10sJunkies Pod: Revolutionizing the Racket Stringing Industry w/Mains & Crosses
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In this episode of the 10sJunkies podcast, I got the awesome opportunity to talk with Smitti. Smitti runs an at-home-stringing business and popular Instagram page "Mains & Crosses". We sat down and talked about certain trends we can likely predict that will impact the stringing industry. Smitti has been stringing for about 8 years and has experienced many ups and downs in the industry. One thing Smitti did to improve his business is to start offering a pickup and drop-off service when COVID hit to help provide people with the most convenient service possible. Another innovation Smitti implemented was accepting crypto-currency and buying into the NFT and Metaverse space. I really enjoyed talking all things stringing and new-age business with Smitti and hope I get the chance again! You can check out his Instagram account at the link below:
/ mainandcrosses
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Excellent! an education
Great conversation, I find stringing interesting but somewhat hard to always understand. For example, Ive been told you can play natural gut until it breaks. I have a volkl gut in mains and toalson syn gut in my VCORE pro HD, and am at well over 30 hours and play fairly 'flat'. I find it less enjoyable to play now even though I was determined to play it until it snaps. My question; what are the tell-tale signs its time to change nat gut? the tension has got to be low 40s if not even lower. Thanks again.
I think Nat gut can be used either until it snaps or you start to feel that it’s uncontrollable. Every string will hit a “dead” period which will give an unpredictable response. Once you start getting this unpredictable response I would recommend changing it out. Stringing is tough to understand because it’s so personalized meaning it’s hard to give out blanket statements. I would personally restring it after the 30-35 hour mark. But it’s going to be different for each individual. Thanks for listening to the episode!
@@10sjunkies74 awesome, I will get it strung soon!