FWIW shaking can often be helped a lot by cleaning your stadium thoroughly - I use hand sanitizer which has alcohol in it with a tea towel, it is amazing for getting rid of the buildup from rubber tips that then accumulates on said tips, and the improvement in aggression and controllability of rubber tips is very noticeable (buildup on tips reduces their grip, and seeing as I watch beyblade movement pretty closely it's painfully obvious when it's building up fast enough to affect the movement of a tip launched completely clean). It's also really good because it evaporates, though I do wipe down with a damp and then dry cloth to make sure there's no residue. Will be interesting to see if it's practical to do during a tournament, though.
On topic, I'm actually surprisingly torn about part wear - I really don't like scratching paint or chipping/wearing my parts, however:
(Jan. 16, 2014 9:49 PM)" L Wrote: I don't. I wouldn't care if it was a super-shooster-rare-bey. I'll use it for testing. After all, data seems more better to me, haha.
L absolutely nailed it - especially for me, with international postage prices in Aus and my own laziness, odds are I'm never selling this stuff anyway, so the data comes first. I will hold off using a part if it's absolutely hopeless (for example, I'm never using my Divine from Divine Chimera, because between the weight and shape there's no way it'll work, however as Mold 2 Sol is heavy for a pre-maximum series MW, I did use it), but if I think there's a chance of it being useful and that odds are no one else is going to test it, then as much as it pains me I will absolutely use any part.
But I do have a separate container of recolors or things I don't want to use/want to keep for display. Most of them are cases where I have another copy of the parts, though.