If your child plays several times a week, competes in tournaments, or regularly breaks strings, learning to string could: ✅ Save your family money ✅ Prevent last-minute stringing emergencies ✅ Provide more consistent results ✅ Give you control over strings and tension ✅ Possibly become a profitable side business But buying a machine is only the beginning—you’ll also need time, patience, and practice. In my new YouTube video, I explain the pros, costs, challenges, and how to decide whether stringing your junior player’s rackets makes sense for your family. Would you learn to string for your junior player? Let me know below! #JuniorTennis #TennisParents #RacketStringing #TennisStringing #CompetitiveTennis #TennisLife #JuniorTennisPlayer #TennisRacket

Hi everyone. I looked for an intro thread, but didn't have any luck so I'll just post here. Long-time racket stringer, picking it up my 1st yr in college back in '93. Learned on an Ektelon hand-crank machine, which is kind of full circle bc I've been stringing on a Neos 1000 until my recent upgrade to a Tourna 850-ES. Learned and served the Chattanooga TN market throughout the 90s and early 2000s with the claim to fame of stringing for Roscoe Tanner and his middle school aged daughter at the time. Currently live in Mobile, AL and string for a host of players... Rec, tournament level juniors, HS, and college players. I fill in at our local municipal pro shop whenever they're in a pinch. I never picked this up as a full-time gig... Just always something on the side, for fun, and as supplemental income to support my tennis habit 😁 I'm a pusher, not a puller and haven't adopted the weave ahead method bc I have strong fingers and can push through most any shaped poly, dense stringbed out there, with ease. Glad to be a part of the group and looking forward to the community!

When most of us started stringing, we were taught certain rules that sounded absolute: - Always string every racket at the recommended tension. - Polyester is automatically the best choice for serious players. - Replace strings only when they break. - Higher tension always gives you more control. - Use the same setup in every racket of the same model. But experience teaches you that stringing is rarely that simple. The right answer depends on the player, racket, string, playing frequency—and what actually happens on the court. For me, one of the biggest lessons has been this: A familiar string setup isn’t necessarily the right string setup. Sometimes our greatest value as stringers is knowing when to ask better questions instead of simply repeating the customer’s previous setup. 👇 What stringing rule, myth, or common advice have you changed your mind about—and what experience changed it?