If in wrong place please move sorry... anyways i was just wondering when do move on from being a novice? ive been stringing just over a year and have strung 60+ rackets is there a number of racket? a number of years?
I don't really think there's a set number. But when you're no longer frightened by 'new' situations (blocked grommets, strings cut too short, weird patterns, warped strings, stringing higher tensions, etc) and you can do a consistent job, I'd say your a good stringer. Offcourse, a bit of confidence/cockyness helps a lot
well my first stringing ever took an hour 45. Now with new clamps i can do it in 45 mins on a drop weight machine from scratch.
You will know when you are no longer a novice. If you know you're a novice, you're a novice. If you don't know what you either, you're either a newbie or a n intermediate. If you know you aren't a novice, then you're still a novice XD I think you're no longer a novice when you can use the racket to determine its string pattern, and be able to use most of the machines they throw at you. You're an expert when the machine no longer matters, and it's good no matter what.
You will know it yourself. When there are your friend tell his/her friend that you do a good job and ask you to string.
Dear The GrandMaster SH, What happens if all your friends are females and they ask you to pull strings? Does that make you "no longer a novice"?
well i dont think im a novice anymore then according to all the above points. i can deal with everything that has been mentioned cheers noppy (gav)
Sweet deal. I also finally got to sub 1 hour yesterday, just tensioning a prestrung racket. Prestringing took maybe 45 minutes too.
