Howard Head with Prince released the Prince Classic in 1976......
It's hoped that it does happen when the weather is below freezing in the middle of winter in the *******.I'm marching in the streets naked at midnight with my kneissl at midnight to protest our very manifest destiny, who's with me????(ladies only please)
it is what makes us unique,
remember what mother told us every night, when we were but tiny children, nestled in her bosom:
"This is thunderdome, death is listening, and will take the first man that screams..."
well maybe it was something else she said, anyways, I'll try and remeber and get back to you..
-Plasmaberg
oh those days, when inventors and companies actually designed quality products, and not sweat$hoped crepe...
fischer, rossignol, snauwaert, le coq, kneissl, what happened to people and racquets not being identical? what happened to authenticity and a non-homogenous country? I'm marching in the streets naked at midnight with my kneissl at midnight to protest our very manifest destiny, who's with me????(ladies only please)
I've seen the greatest players of my generation destoryed by midplus, wandering addicted in the sweatshopped path, overhitting, lacking consistency and touch, looking for an angry composite.
Searching for the synthetic clad fantasies of their materialistic misgivings,
passing through judgmental universities of their own physical ignorance,
arms and legs flailing, without leverage let alone center,
not a nickel bag of rear toe pivot on their forehand,
just a shouldering chimpanzee locked in a cage,
sun, clouds, the wind, and the constant reminder and belief in the return of the 85,
it is what makes us unique,
remember what mother told us every night, when we were but tiny children, nestled in her bosom:
"This is thunderdome, death is listening, and will take the first man that screams..."
well maybe it was something else she said, anyways, I'll try and remeber and get back to you..
-Plasmaberg
I began playing in 1980, and I don't recall Prince frames being very popular then.I was a kid during that era and can remember the transition from wood/aluminum rackets when I was learning in the late 1970's.
The racquets popular in that era that I remember were:
Prince Classic
Prince Aluminum Pro (a lot of the teaching pros and better junior players had this)
Prince Woodie
Head Pro (aluminum)
Head Edge
wooden Wilson Pro Staff and Jack Kramer Staffs were still common
Yonex R-1
^ Good post. Quite accurate.Victims of the 80's usually started with whatever they could afford - that was usually a cheap aluminum racket (Wilson Match Point for me...), or a cheap wood racket (similar to today, the cheap rackets had famous player names on them...). We then graduated to "something better" like a Kramer Auto/ProStaff, Donnay (if you of the Borgian persuasion), Head Pro or Master, Dunlop Maxply, or something of the like... about the same time as Prince came along, decent graphite rackets came along. Princes were viewed as "cheating" - and most wood racket users didn't like them. So... it took awhile... Head Edge... Head Edge Graphite... or something of the like... By then, Andre came along, and then it became cool(er) to have an oversize racket...
Howard Head with Prince released the Prince Classic in 1976......
I'd love to find a panther pro ceramic and a Donnay Pro Ceramic, the only 2 Ceramic 85's I know of...
Victims of the 80's...
I'd love to find a panther pro ceramic and a Donnay Pro Ceramic, the only 2 Ceramic 85's I know of...
Found another one to add to that list, the Hema Graphite GTX Pro, as used by Paul Haarhuis at the start of his career.
Started with a Jack Kramer Pro Staff and then a Donnay Borg Pro.
I'd love to find a panther pro ceramic and a Donnay Pro Ceramic, the only 2 Ceramic 85's I know of... Spectrum comp taught me that Ceramic feels better than Anna's Kournikova....