Once I first noticed AMBelievable’s tennis racket dampener, I’ll be trustworthy, I used to be skeptical. I used to be skeptical about its claims, questioned the product’s capability, and puzzled what influence this expertise may have.
Nicely, two years later, I’ve fully modified my opinion and absolutely imagine this expertise can revolutionize the tennis world.
AMBelievable’s Common tennis racket dampener on a tennis racket.
AMBelievable is a startup from Torino, Italy, and was began in 2022. Its mission was easy: to make use of metamaterial expertise to make tennis extra pleasant. And, after testing its product for 3 months now, I can attest that I’m having fun with tennis greater than I ever have.
AMBelievable’s dampener is made utilizing selective laser sintering (SLS), a 3D printing course of that fuses powdered TPU into exact shapes. What makes this so fascinating is how they’ve used metamaterial-inspired lattice buildings to manage how the dampener responds to completely different vibrations. These inner geometries permit it to soak up particular frequencies whereas staying extremely light-weight—one thing that merely couldn’t be finished with conventional molding.
The expertise is predicated on these metamaterial architectural buildings, as seen beneath. They’re designed to dissipate frequencies primarily based on a participant’s choice and provides an individual a very custom-made really feel. Moreover, they aren’t solely tuned to a participant’s “really feel,” however are additionally designed to eradicate the vibrations related to tennis elbow.
AMBelievable’s Metamaterial expertise targets excessive, mid, and low frequency vibrations from the tennis racket.
HEAD acoustics, an impartial lab, even corroborated AMBelievable’s claims with knowledge from its personal lab, and an interactive chart could be discovered on AMBelievable’s web site so that you can evaluate the information your self.
HEAD acoustic’s knowledge from AMBelievable’s web site reveals the discount of racket body vibrations.
This can be a giant departure from conventional tennis racket dampeners that solely goal the mid (250-350 Hz) to excessive frequency (650-750 Hz) vary produced by the strings, however go away the low frequencies (80-200 Hz) from the body, that are linked to tennis elbow, unchecked.
I’m excited to see the place AMBelievable goes from right here. Whereas its CTO, Tomasso Becutti, sees their work staying within the sporting world and probably venturing into different sports activities, I believe meta supplies like these have quite a few purposes exterior that enviornment as properly. Tomasso did point out Phononic-Vibes, one other spin-off from the identical mum or dad firm, which is exploring this expertise for acoustic functions. I believe there are many purposes there too, like noise-cancelling headphones, soundproofing partitions, and quieter automobile interiors.
I imply, think about driving down the freeway and never listening to the tires rolling down the street?! What bliss.
Simulation of the AMBelievable’s Common tennis racket dampener.
Total, I’m extraordinarily impressed by AMBelievable, and having the HEAD examine quells my largest criticism from my first article.
In case you are thinking about making an attempt the dampener your self, they’re out there for buy on the AMBelievable web site. I’ve been utilizing the “Common” mannequin, however additionally they provide a “Tuned” mannequin and may customise the dampener within the form of a brand, too. Nonetheless, be warned. As a result of when you attempt its dampener, you may ditch all of your Agassi rubber band dampeners endlessly and develop into an AMBelievable like me.
Photos courtesy of AMBelievable.
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