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Welcome! For those who are new to the GSS web site we welcome you. For those who have been with us for a while you’ll notice we’ve redesigned the format and we welcome your comments and feedback. If you demand more you can check out our new sister site at www.gssalliance.com This is a subscription based organization that allows members to interact through many features on the web site including instant chats and a message forum. GSS Alliance offers a “Stringers Directory” where businesses can list their information and tournament stringers can add their profile. Membership for GSS Alliance is $49 per year. To join please go HERE to sign up! We welcome racquet technicians and serious tennis players from around the world and invite you to enjoy our newest web site.
2012 GSS Symposium
The registration for the 2012 GSS symposium at Saddlebrook Resort is now open. The dates are September 22nd through September 26th. This year we’ll be offering many new classes and we’ll also be bringing back the very popular Wilson Tour Simulation Stringing room where you can test your skills as a tournament stringer. If stringing at the tour level is a goal of yours there’s no better way that we know of than to come to the symposium and sign up for this class. For complete information on the symposium please check out the links below:
Go HERE for a complete overview of the symposium, seminar information, and a list of seminar leaders
Go HERE to view the schedule.
Go HERE for videos and testimonials
To go directly to the registration page to sign up for this year’s symposium please go HERE
What’s on the Subscription Site
The subscription site at www.gssalliance.com offers members a variety of features for an annual fee of just $49. This project is designed to be a global network of racquet technicians who have an interest in the craft of racquet service and a desire to help one another with various issues they encounter on a daily basis. Features include (but are not limited to):
- Access to a resource panel of professional consultants within the racquet sports industry ranging from technical advisors to manufacturer reps
- A stringers directory that allows technicians from around the world to list their business profiles
- A string characteristics table that allows technician to compare various strings with regards to tensile strength and elongation
- An interactive message forum that allows members to list “For Sale” and “Wanted” items as well as a host of other unique forum boards
- An interactive blogging format where members can start their own blog posts and solicit feedback from other members
- Direct links to stringing patterns for leading manufacturers
- A comprehensive listing of stringing machine manuals including technical videos on the Babolat Star III & 4 and the RDC
- A complete listing of contact information for all major manufacturers and distributors within the racquet sports industry
- Direct member to member interaction through a “Facebook” style format
- Unique racquet reviews that offer a comprehensive list of static and dynamic data
- Stringing machine & equipment reviews that help you compare valuable information when you’re in the market for a new machine
- A member discount to the annual GSS training symposium that completely offsets the cost of joining (if you attend the conference
Heads Up!
If you would like to experience what our reviews are like on the subscription site at www.gssalliance.com we’ve posted up a couple of freebies. Just go to the top navigation menu and under “Articles” click on “Free Articles“. There you’ll find a “Reviews” category with one machine and one racquet review. Enjoy!
GSS Online Store
Check out our online store where you’ll find some of the best professional stringing tools anywhere, some of which are exclusive to GSS like professional Kimony awls, considered to be the very best in the world! We sell 2 models of Xuron cutters and bent needle nose pliers with serrated tips that every stringer will appreciate. You’ll also find scales, calibrators, and other unique miscellaneous stringing accessories like power pad leather, lead tape, machine and awl lubricants, poly racquet bags, replacement felt tips for your stencil ink bottles and much more!
Best guarantee anywhere! GSS GUARANTEES OUR PRODUCTS 100% against manufacturers defects. If you find defects in anything you buy from GSS we will replace it, no questions asked! To visit our online store please go HERE
We welcome your comments and suggestions and encourage you to submit your requests using the form below.