Discover more about the fastest team in ski racing, and how you can get involved. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Home Ski Ski. Ski Whatever you need, the road to the slopes starts right here. Learn more. All Skis Whatever your style, find a ski to suit your needs and can challenge you to push your limits. Pam Shriver playing with a Prince racket during a semi-final match against Martina Navratilova at the U. S Open Tennis Championship, September, The sixteen-year-old Shriver upset the number-one seeded Navratilova to become the youngest finalist ever in the U.
S Open Tennis Championship. Head could have sat on his laurels. He had achieved a lot and his business was thriving. However, he chose to keep going and using his inventive mind to create a new, oversized tennis racket. Just like his start in designing skis, Head became motivated to create a new tennis racket based on his own tennis playing experience. He took up tennis in retirement at the age of 60 and built a court underground at his home.
He spent a lot of money and effort into learning how to play tennis. He did not improve though the way that he had hoped. Head purchased a Prince ball machine to practice playing tennis. He redesigned the machine and invested in the company, patenting the improvements that he had made.
His tennis playing however did not improve! Out of the blue, he had an idea to make the tennis racket bigger and so he did. The process took him two years and he constructed a tennis racket that was 20 percent wider than the old wooden rackets, one inch on each side.
Later, he used graphite. Prince sold the new tennis racket in The new Prince Classic, as the tennis racket was called, nonetheless, became an instant hit with tennis players. Head successfully improved upon an existing product to enhance performance. As tennis player Pam Shriver demonstrated in , the new racket design was a tremendous success. In two years, Prince Manufacturing controlled 30 percent of the U.
A consummate entrepreneur, Head received a royalty payment on every Prince racket sold. Howard Head kept on playing tennis and skiing down mountains for the rest of his life. Head got married to Martha Fritzler who shared his love of skiing and settled in Vail. Head went on to launch the Howard Head Sports Medicine Center to help athletes in and also supported numerous other causes. He was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame in at the age of 75, a year before he passed away.
Head is remembered to this day with fondness at the ski slopes he frequented in Aspen and Vail , Colorado. His two inventions - the metal ski and oversized tennis racket - are on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute with the inscription praising Head as the "patron saint of average athletes. The world we want is a place where the very best sporting equipment and apparel is made in a way that is truly responsible. Our company was the brainchild of engineers who understood that great design is a critical component for the efficient use of limited resources and true sustainability.
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