MyGear Wiki

Getting Started

Buy, wear, and speed up with less guesswork.

Guide	What you’ll get
Essential Questions Before Buying	Weight, balance, face size, thickness, outer ply, construction
Rubber Lifespan & Wear	When pilling and sponge fade still playable—and when to change
Accelerating With Gear	Shoes, racket spring, and kit weight as real “speed” levers

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Advanced

Feel, fiber, rubber families, and the traps between retail names and match-day specials.

Feel & selection fundamentals

• Blade Performance Metrics — speed, spin, control, feel, power, reserve power
• Elasticity, Hardness, and Core Wood — kiri vs ayous, force-level bounce
• Blade Feel Fundamentals — a fuller buying map of the same three pillars
• Style and Gear Choices — underspin vs topspin systems; tradition vs trend

Blades & fiber stories

• Harimoto SZLC vs SALC — same skeleton, different fiber and thickness
• Pro Special Blades — when handle names don’t match retail structure

Rubbers & migration paths

• Why Tenergy Before Dignics — why most players earn D through T first
• Hurricane Blue vs Orange Sponge — No. 20 crisp vs No. 22 dense support
• Boosting Truth — boost, factory energy, and china vs mild-tack paths
• Forehand Tensors Guide — Z03, Helix, DNA Platinum, G-1, T05 Hard

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How to use this wiki

1. Shopping a first or next blade? → Getting Started checklist, then Feel fundamentals.
2. Stuck between two models? → Fiber / rubber comparisons in Advanced.
3. Gear feels dead or “too slow”? → Lifespan, acceleration, and boosting notes.

!!! tip "Search anytime" Use the search bar for model names (Viscaria, SALC, D05, Hurricane…) or ideas like “kiri”, “inner”, “pilling”.