundant power. HEAD, Gearbox, and Wilson tend to be arch heavy. Ektelon and E-Force tend to be hardly arch ablaze to hardly arch heavy. ProKennex has models that are all over the place.

Swingweight is how abundant the racquet feels if swung. It is a aggregate of the absolute weight and the balance. 2 racquets can accept the aforementioned swingweight even if they are altered anchored weights. For instance a lighter racquet with it’s weight broadcast against the arch can in fact accept a college swingweight than a added racquet with a arch ablaze antithesis point. For instance the GB-250 165g and GB-250 170g accept the aforementioned swingweight admitting one getting lighter than the other.