Nano Fusion Speed 722 racket review
Firstly the Apacs Nano Fusion Speed 722 (shortened to NFS722):
I've just received this from a seller in Malaysia and so haven't played with it yet, but I've given it a quick couple of swings and also my 'living-room-wall-drive-test' i.e. hitting it really hard and fast against my living room wall to see if it's a good responsive racket and annoying my neighbours no doubt. I also love the Apacs brand, having bought upwards of 12 rackets from them, they are carbon, good quality, sturdy and can be strung to really high tensions.
I play a defensive net game with periods of continuous backcourt smashing so I'm really lost as to which rackets I should use, pure power or light touch? I go for the latter alot as my racket choices show; Apacs Nano 9900 (x8), Apacs Nanotubes 9990, Yonex Nanoray 700RP, Dunlop Bioimetic Max XL (x2). All head light, all my preferred choice. However my split personality shows up too with my other rackets; Apacs Nano Power 900 (x3), Yonex Arcsaber Z-slash and awaiting my Apacs Lethal 6. All head heavy (MORE POWERRRR!!!!!! ~Jeremy Clarkson).
The stats for the racket are:
Weight and grip: 6U G2
Balance: Head light
Flex: Medium to high flex (my opinion)
Style: Defensive
So my initial thoughts were 'gosh this looks sexy!', I have this strung at 26lbs (like all rackets I purchase) with black string and black PU grip. The racket itself is black and yes I am slightly OCD about matching colours. So it looks good.
Like I've said I have just swung it a bit and rallied myself (forever alone ;~;) and it feels fast. you'd expect that, it's very light but compared to the rest of my rackets it is fast fast. I am so looking forward to playing with it and returning smashes. The reaction is good and you almost think your way through shots. I found myself having time to take 2 swings at a drive shot and up to 4 for a delayed lift.
Anyway I'll come back after playing and do a comparison with my current favourite (Nanoray 700RP).
Sirenia- Perils of the Deep Blue review
My rating: 2/5~ I liked some of it but I prefer softer vocals >_<!
I speak to you now watching the Gentlemens doubles Wimbledon final and listening to this album (really makes it look like an epic war xD). Anyway, contrary to many people's opinions I really liked the last Sirenia album, The Enigma of Life. It spoke to me lyrically and didn't have alot of vocal strains, the music was calming and then fast at the right times. Maybe you disagree but meh my right to an opinion.
This album is a huge contrast. Ailyn said that for this she went to refine her vocal skills with an operatic group and you can see where this is shown. Whereas on the previous album her voice was general stable and at a 'comfortable' range for this she goes extremely high pitched for the opening 'Ducere Me In Lucem' and carried it well. The next was Seven Widows Weep, fast paced drumming, lots of growls and her voice almost lost in the main portion from the music, towards the end she had a solo part which I think was great her range being shown well.
Next was probably my favourite track from the album, My Destiny Coming to Pass, her voice being shown off to great effect, the chorus accompanied with her swelling up and followed by deep... not wailing but you know what I mean (pleasant wailing?!), didn't really like the growling near the end (never do >_>) but still a good track. Ditt Endelikt was a male vocalised (by Morten?) song in what I think was Norwegian (don't shoot me) it was nice but not really why I listen to female fronted symphonic metal bands.
Anyway the rest of the album proceeded with Ailyn singing words far longer than needed and lots of growling, fair to say I didn't presonally like this all too much and hope they go back to making some softer songs (again my opinion so xP). The album overall gave my eardrums a pounding and that's the issue I take with it. The female vocals were not soothing as they are in let's say Darkened Days To Come, Fallen Angel, or Within Temptation's- Stairway To The Skies, Delain's-Babylon (really trying to use recent songs I could name so many from previous works!!!) etc. I personally listen to Symphonic Metal for the balance between the metal and drums+guitar to be balanced by the singer softening it and almost hugging you lyrically and vocally so sorry Sirenia but >_< please go back to Enigma!
Manga Chapters- Fairy Tail, History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, The World God Only Knows, The Breaker: New Waves, Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, Piano no Mori~ SPOILER ALERT!
OK final portion and if you've read this far, you're as bored as me well done!
So FT came out with a 3 chapter special to celebrate winning the Dai Matou Enbu, beating evil Future Rogue, stopping dragons and so on. Woo-could'vebeenbetter-hoo. Honestly the arc was coming to a major point and Hiro Mashima just stopped it >_<! The arc was I admit full of so many 1-2-1s but I like that. The Erza-Kagura-Minerva fight was epic. Laxus vs Jura. Natsu vs Sting. I could go on... so I shall. Gajeel vs Rogue. Erza vs the Pandemonium monsters. So good!!!!!!!!! (fanboy squeel!!!) anyway then the arc took a turn to plotting and time warps etc. Dragons came then poof they went >_>. Like WTF!!!!!! we had the chance to see the Dragon Slayers go up against the dragons and lose/win/learn/get OP whatever. The arc had alot of fight in it, why end it so abruptly?! With a "and Natsu crashes into the gate to send everything back to the way it was" >_> really? Come on we had a pervy dragon >_< y u no keep him? I can only hope that in the next arc Zeref brings dragons else Hiro has seriously missed out on what I think is a great set of characters.
HSDK is plodding along with new enemies coming and small gags. The loss of (my opinion) mid-level character Tanaka and switching of sides of Rimi (isn't she so moe n_n!) and Ryuuto is over, Shizune is making armour, blinds us with impressive 'step-of-forging' and comedically sends Kenichi away saying that he'd have to train with Apachai and Sai. Filler chapter not much to say.
TWGOK is entering a very interesting portion of this arc with Keima being threatened (physically too >3<) by Kaori-chan. Will she turn out to be a Tsundere Childhood Friend or Mistress of a Western House (pg5 reference)? Certainly she could become a very good enemy and I look forward to how Keima is gonna try to (and really I hope kinda fail at first at least) conquer her.
TB:NW ended on a cliffhanger. Two of the 10 Masters of Murim are facing off. Elder Kwon being badass. Shi-Woon Yi apparently out of it (I suspect not though but his OP powerup is a bit unexplainable) sets this up to be a good little sequence.
KSKM opened to Minami facing off vs Black Leopard who looks like he's about to murder our beloved ramen chef T-T.
PnM (quick recap cuz I'm gonna head out about now to play pool) basically just emphasized how amazing Wei Pang's playing is and sets up Kai for a big choke up (for his first piece) and will his suspected hand injury flare up? DUN-DUN-DUN
Hope you liked my LOOOOOOOOOOOONG post xD certainly got that need to write stuff out of me. Might give a small update when I get back on 2 other manga I'm reading (Team Medical Dragon and Freezing new chapters!).
PS: I'm gonna do a post next time of lists of stuff that I read for mainly my own benefit =3=
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