Category Archives: Poo-Poo Platter

Stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else.

One more time with feeling…”The String Thing”

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ggtennis

In May we created a blog entry trumpeting the praises of The String Thing.  This little tool continues to impress us.  Last week we came upon a video testimonial from Tim Strawn and John Gugel, two tennis stringing titans, who … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Learning Opportunity

Posted on April 4, 2011 by ggtennis

Just this past weekend registration for the 2011 GSS Racquet Stringer’s Symposium was put online.  The dates to reserve are September 24 – 28.  The location is going to be the Saddlebrook Tennis Resort which is located near Tampa in … Continue reading →

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Caring for Tennis Courts Following a Winter Storm

Posted on January 19, 2011 by ggtennis

The January ice storm that hit Atlanta last week put a number of things into perspective.  The fear of not having enough food for the family or formula for the baby caused many Atlanta residents serious concern while others worried about … Continue reading →

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Facebookin’!

Posted on December 15, 2010 by ggtennis

For the past year we have been striving to optimize interactions with our customers.  Social media provides us with tools to accomplish this in ways that we hope are helpful. We strive to post at least one or two interesting … Continue reading →

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A Snipet of Yesterday’s Email Messages

Posted on February 11, 2010 by ggtennis

Included are excerpts from yesterday’s email messages we received as it pertains to our products.  We are proud to bring fantastic products to our customers.  Thank you for choosing Guts and Glory Tennis! “WeissCANNON TurboTwist 1.18.  I’ve been playing with … Continue reading →

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Spider Silk – The Future of Tennis Strings?

Posted on May 20, 2009 by ggtennis

Here’s an interesting bit we ran across while surfing the web. Recent laboratory innovations have allowed scientists to clone spider silk. Bioengineered spider silk is said to be strong as steel, yet flexible at the same time. The article from … Continue reading →

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String Stiffness and Tension Loss

Posted on April 6, 2009 by ggtennis

In what could very well become our most blasphemous and controversial blog entry to date, we finally respond in a public way to one of the most common questions we receive. “Why doesn’t the USRSA include the MSV and WeissCANNON … Continue reading →

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What a week! – We coined the term “Tennis Tweetspot”

Posted on March 27, 2009 by ggtennis

It’s been a whirlwind. We have set up our Twitter account and are tweeting away, but apparently many of our customers are not yet into the whole Twitter scene. We believe the content of our tweets may be interesting to … Continue reading →

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Just Bend Over.

Posted on March 9, 2009 by ggtennis

I can’t even begin to describe how frequently I see this particular wear pattern on the headguard of racquets. Most frequently it is observed on the frames of junior players. I suspect if you are a racquet stringer you have … Continue reading →

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Guts and Glory Tennis – – Now on Facebook

Posted on March 2, 2009 by ggtennis

We freely admit to being social networking newbies.  Last week we spent some time setting up our personal facebook site and an interesting phenomena occurred.  Several of our local stringing customers requested us to befriend them online. As we became … Continue reading →

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Introducing a NEW tennis term…

Posted on February 19, 2009 by ggtennis

At Guts and Glory Tennis, we are avid tennis players as well as racquet technicians.  Today we are extremely proud to unveil a new tennis term that will soon be sweeping the tennis world.  Remember, you heard it here first! … Continue reading →

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Recycling of topical posts for new readers

Posted on February 14, 2009 by ggtennis

For readers who are new to our blog, we welcome you and wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Given the A-Rod story and steroids are back in the news we thought it might be fun to point our readers to … Continue reading →

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Use Tennis to Defeat the Recession Blues

Posted on February 12, 2009 by ggtennis

Let’s face it, without getting political, our country is facing severe financial challenges. Seemingly everywhere we turn the news is grim. Before making a personal career change to the world of tennis entrepreneurship, I served for many years as a … Continue reading →

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True Confessions of a Tension Loss Snob

Posted on January 4, 2009 by ggtennis

When we first began our stringing business we were desperate to separate our fledgling company from competitors. We sought out to educate ourselves about strings and string products and through this process determined that tension loss was bad, in fact … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Customers???

Posted on December 13, 2008 by ggtennis

This holiday shopping season has generated some interesting orders for Guts and Glory Tennis. We have filled orders for one known celebrity and suspected others. For grins and giggles we thought we would share a list of our suspected and … Continue reading →

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