those kids are Rafael and Roger

Hi, "She" is a beauty isn't "She" 🤔. Concerning natural and pre-stretching, there is no hard and fast rule that natural gut has to be prestretched, in fact one of the largest makers of gut recommends not to. Pre-stretching gut makes it easier to handle and if the stringer is not used to stringing gut it can help, however, this just means that it is helping the stringer. Pre-stretching natural gut will make the gut more stable to initial tension loss but also take out some of what makes gut so special, elasticity. If you decide to pre-stretch gut, uncoil the gut, pass it around a well fixed object and pull on both ends to take the coil memory out. Then just string as normal, if you don't string a lot of gut and fancy trying it in a full bed, I would use 4 knots (Parnell knots of course 😉) to make the handling slightly easier. Hope this helps

@@richardparnellknot much appreciated mate, I will give it a go👌👌cheers

Hmmm interesting, it looks nice and high quality to me

If you have a regular grip on your racket, then no. If you have an existing overgrip on, then it’s completely up to you. If you want a ticker grip, then go right ahead and put an overgrip on top of the overgrip you have on. If you want it how it it, take the old overgrip off and put on a new overgrip. (A little hint) if you ever develop tennis elbow or something like that then a thicker grip may help in a way. Won’t help much, but it will do something :)

Hi, Yes, this is probably the most used starting method, however, the Yusuki method can also be used and is good on protecting the clamps as less strain is placed on them. With the Yusuki, you have to use a starting block to protect the string. 🙂