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Smart Starter

 

Smart Starter Paddle Racquet

The Smart Starter paddle racquet is the BEST tennis teaching and learning tool for children and beginners. It is also tremendously helpful for changing an improper stroke technique causing health problems or keeping the player from improving.

If a tennis player, no matter how advanced, has a sore wrist or tennis elbow the Smart Starter can help. By changing the improper stroke technique to a good basic technique these health problems miraculously disappear.

Smart Starter is a special wooden paddle racquet with a handle but no strings. Since it is short, children do not have to fight it and because the ball does not bounce off it, they must learn to guide the ball.

Smart Starter Paddle Racquet was announced on the Internet for the members of the Tennis Professionals Association (TPA) by Tennis Canada Coaching Department as a tool for beginners to learn to play tennis!

The process of learning the proper tennis fundamentals begins with the Smart Starter paddle racquet through to the Gradual Length Method (GLM) and finally to a racquet size that is suitable for their age. The Gradual Length Method uses Wilson string racquets (19, 21 and 23 inch) to bridge the gap between the Smart Starter paddle racquet and adult sized racquets. These Wilson racquets are available wherever fine tennis equipment is sold.

Purchase Online: By Mail:

$23.00 CDN + Shipping & Handling

In Canada: $23.00 (including tax) + Shipping and Handling
In US: $18.00 + Shipping and Handling

$8.00 Shipping & Handling (insured by Canada Post)

 

"The engineering problem solving methodology involves breaking up large and difficult problems into a series of manageable incremental steps.
In my teaching of both undergraduate and graduate level courses in Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University, I use Mrs. Brankovsky's tennis teaching methodology as a real life illustration of engineering problem solving.
Starting with a wooden paddle to learn the fundamentals of the stroke and then moving incrementally towards a standard tennis racquet allows the students to master basic forehand and backhand.
Mrs. Brankovsky's tennis teaching is a perfect example of engineering problem solving."

- Dr.M.F., Associate professor
Mechanical Engineering
McMaster University

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Vlasta Brankovsky, 40 Raglan Ave., Suite 504, Toronto, ON, M6C 2L2
416.653.4942
brankovskytennis@sympatico.ca
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