March 2005 Monthly Archive
March 2005
Active Aging
Changing demographics are causing everyone in this industry, including facility designers and builders, to take a look at how they do business.
Industry News
Cardio Tennis Program Rolls Out to Industry After eight months of research and playtesting, Cardio Tennis is rolling out to the tennis industry. The TIA is encouraging tennis facilities and pros to apply at www.Partners.CardioTennis.com to be an official...
Lessons From a USTA Section
In January, I was invited to the USTA Southern Section Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The nice folks on their Media/Public Relations Committee (Marc Kaplan, Ron Cioffi, and Marcy Hirshberg) asked me and Seth Sylvan, director of communications for the...
2005 Racquet Selection Map
Our exclusive guide to help your customers find the perfect frame for their game.
A Soft Market
These outdoor soft-court winners hit some common themes.
Super Coach
Super Coach is a one-machine company, but that one machine is the first we've ever encountered that really can feed any ball a person can. It offers a seemingly endless list of features and settings and is designed to...
New Solutions for surface compaction
Two machines from the golf industry are helping to rehabilitate, and rehydrate, compacted clay courts.
Toalson Cyber Blade Tour Thermaxe 123
Toalson Cyber Blade Tour Thermaxe 123 is a new monofilament developed for tournament players based on the opinions and experience of Toalson contract players worldwide. According to Toalson, Thermaxe 123 affords an excellent combination of elasticity and durability by...
Advancing its position
After the initial push, the Tennis Welcome Center campaign is refining — and improving — its offerings.
Get Wise to Cracks
There's no getting around it: Asphalt courts will crack. Here's what you can do to repair the damage.
Adding Value to Tennis
It's easy to see the social case for embracing diversity, but consider what your business, and the sport, stands to gain, too.
50-50 Stringing
Q: I am fairly new to stringing and I always string from head to throat on two-piece jobs. My friend who has been stringing for about seven years starts the crosses in the center of the frame (half on each...
Securing Bumperguard Ends
Q: I have an old copy of the Racquet Service Techniques that indicates on some racquets you use the crosses to tie down the end of bumperguards. Threading this "middle cross string" creates significant friction, and I worry about notching...
Speed Search
To increase my stringing speed, I always start my crosses so that the weave is over the top of the first main string, similar to the tip from David Haskins’ that you published in August 2003. On two-piece string jobs...
Pre-lacing
On one-piece string jobs, I pre-lace all the mains starting from the long side, leaving extra string at the center mains to start my pulling. There’s a bit of science involved in leaving the minimum amount of string to be...
P-200 Racquet Protection
The most common P-200 throat adaptor used for tennis racquets is the "H" adaptor. For racquets that have a thin throat bridge and a thicker frame, the back of the adaptor can make contact with and push into the side...
Nuke 'Em
Older leather grips can be difficult to wrap around the angles of the butt cap, as well as those at the top of the handle. Using double-sided tape helps hold it in place, but doesn’t make the wrapping any easier,...
Pre-forming Replacement Grips
When you remove a replacement grip, you will notice that the butt-cap end of the old grip has taken on a spiral shape. Duplicating this spiral on the new grip will make for easier installation and a smoother job. This...
Keeping Posted
I tape two 3x5 Post-It notes together and use them to highlight stringing instructions in the Stringer’s Digest for the racquet I’m working on. The Post-Its last many weeks, and when they finally lose their tackiness, I simply replace them...
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