Blown away by boll alc

I only used the viscaria from butterfly's alc blade range, as they have the same construction and there was no need to spend another 150€ for pretty much the same or at least very similar thing. Today after watching my old team play against their regional rivals, I got asked if I wanted to hit a few balls with one of the guys from my team. He gave me his old racket which had some used up hexers on a boll alc blade. I haven't been training much the last two weeks, but I thought " hey why not play a few backhand topspins". So I took the racket and it instantly felt really heavy. I didn't know what it was at first, since I don't have a problem with racket weight. But when I started playing with it I realized why it felt so heavy. The weight distribution was the cause. The boll alc was very head heavy which I noticed when playing.

I don't know why some people say that viscaria is for backhand oriented players, because I felt a sensation that I've never really felt before when using the boll alc. When I played a backhand topspin just when my wrist followed my arm movement the racket head quickly followed my wrist. Since the blade was so head heavy and followed after my wrist, the blade hit the ball with so much weight, that the topspin had a really good quality. Compared to my other blades which are more balanced, it was way easier to play a good topspin. I'm really considering getting a boll alc even though I have 3 viscaria's and was thinking about switching to an innerforce.

Is the innerforce also head heavy? And why do people say that viscaria is for backhand oriented players?

Maybe that's true. But shouldn't the boll alc's be head heavy in general? Sadly I can't buy the blade from him even if I wanted, since it has the AN handle.

I have 3 Viscaria and I switched from the Viscaria to the boll alc about 2 years ago. . The alc is much more powerful and spinnier than
the Viscaria

The question for me is, if every Timo boll blade is head heavy. It's not worth it for me to buy a Timo boll blade if it's not going to be head heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiMy8vtylE#t=2m58s

FruitLoop wrote: Tt Gold wrote: The question for me is, if every Timo boll blade is head heavy. It's not worth it for me to buy a Timo boll blade if it's not going to be head heavy. Buy one second hand or get to a shop in person?

You can also make any setup more head heavy simply by adding weighted edge tape, then you can experiment with the desired weight effects before buying a new blade.

Edited by Alisha_Hooksit - 12/01/2018 at 12:15pm

i have 84g tb alc st handle and with t05 2.1 both sides it was definitely head heavy. It also depends on which rubbers you use. I also had some edge tape on it which added a little bit more weight to it.

Edited by chroot - 12/01/2018 at 2:51pm