Vibration and Comfort
Understanding how racquet vibration affects comfort, performance, and injury prevention.
Reducing harmful vibrations protects your arm and improves comfort, allowing you to play longer and with more confidence.
What is Racquet Vibration?
Understanding the physics of impact and how it affects your arm
When you hit a tennis ball, the impact creates vibrations that travel through the racquet to your arm. Some vibration is normal, but too much can cause discomfort, reduce control, and lead to injuries like tennis elbow.
Types of Vibration
- Good Vibration: Tells you about ball contact and control
- Bad Vibration: Harsh shock that hurts your arm
- Frame Vibration: High-frequency buzz from the racquet
- String Vibration: Lower-frequency feel from the strings
Why It Matters
- Comfort during long play sessions
- Prevention of tennis elbow and wrist pain
- Better feel and control of shots
- Confidence to swing aggressively
Key Point: The goal isn't to eliminate all vibration, but to reduce harmful shock while keeping the good feedback that helps your game.
Vibration and Performance
How vibration affects your game
Low Vibration
- • Comfortable feel
- • Less arm fatigue
- • Confident swinging
- • Better for long matches
Medium Vibration
- • Good feedback
- • Balanced feel
- • Some arm stress
- • Most players' preference
High Vibration
- • Harsh feel
- • Arm pain risk
- • Reduced confidence
- • Shorter play sessions