What strings?I just restrung a racquet an hour ago but I have to admit to being freaked out doing it especially as our area is pretty hard hit and a majority of the courts are either locked or they have actually taken the nets down. A friend of a friend texted me to do it as the local shops and clubs are all shut down.
I feel bad for my kid who was used to playing 20 hours a week or so and hasn't played. He just calls into his high school classes and hangs around the house. I play for social reasons and that part is killing me as I haven't hit a ball in 5 weeks.
We are trying to do the right things....
Nice racquets! Before the lockdown here, my club was in absolute Clash Insanity. It’s funny cause I didn’t like how the frame felt like a noodle and launched the ball, but every elderly person used it.
Been stringing roughly 2 to 4 frames a day. Had 14 frames come in less than 24 hours. I pick up and deliver in a small geographic area which keeps me busy enough. Kinda like the Uber Eats/ Grub Hub for stringing. Been doing that since 2010. Works for my clients and for me.
Some private clubs are open in Charleston SC. City owned facilities Re still closed. Neighborhood courts are open and many people hitting on open
I just restrung a racquet an hour ago but I have to admit to being freaked out doing it especially as our area is pretty hard hit and a majority of the courts are either locked or they have actually taken the nets down. A friend of a friend texted me to do it as the local shops and clubs are all shut down.
I feel bad for my kid who was used to playing 20 hours a week or so and hasn't played. He just calls into his high school classes and hangs around the house. I play for social reasons and that part is killing me as I haven't hit a ball in 5 weeks.
We are trying to do the right things....
Been stringing roughly 2 to 4 frames a day. Had 14 frames come in less than 24 hours. I pick up and deliver in a small geographic area which keeps me busy enough. Kinda like the Uber Eats/ Grub Hub for stringing. Been doing that since 2010. Works for my clients and for me.
Some private clubs are open in Charleston SC. City owned facilities Re still closed. Neighborhood courts are open and many people hitting on open
Put plastic over the handles, dont wanna touch them.
Ive strung like 4 rackets all month
Already have two waiting to be playtested. One recently arrived with natural gut which I do not remember ever played with. The other received a permanent mod, leadtape instead of putty, leather grip and overgrip changed.Pointless to string my own.
I am still stringing but I am only hitting once or twice a week.
Can you tube the throat grommets? Still have the Ti -1700 OS somewhereAlready have two waiting to be playtested. One recently arrived with natural gut which I do not remember ever played with. The other received a permanent mod, leadtape instead of putty, leather grip and overgrip changed.
I ponder whether to try string up this weird Yonex I bid on. Looked like freshly painted with new bumper guard. Painted Longbody but 27", missing "rubber spacer" for throat grommets. There is no soft radius on the grommet holes!!?? I wonder if someone created a fake but who would make a fake Yonex RQ Ti -1500 Longbody?
Not necessary.
Long before Covid-19, I learned to pick up frames by the throat
Not necessary.
Long before Covid-19, I learned to pick up frames by the throat not the nasty wet overgrips that 95% of players keep on their frames. I washed my hands a lot before Covid - 19 and had three 64 oz bottles of Germ-X in my home and another in the garage from last year. Had two bottles of 70% Alcohol bottles and three remaining N95 masks from a painting project.
The last time I bought toilet paper was in Jan at Costco. Learned a long time ago: Be Prepared. Been living my life that way since before college.
Overgrips are like diapers: smelly or wet, change em.
Cant it spread in the air?
Not unless the frame can cough or sneeze on you..
If we can spread it on the bottom of our shoes, i was thinking an infected grip could get some in the AC.
The last racket i strung, i left it in the garage for 3 days then did it
WNY.... almost in Lake Erie.. 8 hours from NYC
Sorry to hear that...Rochester in April...ugh...That is a good thing. I am suppose to be in ROC Sat. Thankfully have options, so opting out of that.
Love it. I really like the gravity clamps and the magnetic auto brake. It really makes stringing easy.How do you like your Ghost 2? I love my Ghost but the black Ghost 2 looks even sharper. Mine is over three years old now and been one of the best purchases I've ever made. Recouped my money on it in less than a year. I donated my Alpha Apex 2 to a high school kid.
Cant it spread in the air?
Love it. I really like the gravity clamps and the magnetic auto brake. It really makes stringing easy.
That is a good thing. I am suppose to be in ROC Sat. Thankfully have options, so opting out of that.
I live in Rochester. Small world.
Since March 16th I’ve strung 1 racquet for a colleague and 1 for me. Yesterday I just received 2 customer racquets. I usually don’t do much volume out of my house anyway, but this is definitely slow.
It is too cold up there for me. You need to follow @McLovin and head south. About 200k New Yorkers have moved to Charleston the last 15 years. No joke.
Mass has to have the runner-up with 100k of them migrating here. High taxes and cold weather [emoji113]
am1899,
Two of my coworkers live in ROC. When he told me he paid $23K a year in property tax, I was floored. You and your better half would find plenty of New Yorkers here.
You can't swing a dead cat in Charleston without hitting a New Yorker. Plenty of half-backs down here.
Half-back: they move to Florida then move half-way back.
I string my own racquets and my sparring partner's racquets. I break my string every 2 to 4 days and play everyday at home. Sometimes we have a friend who joins us. My state's covid-19 regulation says we are allowed to have a guest, but no more than 2 guests.
Sorry to hear that...Rochester in April...ugh...
After spending my first 25 years in Rochester (RIT graduate), I moved to VA and haven't looked back. My sister & in-laws still live there, but may parents became 'true New Yorkers' 5 years ago when they moved full time to Florida...
It's snowed where I am too, (NW Ohio) but I've still seen people hitting and have made it to public courts a couple times when the weather is slightly more cooperative.Strung two racquets for a friend. Pointless to string my own. It has snowed the past two days. No one on any court since November............................................court ourdoors
What strings?
@LOBALOT
I am much more concerned about sitting next to another pilot three feet to my left or about the other pilots who flipped all the required switches in the jet before I have to fly it. Several crews a day can fly the same jet. [emoji848]
I can clean a customers frame with a Lysol wipe, then a damp cloth 2-3 minutes later, but cockpits, hotel vans and hotels give me more pause than a tennis racquet. Especially since my area has not been hard hit. Cities where I fly are hit much harder. I live in a smaller area.
Going to the grocery store and picking up food is more alarming to me. Think of the times one item is touched.
A tennis racquet gets touch by just two people. The owner and the stringer. Just my .02 and certainly not bashing you or anyone for being cautious.
Yep. And just just people touch a frame. Owner and stringer.
I wash my hands after stringing and clean every frame before it is strung. Did this before Covid-19 was here, and simply added wiping the frame with a Lysol wipe, letting it sit for few mins before stringing it.
had about two five packs of those Lysol Wipes from Costco at my house, one in every vehicle along with jumper cables and other safety gear.
Multiple pilots and mechanics touch multiple switches, knobs, buttons, handles and levers in a cockpit. It takes 7 mins to wipe down every thing I touch or use in a jet, and iI am sure i miss things. Then the other pilot touches many of same things I just wiped down. We all use hand sanitizer but clearly my workplace is a much bigger threat than stringing a tennis racquet.
So no, I am not concerned about a tennis racquet when I am openly exposed to strangers and surfaces touched by hundreds of people. I take precautions at work, but feel much more exposed there than I do stringing a frame.
I have done around 15 since March 12th. A few people still doing private lessons. Have not played in over a year. Have my knee replacement scheduled for next month, so maybe by July I can get out again.
Yes, I’m in the NOVA area (further west, though, in Warrenton). We’re still in lockdown mode until June. Work is alternating 1 week at home, 1 week at the office. Sadly, other than no tennis and no gym, my & my wife’s routines haven’t changed all that much. Guess we lived boring lives...How bad is VA now with Covid -19? Are you in the metro DC Area?
I lived in Alexandria back in 2004/2005. My Acura Integra got snowed in during Snowmageddon. It had about 4 feet of snow on it, completely buried under so much snow it was barely recognizable. The locks were frozen when I did manage to dig it out, so learned the hard way about car locks freezing.
Took a picture will post it if I find it. It is only allowed to snow once every five years in Charleston, just enough to cause massive panic buying, and a lot of wrecks for those who like to drive on black ice which is 95% of what we get with a light dusting of snow.
How bad is VA now with Covid -19? Are you in the metro DC Area?
I lived in Alexandria back in 2004/2005. My Acura Integra got snowed in during Snowmageddon. It had about 4 feet of snow on it, completely buried under so much snow it was barely recognizable. The locks were frozen when I did manage to dig it out, so learned the hard way about car locks freezing.
Took a picture will post it if I find it. It is only allowed to snow once every five years in Charleston, just enough to cause massive panic buying, and a lot of wrecks for those who like to drive on black ice which is 95% of what we get with a light dusting of snow.