GOING THRIFTING FOR TENNIS RACKETS
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Can I find a good tennis racket at the Goodwill Store?
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The Rossignol F- 200 was the winner!!! Matt Wilander racket... I used to play with that racket.. A piece of tennis history...
I had a similar one. I think it's somewhere in my dad's basement.
Exactly....wilander racquet...that is a jewel....that prince is crap rosignol was an awesome frame....the winner by far
not for everyone, though; super flexy, super low power; like trying to beat someone to death with a wet noodle.
@@racketman2u hahaha...of course I would never play with that...my R-22 was the bomb....it's just an iconic racquet...I wish brands like rosignol, Kneissl, snauwaert, Davis, Slazenger, Estuza, Mizuno etc will come back and get rid of Babolat...I'm sick of them. I know is a tough market but it will be nice. Right now pro staff v13 is THE racquet..in my taste
Same here !!! Love that racket! How much was it ?
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Found a Pro Staff nCode 6.1 90 in mint condition at a local neighborhood garage sale for $5, and, yes, I have a Prince Graphite Pro 90!
My best goodwill finds are a Spalding pancho gonzales signature, brand new Chris Evert autograph wilson, Donnay Allwood no cracks and straight with minimal scrapes at top and a Pdp open in perfect condition.
Sell for $5 each on eBay lol
@@vintageoutboard1 actually 30 to 50 but they if you can find em for 5 more power to you
This was a great idea for a video.
Im so jealous, I live in Tonga and its so hard to get any racquets let alone good racquets here. Basically any tennis gear is almost impossible to come by, desperate for some overgrips lol
Wish I could walk into a store and just pick up some gear like that, my students would gladly use those.
Sorry man that sounds rough. And I thought it was a bit tough in Hawaii, but at least for now Amazon will still ship free here.
I have and still play with the Prince Graphite Pro 90. mind you I took about a 20+ year hiatus from tennis and got back in three years ago. Looking for a new racquet to replace mine. I actually got mine restrung last summer after all that time and no strings were broken when i returned to play.
Try out a Wilson Ultra Tour 97 V.2. It's the prior generation before the current Wilson Ultra Pro V.3. It's pretty no-frills as modern rackets go, and is definitely a throwback feel to the classic frames. I played with a Prince Original Graphite 90 (I think it was actually a 93) for many years and I love my Ultra Tours. You can get them relatively inexpensively on eBay too since they are a generation old. Same situation with Prince Phantom Pro's if you want to stick with Prince.
fun video
Always love to check out thrift stores for rackets. You never know when you'll stumble across an original Pro Staff amongst all the $20 aluminum junk. Fun times treasure hunting!
Just be sure to check closely for cracks. Sometimes there's a reason you find too-good-to-be-true rackets at the thrift store.
i guess Ceramic is spelled "Graphite" now. lol.
The Rossignol is hands down the best. You missed out.
The rossignol was the winner. You can re-sell it on EBAY for $50 to a Mats Wilander collector. Bad choice Harry...
think real quick... how much could you resell the prince for?
@@also-dannythebozo that Prince racquet is not a collectible. $20 at the most.
F200 is definitely the choice. Wilander was one of the first men to start winning grand slams with a larger racquet. This is that racquet.
@@eduardohuerta5460 It is not if it is a collectible or not. You need to consider playability as well. The condition is also a large variable.
@@also-dannythebozo do me a favor, search both frames on EBAY and tell me how much they go for.
that Prince racket has been sitting in a garage with a broken string for decades.. and yet my first thought is "he needs to cut the string out so it doesn't warp".
is he taking the piss?
Nooo! You left Rossignol F200!!! Nevertheless, I always enjoy your show!
Picked up a Pro staff tour 90 hyper carbon first edition in absolute mint condition for $5 nz dollars in a thrift shop in New Zealand .
Can't believe you put the Rossignol back!! Noooooo!
Rossignol was the jewel and not the prince...unless the Rossignol was cracked...
Old top-of-the-line rackets are da bomb, you guys in the states have it so good with ebay, you can get any racket you can name, often really cheaply.
another great topic btw, I always look forward to what you will come up with next.
I've found babolat aeros, wilson pro staffs, wilson ceramics, lots of woodies...I play with the white ceramic 90 and put my pro staffs as backups. The ceramic is gold ! Great video.
Local thrift shop had a perfect jack kramer($3.75) and....a perfect pro staff 85 midsize(with perfect original grip) for $2.75. Not a st vincent and no covers, but best haul I ever found
i found a pro staff 95 at a thrift shop along with an agassi 80s racquet, the yellow and black one, and 2 others.. got them all for 25 bucks
@@Sir_Leelord nice find too!!! I used the 95 back in the day, would love to find another one of those
ProKennex Bronz Ace - graphite and fiberglass
I just picker up a Prince Thunderbolt mid-plus Longbody 800 power and a Wilson Hyper Carbon Hammer 4.3 that were both stuffed into the Wilson carry cover at a large local thrift store. Everything was filthy and caked with dust and some sticky stuff that I couldn't ID but, it felt like tape residue. The grips were shot on both but the rackets were in nearly perfect condition under the dirt and both had been re-strung. After I cleaned them I found that the paint on both looked almost new. The shop owner didn't care anything about them, he said they had been sitting around for a while and he just wanted to turn them into money. So, I asked what did he want for them? He gave me the stock reply, "what will you give me?" As a wise crack (I thought) I said $5 for all of it; he said "pay me". I couldn't get the money out of my pocket fast enough. I just need to regrip them. You got to love rural country thrift stores.
Fusing my two favorite T’s, Thrifting and Tennis. You will be surprised what you will find to use and even resell.
Thanks for the fun vid!
You still have to wear masks in stores, that sucks!
You need an under shirt not coffee 😂
i go to goodwill all the time for wooden racquets and any pro quality racquets and buy'em all up. I feel like i'm saving them when i see them for 5 bucks or less.
I got a wilson prostaff 6.0 85 for £3 off Facebook
This was my childhood weapon of choice. I was playing with this when I was about 8 years old .. oh the memories !!
Do part 2 this was really fun to watch
All these rackets are way too stiff for me at least.
Found an N-Code at mine. Bargain!
Not sure why I died when he picked up that electric fly swatter. Then he explained what to use it for. 😂💀
I've bought 5 Head TiS6's off eBay at half of retail.
Most had very little usage.
I change the grip and strings and have a new racket.
I customize with lead tape and would change the strings
even on a new racket
I used to play the Rossignol f200 in about 1984, it cost me about £75 and was quite rare in the UK. I recently got one of eBay for £20 for fun......sadly it was not fun too heavy and not at all as I remembered it!
I have found some great condition 6-12 racquet bags for
i go to thrift stores looking for St. Vincint Pro staffs. so far found 1 st vincent, 3 pro staff classics, 1 pure drive and 1 pure strike. (also a couple cool babloat tennis bags). Y'all pick those sticks up! They're waiting for you!
I had a Prince Graphite Pro 110 and it played like a noodle. It was too flexible and lacked power. A very disappointing racquet to play with.
Hi, were you able to find grommets that fit the prince power pro 110? Thanks, Eric
Moral of the story, take your phone when going thrifting - that Rossi is a cult frame. Quick, go back and get it!
My best find at goodwill in San Francisco was a Prince 03 white in near perfect condition. I paid $8 for it and sold it for $40. Lol.
The prince pro 110 the “noodle”. I had two great racquet. Plays like newer phantoms.
Yard sales are a much better place to find tennis rackets for really cheap. Best haul so far was a Babolat rival pro for $1.25.
The guy I took lessons from had a Graphite Pro before he switched to a Yamaha Secret 04.
I would have purchased the F-200 and sold it for a $40-$50 profit
That prince graphite is one of my fav racket.. older but tough
what are your thoughts on head ti radical mp?
When I was a kid, our club primus played the rossignol
$5 plus restring and new grip. I rather buy a cheap new one
Are there any antique rackets worth a lot?
nice video
Don’t diss the Bronze Ace by Pro Kennex! That was my high school tennis team racquet. It was a 60/40 graphite/fiberglass composite. Circa 1985. I didn’t have the dough for the popular Silver Ace (80/20 composite). It played fine for it’s time.
correction: “its” time
I've seen that one. My mom used the black ace, it was a heavy racket. My first graphite racket was a pro kennex graphite dominator from a Costco type place late 1980s. Maybe I can have him measure the ace.
Why? Get the great Wilson racket at Costco for $50
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