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The glove liner is designed to be worn under your sports glove. It keeps your glove from slipping by forming a seal around your racquet handle or object that you are gripping.

Dramatically increase racquet grip during sweating.

Greatly prolongs the life of your sports glove.

The glove liner is used for racquetball, football, golf, squash, baseball and batting gloves, handball, fencing, tennis, skiing, and any sport where gloves are used.

Lightweight and durable.

Size stretches to fit all hands.

Polyester gloves last much longer than cotton gloves that tend to break apart quickly. They can be washed and used repeatedly.

Since I started using them, I haven't needed to use time-outs to switch gloves. Before using under gloves, I would have to change gloves twice during each game. Now I can play 3 games without changing the glove once.

If your glove leaves sticky black residue on your hands, the glove liner will keep it off of your hands and save you the effort of trying to scrub it off.

The gloves are reversible and work for both left and right handers.


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Jordan has been teaching pre-school age kids racquetball for 10 years.

For safety and sportsmanship reasons, I use a few different rules than the
"Official USRA Rules".

I don't use the "One Swing" rule. I consider this unconstructive when teaching
kids. Plus the safety factor, considering regular "one-bounce" rules allow the
hitter to swing as many times as they want.

This could only confuse a player and result in one player picking up a "dead
ball" while the other player is still swinging. Remember, these are very young
children playing, half the adults can't remember the correct rules!

Another rule change is that a "ball rolling" is not a "dead ball". I let kids
try to hit a rolling ball, can't hurt and helps keep players from "giving up"
during a rally and keeps receiver "away" from ball and getting hit.

I do not use the 1 and 3 foot lines since it is a negative reinforcement when
kids "skips" the ball or other player has to get on 1 or 2 bounces. Plus the
more rallies the kids have the more practice and better they will get. Yes,
they rallies may be longer, but I use a different scoring method called "Speed
Scoring" which makes the games run faster, even with the longer rallies.

The "speed-scoring" is the rule that awards one point to the winner of each
rally, regardless if the winner was the server or receiver. This way the games
run faster and kids play more. Kids that aren't good servers can also score
points without being embarrassed while serving.

I teach all ages to work at their own skill level, regardless of their age. I
offer Multibounce, 3, 2 or 1 bounce and force players at the end of each class
to play at a higher level, or less bounces.

It is not uncommon to have one player playing 3 bounces while the other plays
multibouncs. Each player tells the other, and referee, what number of bounces
they will use.

Kids referee other kids games and do not allow any arguing. Referees listen to
both players than explain their decision. Any questioning of the referee after
that is answered with a polite warning they will get a "technical" if they
continue to argue, followed by a forfeit for the second warning.

Our youth "Technicals", where the other player is "awarded a point" is
different from the "Official USRA Tecnicals" where a player loses a point.
Makes the games go faster and has worked fine. Many games have been lost by
this rule, which also teaches "Good Sportsmanship" by not arguing.

Below is the web site for the Official USRA Multibounce Rules
http://www.usra.org/usra/pub&ref/rules/rule4_11.htm

Good Luck!

Jordan


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