Posts by Steve Johns

Testing against the brutal reality of a six-week competitive schedule—which included relentless high winds and the scrutiny of DUPR 4.5+ club members—immediately revealed the true contenders...

My comprehensive field notes, logged after forty hours of consecutive abuse on nine top-tier paddles—from the slick humidity of outdoor Florida courts with my 5.0 crew to punishing indoor sessions...

Rigging up a rigorous, forty-hour comparative evaluation across five disparate training facilities—forcing both high-level 5.0 singles players and recreational doubles teams to face identical,...

Testing revealed the critical differences between nine systems when my squad of 5.0 hitters and weekend warriors intentionally dragged their feet across sun-drenched concrete for six weeks; finding...

Pinpointing the precise dwell time necessary for professional-grade power required six weeks of rigorous, rotational testing—spanning slick indoor surfaces and high-humidity outdoor matches with...

Testing revealed that after three months of dedicated court punishment—evaluating motor endurance, spin variability from desert altitude to coastal humidity, and reliability for both my 5.0 drills...