Speed stringing tip

[Irvin]

Ran across this quite by accident today some of you may be interested. I was stringing my wife Juice frames and they have very small pin hole grommets on the side of the frame. I have my lighting in front of me so I not casting shadows over the racket. I am a push weaver for the most part so it can be difficult to get the string in those small grommets with the lighting behind it.

Weave your crosses one ahead and instead of routing the tag end through the grommet leave about 18" just hanging over the frame. Tension your cross and then after turning the racket put the string through the grommet and pull the string through the mains fanning as you go. With the end of the string still in your hand weave the next cross.

Im not a speed stringer but I can see where this may cut off just a tad bit of time for those of you who are. The down side from this is you're then pulling the cross through a hard weave on the mains. I prefer to pull the cross string through the mains on a soft weave leaving a lopp only long enough to reach the tensioner. That still means I have to pull a short section of string through the hard mains and after I find the end of string on the floor. But like I said I prefer not to speed string.

Enjoy!

 

[scotus]

"Small pin hole grommets"--reminds me of my racquets.

When you get some free time, make a video of this instruction and post it.

Always appreciative of all your tips.

 

[jim e]

I prefer to pull the cross string through the mains on a soft weave leaving a lopp only long enough to reach the tensioner. That still means I have to pull a short section of string through the hard mains and after I find the end of string on the floor. But like I said I prefer not to speed string.

Enjoy!

I also prefer to weave and pull one ahead with the soft weave leaving just a small loop to reach tension head, as it is easier on the string to pull the majority of string through the soft weave, but I do not have to look for the end of the string on the floor like you do, as I typically place a rubber band over my wrist and place the end of string under the rubber band and I do not need to look for string end, as that saves enough time for me.

 

[Irvin]

At one time I used to start another string after the one ahead and just weave it half way through. I guess you could call it it weaving 1 1/2 ahead. That holds the end up too.

 

[Dags]

I do this, but push the string through the grommet as I weave. I would imagine that's more efficient than leaving 18" hanging over the frame and having to come back to thread it through the grommet.

Although it means pulling the string through on a hard weave, it's not really a problem provided you fan correctly. At the start of the crosses, there is a lot of room to work with (the weave is less 'hard', so to speak). By the time you reach the end, you're down to just leaving a loop anyway.

 

[Dags]

I have my lighting in front of me so I not casting shadows over the racket. I am a push weaver for the most part so it can be difficult to get the string in those small grommets with the lighting behind it.

If I were buying you a Christmas gift, it would be a head torch. ;-)

 

[v-verb]

lol these tips are ridiculous

harsh. I've found several of Irvin's tips very useful. More so for occasional stringers like myself

 

[diredesire]

harsh. I've found several of Irvin's tips very useful. More so for occasional stringers like myself

zap (and I) have strung super high volume in the past, so a lot of these tricks seem silly because very few of these seem to be better than the age-old advice of "just practice." One thing I do (genuinely) value, however, is some creativity and novel approaches to "stale" technique.

 

[zapvor]

harsh. I've found several of Irvin's tips very useful. More so for occasional stringers like myself

eh. if you feel that way. I mean if you ask pro stringers how they got good or how they learned speed I doubt any of his tips will be mentioned there is a difference between pro vs. home stringing. there you have it. your choice how you want to approach

 

[v-verb]

Zap for pro stringers like yourself they are probably useless. But hacks like me find them really useful. Don't mean to slam you at all.

I'm pretty impressed though at Irvin's trying to better stringing for us amateurs

 

[jim e]

This forum we should all help each other in our own way, and if some comments do not feel that helpful, then just ignore them, but there is really no reason for all the negativity.
That being said hopefully this negativity is over now and we can just all get along and enjoy the posts here and tennis and stringing be it a job, or a passion or a hobby.
Merry Christmas to everyone here. Jim

 

[diredesire]

Cleaned the thread. Zap, feel free to e-mail me if you want to discuss, but the negativity is not productive to discussion here. I gave my thoughts in the other thread, if you're going to be critical, at least give a counter option and/or explain why you feel something is incorrect. Ad hominem attacks are against the policies of the forum.

 

[Irvin]

zap (and I) have strung super high volume in the past, so a lot of these tricks seem silly because very few of these seem to be better than the age-old advice of "just practice." One thing I do (genuinely) value, however, is some creativity and novel approaches to "stale" technique.

I think you will soon be able to determine the stringer in this video has done a good bit of super high volume string in the past also. But if you want the the video I think you will find a lot of wasted effort in it. The purpose of the thread was to be able to identify wasted effort and come up with a solution to avoid any wasted effort. Whether that solution works for every one doesn't really matter identify problem areas and solution is the key to perfection. Practice does not make you better or faster, perfect practice may.

Even though there is a lot of wasted effort he is fast but it could have been faster. Isn't this the guy that teaches how to string faster in the GSS symposiums?

 

[zapvor]

Cleaned the thread. Zap, feel free to e-mail me if you want to discuss, but the negativity is not productive to discussion here. I gave my thoughts in the other thread, if you're going to be critical, at least give a counter option and/or explain why you feel something is incorrect. Ad hominem attacks are against the policies of the forum.

lol i am good man. people will make their own choice. just funny to me. wish Yulite was here still.

 

[Rabbit]

lol i am good man. people will make their own choice. just funny to me. wish Yulite was here still.

lots of good, knowledgeable posters have left due to reasons you described

 

[1HBHfanatic]

This is a good tip irvin, def. Time saver
Early on when I first started learning to stringing and reading posts on this board, I read someone complain howmuch time they spent chasing the tail of the string; so I made it a point to try to leave the tail where I can get to it quick, its saved me lots of time indeed
I also like to weave one ahead, and right before I go fully across, ill leave about 5 inches or so, without threading the cross,
what this does for me, it leaves the tail up where I can see it
picture a "scorpions tail", infact thats what ive been calling it, the scorpion tail cross weaving technique, haha
When im ready for the next cross, I grab the tail, thread the hole, fan, etc.etc..