At that speed, watching their technique would require that you wear a welding mask!I'd like to watch their technique to see where they're getting that much speed. 5 racquets per hour is about 2 more racquets per hour than me. Wow.
I'd like to watch their technique to see where they're getting that much speed. 5 racquets per hour is about 2 more racquets per hour than me. Wow.
5 rackets an hour is fast if you don't include mounting, dismounting, stenciling, and bagging.I'd like to watch their technique to see where they're getting that much speed. 5 racquets per hour is about 2 more racquets per hour than me. Wow.
12 minutes! How do they weave that fast? What I want to see is how they manage to do the crosses without destroying the mains when they finish a frame in 12 minutes. The fastest ever (for me start to finish just stringing) was 35 minutes. I FEEL SO SLOW.
I'm guessing someone other than the stringer removes the old strings, collects the string to to used, stencils the frame, and bags the racket. All the stringer is actually doing is stringing the frame.That's with stencil and bag. Knock at least a minute off for that and they are doing 11 minute string jobs.
"It takes the Delray Beach Open professional stringers just 12 minutes per racquet (including the stenciling and packaging)"I'm guessing someone other than the stringer removes the old strings, collects the string to to used, stencils the frame, and bags the racket. All the stringer is actually doing is stringing the frame.
"It takes the Delray Beach Open professional stringers just 12 minutes per racquet (including the stenciling and packaging)"
It doesn't say that the stringer is doing the stencil and bagging. It just says it takes 12 minutes to do everything."It takes the Delray Beach Open professional stringers just 12 minutes per racquet (including the stenciling and packaging)"
You right anyone can stencil and bag rackets. But I have to agree an average of 5 rackets an hour is very fast.It doesn't say that the stringer is doing the stencil and bagging. It just says it takes 12 minutes to do everything.
7 minutes string job
7 minutes string job
Not a live video, but it recounts a true story....
Don't believe anything you hear (read) and only half of what you see.Actually, that story never happened. It's total creative license.
I'd like to watch their technique to see where they're getting that much speed. 5 racquets per hour is about 2 more racquets per hour than me. Wow.
If you can't do it, it does not mean nobody else can.
Get real people!!!
I could not find it in my search last night, but I do recall an interview with Nate Ferguson where he mentioned doing such a thing at Wimbledon. He is BS'ing us?Actually, that story never happened. It's total creative license.
Maybe @uk_skippy can chime in here. Did Nate Ferguson and Liam Nolan both string at Wimbledon in 2001 (on site?) I doubt if N Ferguson was even on site stringing.I could not find it in my search last night, but I do recall an interview with Nate Ferguson where he mentioned doing such a thing at Wimbledon. He is BS'ing us?
Obviously dramatized for the commercial, but I would like to think that there is some hint of truth behind it.
I could not find it in my search last night, but I do recall an interview with Nate Ferguson where he mentioned doing such a thing at Wimbledon. He is BS'ing us?
Obviously dramatized for the commercial, but I would like to think that there is some hint of truth behind it.
It is amazing what can be achieved when beer is taken out of the stringing equation.
Yeah, I never thought they would be sitting across from each other racing, that's obviously for dramatic effect in the commercial. But I am pretty confident that Nate could string up a PS85 in about 12 minutes during a match if needed.When Pete would need an on court racquet strung, the Wimbledon stringers were kind enough to let Nate use one of their machines. The fact that Pete strung his sticks at 33-34kg with 1.22mm gut on the grass may have had something to do with that
I asked Nate how "real" this story was when the ad came out. He says he doesn't have any recollection of stringing a racquet at the same time as Liam Nolan. He certainly doesn't ever remember racing someone to finish a racquet. Basically, the closest he may have come to this is that he strung a racquet for Pete at some point durning a match, and Liam strung a racquet for Federer at some point during that same match.
To be honest, I seem to remember Frank Messerer being Roger's personal stringer at the time, and would think he would have strung any racquets for Roger. Roger also used a method of proportional stringing back then, so stringing his sticks back then took a bit of extra time.
One of Federer's 2009 French Open racquets is at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and from when I saw it there, I recall that some of the cross grommets were grooved at the bottom part. I think that the grooving was from the crosses being pulled across the mains in a "V" maybe a bit faster than the grommets liked. I recall the main string tie-off grommets being somewhat split too, and that it looked like it was at least partly from the type of knot used.
The French members of the Tecnifibre stringing team have a reputation for speed. I have no idea who they had stringing at Delray Beach - French, American, a combination, neither? Somebody told me of a French Tecnifibre stringer stringing 3 of the same racquet a while ago, same string, same reference tension, in barely 30 minutes, but the ERT readings not within +/- 1.
Journos butcher enough of these type of stories, but here you can't completely blame this journo for writing that racquets are strung in 12 minutes. When you see interviews of tournament stringers like some of the Wilson guys they've said stuff like their usual pace is a casual 15 minutes per racquet.
Yeah, I never thought they would be sitting across from each other racing, that's obviously for dramatic effect in the commercial. But I am pretty confident that Nate could string up a PS85 in about 12 minutes during a match if needed.
No doubt. You are the expert in the field.Maybe. Not sure how fast Nate can do it,but I'm pretty sure not 12 minutes. More like 15 minutes or so. You need to remember that all the mains were tubed at the top, and you need to allow the gut to stretch to 33-34kg. Those two things take time. I'm guessing I may also have more of an idea on how fast Nate strings than you as well.
No doubt. You are the expert in the field.
I would not suggest that this was a normal stringing time for a professional. All I was suggesting is that a top pro stringer realistically could get to 12 minutes in a pinch. Not the way they would want to string a pro's reacquet for top quality, but possible if required.
That level of detail keeps the world's best knocking on your door. One could surmise that the level of service/quality varies enough by stringer and/or tournament that those players looking for the ultimate in consistency need to look elsewhere.I also need to clarify what Nate and I call "stringing a racquet." We consider that to also include the time it takes to properly straighten the strings when it comes off the machine. That alone takes at least 1-2 minutes. We take great pride in our straightening(it also lets us sit down since we're old men). So when I say I can keep a pace of 3 racquets per hour, that includes straightening. It doesn't include stenciling or bagging though since I do all of that at the end of a batch of sticks.
Don't care, it looks bad. If they did not spend the time to straighten the crosses, what else did they not pay attention to while stringing my racquet? Was it just another quick stringing job or someone who took care of my racquet and followed my requested tensions? Maybe it's just some OCD, but I prefer my crosses straight, knots done on the the same grommet holes, and the rackets to look identical when returned to me. With someone else stringing, it was hit or miss on the results so I do it myself now.How many pounds to you estimate you lose when a stringer returns a racquet to you with Curved crosses and you straighten them back yourself??
You're not losing any tension by straightening them yourself.GREAT Post !!!
How many pounds to you estimate you lose when a stringer returns a racquet to you with Curved crosses and you straighten them back yourself??
I'd like to watch their technique to see where they're getting that much speed. 5 racquets per hour is about 2 more racquets per hour than me. Wow.