Racket launch overkill – who can nonetheless observe?

As a number of occasions previously earlier than, I have been requested by membership mate (kind aspiring teen with nice method fundamentals) for racket suggestions yesterday throughout practise. No funds limitations.

And my head… was simply empty. The one rackets that popped up instantly had been from 2-3 years in the past and simply going with the large 3 (Yonex, Victor and Li-Ning), I could not title a single racket from their present line-up that I might simply suggest.

Am I the one one who’s simply being fully overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of releases over the previous years? That are already adopted and changed by successors earlier than they get the slightest probability to turn out to be referred to as a possible basic?

Yonex with their Sport/Play/Tour/Professional/SuperPro/ChuckNorris construction, Victor with Professional (how artistic), Metallic or Bravesword reincarnations, Li-Ning with… effectively, I’ve truly stopped following their releases since I simply don’t perceive something they’re doing anymore.
And this going hand in hand with the apparent lower in body high quality with sunken or fully punched by holes, early cracks and so forth and so forth.

Critical query – is it simply me?