Top tennis court equipment distributor and leading supplier of tennis ball machines throughout the UK sportsequip.co.uk have added the new Tennis Tutor Cube machine to their range.

‘It has been quite a long time since we felt a new machine was good enough’ said MD Robert Boyd. ‘Most suppliers just add all the new machines that come along. We at sportsequip.co.uk take them all out for a trial run. If we think it is good enough, offers unique features, and isn’t overly priced, then we’ll offer it to our customers.’ 

The Sports Tutor Cube is a range of battery operated tennis ball machines suitable for beginners to intermediate players. Battery running time is 2 and a half hours continuous use, up to 5 hours court time.
Ball speed can be pre-set at any speed from 10 to 45mph. All Tennis Cubes with a standard 2 year warranty on the machine.

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Tennis_Ball_Machines.htm

Designed and built by tennis players for all year round courtside use these new players benches are aimed at tennis clubs, schools and public tennis courts.

They are robust enough to withstand a considerable amount of wear and tear and have a useful storage facility beneath the bench seat, for bags, rackets and tennis balls.

The steel frame is zinc phosphate treated and powder coated in moss green colour.

The slatted seat is made from weather resistant tanalised soft wood with an acrylic stained finish. Dimensions are: length 1.50m x width 525mm x height 560mm.

These benches are supplied ready assembled for immediate use. There is no messing about trying to put them together. 

Designed and built by tennis players for all year round courtside use these new players benches are aimed at tennis clubs, schools and public tennis courts.

They are robust enough to withstand a considerable amount of wear and tear and have a useful storage facility beneath the bench seat, for bags, rackets and tennis balls.

The steel frame is zinc phosphate treated and powder coated in moss green colour.

The slatted seat is made from weather resistant tanalised soft wood with an acrylic stained finish. Dimensions are: length 1.50m x width 525mm x height 560mm.

These benches are supplied ready assembled for immediate use. There is no messing about trying to put them together.

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/1.5m_Tennis_Bench_with_Storage_Rack.html

Advertised as a 10 K Adventure race – The UK’s new cult event for triathletes, cross country runners and those who just like to get cold, muddy and wet the first Chepstow Stampede is to be run at Chepstow Racecourse in October 2010.

Fitness Trail manufacturers and installers sportsequip.co.uk were employed to help convert the existing equestrian 3 day event course so it was suitable for a human event. This involved the manufacture of both adapted and brand new fitness stations that suited both the terrain and utilised the existing features and horse jumps.
Event organisers say ‘WARNING – You WILL get Wet and Muddy’ and describe it as being ‘Set within the stunning grounds and challenging terrain of Chepstow Racecourse and Piercefield Park, Monmouthshire, the course promises to be different from any run organised before.

If running 10k across natural rugged terrain is not challenging enough for you, unique and varied obstacles will be in place to push the limits of all abilities and fitness levels. Take on obstacles like Zig Zag Woods, Cargo Net Valley and Severn View Jump before competing in the Mile Time Trial and the Water Run.

Try your hand at sledging down Toboggan Hill, clambering over The Gauntlet and up the ropes at Heartbreak Hill, not to mention getting a dunking at Sheep Dip Valley.

Come and have a go on the Chepstow Stampede Fitness Trail if you think you’re tough enough!’

For more information or to register now, go to www.chepstowstampede.com

Leicestershire based sports equipment and synthetic sports surface suppliers sportsequip.co.uk recently successfully resurfaced the existing granular rubber surfaced multi sports court at Northfields Play Association.

The installation was successfully completed within the tight time frame provided whilst the main building was closed for re roofing.

The works included patch repairing the existing rubber crumb surface before installing a brand new sand filled needle punch carpet over the top. In this way the old rubber surface was preserved and lives on as a rubber shock pad beneath the new carpet. The new carpet had inlaid lines installed for basketball and 5 a side football.

Contact sales@sportsequip.co.uk if you have a MUGA that needs resurfacing or upgrading. www.sportsequip.co.uk

Leading adults fitness trail manufacturers sportsequip.co.uk recently finished Whitehill Bordon’s Eco Fitness Trail, which is the first project to be completed using Eco-town funding.
The outdoor course, which stretches over half a mile in the recreation ground in Mill Chase Road, Whitehill, Hampshire, was officially opened by double Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson and the town’s mayor Cllr Adam Carew on 29^th July 2010. 
The course has a total of 12 activity stations on the trail and the equipment was provided and installed by sportsequip.co.uk

The timber used to make the wooden trail is environmentally friendly because it comes from a renewable source and is British grown. It also included safety surfacing Compliant Grass Tiles to make the course as safe as possible.

The calorie-busting workout includes equipment which will give users a cardiovascular boost as well as strengthening exercises. 

The challenges include hurdles, bench sit ups, bunny hops and parallel bars. There is also a multi-exercise bench, a balance beam and a horizontal ladder

Daley Thompson at the opening the new Fitness Trail

Article content reproduced from www.easthampshire.org

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Timber_Fitness_Trails.htm

BUILDING on the double promotion of league sides and the development of a thriving Youth Section Barry Wanderers Cricket Club have installed a new artificial cricket wicket at their home, the picturesque Hayes Point development off Hayes Road, Sully.

The County Weave synthetic wicket supplied and installed by “sportsequip.co.uk” of Leicestershire is a significant development for the club and was supported by the Vale Centre for Voluntary Services through the Kick Start III Grant Scheme.

Club Captain and Youth team organiser James Hassett said: “This is a major step forward for the Wanderers, it will provide much improved training facilities for all our members but most importantly it will allow our younger members to train and play on a full size pitch.

“It is something we are all very excited about, without the support of the VCVS this would not have been possible. I would also like to thank Galliard, the staff at Hayes Point for their assistance, and the contractors sportsequip, in ensuring the installation of the wicket went smoothly.”

PRACTICE: Georgina Wilson-Dixon, Leon Sparkes and Louis Burrows (with bat) getting in some practice on the new wicket

Article reproduced from www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Cricket_Surfaces.htm

Wet pour play surface installers sportsequip.co.uk have laid a mammoth playground surface at Watermead Park, Leicester for Leicester City Council. Not huge, only about 25m² but it really is underneath a Mammoth.

The concrete structure stands in pride of place atop a hill overlooking the lakes created from old gravel workings to the north of the city. Now established as one of Leicester’s premier parks the Council’s Highway Engineers rightly decided that as the concrete mammoth was being climbed and played on by children, this presented the risk of falls. So they called upon the expert services of sportsequip.co.uk, their regular play surfacing suppliers, who quickly installed their tested Compliant wet pour surfacing system.

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Compliant_Wet_Pour_Safer_Surfacing.htm

What is the capital of Greenland? With a population of just over 15,000 it is Nuuk. High in the Arctic Circle these are easily the most northerly courts that tennis  equipment suppliers sportsequip.co.uk have ever supplied. Even then the courts will only be available for use for four or five months a year, May to September.

Everything for two courts including free standing tennis posts, tennis nets, scoreboards and even a tennis radar speed gun were despatched in July 2010. There are no direct connections from the UK to Greenland so the consignment was sent to Denmark for onward shipment, via Iceland. 

 Out of the ordinary certainly, but all in a days work for the UK’s leading tennis equipment supplier, sportsequip.co.uk

http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Tennis_Equipment.htm

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New season, new gear

England v's Poland match

sportsequip.co.uk have supplied new Hockey Goals and Nets for the Eurohockey Indoor Nations Trophy 2010. The indoor hockey goalposts and hockey nets were purchased by the Polish Hockey Association and used in the competition held in Poznan on 15th – 17th January 2010.

Further details on the sportsequip.co.uk range of indoor and outdoor hockey goals and hockey nets, hockey players shelters, corner poles and flags, artificial pitch equipment, boot wipers, line markers and line marking paints can be found in the Hockey Equipment section of www.sportsequip.co.uk http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/acatalog/Hockey_Equipment.htm

The Polish Hockey Association site’s review of the tournament can be viewed on  http://hme.pzht.pl/index.php?lang=en